THE DEAN MACHINE

Drabik been fantastic this year

Bit harsh to exclude pawlickii and Hansen looked a bit dazed to go in rerun

I don’t know what name they run under

So he wouldn’t of needed to file accounts till 2024 and what if that’s under a different name like many tracks are, I don’t know anything about Workington company’s or who holds the accounts or anything, I’m just saying it’s a bit strong to call someone a crook when we don’t know

I’ve seen and when did Workington speedway as we know it open ?

I find it hard to believe that someone with a profile such as Workington wouldn’t file an account, paying up on that account yes but filling one ? Even crooks file accounts they just tend to miss bits off or add bits on

When the last accounts were filed the new current track and Workington speedway didn’t exist, just the little training track, that could explain why nothing has been filed under that account ? And it runs now under a different account But we don’t know do we

Think that’s a bit strong at this stage without knowing what the issue actually is

So rybnik or Częstochowa? I’m going with rybnik for the win

Częstochowa team manager been on the sun bed

It can do it and it will but it’s not a question of just putting a seal on an engine, there needs to be a happy medium struck between the riders and SCB and once in place that’s where the fun really starts trying to police it, I said earlier GM seem keen for the idea and I know people like broomie the engine tuner is all for change but you got to convince the riders and you know how they will react

If Harris comes tomorrow and passes the Brummies for fun then the excuses about the track are not valid

Falabaz reserves keeping the scoreline respectable

It’s run by the riders

Tatum did the same in the Dudley wolves trophy meetings and if he got a maximum for the spoons in the morning he had to get a maximum at night for wolves otherwise we would of nailed him to a dart board 😂

Not that it won’t work and we cant or shouldn’t do it as I think we can and we will but speedway works on 100% wheel spin, every other bike sport works on 100% drive, it is exactly the opposite, like asking a colander manufacturer how to make a boat,moto 2 etc is purely down to achieving the most amount of power out of a unit and that will win races, speedway has nothing to do with actual maximum power, it’s how you can get the actual power available to get a spinning wheel to go forward it’s nothing to do with learning from professionals, remember when akrapovic tried to build a speedway silencer ? A world leading silencer manufacturer used in professional bike sports everywhere and where is it ? Nowhere because it didn’t work aswell as Dave kings Chinese made ones

Not being from that area I can only look on from a far but from what I see, they have a no1 who on occasions takes the pee with his performances, another rider who puts Poland before Workington and I can only guess how that makes the worky fans feel, running in an afternoon imo is not great but wouldn’t stop me going, price again is too expensive but again wouldn’t stop me going, no continuity with home meetings is frustrating and in general the team being poor results wise will always affect a crowd, football is a perfect example of that

Bit before my time but I would of loved to go to meetings where jack Millen rode, he knew how to wind a crowd and other riders up

1st idea brilliant, second idea has already been tried a couple of years back, can’t remember why it failed but from what I remember some riders were less than interested in doing it (Money on offer probably)

Not as simple as that I’m afraid, some riders like their engines to scream and some like them flat to achieve the same goal, different flywheels, different cams, different compression, these can’t be changed at a track, here is an example I have told a few years ago, I was travelling to a meeting with Adam skornicki and he was telling me at a meeting in Poland his bike packed up before a race and Jason crump lent him his bike for the race and Adam said as much as he was greatful crumps engine was unridable, it just wanted to put him in the fence every lap, yet crump got a maximum on it, both GMs but completely different way of achieving their power delivery and that is completely widespread in speedway today, I’m not saying standardising couldn’t or shouldn’t happen but it’s not a easy as it seems

Standardise engines is more problematic in speedway because unlike other motorsports it has 100% wheel spin where all other sports are 100% direct drive, engines can be made the same but if you have a rider like zagar over 6ft and a rider like Ben cook at around 5 foot they clearly require different engine characteristics to work for them, it is possible to get some form of standardisation but there isn’t the will to do it, a classic example of the ridiculous nature of speedway is the rev limiter, it got mooted that they wanted to limit the revs so they asked the tuners and not wanting to hurt their business set the limit at a higher rev than is actually used during a race, so every rider was made to buy a coil per bike with a limiter which in reality does absolutely nothing during a race, you may here it cut in with some riders on the start line but under load it’s not used but if you had a limiter at say 10,000 revs riders and tuners would have kittens

Bit of a rut at leszno on 1st/2nd bend

Interesting to read posts recently by GM engines themselves, they seem to want standardised engines with harder tyres and less revs, they make a Standard GM witch costs less but say there is no call for it

Because it’s the only commercial success in British speedway but i get your point

What worries me about any plan that may be a foot is the people it’s being left to do it, it’s nothing personal, I’m sure they are great people but when it comes to sorting out something so big as the mess that we are in we need someone independent with a background in modern day sports promotion and the corporate world,someone who could sell oil to the Arabs,of the current bspl/scb not singling out anyone but you can’t even get them to return your calls or emails, I know these people care about the sport and have the sport at heart but when it comes to dealing with real big wigs from the corporate world the difference in the room is huge,you may aswel have an English man trying to deal with a china man and neither speak the other’s language, we are at the crossroads, we either find this person’s or we go the amatuer way and try to rebuild the sport from the bottom which is fine to point with me but maybe not with others