Star Lady

I really don't know, but remember when Lynn stopped doing the helmetless parades some fans complained and were told the rules stated they had to wear helmets.If you can't find it in the rule book, I'm fairly confident the rule doesn't exist Personally I think riders should do a helmetless parade BUT under the strict understanding that they pootle round so the young kids (and big kids) get to see them. If they then want to go like the clappers to test stuff they do it in the time allowance before their race. If they did more testing and less gardening it would be more entertaining anyway As with many things in speedway the fans enjoyment seems to come last.

No not about shovels Riders on parade have to wear crash helmets . Three times tonight Woffy's mechanic rode out from the pits round to the start with no crash helmet. Assuming the rule was brought in to avoid head injury, does it cover mechanics? If it doesn't should it?

I've always liked Nicki P on track. Wild in his early years, daring after that, but with his increasing years he has become more calculating and hard ( I won't say dirty cos I'm not a rider so don't have the expertise to make that judgement). However the number of instances of him being involved in incidents does seem to have increased with age. It would seem that he does not have the respect of many of his fellow riders. Maybe it's time for stewards at GP meetings who are ex-riders, something along the lines of F1 (not too sure how it works). Riders know if a move was dangerous as opposed to an accident caused by a combination of circumstances. What annoyed me most about Saturday was the kick by Nicki, complete with steel shoe which could have done damage had it connected. The Zagar slap at Nickis helmet and the handbags in the pits afterwards were pure box office and BSI must have been rubbing their hands with glee. Nicki said on twitter that he did say sorry, but so far has not answered my query as to whether that was before or after he kicked Zagar It will be a sad day when Nicki quits the GPs, he is one of the few characters left in the sport.

Blooming heck that made me laugh

I think most promoters work on probabilities. If you work out the number of times 2 (or more) riders have needed doctor/paramedic attendance or 2 riders have needed urgent transporting to hospital with qualified crew compared to the number of meetings you attend you can see why the level of cover is as it is at the majority of tracks. I'm not saying it's ideal, obviously it isn't but promoters are businessmen and have to weigh up the pros/cons and costs. Ideally every track would have 2 fully equipped emergency ambulances and at least 2 fully qualified paramedics/doctors qualified in trauma care. I'd suggest costs would make that prohibitive and push several tracks over the edge finance wise. Such facilities don't come cheap.

Several years before that they used to have a cardboard box handy for that very purpose Tsunami

lt says on the KL website that because the dual carriageway will be closed that day, if there was a serious incident the emergency services could be compromised. If correct it makes sense. Apparently this will not apply to other meetings as the dual carriageway will only be closed completely on three occasions.

As this is off due to road closures I wonder if Buster has a claim against the council for loss of business lol

methinks Eurosport et al could do with a training course in BSF humour Tho all credit to them for the swift resolution to a problem highlighted on here less than a week ago, If only the BSPA were 10% as responsive

Their customer service is pretty damned good too, sending emails in response to queries. Amazing what a concerted bit of polite concern and enquiry can achieve

Very polite enquiry email sent, but so far no response. Still I suppose it is Sunday.

Maybe multiple enquiring emails may help to change their mind

Surely the FIM , the ultimate authority, would have checked if the rain off date was feasible? Ops no cos not this is speedway!

Love Hans for telling us the truth. Wonder if he will face consequences?

Surely it's all about perception. The PR says a landmark, I'd prefer it if it said another step on the way. Promoters (all of them and commentators too) constantly overegg the pudding. Give us facts and we will make up our own minds if it's a Landmark or another step along the path.

Well it's livened up a bit now. Still think this track is not worthy of what is allegedly the best speedway in the world.

I don't count the first 2 bends as overtakes. If I missed any after that it's cos I've been sent to sleep lol

8 heats and still no overtaking. At least we saw a "Nicki" in that one

Don't they have to sign contracts for the whole series?

I pay for it so I'll watch it, albeit I have to mute it at times. I don't have that much of a problem with him. He has clearly done his homework. I've learnt riders ages, birtthdays, where they live, even the names of their partners in some cases. I do take issue with his constant references to the start tarts tho, to even it up a bit he should occasionally say that NKI or Hampel has a cute butt Jack asides when there is no action are amusing, I loved his comments about the young kiddies last night. My problem is with Zammy Emoliniki. His constant mispronounciation, mistaken identifying of riders and complete disregard for answering the questions that Jack has asked bugs me in the extreme. His technical knowledge might well be good, it's not something I personally am interested in but there are far better commentators out there. The radio broaccasts from BBCwm and Radio Norfolk were both excellent. Other riders have been used in the past and were far better and they haven't had the experience of Erleminko. If I'm paying for something, which I am via my Sky subs, I expect a professional product of reasonable quality. If I just wanted to watch pictures I'd use a stream with foreign commentary.

According to Sam Ermolenko it's Jesper Jensen

Sorry Chris the least I expect is for the commentators to know the riders and how to pronounce their names. For heavens sake they told us at one point that Kenneth Bjerre was reserve, he's not only injured, he's 12 inches too short!

Sublime team riding from Holder and Ward there. Something we so little of nowadays.

I'd have to disagree. Gone from bad to dire to diabloodybolical.