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Did Becker opt out of the UK?

As I was there as well how many of the large crowd do think are Northampton or maybe new to the sport, 500 or so or maybe more?

Although I would point out that Lawson was wearing an older pair of Witches kevlers with Heeps on the back.

With a stunning performance like that I'd accept a lot arrival every week.

Good observations and I agree, I don't think a 10 point win told the whole story. I believe this was effectively won after 6 or 7 heats. Being honest that's the poorest Lynn performance at foxhall for some time and I can't imagine Rob Lyon would be happy with that.

Certainly a good experience I thought, in particular considering they had to get it up and running in 5 minutes. 2 points I would firstly make and given we would expect the majority of crowds to be nowhere near the opening night, the view from sort of halfway down to the grass back is naff. Given that if there was a huge crowd, presumably this happens on a big stock car event, you can only see the top of the helmets or nothing at all if you are right at the front. Secondly the lack of karzis on site was a major problem. However I'm sure the promoters will have a list of issues from the first night which I'm sure they will address.

Spot on, the bikes on full pelt sounded like they had plenty of grunt.

It was just a bit on the dusty side, not terrible but just a bit. It's a long run from the tapes to turn 1 but our boys showed more aggression in the turn, and on a surface with minimal passes I think that may have been the difference.

I know it's a rural location, so presumably it won't be T2at getting in and out of the place?

British Speedway is a bit like a grenade waiting to go off. Years ago some pleb pulled out the pin and been wondering around with it in his hand not sure what to do with it. Unfortunately, sooner or later he'll drop it and that will be the end of British Speedway as we know it.

Does the digits mean they are expecting to sell 10000?

That's great thanks, the bit I used to find amusing was the fella who had to run onto the track to remove the starting gate and take it to the centre green.

Wasn't Arena the only track where you got excluded for leaving it? And does anyone have any videos of it with no fence as I couldn't find one on you tube? I know when I first went there in 89 the mighty Rob Tilbury cleaned up with 15.

Quite possibly as a lot of work is involved. However, and fingers crossed it does, it looks like you could build a lot of speed down the straights.

How do they 'nominate' or 'select' the riders for track testing on Tuesday? Do they pull names out of a hat or may pin the tail on the donkey. More importantly what happens if the said 4 riders say the track is crap?