Jonny the spud

Jeeez. This is embarrassing. Just call it off.

Clear skies at the track now …..

I’ve always thought you were a bit of a cöck But I’ve realised actually you’re a lot of a cöck.

Well if you’ve been listening to the “experts” on here we’d be incredibly lucky to get a bronze, Adam will score none and Woffy double figures.

I feel sorry for Adam and Tom. The two riders in the team who are not GP or even extraleague riders, on a track they’ve only ridden once, with different engines / mechanics… and taken out of what should be “easier” heats. obviously I hope they score and score well but can’t help thinking they’re being set up to fail . if you thought the vitriol on here was bad before now, just wait till afterwards.

It’s not a question of “best” kit on the continent. It’s “different “ kit over there. The tracks / surfaces / sizes are completely different to the UK. If they brought their Polish/ Danish / Swedish bikes over, they wouldn’t work.

Stop talking about superstars…. Superstars in speedway mean nothing to the general public. Sayfudinov… Laguta … Doyle …. Bewley. … Pedersen ( ok, for about 200m) We’ve been told for years that this is the solution …. guess what ? They’ve been here this year and it’s made sod all difference spend the money paying professionals to try and drag this dying sport into the 21st century

With “fans” like you, no wonder 99% of riders don’t look at this site.

Who says there’s no money in British speedway? after last nights performance it looks like Laguta is on a grand a point …

I don’t profess to knowing everything. But I do know that most riders continue to ride injured. As someone pointed out above, if all injured riders stopped racing there’d be no speedway for you to moan about.

Check out his Instagram post from may 29th. His hand went into the back wheel of another bike in a crash. He still can’t move his some fingers properly.

Said someone who knows nothing about speedway …..

Adam is still carrying a hand injury from a month ago.

Brilliant. Finally a racers track.

In principal Adam is riding in Poland on Sunday.

Once you take out Adam, David Bellego & Dimitri Bergé, there’s not enough depth in French riders to fill a 7 man team. The riders here are amateur and all clubs are near Bordeaux so travel would be a massive problem

Ok grasstrack not speedway but …. 1994 I was racing sidecars at a meeting in a certain club in northern Germany, (1,500 kms from my home near Bordeaux). We arrived after a near on 24 hour drive.. not a very fast van and avoiding most autoroutes to save on tolls, set up van & awning in the pits, got bike out and ready for scrutineering - set for 6:30 pm. It was raining so the organisers delayed it an hour, then another hour, then till the next morning. ( more about that later) The following morning the rain had let up a little but was still coming down. Scrutineering was further delayed and we had an ominous feeling. Around 10:30 they cancelled the meeting. Bins were opened and the caterers threw away lots of food, piles of programs were dumped and we started to pack up. I went to race control to pick up our start money. (About £600 back in the day.. it covered diesel tolls etc) and was told that as the bikes hadn’t been scrutineered the meeting hadn’t officially started, therefore no start money was paid out. 20 minutes later the sun came out and it was a beautiful day. i had to hang around for a couple of hours as Mark Loram was bringing me two new race suits from the UK, over 10,000 spectators were turned away and Loram couldn’t believe that it had been cancelled. ( I bet he got his money though!) Another 24 hour drive home, hugely out of pocket and never raced at that club again.

Of course it’s a speedway issue. Clubs are forever going tïts up and it’s always the riders that get screwed over. Until the powers that be sort out some proper rules, a major league sponsor ( been promised that for years but it’s strangely never materialised) and produce and stick to a long term plan, it’s always going to be looked upon as a micky mouse sport.

Maybe if they paid the thousands of pounds owed to the ex riders they might talk …. But this is speedway so that won’t happen.

That depends which sidecars. 1000cc ones run clock wise and ruin tracks. They’re only found here and in Oz. You get the odd old one that’s been sold abroad they use it to be able to write “international “ on the side of their vans, whereas the 500cc ones use the same engines / wheels / tyres as speedway bikes and run in the same direction. Also there’s riders from many European countries so you could invite foreign teams to spice it up a little. ( they’re faster too most of the time than the 1,000’s )

Yeah. Those two league titles with Swindon and British individual title …. So much losing.

Maybe a ref with two eyes ?

Stevie wonder in the Refs box tonight ?

That’s ridiculous. Does she also let them off if they “only just” touch the tapes ?

Thé track presenter is a leftover from 1970’s Butlins holiday camp. It’s embarrassing