kiwi

an ipod in a two year olds ears to drown out noise? whats the point, you don't think the music might damage they're ears at 2 yrs old?

I cant find much either. NZ has one rider, Anthony Knowles from Christchurch

NZ has 24 speedway tracks, I'd say 12 of them run bikes or sidecars

good to see he's developing into a great rider, potential there for the future And sorry Jon don't mean to be picking on you, in my original post i used you as an example, on reflection I should have used someone not in the heathens team. But I know if i use say, Buzz, common sense goes out the window with some on here and the point we are trying to make gets lost as we are accused of attacking someone personally.

probably they have gone up to the premier league on a reduced average

I don't want to get into another argument but from the 'outside looking in', we (BFD, me, Steve Evans) and notable Danes can see that the problem you have is not the national league, its your junior program or lack of it, the answer is not to get rid of better riders because the are from another country, but look at how they got that good and copy them. It will take 5 years for a junior programme to start to show worth, but until you start you are always going to be 5 years away from seeing an improvement. I know this isn't always possible, but if I was a parent of a british rider I would be offering board to an overseas rider, befriend them, learn from them, you then have an in to visit them, speedway in the off season, it opens up all possibilities.

hey, i haven't a problem with any rider being in the league if he's good enough, but this thread started with a 16yr old being dropped for another 16yr old and not enough places for british riders to learn and develop. The system that is there at the moment is being used by all under the rules, and the best riders will always get the places.

you're saying get rid of the better riders and put in the not so good. And Jon maybe his thing should be as a great coach and manager then, employed by the team/league?

rain offs?

agree, and those aussies are in the league for a season at the very most and out again. whereas, and not picking on him but as an example jon armstrong has had how many seasons in a 'development league'

Here's a thought drop Jon Armstrong and leave the new talent in.

Dual nationality riding what is the difference between riding as an Aussie in this case and a Brit, its still the same rider, he's still putting out a British rider as you all see it. It I was a team manager of a Premier league team, I think I'd be using my influence to promote the best British national league riders into my team to strengthen the British speedway bloodline. If you want young riders coming through make the age limit 27. Oh but that would put a few old British riders out of a job, but this is a development league isn't. Speedway is about winners..

just updated website www.bradleyandrewsracing.co.nz hope to be racing 250cc this season just waiting for 12th birthday

don't you think you would then argue these kids from overseas are now taking our team GB places. Buxton are great, they give a kid a chance when they improve they let them go onto bigger things, then they get another one and give them a chance. If all National League teams worked like this the Premier league would be full of British riders. At the speed Buxton moves riders on they're wouldn't be enough aussie riders to fill all the empty spots. Kiwis we've only got 88 riders in the whole country, 8yrs old to 71, we can barely get a field of 16 good riders together, and yet you see us as a threat.

purpose built for speedway(cars) holds 20000 all seated The speedway is an oval with the two end radius being 36 meters and 40 meters.<br style="line-height: 14px; "><br style="line-height: 14px; ">Circuit Length: 451 meters <br style="line-height: 14px; "><br style="line-height: 14px; ">Length of Straights: 108 meters<br style="line-height: 14px; "><br style="line-height: 14px; ">Width of Main Straight: 18 meters <br style="line-height: 14px; "><br style="line-height: 14px; ">Width of Corners: 20 meters obviously will be different with temp surface and air fence, but plenty of room to make any shape or size http://www.baypark.co.nz/ http://www.bayparkspeedway.co.nz/

The event is an FIM event, so obviously it requires a FIM licence, If a rider is injured or is unfit before the meeting, the place should rightly be taken by the meeting reserve not another brit as a brit was injured. imagine if the meeting reserves were Brits and an Aussie got injured and replaced him with another Aussie. there would be pages of abuse on here

decisions will be made end of this month

1. Jason CRUMP £50,000 captain 8. Kenneth BJERRE £35,000 9. Fredrik LINDGREN £35,000 10. Hans ANDERSEN £35,000 12. Chris HOLDER £35,000

But no matter what at least they'll finish in the top 8

Still, considered by many as the best car speedway circuit in the world. And with a temporary surface who knows what sort of speedway event we could run.

fingers crossed March next year might be a good time

its picking up momentum over 4500 signatures in the last 36 hours

and he's on Facebook

go online and sign petition only requires your name and email is confidential. Speedway is 80 years old this year. council are coming up for elections so some will be ticketing to get rid of speedway on noise issues. http://www.speedwayclub.co.nz/signpetition.php 20000 signatures already

My computers down at the moment so this is from work Summer Cup Sean Mason first Jade Mudgway second ( flew out to England next day) Dylan Hancock, Chopper Bagshaw, Jamie Moohan in final too, but can't remember placings of the top of my head, I'll get results on here soon. Other than these riders no others from the recent Elf series were riding. Jason Bunyan, paraded the NZ trophy around the track on the back of a pickup with all the junior riders. But he didn't ride, as he's preparing to get back there.