Roger Jacobs

Four more rides … surely he knew after one or two more that he wasn’t feeling right. No problem - just slog myself into exhaustion, because I don’t have to bother with the UK.

You're looking at the solution from the wrong angle. Most tracks cannot ever be changed. It's the machinery that needs to be reined-back - last night provided another example of how these super-tuned bikes can't deal with deep and/or patchy shale. Take the edge off their power, so they don't lurch or pick up dramatically at the slightest hint of a change in surface.

Gibberish.

You really are hilarious - desperately trying to make points that aren't there.

The SCB was rightly criticised for implementing a regulation against Workington, because they never stated which regulation it was. I e-mailed to ask, and never even had the courtesy of a reply.

Did the Lemon say anything to Bewley and Kurtz before the Stupid Heat? Bewley throttle-jockeying off into the distance was of no use to the Aces - if he at least tried to hold up Sayfutdinov, and maybe even let Sayfutdinov go so he could try help Kurtz ... as it was his huge margin of victory in the race was of no benefit at all, when he could have at least tried all-or-nothing.

You're the one who's debating it, with all your ifs. As I have stated several times, we will never know that would have happened if Lidsey rode, so there's no point in predicting one way or the other.

I think you mean T/S. as you can tell, I prefer no to do "ifs", even so, if Lidsey had ridden, it would have been a different match, and we will never know the heat results of at the very least the heats he rode in - if you want to have ifs, you can't assume everything else remained the same ...

They only had three turnstiles for the visits of Ipswich. One response was, "get there earlier"!!! Another was "buy in advance" - but with KL's record for call-offs it can't be that tempting for visiting fans ...

I said all this when it was first introduced. The final heat in a match that ends as a draw is the exciting crescendo - that's it! The final heat in a match that ends 46-44 or 44-46 is most likely a tense or exciting crescendo - why is that result any different to a draw? The Stupid Heat is a gimmick. The usual BSPA/L "good idea" that is accepted without any testing or wargaming.

That has to be one of the funniest (and most accurate!) responses ever to one of the forums biggest trolls. Congrats!

If, if, if. That's the whole point (pun intended). We will never know, so nobody can say with any certainty what would have happened.

We will never know the result if Lidsey had ridden. Nobody could have predicted what did happen last night. Race the same match tonight with the same teams and you'll get a different result.

Not severe criticism, but I agree that Brennan didn't ride defensively against Cook. Coming off the second bend he went madly wide, and then off the fourth bend his back wheel wasn't on the grip, so he couldn't match Cook who got his wheels in line perfectly. Heat 8 was a disaster. King didn't even look competitive. No idea what happened, unless he thought that everything had gone so well that he needed to make some changes?!

But why only add to the value for money if there's a draw? What's so special about that result, which requires an extra race? What about a team only losing by 2 or 4, and earning another race to try to win or draw? Some teams could go all season without a Stupid Heat, while others could have three or four. If they want to add value for money, add an extra heat (or two) to every match anyway ...

Kurtz extra ride because they were in T/S territory. By your reckoning, Lidsey would have been scoring well, so the T/S wouldn't have been needed - thus, using your yardstick, everything to do with Lidsey.

It didn't look dusty on the TV. Sure there was dry stuff coming off the wheels, but it didn't show up as clouds drifting over the terraces - not the way it has at, e.g. Birmingham and even Oxford.

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Well, I quite enjoyed the meeting. I've never been a fan of the track, but there was some racing and definitely plenty of incidents - certainly more than Monday night. Heat 6: hard ride by Fricke - he had the speed and the line, and it was very much a GP type of pass. Similar principle to Kerr's pass on Thompson in the SF at Foxhall. Chris Harris: He has reached the highest level of the sport, and produced some remarkable, memorable racing - but what a whinger last night! Complaining about the track, and saying that he'll always do his best to entertain - but forgetting completely how dreadfully poor he was on his home circuit on Monday. As expected, KL's decision to use guests backfired - the benefit of having a strong reserve negated by poor performances that swallowed-up the reserve rides. Leicester by far the better over both legs. PS: Are Leicester going to be allowed a facility for Becker for the rest of the season?

You get the impression that from meeting to meeting not even Drew Kemp knows which Drew Kemp will turn up.

See my post not far above yours. For Klindt to have seven rides, other riders will have to be off form, so there's no overall benefit. The major reason for KL's successes with a strong in-form reserve has been when filling R/R gaps (and against Ipswich when Boughen was replaced twice because of injury).

I seem to recall that Wiltshire was rather good at Arena. Annoyingly, he was very good at Foxhall. A classy rider. It got me thinking about a modern equivalent ... among the Aussies it would have to be Fricke, who is proving to be an intelligent and measured racer.

In May Klindt scored 8+2 from 6 (3 R/R rides, but T/Sd by Kvech). The Leicester riders he defeated were: Kemp and Thompson.

Aside from all that, the point about having an in-form reserve is using him to fill gaps: i.e. at KL: Kvech against Ipswich in the Cup was able to take two of Boughen's rides and also Heat 15, while in the first Prem meeting took three R/R rides. In the second Prem meeting, Klindt took reserve rides in place of Scott & SLambert, plus an R/R, while the in-form Kvech was able to take an R/R and a T/S for the R/R (if they hadn't been 6 down, Klindt would have taken another R/R). at Ipswich in the Cup: Klindt only had 6 rides, a reserve in place of Harrison and an R/R (filling a gap). However, against Leicester: there weren't any gaps to fill (R/R or T/S) ... for Klindt to have seven rides, it needed other riders to be off form, so his extra points made little or no difference - other than avoiding a defeat.

Similar averages?! Cook's GSA: 6.02 6 matches in 2025: 22 rides 22 points = 4.00 + 3 BP = 4.55 Becker's GSA: 7.51 9 matches in 2025: 39 rides 68 points = 6.44 + 7 BP = 7.69 Becker is the Leicester #2 by GSA, Cook is the King's Lynn #5 ...