Happy Hunter

Looking at the forecast heavy showers from 3 pm I don't think there is a snowballs chance of this match starting.There is at least another half hours work to do despite an announcement of a 2.30 start.

Be nice if the good spell had started!

According to Bates in the Leicester Mercury its lack of home track time that's resulting in defeats like on Monday and against Poole. Lack of track time doesn't seem to bother the Lions when they are away (apart from at Rye where there were extenuating circumstances) or visitors to Leicester so what's going on? Also Leicester is one of the few tracks where there are practically no restrictions on when the track can be used so have they had practice sessions or not? King says he has but it doesn't seem to have done him much good.

Two race wins out of 15 says it all.

I thought the home match against Poole ran this one pretty close! A look at the Lion's averages reveals all. Everyone apart from the 2 reserves, has an average lower than the one they started with. King is -4.14, Bjerre -1.97, Nilsson - 1.87 & Riss -0.95 (I have excluded - (no pun intended) Garrity). Ayres (10%) is the only rider to have a lower race win percentage than King (14%)..

So much for strengthening the Lions team then!Who is next for the chop? We could do with a proper no 5 for a start!

There is a post on the club's Facebook page saying that it's still on.

I think it was a bad move by the new promotion to stop the email notifications including postponements because of bad weather.

I suspect it will be on. Latest BBC weather forecast is for some light rain about 7 pm but that's all. Quite windy at the moment. Good drying weather! No worries about late start because of setting sun!

If this is correct I would go for Steve Boxall on Monday. He is only riding in the National League for Plymouth and averaging over 10. He should know the Rye track like the back of his hand having ridden for the Rockets.

I know its early days with the track alterations but in the two meetings I have been to I have not noticed any improvement in the racing. I sometimes wonder if the bad publicity about the track over the years has influenced the riders into believing that there is only one racing line and that, once they have bends 1 & 2 behind them on the first lap, then they just protect the position they have. I cannot remember may riders, other than Craig Cook, being prepared to try out different racing lines during a race. I fully expect Cook to be the new track record holder when next he visits Beaumont Park.

Is Terry Chrabaszcz, the new Lion's track curator, the Guy who was track curator at Coventry? I seem to remember there was some controversy over the way he prepared the track there. Does anyone know his background? There has been nothing on the Lion's website about his appointment. His name has suddenly appeared in the list of Leicester officials.

Sorry Phil - no hard feelings! It was just that I could see in my mind's eye a three piece suite in Lion's colours in our lounge or a themed Speedway Hotel where all the rooms & suites were decorated in various team colours with complimentary dressing gowns that look like a race suit!

Will they be three piece or in a hotel somewhere then?

In view of the number of riders who have hit the air fence coming out of bend four over the years can they put one on the apex of bends 3 & 4 as well?

Does anyone know what this 'slight issue' is?

Thanks.

After getting rid of riders because of their Polish commitments one of their replacements signs for a Polish club! Is this weird or am I missing something!

Posted 12 March 2017 - 09:39 AM by Glyn The track work is not finished. Still a bit to do . Drains need to be finished off, the track surface needs to harden up. We can't get any shale for 6 weeks as the clay pits have a water problem.So we are trying to find an other supplier. But all in all its 90% finished and the airfence is up. A great job and very good day from the volunteers . So with a bit of good weather this week and some shale we are hoping to be ready very soon.

Does this mean you are looking for volunteers with sledge/lump hammers?

Just announced. Home v Bees on 13th May East Midlands Bowl.

I think someone took an aerial photo of the alterations that were made to bends 3 & 4 last winter. Presumably that was taken from a drone.

The 2017 Regulations are now, at long last, published on the Speedway Control Bureau's website. http://www.britishspeedway.co/2017_speedway_regulations_website.pdf

As a Leicester Fan I don't really want to intrude on the Bee's fans grief but I really think that you should concentrate all your efforts on trying to get the Bees back on track in some shape or form rather than continuing all this bickering and playing the blame game. I am afraid that that is all water under the bridge now and the Bees will not be running in 2017!