OveFundinFan

Yes it does matter. Ellis was on fire last year and won the meeting, if no covid he would have been at Cardiff 2021. 12 months later he is not so hot, he could be a disaster at Cardiff. I hope not, but he could. So to say 2022 British champ will go to Cardiff in 2023 certainly is not ok. The decision makers last night have just postponed the problem 12 months. Will they sort it out between now and this time next year. No.

I live below Liverpool, about 35 miles from BV. Weather forecast said 9pm for rain here too. However, it’s just been spotting heavy but not covered paving flags. Now a very fine drizzle.

I got Discovery+ in Feb when it was on a half price annual cost ie £30. If I was paying £60 pa just for speedway GP I would still go for it. 10 gps’s works out at £6 per gp! As a comparison, last year I paid £10 to watch a stream from Berwick of the British Championship individual championship. But Discovery + is much bigger then speedway. I like watching World super bike racing, every round is on, world MX and world sidecar MX. Last week, apart from watching 4 world speedway championship meetings from Denmark, last Monday evening I watched Wolverhampton v Kings Lynn, tonight I will be watching British championship at Belle Vue, so that’s 6 meetings in 8 days. Saturday I watched world championship BMX, then there is Cycle cross that I like watching, world formula electric car racing. Loads of wheeled sports, plus many others. You have access to films of all sorts, does’ntt interest me but shows Discovery+ is not just a speedway channel. Just need MotGP/2/3 to move away from BT to Discovery+ and I would be well and truly in happy land.

Of speedway prices are too high, at any level, consider what long time followers of ladies football are going to face in the future. Already stated on noon news that most of those Lioness will be demanding salaries of £60k through to £100k and that’s is is still way below men footballers salary, so the future for ladies football fans is going to be expensive.

How come Drew Kemp is a reserve rider when he was GB under 21 no2 last Friday night.

Meeting is on Discovery+ at 7pm, if you didn’t know.

Certain parts of a track are more popular then others. When demand exceeds supply the prices can go up. Some fans like the starting gate viewing, up to the first corner. Some like sitting close to the track, or near the visible pit area. At BV in the 60-'s-70's I was always on the entry to bend 3, opposite to the tractor entry to the centre field. Only deviated a few times. One was when Peter Collins smashed his left leg by hitting a loose drain grid lid, that was 1977, a week before the world final in Sweden. Cost him the title that year, he finished 2nd. Wife and I went to Cardiff for the GP in 2013-14-15 and each time on the entry to the 3rd bend. We were high up because thats where "seniors" on reduced pricing where allocated. I enjoyed it because we were looking down on the track and could see everything.

Nope, other then Cardiff seems to max at 45k for speedway.

I would imagine it costs a lot to send the world elite troop around the world (the speedway world that is). Does anyone know how much it cost to put on a GP, particularly when you got to make a track up and take it down again.??? They could go to BV, fantastic racing but only 9000 to watch and that would with extra structures to seat the fans. So most fans would be viewing from home…….. and want to watch a link for free.

Should get at least one of them 2 in at a lower price, as an attendant for the disabled one.

2nd place is still very good for GB. Would like to see a rerun of the last race but with GB on gate 2-4 and Bewley on gate 4. Might have been different…..we will never know. Amazing the track held together after 4 meetings and 3 practices within 4 days. Poland 6th (out of 7).

I am watching on the Dicovery+ app and everything is fine

Now we get wingers going on about something that has not even happened.

Too many negatives popping up, seems as the British way of speedway is in the dumps all other nations should be dragged down as well. The "smaller" speedway nations need developing, it has been said on here for some time. Individual riders need developing. I was glad to see and event that has brought 15 nations into one competition, for sure it was expected that the current dominant nations would predictable dominate. But did they? Some "minor" nations surprised the top guns, at least giving them a run during a race though may not be beating them to the tapes. Who was not surprised at Luke Becker scoring 19, including 3 race wins....that is more than any other rider in Semi-final 1. Or the exciting rides from Timi Salonen and Marko Levishyn. Who was expecting those rider in SF1 to perform like that. In SF2 Milik showed form that he can still race, he scoring 19 along with Woffy and Berge. Who would expect Paco Castagna to race as he did and get 17, a lot more points then Robert and Dan put together. Who was expecting Matic Ivacic to show the pace he did. Can you see the enthusiasm this must have put into the young riders in these "minor" countries. The success of riders in Vojens must create enthusiasm with potential sponsors in those countries. There were sure signs progress can be made, the efforts of riders in the last two nights really was exciting. Not all efforts were turned into points, but the potential was clear to me. The crowds were poor, did the organisers see that coming? We dont know. Having 4 meetings in 4 days would mean supporters virtually spending a week in Denmark. Can many afford to do that. For sure there was a couple of supporters from GB there the last two nights, maybe others as well. Perhaps the organisers should have seen a low attendance coming, especially for three rounds, and could have said "we wont televise it", then there would still have been grumblers. I happy to see what has been on so far, the effort put in by organisers and riders (especially riders) will see something better in years to come. For the few riders from the last two meetings that will be riding tonight I wish them well and they dont get any injuries, a fewer numbers will be racing on Saturday in the main final as well, 3 meetings in 4 days is impressive.

I had gone back a few pages, obviously not far enough. Sorted now, thanks I enjoyed that. The format is good, 2x 7 teams gives underdogs a chance as we saw tonight. Impressed with Luke Becker and Marko Levishyn, and Timo Salonen too. No adverts on Discovery +, which means they not relying on adverts to pay for coverage, they after subscriptions. The choice is adverts or not, some grumble about adverts, but we cant have it free of adverts and not pay some other way.

I had gone back a few pages, obviously not far enough. Sorted now, thanks

any race cards for the meetings?? even a blank???

I glad that’s off your chest.

All I want now is Discovery+ to take on MotoGP/2/3 and I can kick BT completely into oblivion.

Discovery+ has British Premiership speedway, SPEEDWAY gP’s and SofN. this week there will be 4 speedway meetings, tonight Brit Premiership, We’d &Thurs the SofN semis and Saturday the SofN final. At £60 per year (offered for £30 at beginning of this year), it works out at £5 per month. This week alone the 4 meetings are going to cost £1.25 each. Plus I can see WOrld MX gp’s, and British Superbikes. Whats not to like.

It was a good meeting. I was impressed with Tom Brennan. He is improving nicely. Enjoy his presence whilst you can, he will be riding regular Poland within 3 year. I was also impressed with Josh Pickering. He rode really well.

Thanks R&R for the link and the race card. Nice to see Kubera progressing well, and really good to see Hampel sharing the spoils.

What injuries has Dan received, looked an horrendous crash which he didn’t do any wrong, just the wrong place.

Reflecting on Saturday nights GP, overall it wasn’t bad, the set track produced some, let’s say, interesting racing, but as lines developed it turned into something better than an ok meeting, but I wouldn’t say it was a very good meeting and far from brilliant. Dan and Robert seem to be developing nicely. Dan has turned himself into a good gater, much better than last year. Both seem to be holding back when close to someone, like they have straight line speed, get to a corner and seem to shut off a bit. It’s inexperience. Laguta used to do the same, but something changed in him last year and took him to a new level. Would love to see Madsen or Lingren become world champ this year, but it doesn’t look it will happen. Due to injury/illness I think the chance has passed them. So, my hope is on Vaculik. He knows how to race, and race fast. He can take it to Zmarzlik as he showed on Saturday. Given he has fast bikes, if he can keep injury free he has a good chance of doing it.

Top 8? Only top 6 are guaranteed for next year. Plus top 3 from GPChallenge, winner of European championship, wild card for every meeting, and 5 for organisers to pick.