OveFundinFan

For Discovery+ at £6.99 you get a lot for your money. Its worth it just for the speedway GPs, but a load other sports like World Superbikes, plenty cyclocross, mountain biking, winter sports, then loads of films, dramas, series. So excellent value for money. Speedway GP enjoyable, track held up very well, I wonder if the open roof made this possible. Be interesting if Cardiff has an open roof. Doyle a very worthy winner. Jack recovered very well from his poor start. Huckenbek sadly missed out a possible final. Woffy started out like he was back in the running, but fizzled out when the going got tough. Dan getting into a pattern….. hit the front and he can race away (but not always) and when he’s behind he can’t or doesn’t want to mix it. Lambert showing he can mix it.

Heat 3…… wow. Will we see how serious Woffy is about the GPs.

Looks a similar incident to Carter and Penhall in LA. The start procedure in them days was terrible. A case of who can get away with the biggest roller. Todays system is much fairer IMO.

I would like to know what happened between the afternoon qualifier and the meeting. The likes of Kubera, Bewley, and Madsen were just three of the fastest in qualifier yet when the meeting started they were left trailing. Did the track get doctored from the afternoon? The meeting itself was as expected, pretty bad. Sure, there was some passing, but too many times if you were not in the lead you were as good as"dead". Congrats to Jack, deserved it last night. Disappointed in Bewley. Beginning to think he not going to the very top and be a world solo champ. He is one of the fastest when in front, and can be very spectacular riding the boards. However, I wonder if that real bad accident a few years ago affects his confidence to mix it. Woffy is the same, but he can be excused as he has strut his stuff (three time champ) and is nearing the end of his top flight career.

No matter what I try to access on that site it comes up with 404 FILE not Found..

It was round 6 Mallila 2023 that JK started showing the 2 semis and the final down at the bottom of the sheet. Just a blank of that would be fine. i really do appreciate the work JK has done over the last few years I been using his sheet, together with your input too. For JK to fill in all the names and points from the previous rounds is time consuming which I thank him for.

Can you put up a proper link please…..all I get is soft toys

Is the a blank available that has the semis and the final on, I can add Croatia, Torun or Cardiff myself. If JK could do that before this weekend that would be great and we got it for the whole year.

I understand Crucible has a contract for 3 more years…..to mark 50 years at the Crucible….thats amazing. I like watching snooker, but it can’t match the excitement of a speedway meeting, actually ……nothing can.

For those that don’t like the “high prices”. Highest price seat at the Crucible for Snooker World Championship final is £450. How do you like that?

It’s hard at times to get one’s head around the fact prices for almost everything and anything have shot up in the last few years. Last year, on holiday south Shropshire we paid £13 for fish, chips and peas each, and that was takeaway price…..no cafe seats, we found a bench in a park. If “we” want live world class speedway on a British track, and Belle Vue is one of the best race tracks in the world, that most of the riders/mechanics, plus officials etc, are travelling many miles mostly from abroad, then it has to be paid for. The erection of the temporary stand on turn 3-4 will cost more than a few quid as well. You can’t compare prices with a uk premiere championship meeting, it’s in a different class. It is clearly a case of if you don’t want to pay the price then you don’t attend. I was at BV for the 2016 world team meeting at the atmosphere was pretty amazing. This year I am very happy staying at home watching everything that will be televised for the £6.99 Discovery+ are charging per month.

I reckon Saturday night will be FULL. Maybe not the 2 semi finals, but not far off full. Hotel prices are what they are. Any UK city hotel is high and more so when a big event is on, they would be if it was a national dog show. You can't run a big hotel charging £40 per night. Even Travelodge prices go up. Few nights ago I was comparing prices of an hotel. 2021 we stayed 7 nights in Thetford, Norfolk at Premier Inn. Average price for 7 nights was £46 per night, room only. That was mid June, not in school holiday. This year same week asking just over £90 per night. This year we doing 3 nights in a b&b Llandudno at £97 per night. We simply had to cut back. Now we doing 2 half weeks per year instead of 2 full weeks. We got the whole of Cheshire to explore on our doorstep and the Welsh border is just 8 miles away. Lots of beautiful countryside.

Seems they erecting the temporary stands on turns 3 and 4. Like they did in 2016 Doing that must cost more than a few bob. Plus 23 teams of riders, mechanics, all of the officials, heck of a lot of important background staff. Must cost a fortune and a nightmare to sort the logistics. On that basis £191 for a 4 night tournament ticket on the start line seems reasonable, and concessions available.

Nine for me. Not seen Arthur Payne, Dan Forsberg, and though Ian Williams rode for Swindon up to 1963 and I was a regular at BVue with mum and dad for at least 5 years prior to that I just can’t remember seeing him…so not included. I can remember seeing Eric Williams though, who was a few years older than Ian. Strange.

I’m about 6 weeks behind Ray Wilson (33). Yikes! It gets you thinking.

Sorry to hear this news. Not just a very good rider but a brilliant racer.

No, last year was a disaster with the track breaking up. So only main SGP this year.

How big was the crowd? Did it get into the hundreds?

Same story every beginning to a season....arrange to hold speedway in March and be prepared for cancellations galore.....it's inevitable......until global warming alters things for better weather. And many times April is not much better.

Is Sam Hagon any relation to Alf Hagon or his descendants.?? Good to see the young ones shaping so well. Impressed With Cook and the two Connors. Initially looked like Blodorn had took a leap forward. Re Celina, she is having a go at a sport she loves, just like many other youngsters. Nothing wrong with that. How far will she develop……who knows. What I havnt seen in any video clip etc is she mixing it on the first corner (in a tough way). She has got speed and very steady. I give her 10/10 for the courage to have a go.

That obviously implies people living and working in Poland don’t earn a good income yet the commentator said at the beginning of the meeting, as the camera was scanning the back straight stands, some fans had travelled from Poland. So some Polish residents can afford to come to UK for a meeting so a £15 stream must be well affordable.

There was comments on here 4-5 years ago that £10 to watch a speedway stream was too much….. time has moved on and, unfortunately, prices of EVERYTHING have gone up.

Well I paid the £15 to watch it from comfort of my own home and I am happy I did. The meeting was presented well by BV and as expected and the riders rose to the challenge and provided top notch racing. Quality of the stream was very good, the camera angles very adequate, the commentary was ok. Negatives of the meeting in relationship to the streaming was the seemingly lack of knowledge of how great Ove Fundin was and the battles he and Peter Craven had…..but then I am an Ove Fundin fan. My other moan, not the fault of the stream company, BSN, was the length of time grading the track after every four races. Thankfully BSN covered the time with an interview, but there again, if I had been at BV and not streaming then that excessive tractor grading would certainly have been very boring. I wasn’t there….maybe the time spent was necessary. So, I spent £15, I sat in the comfort of my own home, no petrol money spent, no hassle travelling 30 mile each way in rush hour traffic (it was 7 o’clock start), I could easily have spent £8-£10 on a fish and chip supper on the way home, and risked a call off meeting due to weather (but it was BV and the track is more weather friendly because it was built right). £15 well spent in my opinion.

Its been a dry day and sunny, washing out on the line. Sunday was not too bad either, not as good as Monday but not too bad. Personally, knowing its BV track, I think the track will be fine. I wouldnt have the same confidence about other tracks.

So he did, apologies……I just don’t rate him yet…….but he got the points needed - others didn’t.