OveFundinFan

Battery and recharging technology is changing all the time, lots of money being spent on research and development. I read they can charge a mobile phone in 30 seconds, they just need to commercialise that engineering - which they will do. Same with electric cars, new cars like Nissan Leaf (new model( can do over 230 miles, give a couple years and it will be 500-800 miles and then its is very viable.

I am sure it was the case at Belle Vue in the sixties (at least) that after the meeting the riders went to the office which was under and at the back of the grandstand and received there earnings. Its easy to calculate what someone has earned during a meeting, especially now with computers. Cash may not be the wisest now but money transfers are no problem.

Be interested how you go on Bruno. I am on the BT 52mb package as well. What I would like to do is cancel my 2nd TV package as I only have a 2nd TV to watch speedway during the GP months ie May-Oct - so basicallywant it for 6 months then like to cancel it for 6 months. Anyone know for a fact if this can be done??

Sad to hear about Henryk. It was always exciting, as a teenage speedway supporter, to hear of Poles coming to the UK to ride for a team, plus the touring of a Polish team and Russian team. Great days.

If the contract with BT states teams must wear a certain type of track suit and a specific team wont abide by the contract, then if I was BT I would be pulling out. Of course, I dont know what the contract says...... but I cannot see how one team can do whatever they want if the contract says different. No wonder British speedway is in the state it is if one team can simply do its own thing.

My latest BT bill dated 5th Feb was £49, that includes a 2nd TV box, and broadband at 52mbs. I think there was a price rise for part of that so next month may be a little more.

So whats the major reasons????

You never know, he might do it for a few bags of crisps!

I would have thought anyone developing a new tyre would have thought of all those things and addressed them in the design stage. Or maybe they were so stupid as to just create a tyre with no thought, just go ahead spending money with no thought and sponsoring the GP series and the Czech GP.

Released yesterday http://www.speedwaygp.com/news/article/6386/anlas-becomes-official-sgp-tyre

BT has a 3 year contract for the GP's so 2018 was a surety for GP's. Not sure but I think 2018 is the last of the 3 years, someone will confirm this or otherwise I am sure.

Thats bad planning, wouldnt recomend you put in as a team manager. You should have bought the essential loaf first, at least you could have kept eating, albeit not toast. I'll get my coat.

I would be interested at £30 plus postage. Joe

The above was Halifaxtiger quoting SCB. SCB, it does say "average", that means the figure evens everyone out. Someone on the National Minimum Rate of £7.50ph will earn £15,600pa. Even the new pension, only recently started to be paid, is approx £8,400pa and that depends on NI contributions. Pensioners before that get much less- and thats what my state pension is....much less. I contributed to a private pension for 23 years which helps me out, many pensioners today do not have private pensions. They will really be struggling. I think you need to learn what pensioners are actually on rather then rely on some "average" figure. If pensioners didnt get "senior citizen" rates I would imagine some businesses would struggle - speedway would probably have folded years ago.

I wish I was on that £20k a year pension - fact is I am far below it. If that £20k is some sort of average, it could include those directors who were earning £300k+ and receive pensions of £80k-£100k. Nice if you can get it.

Re Tungate..... I was impressed he was the only unbeaten rider at the 2017 Aussie GP He rode well there.

With the number of Australian riders in the Melbourne GP just gone, they may as well have said that was the Australian Championship. And if most riders equipment are in Europe, Orlov, what were they riding in that Aussie GP?

But you clearly said “hope he gets as mush stick as CH did” you knew CH got a lot of stick, so you are hoping CC gets the same treatment. If you didn’t mean that you should word you posts more clear. I for one didn’t know the history behind your comment.

Re refs holding the tapes longer to try and catch riders...... agreed that went on in some GPs last year. Easy way round that is let a computer determine when the tapes go up - take the human factor out of it.

On the other hand, Sidney, the public got robbed by someone streaking away into the lead and potentially the wrong rider winning and also being deprived of a better race. The run off between Ivan M and Jerzy S being one that immediately springs to mind.

but it seems some supporters dont mind rollers as long as they dont bust the tapes.

I was "away" from speedway during the Rikardsson era, never saw him "live" so unfair to include him in my list, 1 Fundin, 2 Mauger 3 Briggs 4 Olsen and because I did see him 5 Nielsen Fundin because 1. Five world titles during the time when they were one-off meetings, 2. Ten years on the trot in the world top 3 (at the time they were one off meetings) 3. whilst Mauger was the true professional in terms of preparation, Fundin was the opposite, self proclaimed non mechanic, would ride anything - even the track spare - and win.

I thought Starman had gone a bit quiet on this forum recently, Sorry to hear of your ill health Starman, like the others, I wish you well for a speedy and complete recovery.

Bobbath, there is nothing on Wikipedia re Sverre Harrfeldt,, that doesn’t seem right. Why don’t you start something off, you must know more then a bit about him.

Surely Worrall and tungate can only get better.