SCB

Practice for a longtrack meeting does NOT take priority. How the hell do you think riders cope riding in a GP Saturday and then Poland Sunday? Or Poland Sunday and Wolves on a Monday? Or Wolves on a Monday and then Sweden on a Tuesday? Riders manage it every day if the week. Kennett just chose to have a day off and leave his team with no facility.

No he's not. That's why you have no facility.

Hes longtracking this weekend.

Kennett, Nicholls, Harris, Robson, Brandford and Ellis have ridden or would be eligible. And hasn't Wells got residency? Where does he stand on riding NL?

You're half right, you get less every week. Poole capacity is 2,900 so if you get 2,200 then you're over 75% full, which is not the case.

8 meeting at the start of this season aside, Tungate has always been statistically better than Sedgmen. Tungate has since his first season been a good, solid PL heat leader while Sedgemen has only ever ridden as a second string. Over a season I know which one I'd put money on doing the business for me.

Sedgmen hasn't done well at BV, he's just done less bad at BV than Tungate did at Somerset. Isn't speedway funny?

I'd just get Adam Ellis booked in to guest now for every meeting he's available.

but unless you have multiple loops around the track (and who's going to dig up their tracks for that) then it's only ever going to be correct at the end of every lap. But actually think it should be done, just for dodgy starts and close finishes.

Only the BSPA could fail maths this badly 😂🤦‍♂️

Except they're not. They might be 20% less than their Championship figures but thats not divided by 1.2 and they're most certainly not in some cases, explain Lawson and Heeps....

Garrity is 7.09 for Leicester now, thats 80% of his PL average from last season. So it looks like they have gone with a 0.80 factor, which Im happy with and makes some sense. Not sure how Lawson gets 7.80 though :/ Or Cam Heep 5.53

This is one of the things I picked up on during a heat. But as someone whos job it is to write the software for this kind of thing, I'm struggling to think of a good, resilient way of making this work quickly and correctly. Bearing in mind that the person operating will be a professional graphics operator and not a speedway fan. So they won't be that quick at noticing a position change and what happens when you have two riders battling side by side?! I have some ideas and I'm tempted to knock something up and over lay it during a meeting and see what I can come up with. As someone who works in the industry, I'd be happy with the feedback so far. It's all simple things to change and I think the general feeling is they did a good job.

What odds hes been assessed at 7 and will replace Thomas Jorgensen?

So Kings Lynn can bring Woffy in for Thomas Jorgensen on July 31st then? Yeah, can't see that being the case!

BT in-house stuff. Wouldn't get a look in, sadly. The two people in the pits and the commentary box are probably only a fraction of the cost. Equipment cost far more than people. They'll have also only been a small percentage of the people working on it.

In my professional opinion the graphics were crap. Agree on the camera work too, too much focusing up close to the leader.

But back then double points had to come from 15 metres. So often a great sight, if it was your riders coming from 15 it was amazing, if it was an opposing rider while double points was a little annoying seeing a rider come from 15 metres was often something to behold. I took a friend to a Newport vs Stoke meeting in 2000, only Alan Mogridge was doing anything for Stoke that day, he had won his first two heats by a lot. They sent him out in heat 8 from 15 metres for double points. My friend thought this was amazing, seeing Stokes best rider being handicapped against two of Newports "lesser" riders (would have been Craig Taylor and either Lee Herne or Chris Courage), Moggo won the heat with my mate now thinking Moggo was some sort of super human. Certainly didnt have him muttering, "double points, what a joke". That friend has been to about half a dozen more league meeting over the years and has no interest but he's attended almost all Cardiffs and watches the odd GP on TV.

He's no different to last season. You all just happened to see 2 or 3 good guest bookings, in the PL. This is his level, he's doing his job. If anyone expected more thats their problem, not Robs.

If only someone who knew what they were doing was in charge of the SCB eh?

Thats totally illogical and arbitrary. You may as well make up an average as have that figure from a statistical POV. The answer is to take last years average, multiply it by 1.4, divide by 50 and multiply by 42 (1.4 being the figure the BSPA used, 50 being the start points limit and 42 being break even) that would give KK an average of 9.31 and Zengotta would be a little lower on 9.16

Ive said for a long time it's not track length that matters, it's having long bend where the straights are further apart. Look at Scunthorpe, Somerset and as pointed out BV. Most continental tracks have longer bends too. Then look at Leicester, it's the complete opposite!

I was going to say a risk worth taking but I think Ive said that about him every year for the last 5 years.

The GP qualifier dates were out long before British fixtures. And why run on an off night anyway?

Why are Rye House running on an off night that clashes with a GP qualifier?