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And spelling ?

I'm glad you edited that to make it easier to understand 🤣

My first season as a Comets fan was 1970 (Ian Thomas/ Geoff Brownhutt brought speedway to Derwent Park)and you didn't know when attending a Friday night meeting that there would be 'Silver helmet' match races - not until you saw the trophy sitting on the table next to the starting gate. But it was good to have that extra treat for your speedway fix. One night stands out for me about the silver helmet in 1973. Comets had heavily outscored Rayleigh, the visiting rider Moore(?) had custody of helmet so top scoring Comet would challenge the Rocket. However 4 Comets were points-wise able to take this challenge on i.e. Lou Sansom, Taffy Owen, Mal McKay and Mitch Graham - so to decide who would be the Rockets opponent the shortest straw drawn (in pits)would do the business. The announcer told the crowd that Mitch Graham will be Comets rider - at which point many of the crowd booed loudly - I recall being very very annoyed with these so called Comets fans. However the boos soon changed to cheers as Mitch won the helmet....but he lost it the next week boo hooo.

To answer your question = NO.

Good luck with that then............... hope you've got the handshake in order.

Seems like good grub for the fans at both sports. Don't know what the Greyhounds like but it must be good seeing the speed they chase after it !!

Seems a lot for match races. I think one downside of the Gold/Silver helmet challenges was fans didn't usually know in advance of it happening at their track. So the extra needed crowds didn't materialise to pay for the additional racing. But if your figures of £1000 are correct I'd certainly tell the riders where to stick the helmets.

Well it was only two of them....with a maximum of three races....surely promoters weren't that stingy?

Why not add to the variety of meetings by bringing back the 'Golden Helmet' / 'Silver Helmet' match races? (anyone recall these?). I never did understand why these mostly excellent two man races were dropped.

There's a lot of dire here.

With promoters taking turns to aim at their feet !!!!

Followed by promoters singing "why does it always rain on me ?" (with guests Wet Wet Wet).

One guy called Chris will become a hero for all five Premiership teams for sure.

Welcome mate. So here we have our top division. Yes just the 5 teams-why what's wrong with that? Hey wait! Come back let me explain - oh ok forget it, Anyone else like to join us? Come on speedway is a top professional sport (hope he's gullible) - worldwide as well. It was ranked the second most popular UK sport once upon a time *( not a fairy story). Now ranked 16th according to a recent post on this forum (page 112 by Iainb). So come my friends join the speedway world in 2026 you are needed and most of all your cash. By the way the lower division has a massive 9 clubs. What do you mean that's rubbish too? Oh bye then......next please!!!

How do you attract new fans? It will be so difficult to explain what a 'speedway league' consists of !!!!