Chris116

With 8 riders, the same as the Ipswich 16 lapper. I think Arena ran it over 12 laps just to make it different to the Ipswich race.

Very unlikely but we would all love to see your back as you leave the forum.

If you are worried about a £1 increase in admission for the Playoff finals I would advise you not to follow BriSCA F1 Stock Cars as their normal admission is the same as a normal Speedway meeting but for their main event of the season it was £45! If I still had a car there is no way I would have missed it even at that price.

I have been watching the snooker that is on Eurosport this week and compared to BBC coverage it has the same faults as their Speedway coverage when compared to BSN. It seems that Eurosport are just not very good at sports coverage.

Retain - Speedway Replace - BSPL

My mother, a Belle Vue Aces fan, and I, a Wimbledon Dons fan, went to see our teams meet at Plough Lane with Reg Trott as referee. Every decision he made during the meeting both of us agreed was wrong. Every referee has a bad meeting but Reg seemed to excel in having a bad meeting every time we saw meetings he was in charge of.

Crystal Palace would be a great place but sadly the old circuit racing track had massive problems with the locals (including a hospital) and opening a new track would never be allowed.

The simple solution would have been to agree the dates each team would run their home meeting on, which means TV know where they need their OB team to be and then sort out the opposition in accordance with the rules.

I am a member of another forum that uses the same software and the mods regularly merge threads there so it is possible but only for the mods.

That always works.

Sadly, following the fire at the stadium all car meetings are listed as 'postponed' for the rest of the year. I don't know how long the rebuilding is going to take but it sounds like a big job so it is impossible to know when any racing will be possible. I would recommend checking the Spedeworth website to see if it has any news. I would very much doubt that any agreement for speedway to return would be possible until the cars have returned. I know this doesn't answer your question but I hope it gives you some idea of what could happen.

Sadly since 22nd July the Warriors website has not been updated with either meeting previews or reports.

It has been boring for a long time and is like a leopard, so won't change its spots.

When I started watching speedway (1955, age eight months) and through the 60s and 70s the tractor came onto the track as the riders left. It did two laps and left the track as the riders came out for the next race. While that was happening about twenty rakers were busy pulling the shale back towards the inside line and away from the fence which meant the tractor had shale to move around. The racing was never delayed by track grades but the racing surface was well looked after. Then we got health and safety saying that no riders or staff could be on the track while the tractors were and the tractor had to be in the pits not on the centre green. Add to that the near total absence of rakers and we end up with lots of delays for tractor racing while the track is not maintained as well as it used to be.

Here is a copy of their message on the website. "Mildenhall Stadium was the victim of a large fire on Tuesday 30th July - causing significant damage to the venue. As the leader in promoting oval motorsport events in the country, our commitment to improving the facilities at our venues was no clearer than at Mildenhall - with significant investment and hours of hard work being undertaken at this much-loved venue prior to the fire. We are devastated at what has happened, but remain committed to getting the venue back on the map, and back on track to play host to more oval motorsport in the future. Crucially, we can thankfully say that nobody was injured, and we would also like to thank the firefighters who tackled the blaze. We will be making no further comment on the matter until an official investigation into the fire is completed. Spedeworth/Incarace/Mildenhall."