Chris116

The fact that league matches are not all run before the play-offs start is madness. Teams should not be fined for failure to complete their fixtures before the end of the season, they should be fined for failure to complete before the play-offs start. Then we would not get the madness of Plymouth and Glasgow racing a match long after the play-offs have started.

A close match from Buster A and Buster B! I wonder how that happened.

The current Crayford stadium has no room for a track inside the greyhound track for a speedway track. The stand has very poor viewing of the dog track as it is built too close to the track so from most seats you can't see the start finish line. I used to watch speedway, stock cars and bangers regularly at the old stadium and went to have a look at the new stadium a couple of years after it opened. I fear that even if the dog track could be made into a speedway track it would be almost impossible to get planning permission and equally hard to actually be able to see all of the track which only has viewing on one straight.

I have just tried to ask for the video to be removed but the site says I am not allowed to report a post!

I agree. Mods should have removed it.

I am sure that back in the 1960s and 70s the riders wore their team race jackets which I think is what should happen in both the Championship and Premiership Riders Championships.

If they do catch it then the race is void!

You mean replacing spectators with empty space is all part of the plan! Is this the only plan that has existed for more than one year?

Very hard to get a grip with a hand broken in three places!

I remember going to another track when the TV cameras were present and they were giving out air horns and encouraging them to be used at the start and end of every race. I returned for the next meeting and was told they did not allow air horns to be used in the stadium. I asked why they had given them out two weeks earlier and was told not to be awkward! Promotion and track did not last much longer.

With what happened tonight it is about time that teams were only allowed to use rider replacement if they have declared a number eight and the number eight is present and ready to race. Riders being taken ill or being hurt racing cannot be helped but there should always be seven riders ready to race at the start of a meeting for both sides.

Don't encourage it!

I agree that Hackney went thanks to the 2012 Olympic games but Wimbledon was knocked down to build a football stadium and 600+ flats and for the developer it was the flats that made the money and the football stadium was just there to get planning permission.

There have been a number of people mentioning the lack of racing in London and having lived in the capital for most of my life I can only feel very sad at what has happened. While I was young my parents took me racing to Wimbledon, West Ham, New Cross, Hackney, Crayford, White City and Romford for Speedway. We also went to Wimbledon, Harringay, West Ham, White City, Walthamstow and Crayford for Stock Cars. At the same time there was greyhound racing at all of those tracks except Romford which still has a greyhound track. Two other greyhound tracks that come to mind are Crayford and Wandsworth. Except for the Romford and Crayford greyhound stadiums all are now closed and knocked down with shopping centres or housing built on the site. Tracks just outside London included Staines, Arena Essex, Rye House and Rayleigh which I enjoyed racing at but no longer exist. The whole situation is very sad for speedway, stock car and greyhound racing fans. London has become a desert with ever more housing built and then our political masters wonder why the young find entertainment in spraying graffiti everywhere or having mob fights at a weekend. Now my closest tracks for speedway are Poole and Isle of Wight but public transport no longer can get me home afterwards. For stock cars the choice is Aldershot and that is a 30 minute walk from the station! I am just happy to have enjoyed the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s when I could enjoy motor racing on 2 and 4 wheels in the London area and feel sorry for those who are growing up now.

Up until this season the news section always gave information if a match had been postponed for any reason but now all they do is remove the pre meeting promotion article and you have to go to the fixtures page to find out if the meeting has been postponed or if the website is just playing games and has lost the article for some reason. A bad case of not keeping your paying public up to date.

It was a BriSCA Formula One Stock Car meeting and sadly the last Spedeworth meeting at the track.

I have been getting it for about two weeks as well and the number of spam emails I get went up at the same time. It doesn't happen with any other sites so hope whatever bug has got in is removed soon.

Report and scores on the Warriors website for the opening meeting of the season on 23rd June.

I just wish Wightlink would start running the later boat from Ryde as until they do I can't get home from meeting. Wish everyone involved in Warriors Speedway a very successful 2022 and look forward to the day I can join you to enjoy the action.

This may have been answered already but given that Berwick have changed two riders does this count as one change or two under the rules?

I find it interesting reading the comments about the bad shape of the track as it was originally built to be the same shape as the original speedway track at Wimbledon to help the Scottish stock car drivers to win at the major championships that were held at Wimbledon. In later years Roy Cecil who ran Spedeworth Scotland joked that he and Gordon McDougall tossed a coin each winter and the loser had to run Armadale.

I no longer have a car but when I used to drive all over the country following both speedway and stock car racing. I always arranged my travel with a break every 60 to 90 minutes and would check for any postponements at each stop. Now that I use trains to travel around the country I can check at anytime during the journey but since I won't save any money by turning round at the next stop I now make trips with a duel purpose. So for Poole I spent the day on the Swanage Railway and for trips to Isle of Wight it was the IOW Steam Railway and then on to Smallbrook stadium. Sadly both are not possible at the moment due to the late train from Poole and the late Ryde to Portsmouth boat having been cancelled. Hopefully thing will improve next year. The other thing to remember is that weather forecasts are not that reliable. My wife and I have different apps on our phones and it is very rare that they are even close to agreeing. So all the promotion can do is look at a few apps and based on past experience guess what will happen. Getting it right is vital to the promotion as failure will result in losses that speedway can't afford.

If the above is true then how can a rider replace the notified guest on the day of an meeting when the new guest's meeting has been postponed?

Good to see the BSPL website giving details on the Premiership Pairs. In the write up it says that each team must have a Rising Star as their third rider and the RS must take at least one ride but then the list of who is riding for each team only gives the names of the top two riders and fails to say who the RS is! Now I know we all know who the RS is on each team but why leave their names out of the write up?

Sadly any business that uses large amounts of water (speedway track, football ground, steam railway) will be on a water meter and will pay for every gallon they use.