Chris116

I remember back in the 1960s at Wimbledon, Ove Fundin was always booed whenever he visited Plough Lane. No one got worked up about it.

The revised fixture list for IOW Warriors is now on their website.

Is that when it starts snowing?

Does the Plymouth promotion own the stadium? If that is the reason SCB/BSPL have been able to stop NORA92 league racing then the Plymouth promotion need to sell to a company set up to run the stadium which they can totally control while still saying it is not them who are hiring the stadium out!

I once interviewed Steve Schofield at Hackney for Race Video and we had to get him to stand two steps up on the terraces!

It is also interesting that Iwade are still running meetings but maybe the difference is who owns the stadium!

The press release from Warriors Shale Track Club says that the Plymouth promotion have told them that they cannot hire the stadium due to pressure from SCB. I will alter my original post to SCB instead of BSPL who I still suspect are behind this.

So Plymouth have been forced out of running NORA92 racing by the BSPL! How come they allow NORA events at Scunthorpe and many other tracks? Is this a case of not being able to run a p*ss up in a brewery and not wanting to be shown up?

Brafield Badgers please!

Nothing as usual.

They would probably still have to use Rider Replacement!

I agree 100% but that would mean all the fiddles got stopped and according to the BSPL that would not be in the best interests of speedway!

KK at Rye House may have averaged around 8 but the problem was he would score a maximum one week and be beaten by the opposing reserves the next week. If he failed to win his first race then managing 3 for the evening was the most you got from him.

Ronnie Greene at Wimbledon Len Silver at Hackney, Rye House, etc Mike Parker need a lot of space for all the tracks he ran and people he upset! Chick Woodroffe at Arena Essex

Which part of Australia do you come from?

I remember a meeting at Arena Essex when rain was forecast to be very heavy within 90 minutes of start time. Parade was cancelled and dot on time the 2 minute warning sounded. As each race finished the 2 minute warning for the next race sounded as the 4th place rider crossed the finish line! It started raining earlier than forecast but still 5 minutes after the end of the last race. With some referees we would have been lucky to have seen seven races but Frank got it finished.

This is good news provided the referees all hit the one minute button as soon as the red lights go on to stop the race. Trouble is that some referees are very slow with the current two minute warning and I fear they will be no quicker with the one minute warning. Lessons should be given by Frank Ebdon on how to do it right.

When I was in my early teens my father took me to a cycle speedway meeting at a track in a park just off Garrett Lane near Wimbledon Stadium. A very enjoyable afternoon but we didn't manage to get to another meeting as it was very difficult to find out when they were being held. I don't think the track exists now but if it did I would love to watch a meeting.

Good to see the planned fixture list for IOW. It will be interesting when the dates for Iwade and Plymouth are published to see if both tracks are having as many NORA meetings as IOW or if it will just be the four league matches at those tracks.

I think the 'grasstrack demonstration' almost certain to be NASA style car racing. EDIT:- NASA - National Auto Sport Association

Having read the SCB statement dated 7th February I can see it being possible that both Sittingbourne and Plymouth tell the BSPL that either they are allowed to have the NORA and BSPL racing at the track or the BSPL can get lost and the only racing will be NORA sanctioned. If that happens then the BSPL will have shot themselves in the foot and that will open up the possibility that Mildenhall would jump ship which would practically destroy the NDL. Personally I hope that both leagues exist side by side and that both are successful as that is good for the sport and the more tracks that are successfully running increases interest in the sport. You only have to look back to the 1960s and the effect the Provincial League had on the sport leading to far more tracks opening.

Only the mods can pin a topic and I understood that they were asked but for unknown reasons have not done so.

The News of the World didn't do facts, only rumours that they started and females with a lack of clothing.

The subject of insurance was fully explained when IOW went to NORA. So with an expansion of tracks racing under NORA, insurance is still not a problem as riders will be covered in the same way they have for the past two seasons. If anything I have said above is incorrect I am sure that the IOW promotion @barrybishopwill be on here very quickly to correct me. I wish promotion, riders and fans all the best for 2023.

Good news and I wish every success to the new league.