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Leicester 8pm, we'll now have a 47 minute break while we watch the Sun set....

Massive credit to Luke Harrison there. He could easily have been leaving that Track in a far far worse state. Air / Foam Safety Fences give these young riders a sense of invincibility that the old Fences never did. Therefore they think its hit the fence get up and get back on the bike. THAT'S GREAT in the sense NO ONE wants anyone to get hurt but someting along the lines of a "Rider Education Programme" needs to be considered. If a Referee or independent ex Rider after video Analysis considers a Rider errant or too hard / risk taker, theyshould be given penalty points on their Racing License and be made to atend a course at their expense and suspended if they reach a certain number of points It's no different to driving a Car on the Road! and happens in other forms of motor sports. Rushen is I believe a good lad, a potentially great talent, but someone seriously needs to sit him down and examine that with him in micro detail and show him the error of his ways. Someone from the GB set up maybe ?

Lads been out best part of 12 months, steps right back in to Premier League with a few practise spins. Show some respect!

It's been a shale track for Cars Very very different prparation for Bikes. It is not the clay surface at KIngs Lynn as an example.

A bit smaller but it reminded me of Dudley Wood in terms of the shape of bends relative to length of straights

An excellent Crowd for the first night and if the novelty value ensures 50% come back on a meeting by meeting basis they should wipe their noses. The track will need time to bed in fully. It reminded me a bit of Dudley Wood , a bit smaller but similar shape.

Speedway Forum, with all due respect a lot of dinosaurs , like all social media, full of negativity. I wasn't at Plymouth last night, I never watch BSN, I am occasional Speedway attender these days. I went to Plymouth earlier in the eason VIBRANT . PACKED , FULL OF NEW FANS... Now go and take a look at Plymouth Gladiators Social Media. Excellent non Speedway Fans media Team started last season, combined with and overseen by the always excellent Andy Hague. Bumper Crowd again last night Did they moan about "no passing" "long air fence delays" " three hours to finish a meeting" "queues to get in"?? Well if the did nO ONE seems to have moaned "Brilliant" "Exciting" "First Time i'll be back" "Great Atmosphere" "Fantastic spectacle" "Great night thanks to the electrician who found my childs earbud under the NHS Stand" Massive positivit from NEW fans, returning fans , curious to have a look at what its all about fans. No extinction level event in Devon Dinosaurs face extinction. Plymouth, as i've banged on about for 12 months , bucking the trend , MAKING EACH RACE NIGHT A ONE OFF EVENT! The Score doesn't matter The Delays don't matter It's like a one off Concert / Theatre / Circus / type Event. Speedway as E N T E R T A I N M E N T not as a Sport! Gloaters can gloat, moaners can moan, Plymouth seem to have found a magic elexir! (No disrespect meant to any poster, just trying to open up minds !)

You miss one obvious fact When 16 - 17 year old British lads turn up with the sponsored van festooned in Stickers, 3 CL Class bikes festooned in Stickers, dad and mom and 10 relatives all wanting free tickets and a couple of PL level mechanics and wanting more a point than most CL teams pay an experienced second string plus bonuses and all other sorts, then actually keen potentially progressive early 20's European riders who are here to race and learn can overall be a far more economical option. Then when these 16-17 year olds do anything remotely notwworthy they feck off to one of the "big clubs". That's after they have signed for your NDL team at 15, only agreeing because you promise them a CL place if they perform well, and when they do, they still feck off to another CL Team, then its not hard to wonder why some young british riders who think the Sport has the money it had 20 years ago are quite simply pricing themselves out of the market.

Dropped in on my way back home from a week in Hayle. More incredible progress since last there, new Bar, new Small Stands. Massive Crowd compared to early last season when I last visited. Nothing wrong with Track, was windy so they had watered it, came ideal by heat 5 or so. Home riders attacked it, Slick Sam Masters did what he used to do at Monmore when it was wet, - went missing started moaning - rest of Oxford team followed him Some good racing later on, with Barker a proper 3rd heat leader at home and Joe T in there and Klima excellent last night, if they could find an adequate replacement for Tobias, they won't be far off the Play Offs. Someone mentioned Bowtell but I'd imagine they would want some one better Away where points will be key. Another amazing leap forward from the SW outpost. My next speedway sojourn will no doubt be to Northampton.

The great irony here is timing. Had SIS have pulled out a month ago, the future of Oxford Speedway may have been far more assured for 2026. The BSPL and PL Promoters would have shelved the very costly Northampton project, that must be costing them more that £100,000 and pumped £20,000 a month rent in to Oxford and run an Oxford Team in the PL. To optimise income, they could still have run an Oxford Team in the CL. That would have given a further 12 months to properly market and develop Northampton, if it was still needed after a bigger reorganisationfor 2027. Timing!

Foxes? The progress is glacial!

Many Clubs have done this over the years. Some riders are very adept at it. Nothing new to see here but commendations to Poole fpr finally joining in and trying to raise their average fan age below the 70 mark. I hope that the younger fans are a lot less rude and abusive than the current rabble if you try to sit in an unreserved seat!

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exactly! Weekend has definite possibilities Monday / Thursday YUK The other elephant in the Room BRANDON! Brandon reopens, that surely kills Northampton stone dead!

Sorry to be a part pooper. Anyone who thinks that you could drive from anywhere west of Coventry (e.g Greater Birmingham, Black Country, Staffordshire, Worcestershire or further west) in anything under 2 hours to remote Northamptonshire is living in cloud cuckoo land. It can take an hour to get from Wolverhampton to Birmingham or Birmingham to Coventry. The only way a Track in Braefield can attract any fans further west than Coventry would be to run on Saturday night or Sunday. Fans would literally have to take a day off work / school and fork out £40 / £50 in fuel. They may do it once or twice for novelty value but that is all. Its a financial disaster on the Perry Barr scale waiting to happen.

The other Yank who rode in that 81/82 team from memory, who I thought on his day was as good as Penhall was Ronnie Preston. I was told years ago that he wasn't in the Costa Mesa Californian group which almost all of the others were, so was always a bit off the radar. Not sure how true that was but he always went underrated in my opinion.

Put it like this... If shale contaminates the doggy sand at Mildenhall, then the dogs will be quickly told to like it or lump it only not quite so politely! If Arc do take over Oxford dog licence and Ownership, I'd fear a similar scenario to Monmore...where the dogs would rule!

The mind can play tricks at my age, but I have looked back and double checked. The Speedway Star last week suugested that 5 Clubs had confirmed / requested to join in 2026, that the League hoped to have 8 teams. Whether there are enough teams to stock 8 teams would be a moot point, so I am not sure if they would have a 4 + 4 split. It may be that 5 or 6 teams is the limit for one League Oxford Buxton have publically confirmed they wish to race, not sure anyone else has formally confirmed. It would be strange without Edinburgh and almost certainly Redcar, and equally, with their facilities, Leicester. Whether Belle Vue retain their long association, or Kings Lynns impressive roster want to return in unclear. Scun/Sheff; Plymouth and Workington seem to have made absolutely no comments at all and it has been publicised that Kent are trying to tie up a long term stadium agreement to justify considerable investment in a new air fence. Mildenhall have confimed they want to run NORA and I wonder if a few more in the South like Kent / Plymouth / IOW might go down that route.

Deane Woods Spedeworth owns the Stadium does he not? Lets think outside the box then. He just does a deal with BSPL to lease the Stadium to the BSPL/ Speedway Futures , not a specific Promoter , the BSPL stick a tried and tested and trusted promotional Team in there to run it on behalf of BSPL. May be linked to Speedway Futures? who pick up the Financial accountability. Is this a model for the future (excuse the pun) to grow the Sport. Speedway Futures become almost like a "Speedway Administrator" picking up Tracks in Financial Difficulty - taking on financial responsibility and putting in registered and regulated Promoters to manage day to day on a set salary. Instead of milking the Promotions for fees and bonds and everything else the BSPL / Speedway Futures becomes the financial funding point. In which case - they send two accomplished fire-fighters in to secure the future. Van Stratten and Adams would be the most logical pairing (at least for 12 months) given the small number of Fixtures.

Dean Have the utmost respect for you and certainly no intent to "shoot the messenger" However, and as a lifelong Aston Villa and Birmingham Brummies supporter, it does pain me to say this, but this sort of activity by anyone involved in Speedway / Bangers at The Wheels or elsewhere is not only going to end up in instant failure, it is also going to go in the face of a massive Private / Local and Central Government investment. The Plans for the site are incredible and will give the City and Region a Global presence. If I hold my nose and gag refles, I have to admit that this development will not only be the best in the UK but probably in Europe Central Government have allocated significant future funding for the Transport Network to link the City / KnIghthead Park / the NEC and Airport and Rail Network finally up via new Rail new Tram and new pedestrianised and cycle walkways. Local Government areinvesting millions in to similar projects. Knighthead have got planend investment in to the Stadium and massive local area in excess of £3bn They are looking not just at Soccer but facilities that will allow European / Commonwealth / Olympic sized bids and other Sports and the biggest Concerts etc. They appear to be close to announcing the proposed Stadium and Training Complexes as the new National home for the Soccer Lionesses from 2032. With the connections they have in US Sport (Tom Brady) there is a genuine move to give Birmingham the UK US Football franchise long promised to London and also the option for other US Sports including Basketball. They have the Film / TV Industry nailed down too with links to the Creator of Peaky Blinders (btw writing the next Bond Movie) and much more. As much as it pains me to say it, from a football and speedway perspective, any attempt to stall this would not land well with anyone in or around the City. If Speedway / Stocks have a sense of commonsense they will drop this, and seek a compromise site elsewhere in brown belt land and in fact there may well be options just outside of the scope for this development on the Airport side adjacent to NEC / Airport (where noise would not be an issue) . Wheels has been an option since the Speedway closed there, of it wasn't a considered plan then . now is certaintly too late. A site adjacent to A45 corridor around the Airport / NEC perimiter might be the best option right now!

well well at least it's not the usual poole issue of phone pics ahem nor is it phone pics again for Mr Lawson ahem ahem - this time (those that know know! especially around worky way!)

"we are heading for something really big," ----- Could it mean that after more EGM's and more EGM's that the PL situation has unravelled to the fact that there are currently only 4 Clubs. The PL won't countenance, 1 big league, NONE of the CL Clubs are not interested in moving "up". Birmingham are closed, Sheffield remains unsold, Oxford will not run 3 Leagues and won't run PL. No returning or new Club is viable in the timeframe. The only viable 5th club therefore is Sheffield. My understanding is-: AT LEAST Two of the PL Clubs are now considering not racing in 2026 rather that diminish their current SGP staffed roster and are increasingly intransigent. Where that might leave the other 2 (or 3 if Sheffield is sold) no one yet knows. Hopefully Sheffield in sold PDQ! Before AGM! / CL will accept a couple of ex PL Clubs who wish to race under current CL limit? Also possible that if the boycott happens potentially none of the current Management Committee may remain in place!

Personally I think Poole would be crazy to let Lewis Kerr go , especially if Zach Cook does not ride Championship. Lewis can be high maintenance and his confidence levels can drop, especially when he keeps getting messed about by PL Clubs chopping and changing. He would be ideal though with Lawson and Rowe as a spearhead and there would be none better.

that would be a very strong team. I was told by someone close to the family that Ryan Ingram was lined up for the 2 point rider for 2026 very early in 2025 as part of the deal to sign for NDL Plymouth team. Everything he has done this season only enhances that prospect in my opinion.

Most important hope everyone is OK I think Glasgow will have to go through. Purely LOGISTICAL I am sure there will have to be a Full SCB / Local Authority Health and Safety review and Track Inspection after an incident of this nature. These sort of things can take weeks. Remedial safety measure may be ordered. I suspect therefore that whether by default or not, the pragmatic resolution will be GLASGOW This implies no blame on anyone but ALL Motorsports are potentially dangerous to competitors and spectators and due process will have to follow