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I do wish people would stop running down the people whose support we need. I suspect the speaker in question was referring to the period prior to closure when Mr Chapman was noticeably quiet.

To be fair it is a cut above most track shops

From BSPL website: AMA National Championship Top 4 AMA California State Championship Top 4 AMA FIM American Final Winner Results from 2026 AMA Speedway National Championship (Two Rounds) 1-Max Ruml 49, 2-Brady Landon 43, 3-Broc Nicol 40, 4-Wilbur Hancock 29, 5-Aaron Fox 25 Cal State is at Industry in October Not sure FIM American Final is being staged this year. Slater Lightcap came 3rd in 2025 AMA series thus making him eligible for a visa.

22 March 2007 Ipswich v Reading Loram and Simota collided coming out of bend 2 [ht 1] resulting in an hour delay. (The accident ended Loram's career). Meeting ended about 10.15 with no tannoy for last 2/3 races.

Has to be Freddie and Anders for me [Bewley and Holder are a given] Anders has had a fantastic year at Gorzow, won a GP and gives good interview Freddie should be offered one, but like Doyle and Woffinden the road is running out. If Freddie declines I think I'd go for Kvech. BTW Where are all the people who demand more qualification places and less wild cards? Why are they not frantically cheering on Maciej Janowski in the SEC and complaining Jakobsen been diddled out of a place?

Doesn't Robert have a Polish wife ? Why should she live in the UK, or do you expect them to live in different countries?

And Fricke can breathe

Kurtz 9nly needs 4 from 3 rides to get into LCQs. And then it's a bit of a lottery

I'd say he's got far more potential than Lightcap [or Martin] and will probably go straight to Poland.

There were 12 participants listed, but only 9 started. A further two (Norman & Fletcher [?] ) withdrew leaving just 7.

I don't understand what you are basing these wild claims on. Pickering will be off come what may (he only signed for Scunny because he priced himself out of a place in Poland) Zack Cook will drop the Championship as part of his natural progression like dozens of other riders have done before ( e.g. Ben Cook, Tom Brennan) Dan Thompson has a real decision to make: does he want to watch speedway in Lodz or ride speedway in Edinburgh? If the latter as Lisa suggests then we haven't lost him. Masters/Lawson/Flint/Jeppesen/Wright etc ride in tier 3 so are not affected I hardly think King, Batchelor and Harris et al are going to resume their Polish careers Nor do I see the likes of Etheridge, Edwards or Sedgmen attracting Ekstraliga interest. So the sum total of riders at risk appears to be: Anders Rowe (and possibly Dan Thompson). Isn't the bigger risk that riders may drop the Premiership to protect Swedish or Danish contracts?

Plenty. But your best bet would be Mulford or Pijper. I'd stick with Edwards - but why replace the second best rising star (based on 2026 Premiership all match average exc bonus) with one who would be overmatched by all the existing Rising Stars.

The six current Rising Stars all have Championship level averages between 5.74 and 6.78. I'd say they are very well matched. I'd agree that there is not a great choice of new talent to replace riders dropping out. Mulford and Pijper look the best in the short term. It really would be better having rising stars in the Championship

Three British born riders in the top seven!

It will be restaged after the cut-off date, but will not count towards determining top 4

Probably - like football didn't exist before the Premiership (but it did)

And he kept saying it was the biggest ever stage for the World Cup. Katowice 1974 might beg to differ.

Seems to do OK in the PGE Ekstraliga, averages nearly 2 points a match more than Kurtz

Well that's understandable as Plymouth and Berwick have only had since 28 June to decide dates.

But in five years time Lambert and Bewley should be at their peak. Add in Rushen and Cairns who if all goes well will be approaching world class. Then one of Flint, Brennan and Dan Thompson could be a solid number five after another five years of solid improvement or maybe someone else will be in contention?

The main impact would be to demonstrate what a bunch of childish whingers many team managers are.

Look no further than the 1990 Reading Racers

Don't think r/r is possible, and it would have to be a 'no facility' [i.e. 75%] guest

When they cut to him it looks more like a hostage video!

No - otherwise a one day suspension would end before the following days matches. Therefore meaning a 1 day suspension would involve missing no possible meetings