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Reduction will be less if compound

18 years since the Reading speedway became a thing of history the last great Racer dismounts for the final time. My all time favourite Racer, watching him was a thing of magic right from the first time I saw him at Smallmead in 2003. Although he never quite hit the heights on the world scene he leaves the stage with 8 Polish league titles, 3 World Team Cup golds and most impressively in the era of Zmarzlik et al four Polish Individual championships. Earlier this year I visited Poland and on the way to a meeting at Lublin and dropped into the deserted Tarnow stadium. It was here Janusz's career started. A stadium worker approached me, an unidentified intruder, I pointed to my Racers top and uttered the magic words 'Janusz Kołodziej Racing' and suddenly we were best of buddies. Thanks for all the memories Janners

Unless you count riders who are retiring or unlikely to be in the Championship by choice there won't be more than 7 or 8 riders over 8 (and that includes Brennan)

Dayle Wood would be a bit of a gamble as it was announced on Saturday that he's retired from British speedway (or is that just code for he's buggered off early back to Aus'?

That equates to 45-46 for a full team of seven - is that really practical?

Steve? I notice he stopped updating about 3 weeks ago. Decidedly irritating.

Simon's always game

It would also have made sense with there being a strong likelihood of at least one rider not making it to Adelaide

The meeting that got rained off after 6 heats at Workington in August. Expect a Polish victory with any challenge most likely to come from the Latvians.

He's raced every year for over two decades. In the last three years he has topped the Russian league averages zero times and won the Russian Championship zero times. He's still one of the best five domestic Russians (along with Lachbaum, Logachev, Kotlyar and Kulakov) but that hardly makes any of those GP standard.

Less than two hours after dissing Freddie for being over 40 and past it, yet here you are putting forward Grigory Laguta who is: - over 40 and past his best.

At 24 Kvech is still a youngster in GP terms which would make him my preferred choice.

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