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Scott is not in the named 7 so there is no reason to find a guest for him. And while there are alternatives I struggle to see any that are significantly better - please enlighten me.

But a somewhat less than impressive away average.

Hi there I'm a Nigerian Prince, I wonder if you could help me? ....

Your welcome to donate, but has it been endorsed by Poole Speedway? And if you donate you are giving your money to 'anonymous Poole fan' - for all we know that could be 'lucifersam' and he's planning to give all your Poole pennies to Luke and Jody.

Over 70 years, that's quite some history in the sport. And only last weekend present at Oxford. One of the sport's most notable characters. Leaves only Reg Fearmam of the 'famous five' behind Allied Presentations.

OK, if the grown-ups can have this thread back, the interesting news from today is that Eastbourne are submitting an application to join the NDL next season, staging home matches at Iwade. I do wonder what sort of response they'll get.

I think we know the ahswer as it has already been done. Called the Craven and Young Shields, these competitions were notoriously poorly attended.

Vinnie Foord would be a good match 🤭

Tuesday's drenching can't have helped. But the lack of overtaking after the first lap seems to have got lost in all the other 'noise'

The bottom line is Poole were the best team in the league. They assembled a strong top 4, including three riders with significant potential to improve (and all three did, although Zach seemed to save his best performances for the Brummies). Then they signed 'a second-rate' Dane already regarded as a failure over here that nobody else had the remotest interest in and got points out of him. Then they managed to get far more from Hagon (at least in the first half of the season) and Foord (who has a lower NDL average than Scott or Perry) than could reasonably be expected. Whether it's in spotting who to sign or how they bring out the best in riders once signed Poole have that extra edge. My one reservation would be their lack of interest in grassroots speedway.

Motorcycle Federation of Russia (their ACU)

Yes - basically capitalism in operation, about the least woke thing you could imagine

Well it only lasted 3 minutes 😛

It's pure capitalism which is the very antithesis of woke.

Holta's switch was voluntary. Holta hadn't been banned from FIM events prior to his switch And as far as I know Norway had not invaded Sweden.

So one off round wildcards for Emil and Artem then 😆

I think it's called 'the reverse Shovlar'

What about Douglas or Tungate? Is there any reason they shouldn't enter? [A serious question given Fricke's wildcard]

It's considered a win if Oxford manage to track two riders in a race.

Except for the appalling lack of raking on the back straight terraces.

In the interests of space the Day 2 B, C, D Finals are all in the same column. Some years the top 4 go into the A finals along with winner of B final (like day 1). What I find oddest is that heat points only determine which final you go into on day 1, but count towards overall totals on day 2.

Here are the 2023 results:- US Open National Championship Action Park East, 2 September & Champion, 3 September Day 1 heats Day 1 Finals Day 2 heats Cum Day 2 Finals Fin Overall 1 2 3 4 Pts D C B A D1 1 2 3 4 Pts Pts F1 F2 F3 F4 Pts Pts 1 Bradley Wilson-Dean 3 3 3 3 12 4 16 2 3 2 3 10 26 10 10 1 7 28 54 2 Chris Kerr 2 2 3 3 10 3 15 2 3 3 2 10 25 1 5 5 10 21 46 3 Casey Donholt 1 2 1 3 7 3 1 13 3 3 1 2 9 22 3 3 10 5 21 43 4 Broc Nicol 3 3 3 2 11 0 12 3 3 3 3 12 24 7 7 3 1 18 42 5 Dillon Ruml 2 3 2 3 10 2 14 1 2 3 2 8 22 5 1 7 3 16 38 6 Slater Lightcap 2 2 0 2 6 1 10 1 2 2 3 8 18 3 11 29 7 Adam Mittl 2 3 3 2 10 2 11 3 1 2 1 7 18 2 10 28 8 Brian Hollenbeck 0 2 1 1 4 3 8 3 0 2 2 7 15 1 9 24 9 Spencer Portararo 3 1 2 2 8 0 9 0 2 0 3 5 14 r 6 20 10 Mike Cortese 1 0 2 1 4 1 6 1 0 0 1 2 8 3 8 16 11 Levi Harris 0 1 1 1 3 2 7 0 1 0 1 2 9 2 7 16 12 Caleb Stewart 3 0 2 0 5 0 5 0 1 3 1 5 10 fx 5 15 13 Lenny McBride 1 1 0 r 2 3 4 0 2 1 0 3 7 3 4 11 14 Redmond Bohannon 1 r 1 0 2 2 3 2 1 1 0 4 7 2 3 10 15 Jerry Harman 2 0 – 0 2 2 1 2 4 16 Dave Pieper 0 1 0 1 2 ns 2 1 0 0 0 1 3 0 1 4 17 Mikey Buman 0 fn – – 0 ns 1 1 1 Dave Oakden 1 1 1 1 Logan McGrane 0 `0 0 1 – –

Ron's words: "with the drizzle possibly getting worse and making track conditions tricky Will Cairns & Luke Killeen were level round the first bend but Will got slightly ahead of Luke and then out of nowhere Jody Scott went steaming past both of them on the back straight and led into the old pits bend Will looked to move over to the dirt line just as Luke decided to do the same and unfortunately clipped Will’s back wheel and young Will crashed heavily into the fence whilst Luke seemed to be hanging off the back of his machine almost like a rag doll before hitting the air fence whilst his machine kept going for another 20-30 yards into the 3rd turn and demolishing several air panels, it looked horrendous and you could hear the shrieks and screams of the fans not believing what they had witnessed. Will Cairns was down on the track for a long time and then the ambulance appeared and eventually he was carried on a stretcher and placed into the back of the ambulance to then head off to the JR Hospital. The fence was repaired and Jody did win the the rerun in a time of 71 seconds, a good 10 seconds slower than the average so something had to be sorted with the worsening conditions." I think that's a fair description.

Rain. Fastest time 61 secs. Time for ht 16 rerun over 71 secs, think that gives you a clue.

One day I'll explain the scoring system for the EAST COAST US OPEN. But right now I don't have an hour to spare.