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Later this week

He's still a Monarch - an Oxford Monarch Cheetah

Shouldn't the title of this thread be changed to "Everybody prepares their starts - get over it"

Robert Lambert. Bewley wasn't on the radar at this age. I don't think he'd even ridden a speedway bike yet.

The format is easy to construct, but the problem is that it requires 12 riders to have back to back races. It only works here because there are two groups so even 'consecutive ' races are two heats apart.

His ability to pick the right line coming out of bend 2 is also well in advance of his experience.

Bewley at 90% is still far better than most of the alternatives

But his actual 2023 average based on all official fixtures has him 9th (or 10th behind Danny King if you ignore bonus points). That has to be short of expectations.

And Ace is in Zarnovica for the European under 19 championship

Currently standing at £19,990! Just a tenner to go

I'm guessing Plymouth will be on 16th or 23rd of August with Workington or Bullets moving to 30 Aug (NDL has later cut-off date)

The thing that has really made my visits to Oxford a pure pleasure is the atmosphere - packed crowd, huge waves of emotion as the drama unfolds. Like you I'm a fan of local rivals through and through (Racers rather than Robins) but it is impossible not to get wrapped up in the excitement.

The big question tonight is: Who will score more - Rowe or Newman? (If Rowe outscores Newman then he stays in top 5 for August, otherwise Newman moves up from reserve)

Well you could test everybody at every event but that would cost a couple of grand a time. Are people willing to accept a £2 admission fee increase for this?

Maybe it was an imaginary result : i

The simple way is to have a points limit for heatleaders (as well as the overall points limit). And have an accurate conversion factor between the leagues ÷1.5 is monstrously inaccurate)

Full marks for a witty and eye catching thread title. PS I may have to borrow it for a future article!

Ashley Morris? I can't see Nick being available for some time

Here's my worries: 2022 (Ipswich) First 12 matches 60 rides 102 pts av 6.80 Last 8 matches 33 rides 32 points ave 3.88 2022 (Oxford) Championship Away average 5.67 ( to be fair he was pretty decent at Oxford 9 double figure scores ( Inc bonus) in 11 matches)

I just hope it is half as good as last year's cracker

Per Stewart Dickson interviewed at Leicester tonight the first test was "non-negative' and by inference refused to take second test. And hearing is on 27th

Dan Thompson, Jake Mulford (if fit) and Sam Hagon would be my choices

Because we would be deluged with SCB press releases saying rider x tested negative for drugs and rider y has a legal sized engine. Neither of these are newsworthy

Yet who were the top 5 in yesterday's Polish Final? The current Polish GP riders (including Janowski and Dudek who many want to get rid of) and those spritely youngsters Hampel and Kolodziej.

Have you checked your medication?