Mimmo

County Indoor Bowls in Norfolk played mainly in front of family members has been suspended from approx 6pm this evening until the Autumn, so don't see how speedway or any other sport can continue at this moment in time. It's time these organisations made the right decision and not wait for a government ruling.

Hasn't the rugby been cancelled at that venue today, so maybe the GP won't happen either.

I'm talking about my local track not Peterborough. That's a different issue altogether, and even if there was no coronavirus problems, I still wouldn't be able to go there anymore, but can still do other stadiums where you haven't got a 15-minute walk from the car park!!!

With my wife having double lung cancer, and me a lung disease, I've got to seriously think about not going to speedway, whilst this is all going on.

At the moment I'm suffering and coughing as a result of an Asthma Attack on Saturday. I'm taking steroids and have two inhalers, yet when I was in a store in King's Lynn yesterday, I was politely asked to leave the premises. I had ALL my medication with me, showed them, and they allowed me to remain, but it was embarrassing for me in front of a lot of customers. This morning I went to the doctors surgery as requested, just to check to see how I was progressing, and they've now decided not to see patients face to face before they've first spoken to them on the phone!! This afternoon I've got to take my wife to hospital for chemo, and I bet the moment I cough, they'll try and show me the door.

Probably okay for them to go to Godalming too

Sensible decision in my opinion.

You would have thought not in the case of Castagna. As for people like Covatti that have presumably recently returned from their homeland, have they been medically checked?

With my wife having cancer in both lungs and me having a lung disease, I won't be travelling far to watch speedway or anywhere else outside my Norfolk base.

I heard the same as Falcon1983, but can't remember from where (probably Speedway Star)

As Wealdstone knows, Radio Cambridgshire contacted me to, as my wife and I can no longer go to Peterborough Speedway for the same sad reasons as your driver. For personal reasons, I was one of the people that had to decline the interview with them.

Could I just point out to a couple of people that have read these posts and sent me a message on Messenger, IT'S NOT A CASE OF THAT I DON'T WANT TO GO TO PETERBOROUGH, because I very much do, as I love the racing there, but it's because I PHYSICALLY CAN'T DUE TO MY WIFE'S LUNG CANCERS, she just can't walk that far. End of, any more PM's from you will be deleted without reading them.

I wonder how many Blue Badge holders will stay away when push comes to shove. There's two here which would amount to a loss of £640 over the season, if we we able to be regulars. If only five cars with two people in stopped going, and were all Senior Citizens, that would equate to £6,400 and so it goes. It's a heck of a lot of money to be risking throwing away.

No covered seating at my age would be no attending. Thanks for the info.

So is there any under cover seating on the home straight please?

Is the main stand still in its same condition, or have they started to make it accessible for old and disabled people, as the steps in the past have been way to steep?

I had the same thing happen to my wife at a Tesco store.

I can manage the walk myself, but as I've said on previous postings, my wife has advanced cancer in both her lungs, along with hip and breast, and has just started yet another 21-week course of chemo, after only finishing an 18-week course last August. She's trying as hard as she can to be independent and positive, and the thought of putting her in a wheel chair sends her into a negative mood, and that I don't want, as she must stay positive for as long as possible, even in her extremely dark days, of which there are many. Due to the side effects of the treatment, journeys in the evening are very tiring for her, and make her feel unwell. So anything over an hour from home is out of the question, which only leaves us with Peterborough. So this decision has taken away her one bit of evening pleasure as far as watching speedway is concerned, so I'm just so grateful for her sake, that Mildenhall still run meetings in the afternoon, which she can cope with, as the body isn't so tired at that time of day. We will both miss our visits to Peterborough, which along with Belle Vue (basing that on TV meetings we've seen) produces the best racing in the Premiership by a country mile. I know that I could still go, but I'll be buggered if I'm going to leave her at home on her own watching something we've both enjoyed as a couple for a great many years. I have a neighbour who kindly sits with her whilst I go to King's Lynn, as we both feel that I mustn't stop my life completely, as her illness affects and tests my mental strength beyond belief, so I do need a break, so that I can still be as strong as I can for her for the rest of the days and nights. So thank you Peterborough Speedway Club for denying people like my wife (it's bound to keep others away) that little bit of pleasure they need, as they fight their way through what life they have left. Be ashamed of yourselves.

So I've made my final ever visit to Peterborough, which will deprive me of the chance of supporting my local club when they visit.

I find this whole issue unbelievable, how on earth are we going to bring British Youngsters through the ranks? First the disabled people in certain numbers have lost the opportunity to watch speedway at a Premiership club, following the ban on Blue Badge holders taking their vehicles into long established parking areas, thus avoiding an impossible trek, now we put a block on young riders from entering the sport.....oh! dear, what is happening?

I don't need to go into our problems again with Jan's lung and hip cancer, but I took her to Skegness for the day ( that's what I thought it would be) last Summer, but even with the Blue Badge, could find nowhere to park that was within manageable walking distance for her, so we had to turn round and come back home........140-miles of fuel wasted!!

She's doing her best Neil, but is still talking of her disappointment in not being able to visit Peterborough anymore when she's feeling well enough. As I've said previously, she's still got Mildenhall to look forward to, where we've made a lot of good friends over the past 2-3 years, but of course watching the racing at the two different venues is like chalk and cheese.

Thanks for confirming that you don't know Neil personally. I'll make no further comments on your in depth post, because I'm not in a position to know the truth, and nor do I want to. I know and like both Neil & Buster as people, and will leave it at that.

Do you know Neil personally?

RIP Danny, you'll be sorely missed.