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It’s the school across the road on the way towards Hyde Rd. It opened at 5pm for the SON last year. It is a working school so I’m guessing opening times have to be way after all pupils have left and they probably finish for the day around 3:30pm. It’s on Google maps.

From BV’s website. Hospitality customers on Friday 13th June will also have access to the suite and Grandstand seats from 1:30pm for free practice and the Sprint Race. Our bar will be open serving refreshments during this time. The main restaurant will open for dining following this session.

Dan touch the tapes and was rightfully excluded. There use to be a thing where rivals or certain riders would intentionally jump as they knew they were in the eye-line of their competitor and it could make them jump into the tapes. It’s lost its regularity as riders today are mostly good mates being teammates at one of their other teams. I’ve seen it creep back into the sport recently and just wondered if others had noticed. Jaimon and Mark have mentioned it recently. No rule change is required. It’s personal choice if riders want to do it.

Hope Brady is fit for this as otherwise the BSPL will put out another press release telling him he’ll be in trouble if he rides abroad before the UK. Last season he got injured, missed a meeting here then made a curtailed attempt at a comeback abroad before missing the UK, which resulted in him getting a telling off. Hope it doesn’t happen again, to any rider. https://britishspeedway.co.uk/miscellaneous/scb-statement-brady-kurtz/

ALL tracks should have a minimum of two racing lines, more if possible. Promoters who favour gate’n’go need to be taken to task and I’m sure their fans would soon welcome better racing. It’s such an easy thing to monitor over a season as you just need to count passes after bend 3 lap 1. If it’s consistently low then there’s a problem that needs addressing. We all know every race isn’t going to be great, that’s always been the case and passes don’t need to occur between first & second. The NSS has around a 50%-60% hit rate for good races but many tracks are 10%-15% which is simply unacceptable.

TBH this special dispensation is no different to when Belle Vue have benefited from such a thing. Link to follow, still looking.

Gate’n’go tracks alway tough for the Aces. Only 10 from 5 from Brady’s rides (15+1 & unbeaten in last seasons meetings) was too much for The Aces to cover especially with the problems at reserve. Best result for speedway as a whole as Brummies needed a win in front of home fans and The Aces don’t need to win any more away meetings as their play off spot is a certainty. I always thought it was considered “bad form” to sucker a rider into the tapes but I’ve seen it a few times this season - is it ok now?

Bugger! The Aces injury curse strikes again. Last year in our quest for league glory we completed only half our meetings - including play offs with our permanent 1-7. Fingers crossed we don’t get a repeat this season. https://britishspeedway.co.uk/calendar/2024-belle-vue-aces-fixtures-and-results/

Jaimon is the one to watch. He gets overshadowed by Dan & Brady but when looking at opposing sides only Holder, Doyle & Max have better away averages. He’d be a number one at several tracks and fingers crossed he continues his fine form away and at home.

I think we’ll be ok as according to Andy during the SON, Phil was happy to take his advice on the track and trust his judgement. The only time I can remember the track work being taken over was for the 2016 WC semi which was fast but very gate’n’go. Since then they’ve left us to it.

I think we’ll be ok as according to Andy during the SON, Phil was happy to take his advice on the track and trust his judgement. The only time I can remember the track work being taken over was for the 2016 WC semi which was fast but very gate’n’go. Since then they’ve left us to it.

That’s right, not an RS. We have lost RS’s to broken bones, retirement or graduation but dropping one has been a no no so I see us sticking with Jake. It’s up to Mark though.

https://www.bellevue-speedway.com/blog/latest-news-2/breaking-aces-name-new-rising-star-121

Connor Bailey.

William isn’t beating all before him in the NL so to think he can slot in at RS and do better than Jake is an incorrect assumption imo. You have to invest a lot into an RS from a time, advice and machinery point of view and allow them to step away if needed, as we did with Connor. The Aces have yet to drop an RS since the scheme started a few years ago and I’d be very surprised if we dropped Jake.

Add Leicester to that too as all those three teams have had to pay out more in points money in all competitions this season. We’re above Oxford though.

I’m interested to know if fans would prefer a gate ‘n’ go meeting with a close score or a thrashing where the racing is like that at the British Final?

Shame Jaimon is not available again. Hawkins & Louis know a thing or two about team selection and only 8 away meetings ago made another good call when selecting him at number one where he put in a top scoring performance. https://britishspeedway.co.uk/24results/sheffield_02.09.24_res.pdf Jaimon is even better currently and when looking at the opposition only three riders (all number ones) have a higher away average. https://britishspeedway.co.uk/2025-rider-statistics/ I’m sure the shrewd witches management will be monitoring his availability again.

Looking at results in the hunt for the league title in the last six meetings each at Foxhall, the lions have won once (not counting last night), the stars haven’t won at all, the tigers once and The Aces four times. https://britishspeedway.co.uk/team/ipswich-witches/

From experience, the type that followed speedway in 2021, 2022 & 2023 and weren’t from the North West?

Leicester are definitely the strongest gaters at Foxhall so far. Speak to any (R)Aces fans and they will agree. Gate ‘n’ go. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Shout out to Ellis & Tom in heat 3 & 14 though.

That’s the point I’m trying to make when people bring up advertising or “it’s the best kept secret” - it’s not. Enough people know about speedway at Belle Vue every meeting to fill it several times over but they choose not to come. It’s the product, not the knowledge that it exists. We can all do our own market research with regards to attendance. Why don’t we go to every meeting? Why don’t we visit away tracks. Why don’t all my friends, family and work colleagues not attend when they know we go and have regularly discussed it with them? Why don’t the BH crowds revisit regularly? We are speedway nuts as we take the time to come on here so it’s difficult for us to understand that speedway is just not popular.

I still think £28 for 2 adults to sit in the grandstand at Belle Vue with an unlimited number of 11’s or under in tow and 12-17’s at just £6 each offers good value. The Colts take half a second longer per lap so it’s hardly noticeable yet not only do newbies not attend, the local speedway fans that visit Belle Vue week after week and know full well it’s happening choose not to attend as they don’t want to.

I picked heat times to be representative of anything the officials put out on the tannoy. You can only take the official line at face value and I think any fan relaying that information should not be berated but encouraged. Fans quoting what officials have to say from trackside to those of us not there should not be labelled as attention seekers imo.

So when they announce the race times over the tannoy that’s to be considered hearsay? Relaying the official word at the stadium to fans back home is perfectly acceptable and should be encouraged. Reposting the opinion of Karen from Skegness is not. Fingers crossed for Jason one the true ambassadors of the sport and a supporter of UK speedway. Top bloke as well.