I think a majority of the Elite sides don`t want to take a chance on the young riders. They would rather look aboard and get someone in who no disrepect to the ones over here but Better riders. As we keep hearing Denmark,poland and sweden having their riders having facilities to learn we have hardly anything apart from the odd training school.
The best young riders i`ve seen in the last couple of years are Josh Auty,Joe Haines,Craig Cook, Gary Irving and Jason Garrity.
But until the BSPA take speedway seriously from the the grass roots upwards instead of just looking after their own interests, then sorry to say the days of british riders progressing will never happen.