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The tension makes for a great meeting for me - seen some great races without passing and many poor ones with. A faster rider going past a slower one is dull - outfoxing another rider by staying ahead or getting past is of course great to watch. I went to Cardiff a few times, including last year and always had a great time. I also went to the 1990 and 91 world finals, enjoyed them both as well, for different reasons but Manchester didn't attract me this year.

Killer stat.

Think it may be hotter & sunnier here at the moment but I'd still like to be there!

What rain? The sat early morning stuff will improve the track and I think by the time we get there this forecast will show even less.

It'll be fine by Friday. Forecasters always paint a gloomier picture well in advance since the 87 hurricane debacle.

It'd be great if there was.

Ipswich did a good swerve there, he's not done as well as he'd have hoped.

Thank you. Not a Facebook user so will have to rely on here or the Star.

Is there any action on the isle of wight this year? Their website lists no fixtures https://www.speedwayportal.com/warriors

Irrelevant for speedway. However they can be uncomfortable - with speedway it's really important you can move your body about easily, this was one of the attractions with modern suits over leather because protection wise I don't think they're as good. Adults make choices with risk, that's life.

They are supposed to stop your head and helmet going back/forward too much, giving collarbone and neck injuries, I think.

Too many serious injuries in Poland

Tail wags the dog these days.

Completely agree with you here - the jeopardy of the result keeps my interest.

Is your keyboard faulty old bob 😆 Cooper Rushden, Bewdley

All sounds positive. I admit though I'd never heard of "reinforced grass" before - that will be time consuming, inserting the steel wire into each blade (I assume that's what it is 🙂)

Really made up for the Brummies and their long suffering fans, brilliant stuff. Followed it on updates, seemed a lot of action.

Surely that's because Aces v Brummies is a league fixture. I don't have TNT so wouldn't be watching that anyway, whichever meeting they showed.

Moan moan moan. I was rooting for Kurtz in the semi final, shame. Lambert was truly awful.

51-39

OK thanks, don't use that.

I don't know, where have you seen/heard this?

I've ridden the track with a 'blue grove' back in the late 90s so it's not new. However, riders do ride differently now and the tyres are also different. Peterborough and other tracks had trouble with that I remember. But, whatever, the track was not responsible for Ipswich losing.

That's right and it did not affect the ability to race on it, inside or out.

So what? Leicester still got around there the fastest, both inside and out. The days of deep tracks are over, riders no longer like it and the tuners/designers have ensured the bikes can no longer cope with it.