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There was some passing after bend two but it was limited. Where Nicholls was successful was getting in front out of bend two - he's never been the best gater but used the outside dirt (which many were afraid of) to get ahead - including when there was only the smallest of gaps due to Cook squeezing him up to the fence. Lawson was good for Leicester and I also thought Becker did ok (although he also stuffed Cook in one heat) and Douglas was making the effort but couldn't get to grips with the deeper outside line on bends 1&2, hence his fall. Fricke looked quick at times but never really threatened. I'm not sure Rew will see much improvement, seems to overlock a lot, a bit like Simon Stead used to but I hope he proves me wrong.

I get that he was quick but to be over a second quicker than both of his other wins which were either side of this one calls me to question it. What happened to transponders?

Are the race times still done by someone with a stopwatch? Seems an odd stage of the meeting to set that kind of time and way ahead of all the other races.

They're going to start heat 1 in 2 minutes! (3 minutes early)

Me too.

I use a Chromecast device into the TV to watch it from my phone, that's just £15-£20 one-off (I don't have an internet TV or fire-stick).

Kerr for Janowski surely, he's hopeless.

Awful from Lawson, wonder what the trouble was?

I don't think that brings quite the same pressure that being on Eurosport does but in any case, they took the decision and I think it was wrong given how everything was at 7.45pm but can't do anything about that now.

I don't think they needed to move it. If this was on TV it would have run. Track would've been great, everywhere is drying fast and I'm only 1 mile from foxhall - that's the gamble with a forecast.

Speedway meetings never used to be cancelled with such small amounts of rain - the meeting against Lynn last week being a case in point. This is hurting not only the hosting tracks but also the sport in general and the riders themselves, because venues will continue to disappear. Some people might say the bikes these days can't be ridden but if that's the case then it's not the tracks at fault but the bikes and it's really disappointing that it's got to this state. I used to enjoy meetings on wet tracks as results were a little more unpredictable. Rant over.

What's Imp?

He was really lucky Huckenbeck didn't come off when he shoved him in the fence. No way Doyle was to blame for semi crash, holder squeezed them both, all four was the right call.

Agree with that but it never really rained that much at all, until after there was a delay for 15 minutes. What it did highlight really clearly to me was the difference in ability of riders to cope with a wet track where the bald bits go like ice and the deeper bits can be much better but occasionally really grippy. Standouts as not coping well were Klindt, Jenkins, Thompson & Basso. Those who coped really well and rode smoothly were Iversen, Doyle, Nicholls, Ellis and MPT. Could have easily got the remaining heats in if they were quick, in my view. I remember seeing Andy Smith in a world championship round at King's Lynn many years ago show all the others how it should be done when it was very wet, has was superb that day.

Not possible at Ipswich, their licence states the time of the first race, in this case 2.30 and it cannot be brought forwards. It did start on time.

He's been largely very poor in the premiership this season so far - I wonder if being captain has had an impact.

When I first started going you only got free re-admission if it was called off before the start of the 6th race! So now it's heat 10 is a vast improvement. Some sort of discount would be good - could be something simple like a free programme or £3 off (making it £20 and not £23. I'd be happy with that and sometimes it's the gesture that's important.

You do realise 4 seconds is 1 second per lap? (And that was for the slowest time). As for making excuses for Klindt, he was worse than hopeless, nothing to do with being filled in, he just couldn't do it or didn't want to. I'm not worried at all, I expected it to be called off after heat 10, funny that, just amazed how little water was enough for them to bail.

Amazing that even after being told some people still seem to think they could have started heat 1 earlier I'm amazed that such little rain caused the call off - not even any puddles and I wouldn't describe it as 'hard'. It spitted for a while and rained for 5-10 mins after they'd done extra track work, which took 15 minutes at least. Riders don't seem to like any wet track any more - Colin cook was in the crowd and I bet he couldn't believe it Those with experience/skill handled it fine, Iversen, Doyle, Nicholls, MPT, Emil but others were woeful, such as Klindt, who looked like a novice! Sun came out about half an hour later, typical.

Most of the season at Foxhall he was awful too, I'm afraid he's reached his level.

In the matches I've seen Wright has been one of the better riders, no sense to drop him plus it's still early days. Janowski will improve when the really slick tracks appear as the weather warms up.

I'm not really bothered about his age as I don't think that's relevant, experience and ability are. When in front he's shown this year he can get around the track fast enough. For me what he needs to learn this year is how to 'race' i.e. be in really close contact with other riders at full pelt and be confident enough to stand his ground. Last night when in close contention he backed off going into turn three and not to do that is what he needs to develop. With all the racing he's doing he's got plenty of opportunity to develop thsi and I think he's done a great job so far for Oxford.

You stick to Poland, I'm very happy with the product here, great meeting last night and really pleased the Brummies did it

They kept saying Zagar doesn't have a club, I thought someone had said before that he is riding in Denmark?

Without Nicholls I think Oxford would have lost