How about a World Cup every four years.
1.) Adds Prestige to the event.
2.) Could be run in one nation over two weeks.
Qualifiers take place in the three non World Cup years and are done 1 via location and 2 via seeding, very much like the football world cup. Format would take some adjusting but it could work.
wuld be a good competition even if it had to be that only the top 2 divisions were involved it would still create a lot of revenue and would be a great spectacle.
This could possibly be solved by riders who double up ride for their lower division team and their spots in the higher division team go to riders who have been frozen out in the winter, thus giving frozen out riders a chance to still have some competitive racing
But because of the money the fixture would generate it wouldnt matter as it would help with financial stability still like i say it would need more in depth planning but there must be a way of doing it and making it fair.
Why not? Would be a great draw for any conference league team even if they were going to get beaten, the money coming in from the amount of fans who would go to watch would help the clubs no end, plus fans would get a chance to visit a track they would otherwise not go to.
How about:
All teams in from the start.
No EL riders over a 7.5 average.
EL Riders over a 7.5 average replaced by CL grade 1/2's
If 2 teams from different leagues: one leg at lower league teams track.
If 2 teams from same league: one leg at each track
Final to be raced at a neutral Venue not in the league of either final competitiors and in between the two tracks geographically.
would have flaws but that could be a good basis of such competition and if planned in more detail it could come to something.
Yeah Brighton counts you may remember Redcar trying to run a meeting last December, they had to say it was Grasstrack and have 5 riders a race as otherwise they wouldnt have been able to run it. In the end it was rained off though.
It worked succesfully at Rye in 2000 but i haven't ever been to the stadium only seen pictures in a banger racing magazine my uncle who used to do bangers gave me in about 1998 so its obviously changed a lot
although not on the MK subject you should see if you can get 2 rye for PP day as i cannot see where our next grade 2 rider is coming from but contact promotion 1st
well thats a bit petty considering my age it would surprise most people that i knew of George Newton before i read this thread and yes it was the 1st World championship final race Just for you star ghost here is George's Scorecard
Points Total Bonus Points Overall
F 0 3 1 0 4 12 16
George finished 9th out of 16
i read in speedway star he had tuberculosis and had a lung taken out he made a comeback with one lung and was still a top line second division rider then he quit i believe he died of tuberculosis in his 40's or 50's
Bit of trivia: he was in 1st ever world championship race in 1936 at Wembley
If i am completely wrong sorry but i am only 15