bigcatdiary

Didn’t get the superheat unfortunately 59.6 59.7 59.0 59.4 59.7 59.7 59.2 59.7 59.7 59.9 60.2 60.0 60.1 60.1 60.5

And when was the last time the sports management asked for the views or ideas from the supporters.

Basso had a puncture in heat 16 I was told

It’s simple in my mind, attendances are poor now because the racing generally is too often gate and go. You can have whatever format you like, lovely eye catching race suits, extra match points for a team arriving early. Having the most bonus points or winning despite having the most guests or the Eurosport speciality having the most boring and inept commentator (Ermobollox) but supporters want proper racing and close matches and let’s be fair it’s not too often they see it these days. The GP,s were very popular not too long ago when around 40,000 did the annual trek to Cardiff despite rip off ticket and hotel prices, but this years debacle in front of just over 20,000 has showed that even GP,s have a duty to entertain or they will die and the powers at be just don’t appear to want or desire to take on board that the racing is key as Wroclaw showed the other Weekend. A proper Grand Prix on a proper race track.

I think it’s a complete waste of time and money but I can appreciate that some like it. Early doors it was a bit processional, but half way through it livened up considerably and the racing second half was very good. Ipswich did well to come back but I thought a draw was a fair result.

Please don't give him ideas

Being perfectly honest after 20 years I am thinking of giving it a miss next year, this years GP was utter crap racing wise, and ticket and hotel prices are just ridiculous.

It appears they are just blocking booking for the 1st and 2nd September until they confirm prices.

Almost impossible to win a meeting with just three riders, even with RR and a TS available. Any half decent guest for MPT would have seen Panthers in with a big chance of winning as well as a fairly healthy amount of visiting fans but pretty much everyone on the basis of what’s happened previously all season thought this would be a heavy drubbing but sometimes the sport throws up an unlikely result. Just out of interest Theresa what was the crowd like.

A very good well earned point from tonight’s match 41 points from the 3 Panthers and 3 points from the 3 Guests. Take a bow Chris Harris, Scott Nicholls and Ben Basso, well done. Who was the referee out of interest.

Money dictates what sort of guest you get, always has and always will. Riders worried about getting injuries shouldn’t be riding speedway.

I would have thought a decent guest for Palm Toft and RR for Andersen would have been a better way to go and possibly attract a few Panthers fans but Lambert and Wright do nothing for me and like a lot of others I will pass. Like a lot of others on here I will not travel to watch an uncompetitive team. Crowds so far at Peterborough have been good with Mondays attendance very good but this attitude to guests is testing everyone’s patience.

Riders don’t even think about it.

The track had been relaid since last Thursday and looked in very good condition with plenty of material on it.

Difficult to say Tim, a lot of people seem to think it’s down to the quality of the tyres, it’s not the first time we have had tyre problems at Peterborough

14 per team, 2 to each rider. That was reduced this year to 9 per team

Teams get 9 tyres each at Peterborough (up till this year it was 14) because of the circuit shape and speed, 3 other tracks have the same allocation because they wear tyres more than the other U.K. tracks. I was told they didn’t have enough tyres left to complete the meeting, most of the riders were wearing a tyre edge down per race. Tyres are clearly not up to the job, we have had several instances of problems like this at Peterborough in recent years.

A lot is going to depend on how Andersen and Nicholls go today, they will both have at least 12 rides between them so need to be scoring well above their average.

Yet again the inside was the place to be if you made the gate with very little chance of anyone making an outside pass. I am sure Kings Lynn were delighted, Not sure Peterborough fans would be of the same opinion. Fast race times generally mean a grippy white line, a trapping contest and a follow the leader from start to finish.

The organisers give tickets away

They did Theresa but this year Ostergaard , Nicholls and Andersen have been awful, Palin wasn’t much better before he got injured and then MPT then got injured, last year we coped with the injuries but this year it’s been a catalogue of misfortune and injuries. It takes its toll. The track yesterday was dreadful and as has been said had no outside line at all, wasn’t helped by a couple of fliers from Jorgensen that surprisingly was allowed to go on from Tony Steele or his trainee. Let’s hope it’s rectified for 2023.

If they had raced on the track they produced it after a lot of work it probably would have done but clearly they decided otherwise. The circuit they raced was as slick as sandpaper and wasn’t conducive to good racing, just gate and go. But if that’s what your used too and like then fair enough but at Peterborough we like proper racing.

That was being talked about last, but as they say until a contract is fully finalised for next year they are not going to replace lights unless they have to because of cost

I know a few people that didn’t pay anything for a middle tier ticket both on the bends and the straights.

No we haven’t