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I think everybody knows the answer to that question

It badly needed a proper racetrack, it’s clear it was prepared for the Lions team of trappers, Kemp was the obvious winner, two fantastic gates and won them both easily, missed the gate in his other two and never looked like passing anyone. At the end of the day Speedway is about racing, not about trapping and first corners, I watched Sayfutdinov in one heat from last night’s match when the Brummies pairing beat him into the first bend, 4 laps of proper racing, it had more passing in one heat than I saw all night at Leicester. Until promoters and track men get to grips with preparing a track that produces more lines than the one around the white line this sport will stay in decline. The last two Grand Prixs shows it can be done, Warsaw and Landshut were exceptional meetings. I have attended several meetings at Leicester over the years and have yet to see a decent race meeting, it’s a tidy stadium and the facilities are good but the most important bit is the racing and unfortunately last night’s meeting does nothing to tempt me to attend a live match there again,

Just a shame the actual racing was complete Shyte

To be fair to Collins he did have a broken leg

9.29 was his final 2017 GSA, what he comes in on at Birmingham is anyone’s guess.

Final GSA shown as 9.29

His first heat

I think Ipswich losing Doyle in heat 1 was the defining moment in this match

To be brutally honest Lynn are and have been very successful at Championship level, their crowds support it so I can only assume it’s TV money that keeps them in the Premiership, but running in the top league on a Championship budget is clearly affecting support, supporters want to see a competitive team at least, watching them struggle to even win at home every season isn’t helping anyone.

To be honest it’s been mentioned several times, programme buyers hate it, why they don’t just save it and just have a race day update for when the team returns is beyond me, especially when we have the fact of the same 6 teams 2 or 3 times a season.

I think the weather will win this one, the BBC forecast for Wednesday is horrendous and it’s not that much better for Thursday.

An enjoyable GP which was close throughout and had some really good racing, Michelsen deserved his win but full credit to the track curator which was a credit to the series. Onto Prague now and unfortunately hopes of another cracker are not high.

But has the damage been done, just been showing the rain yesterday at the Man U v Arsenal game it was absolutely torrential.

Tolley would, he would be saving a fortune

That was a nice change to the usual GP fare, I was pleasantly surprised when I heard Olsen had prepared the track but it rode well and provided some good racing and on a few occasions some great races. I am not Jason Doyle’s biggest fan but he deserved to win tonight, fireworks were excellent as well. Good coverage from Discovery Plus after the let down of Eurosport. Last word for Tai Woffinden, time to retire mate, you really don’t look that fast or interested.

Absolutely bonkers, we are watching the discovery plus channel which has Eurosport in the top left hand side.

Really, it will be interesting to see if the SCB name the banned substance.

His last PL GSA was 4.74

It’s also worth mentioning that unlike Kings Lynn which he owns outright he has to fight for every date at Peterborough which has been difficult over the last decade or two. Now I am not defending Chapman but it must be obvious to most that Lynn Speedway doesn’t pay its way bearing in mind his usual gates (that’s when he does run) numbers no more than a few hundred, so constantly running and losing at home affects him more than most. i would agree that being without Wojdylo & Musielak pretty much ends their chances of winning, bearing in mind Chapman cannot or won’t splash the cash for an effective No 1 or has the points room to replace a reserve worth twice his current GSA at the Norfolk Arena.

Your making excuses and as for after race the two minutes were on and riders waiting at the entrance to the track is pure fantasy, are you sure you were at the meeting

I arrived at about 1.30 and although the car park was rammed we got in reasonably quickly, it was very lightly raining from the start, well it was where we were sitting opposite the start, and the rain did vary from light to reasonably hard, which carried on until it was called off, nothing made up at all. if the meeting had been run at a reasonable speed from 2.15 it would have easily been completed to heat 15, Wojdlo second exclusion when he went into the third bend fence was cleared pretty quickly yet we waited a while before it was rerun. Their was no urgency at all

Considering the weather forecast I was amazed the meeting wasn’t run at a reasonable pace to give everyone the chance to see a full meeting, it started to rain pretty much from the off but the meeting continued at a fairly average pace, despite the rain it was announced that we were taking the interval after heat 10 and they did even though the rain was still coming down and the last 3 heats clearly showed the riders were struggling somewhat, we then had another 15 minutes when it continued to rain, some attempt to lay a bit more shale on the track and then the inevitable announcement that the match had been abandoned. The track looked fairly slick from the start and had clearly been prepared with the forecast in mind, if the meeting had started at 2.15pm and run at a reasonably brisk pace without an interval I suspect it would have easily finished before the rain made it not safe for racing but it wasn’t which benefited Chris Louis because he only had to pay his riders for 10 heats and Keith Chapman who only had to pay his team for the same. It is a shame the 3,000 or so supporters that turned up didn’t get the same benefit.

We are planning to attend this meeting so any weather updates from Ipswich area would be very much appreciated.

As far as I know the clubs had to declare their line ups at least 3 days before the fixture on a separate website that only officials and clubs had access too, I am not sure if this system is still running,

Again nothing new, Lynn are dreadful for putting out information on riders, particularly bearing in mind Poland have already stated he has a shoulder injury and I have read broken collarbone somewhere as well. This is a common problem with club websites who use them to promote news they want broadcasting and keep anything else under wraps particularly injury news, despite the supporters really wanting to know.