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You could see there was a bit of a top surface but not a lot at all, had the day been dry I bet you that track would have produced a blue groove very quickly. There wasn’t much to blade off and you would still have the issue of the base being wet and that being hard would have been slippery, same as you don’t water a track which has blue grooved. Yes that late shower did sod it up but for them to say that before the shower the track was nothing more than just OK, does wind me up a bit, how could it have been better than just ok? Dry as a bone?

They should have held an impromptu practice session, any second half riders invited to, would have soon scrubbed the top surface off without having to race flat out under pressure. But as others have said, A blade is a part of the equipment that a club has to prove they have in order to to get a track licence. The main issue as I see it is that you have some riders who are just too afraid to ride on anything less than perfect because they fear if they get hurt here, their Polish club will throw the book at them.

F*cking embarrassing, your a top flight track run by the same people as the Grand Prix and you don’t have a blade. State of this sport in this country, why did I f*cking sub to BSN again? it’s the same every week, either too dry and dusty or it’s too wet and we can’t race.

Just get on with it, doesn’t look that bad, seen far far worse.

Unfortunately my track only covers an area of 40ft by 15ft, it is an oval though. But seriously everyone always worries about rain yet it’s the best way to water a track, after all it has to be watered anyway, so long as it doesn’t chuck it down within an hour of start time so it leaves surface water or during the meeting itself, it shouldn’t be an issue. Ok so you might end up with one line, but you have that if it’s bone dry and dusty so what difference does it make?

In Essex we have had plenty of hail, I have a small RC dirt track in my back garden, I have a home made grader which is towed around using an Rc car it to rip the top surface a bit, but track still hard as nails from when it was rolled and sun baked dry, water just runs off it, and I suspect go down a few CMs and it will be dry as a bone.

Surely this will be called off, can’t expect riders to race on a track with moisture in it, they are to used to riding on dust bowls.

Firstly it’s very important no matter the level that your team wins it’s home meetings or at least enough of them to keep the crowds coming back, it doesn’t matter if the get a hiding away from home because very few fans actually travel now so unless you pay for a stream, you only see your team when they are at home. Secondly whilst the idea of a promotion being run by members of another seems odd, I know from reading the history of the sport, there used to be promoters who ran many tracks at the same time so it’s nothing new. The basics of speedway as a promoters is always, put together a team that will win most of its home matches and provide a track that will suit those riders and doesn’t leave your patrons covered in dust. I used to go to Rye House on Sundays afternoons every so often, especially when they were in a different league to Arena, I don’t remember many occasions if any where on nice warm afternoon, I would get covered in dust.

Great racing though, more passes in one match than you would see all season at some tracks.

Yes, it’s a professional sport charging professional prices but acting amateurish. The only reason a meeting should ever be delayed is if there has been a bad accident close by and clearly only a small percentage of the normal/expected crowd has been able to arrive, and even the parade should start on time or be canned so that once racing can start, it’s starts promptly.

Foxes do yourselves a favour and sack Batchelor, he will never do anything for you, hes an embarrasment.

Spot on, this is 2026, if you cant get their on time tough.

Its going to be another long night isnt it

Same guy who excluded Bowes after falling to avoid Kerr at Poole, absolutely hopeless and been so for decades.

F*cking Carrington again!

Rushden out of order there

Sounds like Phil has moved, I went to his old address and the drive was so long it took me more than two minutes to get to the front door so I was timed out.

They won’t be helped, it might be 22 years ago but I still have the words that Ronnie Russell/Arena Essex will be helped if they opted to race back in the top flight in 2004, it never came.

I think as far as other promoters are concerned I suspect their opinion towards the Foxes will be, Do good, but don’t do too good.

Always been against outside interference of track prep, we saw it under sky for years a representative called the shots, not the track curator, certainly it shouldn’t be someone like Phil Morris calling the shots, if they must have someone at least have a proper experienced track man assisting but no one knows a track more than the person who does it week in week out.

Seen a couple of races on YouTube, my initial impression is with a bit of dirt down and well watered this could be an absolutely awesome track, there is a ton of room on the corners which is good only if from a safety point of view.

I recall only too well from Lakeside that any afternoon practice would kill the meeting later on, and no amount of work would be able to get it back from being slick and haggard.

Didn’t know Fraser was that age, assumed he was around 19/20, what age was his father Shane when he first came to these shores?

Pretty decent meeting, Oxford a bit unlucky not to be closer but that’s Carrington for you, been around for years and years and never gets any better.

Who is the ref? How on earth can you exclude Bowes for taking avoiding action, Kerr wasn’t even under power.