IainB

Listening to the Speedway podcast this morning Jan Kvech expressed an interest in riding in the UK. You'd think Lynn must/ should be interested after the success of Czechs there historically, maybe Topinka should have a word in his shell like

When 15,000 people fill the o2 arena to inexplicably watch darts!!! It just shows you what Speedway is up against... let me say that again Darts! At the o2!

Sounds like the tail trying to wag the dog!

After shooting into an early seemingly unassailable lead the love seems to be switching from Lampart to Pawlicki. If you haven't already, don't forget to vote, I understand the Birmingham promotion are keeping a close eye on this! https://x.com/iainebrown/status/1795364872894792110?s=19

Indy 500 was delayed for around 4 hours on Sunday with a crowd of 300,000 in attendance, Cricket delayed and abandoned tonight. Speedway not the only shambles in town

I don't think it's in the BSPL's power to give permission to postpone, that's the SCB's jurisdiction and if they did, which I don't think they say they haven't then they've gone for this wishy washy rule instead and if a lawyer gets hold of it and says why haven't they been charged with the correct breach of the rules I can see the whole case falling apart

Are we pretending that the defeat at Sheffield never happened? https://www.leicesterspeedway.com/Fixtures/ I'll have my money back if we are

That depends if the SCB have ballsed up, because the rule is there to stop this

That's because you always win there!

If I had my Columbo hat on I'd be asking why the SCB didn't charge them with breaching the specific rule made to deter such a cancellation happening unless the SCB had given them permission to postpone. BSPL got in touch with SCB to say this postponement isn't on so SCB have gone with a breach of a cover all rule. I think Buster may very well get his points back. ... just one more thing, Mrs Columbo is a huge fan

I bet he would still be there if he'd carried on his debut double figure performance

Scraps again... Oxford must have decided to have Kerr back, so we'll pick up the left overs... again The website says he was signed 72 hours ago, I bet after Cook's performance last night Stewart Dickson must be searching around for his receipt today. A heat leader is needed, anything else is just tinkering around at the edges

According to the poll it's not looking good for the Pole

I assume you mean the on board camera? I noticed that in his first race Luke Becker looked as though he had a go pro attached to the left side of his handle bars and it was sticking up so much it almost obstructed his vision of the tapes. I thought we were going to see some footage from it but we never did, whether it was a prototype or for his own personal use I don't know... not even sure it was a camera tbh

NO! NO! NO! It made Leicester look like a countryside paradise and not the 5h1t hole it actually is

So, who should go into the Birmingham Binnies? https://x.com/iainebrown/status/1795364872894792110?s=19

The white-wash statement on the BV website is as short as the meeting was long! Nice of Lemo to single out "Our fans" who "showed their patience as we tried our hardest to complete 15 heats"... and to hell with everybody else?

Apparently, according to Eurosport at least (not the greatest source of information about our sport), Buster is appealing the decision to deduct 2 points... and he may very well get them back! Why on earth the SCB charged him with breach of: 017.2 Breach of Rules f) Any proceedings or acts prejudicial to the interests of any part or body of the ACU, SCB, BSP Ltd or of the sport of motorcycling generally. a nothing wishy washy rule that could be easily appeal against When he should clearly have been charged with the much more water tight: 02.2.8 Promoter / Associate c) says meetings can be postponed due to exceptional conditions as would make racing impossible, except where: i) the SCB specifically forbids a Promotion from so doing ii) if a Meeting Steward is appointed to the meeting and must advise the Referee at the earliest opportunity Unless of course the SCB didn't specifically forbid the postponement. A conspiracy theorist may well think that the 017.2 charge was agreed with Buster so he could appeal and get them back!

I have toyed with doing that myself actually... Why the staging promotion at the televised events can't do the same is pretty poor tbh, can you imagine being stood there while they went to a break and then came back and had a right laugh doing a totally irrelevant British Final draw before re-commencing with the meeting?

Thanks, I did actually know this, which is why I specifically said Eurosport Call me a bit of an anorak but I actually watch it on Eurosport and switch over to Discovery+ during the breaks as the Discovery+ app on nVidia Shield doesn't stream the sound in Dolby 5.1, so I did see all of the heats unlike those watching solely on Eurosport

I know... not on "Eurosport" though

A bit left field... but yeah, could be fun

That really depends on what entertains you, some are entertained by the racing some by winning. Eurosport showed races from Brum all night then neglect to show heat 15 and the super heat, you can always rely on Eurosport to let you down. They really should have been at Brum tonight. As for Leicester, as solid a display as it was, still only 1 rider returning double figures, when they come up against teams with 2 decent heat leaders they're going to continue to come unstuck in my opinion

I know he used to, not sure if he still does? Looks similar to the protection Lee Complin used to use

Abi even praising him for his solo commentary as if last year never happened