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I think half a billion people have been affected by it...

I wonder why they chose to do it mid-week, mid-season and not pre-season? Especially as the holes in the track were there for the whole of last season

It was back to the bad old days tonight... with the tractor racing only interrupted by those pesky speedway bikes now and again

Fair play, the special one has just been on the PA to apologise for the track conditions... instead of sending the tractor out again perhaps he should go out onto the track with a spade and put the holes back where they were

7:30pm: 4 minutes of speedway racing, 26 minutes of tractor racing

Oh dear, 2 races down on our new super smooth track, no home race winners and tractor grading already! ... and dust

I've heard there's a bit of a bug going around...

Nicki Pedersen is a bugger for this... it's first or nothing for him

understandable, coming from Poole, that you don't know what a 'motorway blade' is

mine has always stayed logged in so far, both on my phone, pc and TV

Suggestion: How about opening a twitter thread for the meeting so the commentators can answer questions or raise points of discussion. Works well for Dave Goddard when he does his Premier Sports commentary, can also help fill in gaps etc.

Hope so, maybe the bumps were contributing to the good racing... we'll find out Saturday. Good to see Anders Rowe announced and the rumour about Matthew Gilmour seems not to be true (yet)

Not that I agree that Nigel needs replacing as Kelvin ticks all the boxes for me as far as a lead commentator is concerned, there's only one logical choice for me and that would be Darren Fletcher... he used to do the centre green at Peterborough for a while and has done a bit with Tai I believe, but I bet he's not cheap. And that's the trouble for those of you that want Kelvin back as a co-commentator, now it's on Eurosport, they ain't gonna pay the money, Sky would have, possibly BT Sport as he works for them anyway, Eurosport not a chance!

Off topic but... Good to see Anders Rowe announced and the rumour about Matthew Gilmour seems not to be true (yet)

I'm not suggesting that's a good thing, i think In terms of promotion it's pretty poor

Leicester do the same... often nothing on the website until less than 24 hours before the meeting

The keyboard warriors?

Not me! He was by far the most entertaining rider on the night

Thanks, very interesting

Really? Paint, i wonder? I've never seen that

I'm happy to give any club that doesn't have 2 ambulances and paramedics in attendance at the track a hard time... and have done on the Leicester threads in the past.

I've noticed over the last few years that a number of the top riders in the GP have parts of their engine cases coloured black, Jason Doyle (I think) was riding a snazzy looking humbug at the weekend with a black middle part. My question is are there performance parts or just decorative? It just used to be GM badge that was coloured, red, blue, green etc. again was that just decoration or performance related? TIA

I think the ref just had a strop on during the Redcar match, he pulled a few back

Is that a new rule? I'm sure I've seen movement from the back wheel in the past (on TV matches) and no action was taken

just bad luck