IainB

Did it rain? Could it have gone ahead?

What a joke... the British Weather is! Who do I complain to?

It seems as though the promoters are losing interest... This Saturday in the height of the great British summer there is no meeting on anywhere in the UK. As @Gambo has suggested elsewhere this was originally the date scheduled for the British SGP but this was cancelled on April the 16th yet not one promoter has decided to put a meeting on.

Is that a sign to carry on to Newcastle? They don't miss a trick do they

Should have put a Golden Gauntlets on or something, height of summer, no clubs riding, could have assembled a decent field of riders

That's what I wondered... Is there no meeting for every GP clash?

Why no meeting this Saturday (17/7)?

Totally agree... just not sure he's number 1 material these days, I hope he surprises me because as you say he's a class act

No complaints from me... as for Ans, time will tell on that one. There's not much between the leagues this year and he's currently 4th in the Peterborough averages. Doesn't matter what he says on socials it's what he does on track that will show whether he's still a number 1

Not at Leicester they're not lol

Thought that may be the case, how long before Ans gets an average do you know?

If you thought the track was slick and the meeting was prolonged, you should have seen some of the other meetings this season. The track was in far better condition than it has been for a long long time and the match was completed in 92 minutes with a 10-15 minute interval... on a lovely summer's Saturday night, with a healthy crowd, with many good races, it was one of the better nights at Leicester Speedway. Perhaps the performance of your team has clouded your judgement? Things looked up for Scunny with King and Lambert heading for a 5-1 in heat 1 until "Ans" Andersen managed to pick Lambert off. So 75-15 went out the door from the start Personally, I'm not sure "Ans" is a number one these days, hope he proves me wrong but I'd like to see him at 3 or 4 (if the rules permit)

First time I've heard of them... Reading the thread on the International Speedway forum it all seems a bit mickey mouse to me. Still... good luck to our boys!

FIME?

Hungary "A" and Hungary "B"? This isn't an FIM event then?

Who are GB riding against? Hungary?

Is Ellis injured?

Translates to The Wasps on Google translate

Yes, I get the explanations and thank @Ghostwalker for them. What I don't get is why there's no uniformity. Unless I'm wrong, and it has been known, Sweden seems to be the only place to break from the "Location" & "Nickname" convention.

I'm even more confused now... wish I hadn't asked

What's a Njudungarna... and The Ships Not The Roast Pigs then lol

In my effort to try and get my head around the way Sweden name their Speedway teams, I ran them through Google translate and here are the results: The Blacksmiths The Ducks Vastervik The Lion Vetlanda Rospiggarna The Masses The Indians The Pirates Question: Why do some teams use their emblem name and others use their location name? It makes it mighty confusing when sometimes in commentary clubs are referred to with both/either or any of their names like Kumla/Inianarna/The Indians... sometimes it's like 6 teams are on show. "arna" seems to indicate "the" and the previous part of the word except for Rospiggarna which Google won't translate... what's a Rospigg? Some kind of Pig? Why haven't Vetlanda or Vastervik got other names? Confused

Reading some posts elsewhere you'd think it's gonna be 75-15 for every match for the rest of the season

75-15?

Followed the link R&R posted