IainB

That was it, Shorne Speed Racing... was it just spares? Maybe just selling "luck"

Didn't Jessup go on to run a engine tuning business? Not a great advert

That's all I remember Jessup for, packing up... It's always explained away as luck which annoys me, it always happened too often for it to be luck... Another rider who I always felt suffered "bad luck" with his engines too often was Richard Hellsen

Not a fan then I remember one time at BV (I think, must have been a BLRC) when he tried to give Sam Ermolenko the nickname "Emperor Sam"!!!! This was after about 10 years of him ALWAYS being referred to as "Sudden Sam"... still makes me laugh

One thing that always bothered me was Hans Nielsen being referred to as "The Professor" I watched Hans pretty much from the start of his career and never once heard him referred to as "The Professor", was this a Sky creation or did I just live a sheltered life? I only ever heard him referred to as "The Main Dane"... I tell a lie, I heard a lot worse at a number of clubs he didn't ride for

I used to like watching the sky and trees... sometimes more entertaining than the racing

Me too... I remember Ole & Bruce lifting both at the same time right in front of where we were standing

Juicy Brucie

With any luck this Coronavirus will see the end of Brandon Estates

Maybe 2 metres wouldn't be needed if face masks are worn, I don't know

Didn't he leave his window open because the dog farted?!?

If the wearing of face masks in public becomes compulsory there maybe a way to resume. Everybody is so much more aware now what's needed to suppress the spread of this virus... Of course we're not being told to wear face masks in public yet probably due to the fact we haven't got enough but I think it will happen

Bringing this back to Speedway and with the prospect of the lock down being lifted in the coming weeks I wonder how well British Speedway is placed to resume sooner rather than later? If, as looks likely, there will be a phased return there are many issues that the sport faces. What if it's a geographical return? What if it's an age demographic return? What if physical social distancing is still required? How will medical cover be provided? What if a rider gets injured? I wonder if clubs have a plan to mitigate these possible restrictions? Do clubs have contactless admission payment systems? There's probably many more issues, that's just a few for starters

You're right there is no true evidence, a bit like the consequences of Brexit, some think it'll be a dawn of a new golden era other's think it'll be the end of the country, truth is we just don't know until it happens. The difference with this pandemic though is that there have been scientific models done based on good data, taking me back to one of my original posts in this thread regarding the BBC Pandemic program that aired a couple of years back and certainly got my alarm bells ringing when all this kicked off. That model said that if the whole country suffered a "standard" flu pandemic with a mortality rate of 1% and no action taken there would be around 500,000 deaths, that was based on "standard" flu where symptoms show within hours of you catching the virus, as we know it can take a couple of weeks for this virus to present and although we don't know for sure the mortality rate seems to be a lot higher than 1%... so add half a million for every percentage point increase in mortality rate

All media should be handed over to the people that do Glasgow's... they're on a different level

Bwitcher is probably busy burning down a 5G mast at the moment

oy! oy! oy!

Middle East Masters? Where was that then?

to be fair he did get a bit hysterical in one of the earlier clips

What strikes me about watching races from different era's on a thread like this is the way the bikes grip the track. In the yesteryear clips the bikes seem to be sliding around on the tracks a lot more than the 100% grip 100% of the time bikes of today... yet a lot of people say the tracks aren't grippy enough these days

Outrageous!

Wow! ... but what did he call him at the 19 second mark?

All that paint is going to be needed for the cover up when all this is over and there's an inquiry on how the virus was let in the country, allowed to be spread and why there was not enough preparedness or equipment when pandemic has been at the top of the government's "risk" list for decades. Keep making the paint they're going to need a lot!

The original King Erik Wunder Gunder