IainB

Only with an outboard motor 🚤

Modern day Speedway riders just don't want it! 😂

Didn't see many Scunny fans there, which was disappointing considering how many years Dougy spent riding for them.

Or it says the capacity wasn't enough... it may be a harder sell next year when the prices will undoubtedly be higher and all those that have given Cardiff a miss because "the racing was crap" realise that watching a GP at the NSS is just like watching the PCMT or British Final, absolutely nothing "special" about it at all.

That's not what I'm saying at all... I'm saying 1 night next year will be quite a bit more than 1 night this year.

You don't seem to understand that it's going to cost them the same to hire a 3,000 seater grandstand whether it be a 1 or 2 day event and if you're running your event only on 1 day you're going to have to charge more to cover your costs than spreading your costs over 2 days worth of ticket sales... it's basic maths and economics

A triple header at Belle Vue on the Sunday! Kerching 🤑💰

There's sponsorship and TV money offsetting this year's ticket price also though, so I'm not sure what you mean by this. You expect it to go up but be cheaper than this year, that's a total contradiction, do you mean you expect it to be less than this year's single day ticket price of £69? I beg to differ, £90 as a starting price for a Speedway GP is far too much.

Just doing a quick Google search the price of hiring grandstands seems to be around £100 per seat, so assuming the East Stand seats 3,000 that's £300,000, divide that by the total capacity, let's go with 7,000, and split that over the 2 nights, that suggests that each ticket this year includes a £21 charge for the East Stand. Double that for 1 night means a £69 ticket this year could start from £90 next year, assuming there's no double header again... that'll test people!

Do you think so? I would have thought it'd be more as the cost of the East Stand will have to be recouped in one night next year. Surely that's the main cost, I would assume any staging fees for 2 GP's this year will have been reduced to help WBD out with the pulling of the plug at Cardiff... who knows 🤷‍♂️

Does anybody on here continue to use the one stop?

Absolutely anytime 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

That was never really going to be difficult to sell-out tbh, how sustainable it is remains to be seen

Shut up Jock (strap)

It's gone because the FIM have let everything revolve around Polish Speedway. British Speedway is in no real worse state than it was in 2019 when there was about 40,000 attending Cardiff... WBD take over and the rest is history I'm afraid.

What's the NSS capacity with the East Stand?

Kubera, Lebedevs, Huckenbeck, Kvech, Thomsen, Michelsen and a tin pot local wild card (that's nearly half the field)... hard to pick a World Champion out of that lot!

I can and I will, it's not just about British Speedway... We've gone from Copenhagen to a track in the middle of an industrial estate, we've gone from Berlin/Gelsenkirchen to a field somewhere in Germany, we've gone from Gothenburg/Stockholm to the middle of a forest in Sweden, we've gone from Cardiff to the slums of Manchester! WBD have destroyed the SGP as a spectacle

GP will be being held at Plymouth by then!

Having it at the NSS may very well be good for the purist but as a showpiece event, the biggest Speedway meeting of the year in the UK it won't get any attention outside of the Speedway world at all, as it never did when it was held at Hackney, Bradford or Coventry WBD have absolutely run the whole event into the ground, no showpiece events anymore, except for Warsaw, a bunch of mediocre riders at a provincial stadium and costing a bloody fortune whether you decide to attend or watch it on TV. The sooner they are out of our sport the better!

12th of July

Rent boy?

That's one way of making sure your season extends beyond the first week of August I suppose 😂