IainB

As I've posted elsewhere that was one of those races I'll remember for the rest of my life, I was fortunate enough to have been there to watch it live too, others that I was there for and always remember: Erik Gundersen world final 1985, Penhall Olsen 1981 and I also vividly remember Per Jonsson bursting between 2 riders at Odsal back in the late 80's/early 90's, not particularly a great race but Trick's wall of death! The one that sticks out for me that I wasn't there for Gollob Jimmy Nilsen

Heat 13 wow! Just WOW! That's one of the few races I'll take to my grave along with Erik Gunderson's pass in the 1985 world final, the Penhall Olsen race in 1981 and Per Jonsson bursting between 2 riders at Bradford in the late 80's/early 90's

Remind us... Where did Lambert come in the GP qualifiers?

On the face of it there's not much difference but then look back at last year's relegation play off and there's your answer

No apology or explanation needed Mike, must just be galling to have "your" rider getting injured riding for someone else, that's speedway though... I often wonder how safe the lower leagues are

these guys are millionaires!

The future of your club and the heartbeat of your club was riding for Workington! While your other heartbeat of the club was riding for Glasgow the other week instead of the Aces! Wishing the kid well though and hope he can come back from this where he left off

yes please

Release

I tend to just do the minute's silence even if others are clapping. We don't have to do the clapping, we're a respectful bunch

How refreshing to see BV hold a minute's silence instead of the new fad of holding a minute's applause, taken from football just because some of their fans can't keep quiet and show some respect. Well done BV, better late than never

How long has Cook been an Ace? How long has Cook been a Tiger? Who owns Cooks contract?

That's just ridiculous!!! Have you seen the price of clocks these days!!!

That is, after all, what people go to Speedway to see... a man driving around in a tractor

same old, same old it's funny because the word sorry goes a long way

If I had a pound for every time I've heard the phrase "totally beyond our control" trotted out by promoters of Speedway I'd be a very very rich man It's a shame that the Chariman of the BSPA wasn't overseeing the track prep for British Speedway's showpiece event of the week then (Cardiff being last week)

So... We can't run speedway in the rain, snow, ice, fog and now when it's hot! I wonder when they can run it?

And that's with just a hosepipe

That's because you kept moving about

I was thinking about this the other day and thinking that we may have gotten a bit too uptight about the starting process. So what if James Sarjeant traps ahead of NKI or Doyle surely it would be good to watch NKI or Doyle trying to get by Sarj. I remember Jason Gage beating Hans Nielsen at the EoES, he brought the house down and I also remember Andy Meredith nearly beating Hans at Cov when Nielsen rode for Oxford!

I thought yesterday's British GP was the best I've been to (and I've been to them all), the on track action was top notch. I don't think the parade worked though, I had absolutely no idea where I was supposed to be looking, couldn't hear any of the announcements, there were no rider interviews and the replays of the crashes were few and far between. And the hush that came over the stadium when Doyley was down was reminiscent of Bradford 1989, somebody could have said something or played some low volume music or something! That said I took a friend and his lad down with me who'd only been to Speedway with me twice before a number of years back and they both said they had a cracking day out, which proves Speedway can attract new people. I had no hesitation taking them to a GP for £19... a League match at Leicester though? Forget it

OK we get it, you're smelly and poor, get over it... move on

Following on from a post I made in another thread I thought this was quite interesting... if you find this kind of thing interesting https://britainfromabove.org.uk/cy/groups/speedway-tracks-uk

maybe crap was a bit harsh, Bomber used to be world class but that was 10 years ago and I still believe Cookie can be world class, though time is not on his side. To expect to make a world class living without world class performances is, frankly, pie in the sky, especially in a profession where everybody can actually see how good you are week in week out, there's no hiding place. I'm all for believing in yourself but after 10 years of year on year decline sometimes you need a reality check

Yes... but the UK was grim in the 70's