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Looks like there's a weather cell heading towards Sheffield in the next hour, unless it rains itself out before it gets there I can see this going the same way as last weeks attempt at running it, in the current era this would normally have been called by now... I'm calling it now and am not going to bother.

Come on! Have you not seen the Bend 2 Barmy Army! It's everything UK Speedway is 😂

It would probably help if Mr Morris was in attendance at both of these meetings to ensure there's no faffing about, as when he's present at these doubtful Speedway meetings they seem to have an uncanny knack of actually going ahead!

It'll be rained off 😁

... and you pay your £25 entrance, £4 programme and £3 parking last week to watch former World Champion Jason Doyle perform and this week you get a 6 point rider from Ippo's bitter rivals!

If you were bothered whether you wanted to win or not you wouldn't agree to re-stage a meeting without your number 1!

Is that confirmed?

Any replacement? I was going to go along to this as a neutral but if Ippo ain't bothered if they win or not... why should I? 🤷‍♂️

For me it needs a drastic race day shake up, much like The 100 has, it still mostly needs to be 4 riders over 4 laps on bikes with no brakes... but maybe 250cc? or even a combination of 500cc & 250cc. 15 heats over the course of nearly 2 hours just doesn't cut it in 2025 except for the few of us that still attend, there needs to be a mixture of race types, like you get if you go to a cycling meet, sprints, longer races... the guy on the silly bike thing 😂. What that would look like in Speedway? Handicap racing, devil take the hindmost, 1 lap dashes etc. all incorporated in a match generally made up of 4 riders, 4 laps, it needs variety and the riders need to be in full view of the public at all times, skulking back to the pits head down doesn't tend to work when you're in the entertainment business. 1 league, however many riders it takes in a team to make it viable, all committed to UK racing on race nights that suit the club/crowds. There's so much that could be done but of course it never will with the current crop in charge.

I've been suggesting that Speedway go the way of Cricket for the last few years, but sadly I don't think they're even comparable anymore in terms of media contracts. I heard the other day that The Hundred is run by the same company that stages the IPL Cricket, so a multi-national company a bit like WBD and not some rag tag collection of ex scrap metal dealers. According to reports the TV contact is worth £220m a year... as opposed to the £1m per year for Speedway!! The only way British Speedway will attract the world class performers every match is to pitch it to the TV companies asking for money that would blow Polish Speedway out of the water, probably something like a £50m-£100m a year contract... unfortunately it's likely that any such proposal would be laughed out of the building starting from such a low base.

It was a bit excessive wasn't it 🚜💦

To stop the crowd getting covered in dust, unlike in this country, they seem to not want their punters to go home 50 shades darker 🧒🏿 than when they arrived 🧒🏼

Only takes a crash/injury/exclusion etc. Weather, especially at Vojens in September could have a huge bearing... anyway it'd be nice to know in advance what happens in a tie instead of waiting for the results of an impromptu FIM Jury meeting behind closed doors and having Armando Castanga trying to explain things to everybody 😂

Was it the same former world champion that was pretending to masturbate with the trophy when he was walking it out onto the centre accompanied by 2 minors on global TV?

Hasn't Lambert just very much reverted to type? Last year was his exceptional season finishing 2nd... the sport is littered with former world number 2's.

What if they were both to finish much lower down in the points with Kurtz 3 points higher than Zmarzlik, Kurtz 13th and Zmarzlik 16th for example, or 12th and 15th, 11th and 14th etc. etc.

Under the old systems it seemed like all the points were kind of contained within the race... no going back to see who beat who in previous races and then reaching for a conversion chart to translate race points scored to position finished in to series points gained... I maintain the only way in which the current scoring system works is with 1 race containing all 16 riders over 80 laps... it's ridiculous!

This is the problem, we as speedway fans, not even newbies can't fathom out the scoring system, it's just too fluid with far too many permutations going into the last races, you have to sit there with a conversion chart! Should be fun and games trying to work out the last GP if it's not a straight first and 2nd!

And that "only 1 point" could be the difference between a gold and a silver... If it were a tie, what decides it, do we know? (R&R?)

Weather may yet have a say in this championship

Are you @LagutaRacingFan in disguise? 🥸 😂

That's like when Buster Douglas knocked Mike Tyson out then... or Rocky beat Apollo, at least Rocky went on to become something 😂 If they have to have a final, which I'm not against it has to be a meritocracy, either every point counts or back to the D, C, B and A finals at least under the latter system your locked into your race scoring qualification points.

Holder scores 7, finishes with 14, Fricke scores 11, finishes with 7! It's so wrong!

So does Kurtz need to win Vojens with Zmarzlik 3rd? Can't see anybody ahead of Zmarzlik other than Kurtz... today's sprint may come back to haunt Kurtz!

Epic final, brilliant from the top 3... especially Kurtz!