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You mean British. It is quite permissible for Welshmen or Sweaties to ride in the NL!

Quite right. Last night, Perks scored a 7 ride maximum! Obviously, Cradley would have preferred RR for this reason, but they would have been nearly as strong if he had been in the team. As it was, it was a rather boring match.

They also had a much better team spirit: they were cheering and encouraging each other in the pits, while the Wolves pits was silent!

I don't know ... no-one at Perry Barr has got near Jason Lyons' track record (56.4 sec.), set with the pre-2010 silencer; the later ones have slowed the bikes down a bit. This includes the top EL riders.

I was in the pits; after heat 2, Garrity was complaining loudly 'They are rolling it like...!' At least the junior team won!

Don't worry about it; they will just keep on about We wuz robbed, The ref was against us, We would have won if if if if ...

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I was there; the best team won. Deal with it.

You don't have any choice about buying new kevlars, unless your team gives you a team-colours suit. Even complete beginners have to cough up ~£550 for a current-regulation race suit.

The rules actually state that hair should be kept within the race suit, but no-one seems to enforce it. I help an old-fashioned rider who has hair down his back; it flows out while he is riding, and nobody has said anything except for an announcer who compared him to Adam Skornicki!

Also, I suppose, it is getting yourself known. I have been helping a new rider on this list who says he will ride for any team, and has impressed any team manager who has seen him. But he still needs more rides ...

There are 53 riders in the list above. While the top 4 or 5 riders should probably not be in the MDL, there should still be plenty of riders for the ten teams? It is a fact that some riders are getting too many rides, and some not enough.

IIRC the surname was a coincidence ... she was originally Finn's girlfriend but had the sense to take up with Hans! I may be wrong, of course. Hayley will be riding in the amateur match at Scunthorpe tomorrow, along with another girl rider, Francesca Kirtley-Paine.

Wasn't it Suzanne? Girlfriend of Hans of that ilk?

You have evidence?

No chance - two speedway bikes are quite a weight in scrap metal.

Moving up to the EL was a disaster for Birmingham (twice - same in 1976) so Kent would be very ill-advised to repeat this.

He told me that he was born in Poland but he seems to live in this country now. There seems to be far too many NL riders in these two teams ...

Chris Holder warned Chris Bambury that the track was very slippery - and it was! Chris B pulled off the best overtake of the night, past two riders, but then slid off; another rider hit him. Chris rode in his next heat in considerable pain; it was thought that he had fractured his arm, but a check-up in hospital later on showed that it was just severe bruising.

I was faced with someone telling me that they won't go to NL speedway at Birmingham because its so much slower (10 seconds a race I was told). In actual fact, the NL track record is 4 seconds slower than the all time EL/PL one - I defy anyone to say they would notice a second a lap. |I drew the conclusion that that was just an excuse not to go to NL speedway, however entertaining it might be. Times at Birmingham this year have been only 1 or 2 seconds slower than the ELITE league! No-one had ever got near Jason Lyons' PL track record,

Age 16, junior speedway champion, from Bristol.

There are plenty of lines round Perry Barr, but I suppose that the NL riders haven't found them yet! Cradley is in Birmingham ... the track is two miles south of M6 Junction 7, on the A34. Don't follow satnav as this will have you wandering round the back end of Aston!

No. You saw last Wednesdays result?

What's it got to do with me? Why are you being an idiot?

There's a note about this in the Brummies Forum.