Leicester Lions 2025

[mikebv]

22 minutes ago, AceBelle said:

are they any suspicious theories as to why this is called off or is it just the rain like B/ vue ? after all it always rains in manchester like some fans say ???🙃

Leicester running scared of Oxford? 😁

[AceBelle]

13 minutes ago, 40-38 said:

But the super duper NSS can stand all weathers can't it? We know Leicester is like The Poseidon Adventure after a bit of

it is and will always be one of the finest tracks in speedway tell me one area who wouldn't have a track/stadium like ours  built for them ?? and riders vision when it's  raining & entertainment value is part of a cancellation 🤔

[40-38]

4 minutes ago, AceBelle said:

it is and will always be one of the finest tracks in speedway tell me one area who wouldn't have a track/stadium like ours  built for them ?? and riders vision when it's  raining & entertainment value is part of a cancellation 🤔

If only BV were of similar mind in the play off final, eh? 😉 Nice to know we won't get a repeat though.

[AceBelle]

1 minute ago, 40-38 said:

If only BV were of similar mind in the play off final, eh? 😉 Nice to know we won't get a repeat though.

come back when you have actually won anything in the top league 🙈

[Lenny Lion]

So at 3:30pm on Monday they postpone the meeting that starts at  7:30pm saying the track is waterlogged & the forecast is bad. By 4:30pm it’s cleared up.

10am the next morning with hardly any strong sun on the track, Oxford post video’s of their NDL team practising at Leicester . The track is barely wet & is creating dust . 
 

The track was fine they  just didn’t want a poor crowd after they won away & it had been raining .

Edited April 22, 2025 by Lenny Lion

[IainB]

33 minutes ago, Lenny Lion said:

So at 3:30pm on Monday they postpone the meeting that starts at  7:30pm saying the track is waterlogged & the forecast is bad. By 4:30pm it’s cleared up.

10am the next morning with hardly any strong sun on the track, Oxford post video’s of their NDL team practising at Leicester . The track is barely wet & is creating dust . 
 

The track was fine they  just didn’t want a poor crowd after they won away & it had been raining .

Reading the words "Track Waterlogged" did seem a bit fishy, especially after around 3 weeks in Leicester without any appreciable rain... but it did rain again at 19:30 so probably the right call in the end

[FromBendThree]

2 hours ago, Lenny Lion said:

So at 3:30pm on Monday they postpone the meeting that starts at  7:30pm saying the track is waterlogged & the forecast is bad. By 4:30pm it’s cleared up.

10am the next morning with hardly any strong sun on the track, Oxford post video’s of their NDL team practising at Leicester . The track is barely wet & is creating dust . 
 

The track was fine they  just didn’t want a poor crowd after they won away & it had been raining .

Needs an SCB inquiry

[LionsFan]

3 hours ago, Lenny Lion said:

So at 3:30pm on Monday they postpone the meeting that starts at  7:30pm saying the track is waterlogged & the forecast is bad. By 4:30pm it’s cleared up.

10am the next morning with hardly any strong sun on the track, Oxford post video’s of their NDL team practising at Leicester . The track is barely wet & is creating dust . 
 

The track was fine they  just didn’t want a poor crowd after they won away & it had been raining .

Where I was in Leicester it rained continually from about 9.30am to 3pm, so I'm not surprised it was called off.

[ShanoXtra]

23 hours ago, AceBelle said:

it is and will always be one of the finest tracks in speedway tell me one area who wouldn't have a track/stadium like ours  built for them ?? and riders vision when it's  raining & entertainment value is part of a cancellation 🤔

Finest track in speedway is a long shot, Britain maybe, but I don't think even any Ekstraliga 2 teams would swap theirs for yours! The stadium is pretty small to be a national stadium... any decent event you need to rent another stand. I'm sure Foxhall holds more!

Edited April 22, 2025 by ShanoXtra
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[AceBelle]

41 minutes ago, ShanoXtra said:

Finest track in speedway is a long shot, Britain maybe, but I don't think even any Ekstraliga 2 teams would swap theirs for yours! The stadium is pretty small to be a national stadium... any decent event you need to rent another stand. I'm sure Foxhall holds more!

think you had better READ it properly I clearly wrote ONE OF THE FINEST NOT THEE FINEST 🤔 🙈 deluded if you think Ipswich would ever hold any FIM EVENT 🤣 boring gate & go no thanks 😴 clearly FIM know the stadium is upto the job 👌

Edited April 22, 2025 by AceBelle

[89buttons]

14 hours ago, AceBelle said:

think you had better READ it properly I clearly wrote ONE OF THE FINEST NOT THEE FINEST 🤔 🙈 deluded if you think Ipswich would ever hold any FIM EVENT 🤣 boring gate & go no thanks 😴 clearly FIM know the stadium is upto the job 👌

He didn’t say Foxhall was a better track, just that it can hold more fans…which is correct

sidenote, (and I’m not saying it’s should or has to be Ipswich where I’m a fan) but I think it would be superb to see a Grand Prix on a small tight technical track like we have in the UK, I love my speedway and the Grand Prix series but much of it is all on the same style big open space tracks.

I was never a fan of lakeside particularly but some of the best racing I’ve seen was the likes of Ward and Woffinden round there!

Edited April 23, 2025 by 89buttons

[Arch Stanton]

15 minutes ago, 89buttons said:

He didn’t say Foxhall was a better track, just that it can hold more fans…which is correct

sidenote, (and I’m not saying it’s should or has to be Ipswich where I’m a fan) but I think it would be superb to see a Grand Prix on a small tight technical track like we have in the UK, I love my speedway and the Grand Prix series but much of it is all on the same style big open space tracks.

I was never a fan of lakeside particularly but some of the best racing I’ve seen was the likes of Ward and Woffinden round there!

Couldn’t agree more with this. There is definitely a lack of variety on the Grand Prix scene. There should be a mix of tracks of all shapes and sizes to test the skill set of the riders. Similar to you and Lakeside, some of the best racing I’ve seen has been around Mildenhall believe it or not. Loram had some fantastic races around there. 

[cowboy cookie returns?]

15 hours ago, AceBelle said:

think you had better READ it properly I clearly wrote ONE OF THE FINEST NOT THEE FINEST 🤔 🙈 deluded if you think Ipswich would ever hold any FIM EVENT 🤣 boring gate & go no thanks 😴 clearly FIM know the stadium is upto the job 👌

Mind you if they did hold a major event at Foxhall, they could turn it into a weekend festival. Plenty of room for camping & the showground is just up the road. 

[89buttons]

34 minutes ago, cowboy cookie returns? said:

Mind you if they did hold a major event at Foxhall, they could turn it into a weekend festival. Plenty of room for camping & the showground is just up the road. 

There’s precedent to show that’s more than viable with the massive stock car weekend event they’ve held over the years too

[Teromaafan]

3 hours ago, cowboy cookie returns? said:

Mind you if they did hold a major event at Foxhall, they could turn it into a weekend festival. Plenty of room for camping & the showground is just up the road. 

Why has this escalated into a Foxhall v NSS debate on a Leicester thread? 😟

[Bagpuss]

3 hours ago, Arch Stanton said:

Couldn’t agree more with this. There is definitely a lack of variety on the Grand Prix scene. There should be a mix of tracks of all shapes and sizes to test the skill set of the riders. Similar to you and Lakeside, some of the best racing I’ve seen has been around Mildenhall believe it or not. Loram had some fantastic races around there. 

I was a regular at Mildenhall in 2006 & 07 in the second tier and it's some of the best speedway I've ever seen.

[ouch]

22 minutes ago, Teromaafan said:

Why has this escalated into a Foxhall v NSS debate on a Leicester thread? 😟

One Aces fan retaliated to a sarcastic comment about the NSS track and mentioned it is one of the best tracks in the world. A common held belief in speedway circles. The Ipswich trolls descended . Sigh. 

[racerback]

i left oxford about 3 after the meeting and made it all the way to the leicester car park at 4:30 only to find it off to be fair we did have light rain all the way there but stopped when we arrived driving back in the bright sun and decent temps im surprised this was called off but i dont know what condition the track was in but these days we seem to call meetings off far to easily

[Teromaafan]

10 hours ago, ouch said:

One Aces fan retaliated to a sarcastic comment about the NSS track and mentioned it is one of the best tracks in the world. A common held belief in speedway circles. The Ipswich trolls descended . Sigh. 

Yeah, got that, not sure what your summary offers in response, but move on.

[SuperStarsFan91]

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