Grand Central Posted yesterday at 12:06 PM Report Share Posted yesterday at 12:06 PM (edited) 19 minutes ago, IainB said: Why do you say that? SGP has/is a brand, GB Speedway Team is a brand... and pretty much nobody outside of the sport are aware of them. mmmm. Tai in the SGP. Will be the answer. This time if never before. How foolish I am. Edited yesterday at 12:07 PM by Grand Central Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainB Posted yesterday at 12:24 PM Report Share Posted yesterday at 12:24 PM 8 minutes ago, Grand Central said: mmmm. Tai in the SGP. Will be the answer. This time if never before. How foolish I am. I'm not saying he's going to single handedly revive the SGP series, but it's currently at its lowest ever ebb and there's not a single rider in the series they can hang their promotional hat on... Dan Bewley, as good as he is, is all a bit nicey nicey when interviewed, Robert Lambert a bit boring and neither have an individual World Championship to their name... and you can forget the rest although Jack Holder does seem to have something about him. There's only 3 World Champions in the 2026 series and 2 of them are wild cards and the other one can't speak English... I mean what do you do with that as a promoter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Central Posted yesterday at 12:35 PM Report Share Posted yesterday at 12:35 PM 9 minutes ago, IainB said: I mean what do you do with that as a promoter? Flog the promotion to some new fool seems to be the usual answer. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebv Posted yesterday at 01:38 PM Report Share Posted yesterday at 01:38 PM They need to get a bit WWE.... Tai shouting into the camera, "Arm gonna fence the ass off you Zmarzlik!"... Doyley telling Madsen "Yer gonna wish you hadn't qualified, bacon head!".. Dan screaming to Jack Holder, "With all due respect Jack, I hope we have a really good meeting and some great races against each other, and may the best man win'.. Well, maybe not the last one... Etc. Etc. Etc. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinspeedway Posted 22 hours ago Report Share Posted 22 hours ago 2 hours ago, mikebv said: They need to get a bit WWE.... Tai shouting into the camera, "Arm gonna fence the ass off you Zmarzlik!"... Doyley telling Madsen "Yer gonna wish you hadn't qualified, bacon head!".. Dan screaming to Jack Holder, "With all due respect Jack, I hope we have a really good meeting and some great races against each other, and may the best man win'.. Well, maybe not the last one... Etc. Etc. Etc. Woffy and Madsen have history if I remember right? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 valve Posted 20 hours ago Report Share Posted 20 hours ago Holding a GP at Ipswich would be a worthwhile consideration. They have had a Stox world final there and accommodated 10k crowd something not possible for Speedway elsewhere in the UK without a considerable gamble on initial cost. Not saying instead of Manchester but “as well”. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chunky Posted 16 hours ago Report Share Posted 16 hours ago 8 hours ago, mikebv said: They need to get a bit WWE.... Tai shouting into the camera, "Arm gonna fence the ass off you Zmarzlik!"... Doyley telling Madsen "Yer gonna wish you hadn't qualified, bacon head!".. Dan screaming to Jack Holder, "With all due respect Jack, I hope we have a really good meeting and some great races against each other, and may the best man win'.. Well, maybe not the last one... Etc. Etc. Etc. If only Jack Millen and Kelvin Mullarkey were in the GP's... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fromafar Posted 5 hours ago Report Share Posted 5 hours ago 10 hours ago, chunky said: If only Jack Millen and Kelvin Mullarkey were in the GP's... Throw Frank Auffret to keep Jack right that would be worth watching😂😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fromafar Posted 5 hours ago Report Share Posted 5 hours ago 10 hours ago, chunky said: If only Jack Millen and Kelvin Mullarkey were in the GP's... Throw Frank Auffret to keep Jack right that would be worth watching😂😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OveFundinFan Posted 3 hours ago Report Share Posted 3 hours ago Saw this morning on breakfast TV news....the BBC is sending an 11 man crew to the world conquer championships to be held soon in Suffolk, somewhere at a pub. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phannan Posted 2 hours ago Report Share Posted 2 hours ago There’s talk of another Uk venue holding a GP other than Manchester. Ipswich has been mentioned. There’s the infrastructure which they don’t have . Not the easiest of places to get to. Then the all important track that has to produce exciting racing. Which again, they don’t have. Granted the odd exciting race but doesn’t everywhere else. Odsal , Bradford would have both those things. And is tried and tested too. If we’re looking at regular racetracks then I’d look at Glasgow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 valve Posted 1 hour ago Report Share Posted 1 hour ago 20 minutes ago, Phannan said: There’s talk of another Uk venue holding a GP other than Manchester. Ipswich has been mentioned. There’s the infrastructure which they don’t have . Not the easiest of places to get to. Then the all important track that has to produce exciting racing. Which again, they don’t have. Granted the odd exciting race but doesn’t everywhere else. Odsal , Bradford would have both those things. And is tried and tested too. If we’re looking at regular racetracks then I’d look at Glasgow. Not possible for Bradford to be granted a FIM license as circuit doesn’t meet safety standards (could be altered but at huge cost). Not sure what Infrastructure Ipswich is lacking considering they have hosted stock Car world championship with 10000 fans - also consider the size of footprint required for stox pits. Quite a few circuits in the GP are less than easy to get to - Given a domestic final last week attracted 6000 fans there should be a lot of confidence another 4000 would make the trip. Glasgow could be a good shout and nice to truly have a Scottish GP. What is the capacity of the stadium? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PersonalResponsibility Posted 1 hour ago Report Share Posted 1 hour ago Hopefully it'll be Glasgow out of the two options. I don't think Glasgow is that good a racing track, but it's levels above Ipswich. I don't think the capacity of Ashfield is very high, though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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