What will 2026 UK speedway bring?

[truthsayer]

11 hours ago, Spiderman1 said:

Any country has tall and small people, just would make it more compeditive if there was weight limits through speedway,much like road racing moto 3 for one example, more people would take up speedway weight is hp ,only have to look a the current gp guys

That's not giving an example, that's just giving an opinion.

I was more looking for you to say 'Rider X was a promising youngster but he ended up quitting because he got too big and wasn't competitive'

I'm genuinely not convinced that introducing a combined weight limit would bring more riders in. I'm open to you convincing me otherwise, but this sport has a lot of problems and this (if it even is one) belongs far down the list of problems.

More venues, lower costs, greater awareness... these are all things to be tackled before bringing weight limits in.

[Spiderman1]

39 minutes ago, truthsayer said:

That's not giving an example, that's just giving an opinion.

I was more looking for you to say 'Rider X was a promising youngster but he ended up quitting because he got too big and wasn't competitive'

I'm genuinely not convinced that introducing a combined weight limit would bring more riders in. I'm open to you convincing me otherwise, but this sport has a lot of problems and this (if it even is one) belongs far down the list of problems.

More venues, lower costs, greater awareness... these are all things to be tackled before bringing weight limits 

[Spiderman1]

3 minutes ago, Spiderman1 said:

52 minutes ago, truthsayer said:

That's not giving an example, that's just giving an opinion.

I was more looking for you to say 'Rider X was a promising youngster but he ended up quitting because he got too big and wasn't competitive'

I'm genuinely not convinced that introducing a combined weight limit would bring more riders in. I'm open to you convincing me otherwise, but this sport has a lot of problems and this (if it even is one) belongs far down the list of problems.

More venues, lower costs, greater awareness... these are all things to be tackled before bringing weight limits 

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Say no more,simplicity 

[THE DEAN MACHINE]

3 hours ago, Fortythirtyeight said:

Simple answer….MONEY !

700 crowd for Premiership riders wage bill ?  That sort of crowd probably only justifies  a Championship level team , unless your going to follow a Birmingham scenario and be willing to lose buckets and buckets of cash.

Well Birmingham didnt get crowds of 700 except for couple of occasions, Buxton would have derby matches against Sheffield and belle vue and Buxton’s rent is a 10th of Birmingham and also has the catering money which Birmingham didnt, so factor all that in and if they can get the same tv deal that was available this year it may just be a deal breaker 

[PhilTheAce]

On 11/1/2025 at 9:08 AM, Spiderman1 said:

The same place you come from

I’m 18 stone. I’d give speedway a go if weight limits were brought back. 
 

BZ would be in trouble 

[IainB]

1 hour ago, PhilTheAce said:

I’m 18 stone. I’d give speedway a go if weight limits were brought back. 
 

BZ would be in trouble 

If you fell on him 😉😂

[PhilTheAce]

4 hours ago, IainB said:

If you fell on him 😉😂

Rude 

[Fortythirtyeight]

19 hours ago, THE DEAN MACHINE said:

Well Birmingham didnt get crowds of 700 except for couple of occasions, Buxton would have derby matches against Sheffield and belle vue and Buxton’s rent is a 10th of Birmingham and also has the catering money which Birmingham didnt, so factor all that in and if they can get the same tv deal that was available this year it may just be a deal breaker 

Sorry but can’t agree. If an Oxford premiership second string was on a guarantee of three grand a meeting , what were the ‘stars’ on ? So their wage bill was based on way more than a possible 700 paying customers so even if your rent is zero and you have 700 gready pigs attending your going to need some very generous sponsors to make up the deficit.

The TV money is now a pittance plus Sheffield doesn’t have an owner at present and there isn’t enough teams to make up a premiership as it stands.

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[THE DEAN MACHINE]

1 hour ago, Fortythirtyeight said:

Sorry but can’t agree. If an Oxford premiership second string was on a guarantee of three grand a meeting , what were the ‘stars’ on ? So their wage bill was based on way more than a possible 700 paying customers so even if your rent is zero and you have 700 gready pigs attending your going to need some very generous sponsors to make up the deficit.

The TV money is now a pittance plus Sheffield doesn’t have an owner at present and there isn’t enough teams to make up a premiership as it stands.

And that’s where the sport will be changing,the money for riders will be less, do  Oxford get catering and bar profits ? Which as any entertainment business will tell you is where you can make serious money, Len silver used to let fans in for free at rye house when they were against lesser teams so he could make more money on his fish and chips and beer and that was a fact, I know I was there on a few of those occasions, the tv money was not really a pittance, in the grand scheme of things it was a welcome few quid for promotions and will be a big loss, on average rent for a track is around £50,000 a year, some more some less, so if you pay nothing that’s £50,000 saved before you have even started,I haven’t anywhere said this is a perfect solution but it should be considered because the alternatives are far worse and far more costly 

[YeOldPitGate]

On 11/1/2025 at 6:24 PM, Fortythirtyeight said:

get with the times, GTR project died years ago when the BSPL, as was, were taken the the cleaners by the builder and the BSPL lost over three hundred grand on the project.

and just how many MX riders have taken up speedway in the last 5 years ?

Who's the builder who cleaned up ?