What will 2026 UK speedway bring?

[gazzac]

7 hours ago, ouch said:

As we have a chance for a major reset in UK speedway, I’d like to ask any mechanical boffins how easy is it to make the kit massively cheaper?

You can’t just change regs overnight in a big way as that sees riders with expensive & unusable out of date parts but can costs be driven down with minor tweaks as time goes on?

A speedway bike will always be a speedway bike but it would be nice to have a cheaper alternative to the highly tuned rocket ships currently blighting the domestic scene. 

Not a boffin, but maybe a rev limiter ( or a lower set one) or grippier tracks so they don't rev their nuts off spinning away...

[TigerIain]

4 hours ago, Phannan said:

One league it is then. Let’s just hope that meets Glasgow’s and Poole’s requirements. 

Pretty sure their only requirement is that next season is financially viable. So let's hope it meets that. For ALL clubs

[noaksey]

3 hours ago, cowboy cookie returns? said:

The issue is a real drop in standard but not being able to drop admission costs to match.

coupled with less sponsorship money coming in & the likelihood that gates would drop.

That lower standard turns what was a decent business model at Ipswich in speedway terms to one that loses money.

 

If admission prices turn out to be too high payments to riders will have to reduce wether they like it or not 

 

[dontforgetthefueltapsbruv]

3 hours ago, TB1 said:

I'd much rather have that than no Foxhall to go to on a Thursday night thanks!

 

3 hours ago, cowboy cookie returns? said:

The issue is a real drop in standard but not being able to drop admission costs to match.

coupled with less sponsorship money coming in & the likelihood that gates would drop.

That lower standard turns what was a decent business model at Ipswich in speedway terms to one that loses money.

 

Spot on

This change probably/possibly could cost Chris as much as the potential extra costs putting those not wanting to move up to a top level Premiership

[cowboy cookie returns?]

1 minute ago, noaksey said:

If admission prices turn out to be too high payments to riders will have to reduce wether they like it or not 

 

That will never happen though. 
Years of cost cutting have never really resulted in reduced costs but ever increasing admission fees.

 

[noaksey]

5 minutes ago, cowboy cookie returns? said:

That will never happen though. 
Years of cost cutting have never really resulted in reduced costs but ever increasing admission fees.

 

Then eventually the whole thing will go broke so the choices are

Overpay and go broke

Pay what you can afford and reset the whole sport on a semi professional basis if that what it takes. It might not work but it's much better than going skint