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On 3/24/2026 at 7:22 PM, Roger Jacobs said:

How do you know he hasn't been named?  Just because they can't be bothered to tell the customers ...

After all, they've announced Northampton as a new team, but it seems that the track still hasn't been approved ... lots of assumptions being made ...

Can’t approve a track that they haven’t finished building yet .

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Interesting to read that other Premiership Promoters now have a ‘vested interest’ in the club so which promoter will be named as the ‘Tutor’ as all new promoters are supposed to have one ?

Sounds like going back to the old days when one promoter ran several clubs .

 

Do recall that not being within the rules but that book is simply ‘advice’ these days it seems.

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1 hour ago, Normski said:

Look at Berwick there is a bear on town coat of arms but we are called Bandits

Sounds logical to me.

In Bandit Country

1 hour ago, DaveWayne said:

 

 

So Leicester were called the Hunters at the same time as the Brafield Flying Foxes existed. 😉

Far from it being an 'attempted appropriation' or a 'lack of local knowledge', it is historically accurate in returning to the name of the original team that rode at the same stadium.

Most 'older' stock car fans still refer to the stadium as Brafield rather than Northampton.

So hopefully all of the fans from the old Flying Foxes days and their descendents will be connecting and turning up in good numbers. 

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1 hour ago, ouch said:

Is it really the case that people won’t attend due to the name Foxes? If so I’m either really laid back or out of touch with modern sensibilities. 

I just hope Mark doesn’t bring along his bleedin’ podium. 

I just hope mark doesn’t bring himself, too many cooks and all that, ego’s will soon come in to play 

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1 hour ago, Fortythirtyeight said:

Interesting to read that other Premiership Promoters now have a ‘vested interest’ in the club so which promoter will be named as the ‘Tutor’ as all new promoters are supposed to have one ?

Sounds like going back to the old days when one promoter ran several clubs .

 

Do recall that not being within the rules but that book is simply ‘advice’ these days it seems.

If this starts to go wrong does the new promoter get picked on by the other 5 playground bullies?

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39 minutes ago, TB1 said:

If this starts to go wrong 

If it does contrary to rod Godfrey saying they all get on, they don’t and within time ego’s will come into play (they always do in any business)hopefully it’s a big success and makes money to keep those ego’s at bay 

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15 hours ago, THE DEAN MACHINE said:

If it does contrary to rod Godfrey saying they all get on, they don’t and within time ego’s will come into play (they always do in any business)hopefully it’s a big success and makes money to keep those ego’s at bay 

Promoters have a long history of working together for the greater good, putting aside any differences to ensure the right outcome. I'm sure it'll go just perfectly...

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so far

1. TBC
2. Troy Batchelor
3.
4.
5.
6. Kye Thomsen
7. Luke Harrison

11am for the rest of the reveal of the "top 4" what are we all expecting, is there a surprise big hitter in there or not?

Probably going to be way off but Lidsey, Klindt, Iversen & Tungate to complete the top 4?

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23 minutes ago, CTRSports said:

so far

1. TBC
2. Troy Batchelor
3.
4.
5.
6. Kye Thomsen
7. Luke Harrison

11am for the rest of the reveal of the "top 4" what are we all expecting, is there a surprise big hitter in there or not?

Probably going to be way off but Lidsey, Klindt, Iversen & Tungate to complete the top 4?

No big hitter

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Pleased to see Luke Harrison in there, liked what we saw from him last season and exactly the kind of rider that the RS system is about.

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24 minutes ago, noaksey said:

No big hitter

They’d have run in to the same problems we did at Ipswich. Speaking to the new promotion last week, they contacted several GP riders and all “politely declined” as they already had their season mapped out. 
 

A few of them WERE open to riding here in ‘27 though so more options likely on the table for both Ipswich and Northampton next year. 

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2 minutes ago, Aries said:

They’d have run in to the same problems we did at Ipswich. Speaking to the new promotion last week, they contacted several GP riders and all “politely declined” as they already had their season mapped out. 
 

A few of them WERE open to riding here in ‘27 though so more options likely on the table for both Ipswich and Northampton next year. 

It's all very Birmingham isn't it but that's no surprise to anyone 

They will have to try and change it up as the season progresses but even that has become incredibly difficult now

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