Poole vs Plymouth BSN Good Friday 6pm 3/4/26

[WookieboyDon]

This is not good. Taken from Speedway Plus on X:

Very interesting comments from Ben Barker on Pirates TV this evening:

"..with the riders now being told we've got no rider insurance by the BSPL, so we're not actually insured, to a certain extent, ...the rider insurance needs to be addressed immediately"

Ben has also posted on social media himself tonight reiterating this and saying he will most probably get fined for revealing this but it needs to be said. 

[Steve Shovlar]

1 hour ago, Catalan said:

Not sure where you get your info but Garry wasn't anywhere near a phone

Person sitting next to me said they had just seen Gary go to the ref’s phone in the pits when Klima was disqualified from heat 14. Only repeating what I was told.  Fair enough if it wasn’t him sorting out the refs mess.

[geoff100]

Who ran the meeting the ref or the trainee?

[szkocjasid]

10 hours ago, Steve Shovlar said:

There was a short delay when Gary May got on the phone to the ref after he disqualified Kilmarnock in heat 14 because according to the ref, he had already had 7 rides. Everyone around us was perplexed as we had him down as heat 14 being his 7th ride. Reason given was heat 9 and the ref wasn’t aware Spencer had come in to replace Klima.

As for Plymouth, Kling was his usual excellent self, Thompson continues to improve, Barker battles. Is Father Time finally catching up with Scotty? He ran two lasts but was still very fast. Klima was very good value. Battled all night. Don’t think he will be at reserve very long. Spencer is a filler.

For Poole Lawson unluckily to be disqualified imo but I only saw it live and it was done in a flash. Battled well  considering it was nasty. Newman did more than expected. Kerr was Kerr. Bowes improved as the meeting went on. Cook was excellent. Cairns battled all night, and Rushen found it tough as expected.

But thoughts must go to Tobias who  got the far worse of an extremely nasty crash. I won’t mention rumours of injuries and everything will be known very soon. But I will just say get well soon Tobias. Always popular at Wimborne Road. 

How could the ref not be aware who was in heat 9? Shouldn't the team manager declare any changes & if he didn't, shouldn't the referee pay attention to who's in the race?

Get well soon Tobias.

[Wee Eck]

7 hours ago, WookieboyDon said:

This is not good. Taken from Speedway Plus on X:

Very interesting comments from Ben Barker on Pirates TV this evening:

"..with the riders now being told we've got no rider insurance by the BSPL, so we're not actually insured, to a certain extent, ...the rider insurance needs to be addressed immediately"

Ben has also posted on social media himself tonight reiterating this and saying he will most probably get fined for revealing this but it needs to be said. 

“So we’re not actually insured to a certain extent” has to also mean that, to a certain extent, they are insured. 
Maybe a change of insurer or the level of cover, or who pays for what, but seems wrong to say they’re not insured

[ASpeedwayfan]

Did anyone have a better view of the 2 incidents last night?

looked to me in the first one that Toby would’ve been deemed the cause of the stoppage and therefore excluded, Richard looked to off been just ahead on the outside. Was surprised Richard was thrown out of the rerun. 
 

With the Cooper one I can see why Cooper was excluded. But again he did look ahead, but probably overly eager. 

Best wishes to Toby and hope to see him ride again this season. 

[arnieg]

11 hours ago, Yearbyred said:

Not sure why anyone would think something called Pirates TV would be anything other than one eyed.

This is a big failing of club streamers. Home fans go to the track to watch live while time and cost means away fans buy the stream. And add in neutrals who just tune in for a good meeting.

Which means a high proportion of the viewers don't want to hear endless moans about the exclusion of the rider in red or why the rider in white was 'lucky' to win the race.

[daz9100]

1 hour ago, Wee Eck said:

“So we’re not actually insured to a certain extent” has to also mean that, to a certain extent, they are insured. 
Maybe a change of insurer or the level of cover, or who pays for what, but seems wrong to say they’re not insured

Is it maybe a consequence of the abolishment of the asset system?

The riders wanted to be totally freelance/self employed, so maybe they need to cover their own insurance now? I dunno, just a thought. 

[Steve Shovlar]

Anyone got a working link to buy the stream for tonight’s meeting? Just seeing, “page not found” when clicking on the link page of Plymouths website.

[ArthurRudge]

8 minutes ago, Steve Shovlar said:

Anyone got a working link to buy the stream for tonight’s meeting? Just seeing, “page not found” when clicking on the link page of Plymouths website.

Yeah I just had a look same for me and a blank page

[BluPanther]

[MattB]

9 hours ago, WookieboyDon said:

This is not good. Taken from Speedway Plus on X:

Very interesting comments from Ben Barker on Pirates TV this evening:

"..with the riders now being told we've got no rider insurance by the BSPL, so we're not actually insured, to a certain extent, ...the rider insurance needs to be addressed immediately"

Ben has also posted on social media himself tonight reiterating this and saying he will most probably get fined for revealing this but it needs to be said. 

This needs some clarification by the BSPL and SCB urgently, as opposed to the usual "ignore it and it'll go away" policy.

If riders are riding without proper insurance, then its a massive red flag for both promoters and riders

[Dorsetpirate]

1 hour ago, Steve Shovlar said:

Anyone got a working link to buy the stream for tonight’s meeting? Just seeing, “page not found” when clicking on the link page of Plymouths website.

Go on to the bspa report from last night and there is a link to tonight's stream. It's gladiators live.com or something 

[Neila]

37 minutes ago, MattB said:

This needs some clarification by the BSPL and SCB urgently, as opposed to the usual "ignore it and it'll go away" policy.

If riders are riding without proper insurance, then its a massive red flag for both promoters and riders

But aren't the riders classed as self employed these days ? If so , it will be probably the riders responsibility to get insurance, the clubs don't directly employ the riders as their are no assets anymore, 

A bit like if you get a job done on your house, you don't get insurance for the person doing the job, you hope they have their own insurance to cover any possible issues 

[Wee Eck]

1 hour ago, MattB said:

This needs some clarification by the BSPL and SCB urgently, as opposed to the usual "ignore it and it'll go away" policy.

If riders are riding without proper insurance, then its a massive red flag for both promoters and riders

Clarification issued. Has Ben misunderstood?

https://www.scbgb.co.uk/news.php?extend.242.1

Edited 11 hours ago by Wee Eck

[Sir Sidney]

17 minutes ago, Wee Eck said:

Clarification issued. Has Ben misunderstood?

https://www.scbgb.co.uk/news.php?extend.242.1

What that doesn't make clear is whether the same level of cover is still provided, nor why the 2026 Regs advise riders to take out additional personal accident insurance when the 2025 Regs didn't. 

Further clarification required I think 

[SteveLyric2]

5 minutes ago, Sir Sidney said:

What that doesn't make clear is whether the same level of cover is still provided, nor why the 2026 Regs advise riders to take out additional personal accident insurance when the 2025 Regs didn't. 

Further clarification required I think 

What clarification exactly? If its in the SCB regs 2026 and also in the ACU Licence smallprint then surely its up to riders (and promoters etc) to read them?!

[THE DEAN MACHINE]

3 minutes ago, Sir Sidney said:

What that doesn't make clear is whether the same level of cover is still provided, nor why the 2026 Regs advise riders to take out additional personal accident insurance when the 2025 Regs didn't. 

Further clarification required I think 

I’m not sure why riders don’t get their own cover anyway, I took mine out in 1994 with the CICA and still have it today because it covers you for pretty much everything except war but even with personal cover it does not let speedway off the hook to provide cover too, I see the bspl are saying the ACU covers it now, what about foreign riders who don’t ride under the ACU ?

[SteveLyric2]

1 minute ago, THE DEAN MACHINE said:

I’m not sure why riders don’t get their own cover anyway, I took mine out in 1994 with the CICA and still have it today because it covers you for pretty much everything except war but even with personal cover it does not let speedway off the hook to provide cover too, I see the bspl are saying the ACU covers it now, what about foreign riders who don’t ride under the ACU ?

FIM??

[Sir Sidney]

6 minutes ago, SteveLyric2 said:

What clarification exactly? If its in the SCB regs 2026 and also in the ACU Licence smallprint then surely its up to riders (and promoters etc) to read them?!

Of course the riders should read it and assure themselves.

But, why in the 2026 Regs does it say riders are advised to take out additional personal accident insurance when it didn't say that in the 2025 Regs? That suggests a change or reduction to me