Glasgow vs Plymouth CL 08/05/26

[MD]

Repeat post

Edited 14 hours ago by MD

[ASpeedwayfan]

6 hours ago, MD said:

We need to decide shortly if Mario stays or goes. He was awful in ht1, gifted a point in ht6 then matched Harris for speed in ht10 running the inside line. He doesnt seem to like running high up the boards and hasnt been much of a gater so far. He might come good but also might not. Making changes doesnt always guarantee making improvements.

I’m sure Glasgow will make changes. They’ve had a couple 5 point riders turn into 8/9 point riders the past few years. The way they’ve built their team they’re stuck with their reserves so it’s only Hausl and Pedersen who can make way

[BlueIn2Red]

12 hours ago, IainB said:

I think if a rider chooses to look across a rider next to him at the magnets in the starting mechanism and gets suckered in and touches the tapes that's the risk he runs instead of just looking at the tapes. 

The problem of course with that is that there is a significant lag of the tapes in front of riders in gates 2 and 3 vs the magnets themselves. So doing this would essentially guarantee they’re at a disadvantage.

There’s no easy solution to this unfortunately, since not excluding the tapes offender, as has been suggested, would result in more gambling (or going deliberately when they see any movement).

Personally I think keeping the starting rules simple (exclusions for tape touching, anything else is allowed) is the way to go.

Edited 5 hours ago by BlueIn2Red

[Beirao]

2 hours ago, ASpeedwayfan said:

I’m sure Glasgow will make changes. They’ve had a couple 5 point riders turn into 8/9 point riders the past few years. The way they’ve built their team they’re stuck with their reserves so it’s only Hausl and Pedersen who can make way

Not all changes are that good. Remember Matic Ivacic and before him MB Andersen?

[IainB]

29 minutes ago, BlueIn2Red said:

The problem of course with that is that there is a significant lag of the tapes in front of riders in gates 2 and 3 vs the magnets themselves. So doing this would essentially guarantee they’re at a disadvantage.

There’s no easy solution to this unfortunately, since not excluding the tapes offender, as has been suggested, would result in more gambling (or going deliberately when they see any movement).

Personally I think keeping the starting rules simple (exclusions for tape touching, anything else is allowed) is the way to go.

I'm sure that can all be made up with setup changes and a bit of throttle, clutch control and body position... not to mention a tight set of tapes... I've seen Leon Madson do it in the GP's, look at the tapes and not the magnets. Why would you not, especially if you're next to known twitchers... Jason Doyle for example 😂

[Whitelinehugger]

30 minutes ago, IainB said:

I'm sure that can all be made up with setup changes and a bit of throttle, clutch control and body position... not to mention a tight set of tapes... I've seen Leon Madson do it in the GP's, look at the tapes and not the magnets. Why would you not, especially if you're next to known twitchers... Jason Doyle for example 😂

Ent Twitchers bird watchers?

[Fromafar]

Sheer Masterclass from Scott Nichols.Good win for Tigers,Hausl and KJP struggle early with track conditions (a little dirt))when it slickens off the look OK.

Edited 3 hours ago by Fromafar

[MD]

2 hours ago, Beirao said:

Not all changes are that good. Remember Matic Ivacic and before him MB Andersen?

True but Nowak and Tarasenko were. There is just no knowing how it will go. After Worky next Friday we have four away matches before our next home meeting. If we are to keep the current 1-7 we need to work with them and not assume they can turn up on the day of the meeting after a 4 week break and outperform what they have shown so far. 

We could also help ourselves by prepping the track to suit our riders. Im not sure that has really been happening.

[InTheDeepStuff]

Next full averages will be issued 28th May, Glasgow if making any changes need to do it before then as Flint and Howarth have added to their starting averages so eating into any surplus points once new team averages issued.