2027?

[THE DEAN MACHINE]

The first thing we need to sort out in 2027 is we need to get the fun factor back into British speedway, it is sadly lacking in modern speedway and fans (those left ) feel it 

[marko]

Will Northampton be back? Nothing but problems with the track and as I write this their home meeting with the Stars is currently delayed because of an issue even though juniors were racing on it only hours before.

[LisaColette]

16 minutes ago, marko said:

Will Northampton be back? Nothing but problems with the track and as I write this their home meeting with the Stars is currently delayed because of an issue even though juniors were racing on it only hours before.

Postponed now. Not cheap when you are flying riders over for it. 

[YeOldPitGate]

2 minutes ago, LisaColette said:

Postponed now. Not cheap when you are flying riders over for it. 

Yep despite all the positives so far this really is a massive shooting in the foot.

[Arthur54]

11 minutes ago, LisaColette said:

Postponed now. Not cheap when you are flying riders over for it. 

Good job main stream TV wasn't there tonight 

[Gasser90]

1 hour ago, marko said:

Will Northampton be back? Nothing but problems with the track and as I write this their home meeting with the Stars is currently delayed because of an issue even though juniors were racing on it only hours before.

Northampton will 100 percent be back next season and for seasons beyond, if anything then Sheffield are least likely to return next year. 
 

as for the track. The Damage from 3 days worth of stock cars and wet weather made it a massive task for the speedway staff to get the track suitable. The stock car track staff are supposed to relay the surface after their racing I believe, and they didn’t do a very good job of it, rather than fill all the holes and pack it they just covered the holes with shale and left it, 

unfortunately that’s just the way it goes sometimes. Northampton have done well to get this far without having to call off a meeting due to the track ! 

[rocket007]

So how come the track was fit enough for juniors to race on, but the seniors couldn't handle it.

[Fromafar]

4 minutes ago, rocket007 said:

So how come the track was fit enough for juniors to race on, but the seniors couldn't handle it.

Riders running the sport as usual.

[DaveWayne]

1 hour ago, Gasser90 said:

Northampton will 100 percent be back next season and for seasons beyond, if anything then Sheffield are least likely to return next year. 
 

as for the track. The Damage from 3 days worth of stock cars and wet weather made it a massive task for the speedway staff to get the track suitable. The stock car track staff are supposed to relay the surface after their racing I believe, and they didn’t do a very good job of it, rather than fill all the holes and pack it they just covered the holes with shale and left it, 

unfortunately that’s just the way it goes sometimes. Northampton have done well to get this far without having to call off a meeting due to the track ! 

To be fair to the stock cars, there wouldn't even be a speedway track without them. 😉

What you have to bear in mind is that the 3 day meeting was planned before speedway was even confirmed for this season, and was a major championship meeting for 2 different formulas with many competitors from overseas. It couldn't just be rearranged to accommodate a speedway event a few days later.  The stock car promoter worked very hard on the track over the weekend. After the Saturday event finished at around 7.30pm he was working on the track until the early hours of Sunday morning. The rain on Sunday certainly didn't help matters.

Funnily enough, several people commented to me over the weekend about the 'speedway dip' on the home straight, so the damage works both ways. 

Edited 32 minutes ago by DaveWayne

[Gasser90]

31 minutes ago, DaveWayne said:

To be fair to the stock cars, there wouldn't even be a speedway track without them. 😉

What you have to bear in mind is that the 3 day meeting was planned before speedway was even confirmed for this season, and was a major championship meeting for 2 different formulas with many competitors from overseas. It couldn't just be rearranged to accommodate a speedway event a few days later.  The stock car promoter worked very hard on the track over the weekend. After the Saturday event finished at around 7.30pm he was working on the track until the early hours of Sunday morning. The rain on Sunday certainly didn't help matters.

Funnily enough, several people commented to me over the weekend about the 'speedway dip' on the home straight, so the damage works both ways. 

Absolutely mate, they need to learn to work together, I believe dean has been impressed with the speedway this season, and it’s all thanks to him that we even have a speedway team at Northampton, and to be honest there has been speedway after stock cars throughout the summer, I just think the rain didn’t help matters 

[Gasser90]

56 minutes ago, rocket007 said:

So how come the track was fit enough for juniors to race on, but the seniors couldn't handle it.

The track wasn’t great for the juniors either I believe, I heard Seth Norman had a big off due to track conditions, 

I think they put more shale on after the juniors but then due to the moisture it became too grippy, so they bladed it right back which then exposed the holes in the surface,