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 Thursday at 09:40 PM 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, 

[tonyd]

On 9/17/2026 at 9:55 PM, rocket007 said:

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

Because junior riders want to race whenever and wherever they can, and accept track conditions they get to ride on, lets be honest normally they are riding after the main meeting the track is worn through to the base with a few crumbs of shale pulled back over it by the tractor.

Where as profesional riders on the other hand have to think of where and for who they are riding for the next night and of course there income. Injury at this stage of the season could be very expensive for them around Europe. There is no way a profesional rider is going to risk anything like that. 

One has to ask why the track staff did not pack the ruts in the track while they prepared it for the meeting? If the ruts can be seen before a wheel has been turned surely something is wrong.

I can remember back in the day (yes its that quote again) the likes of Len Silver before a match at Hackney or Rye house  driving round and arround the tracks in his car packing it in before taking the tractor around once more making it safe and as rideable as he could.

Different era, different bikes and different riders I suppose.

[Chris116]

4 hours ago, tonyd said:

Because junior riders want to race whenever and wherever they can, and accept track conditions they get to ride on, lets be honest normally they are riding after the main meeting the track is worn through to the base with a few crumbs of shale pulled back over it by the tractor.

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Where as profesional riders on the other hand have to think of where and for who they are riding for the next night and of course there income. Injury at this stage of the season could be very expensive for them around Europe. There is no way a profesional rider is going to risk anything like that. 

One has to ask why the track staff did not pack the ruts in the track while they prepared it for the meeting? If the ruts can be seen before a wheel has been turned surely something is wrong.

I can remember back in the day (yes its that quote again) the likes of Len Silver before a match at Hackney or Rye house  driving round and arround the tracks in his car packing it in before taking the tractor around once more making it safe and as rideable as he could.

Different era, different bikes and different riders I suppose.

Len Silver was a former rider who knew how to promote and he also knew how to get the best surface for the racing which gave the crowd entertaining racing which lived up to his promoting.  As you say a different era.

[M.D]

5 minutes ago, Chris116 said:

Len Silver was a former rider who knew how to promote and he also knew how to get the best surface for the racing which gave the crowd entertaining racing which lived up to his promoting.  As you say a different era.

Bob Dugard the same, yes he set up the track for his home riders but could change the track during the interval.