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Sky Sports SPEEDWAY viewing figures 2015 (to date)
13/08/2015
Like the speedway equivalent of Frazer from Dad’s Army, last week Philip Rising – Managing Editor of the Speedway Star – once again used an opinion column in the pages of his publication to warn about the “ills” and future of British Speedway in its current form/configuration (with especial emphasis upon the travails of the […]
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Speedway search terms 2013 & 2014
21/02/2015
The search terms that people use give a potentially revealing snapshot into what excites or makes them curious about speedway. Here are some of the more interesting and/or surreal terms that brought web users onto the Methanol Press site during 2013 & 2014. sky speedway contract reneal best flying haggis jokes cage used by cleaning […]
Speedway Grand Prix Attendances 2014
01/01/2015
Fans who wish to savour the statistics of the Speedway World Championship continue to be very badly served by both the F.I.M and the Speedway Grand Prix series current commercial rights holders and organisers BSI Speedway (an IMG company). Both continue to choose not to publish official attendance figures for SGP series events. The F.I.M. […]
Speedway Reporting Revolution on Twitter continues, part 2
27/12/2014
Drawing upon the full majesty of his 11 years speedway reporting Paul (Burbo) Burbidge’s digital social media profile continues to revolutionise our often turgid speedway reporting landscape. Part of a new breed of digitally savvy speedway journalists (“I write news for Speedway GP website and manage speedway gp social media. I’m also Speedway Star’s Chief […]
Speedway Grand Prix rider earnings 2014 (& Top 10 SGP earners 2005-2014)
22/11/2014
The Speedway Grand Prix rider earnings table for 2014 makes interesting reading as Greg Hancock sneaks ahead of Nicki Pedersen in the overall 2005-2014 total earnings table by just $4,350. The Top 10 Speedway Grand Prix Riders judged by their earnings from 2005 to 2014 are as follows: Greg Hancock $657,150 Nicki Pedersen $652,800 […]
Feedback on Strictly Shale from Justine Potter
24/08/2014
Though delighted to finally have her picture in one of my books, in between a slew of early meeting 1-5s to Coventry, last night (23rd August 2014) during Lakeside v Coventry “artist” Justine Potter of the Lakeside Hammers track shop kindly gave me her candid opinions about my new photo book Strictly Shale: Circling British […]
Alf Weedon R.I.P.
22/01/2014
Alf Weedon the finest speedway photographer of his generation (or, arguably, any generation) has sadly passed away on January 19th 2014, aged 93. Even in his late 80s, the lessons and skills gained through a lifetime in and around speedway people – whether trackside, pitside or in trackshops – meant that Alf knew more about […]
Speedway Life: Twitter & scuttlebutt – November 1st to 11th 2012
04/01/2014
1st November Kenneth Bjerre “completely forgotten what it’s like to be speedway rider. early morning. Back home to uk again. Dinner & dance at peterborough tomorrow” David Howe “1st November and speedway season over, I’ve never been so happy to see the end of a season” Mads Korneliussen “Thinking big #2013” Ty Proctor “All set […]
Speedway Life: Twitter & scuttlebutt – October 2012
1st October Todd Kurtz* “Got a bullshit tooth ache. Hence the tweet at this hour of the morning! Help please” Kevin Doolan* “Time to cut laps of the swimming pool, splashing aint as much fun as roosting!” Paul Burbidge* “Advice to anyone staying at Kralj near Gorican, if you’re catching an early flight, pay the […]
Speedway Life: Twitter & scuttlebutt – September 2012
1st September John Anderson “Here at Berwick we have seen a reduction in gates since the start of the year. Financially we are just about washing our face, we have no outstanding debts, but another hundred or so through the gate every week would make it more viable.” Darcy Ward* “After lakeside drove though London […]
Speedway Life: Twitter & scuttlebutt – August 2012
1st August Alan Boon* “Really enjoyed my road trip to Monmore Wood last night. Huge crowd for Div3 racing – some EL clubs would be happy with that! Heathens merchandise stall should be an example to all clubs – huge range of stuff on sale. Message to promoters – PEOPLE WANT TO BUY STUFF!” […]
Speedway Life: Twitter & scuttlebutt – July 2012
1st July Mark Lemon* “Proper little tweek to my left knee. Nothing I haven’t experienced before! Tiny bit of r&r needed #thanksforallyourkindthoughts” Mark Lemon* “Richie Worrall getting his morphine fix #littlestepbacktoabigfuture speedy recovery fella. I heard the realignment #crunch” Niels Kristian Iversen* “And for once we had no rain in both practice and the meeting […]
Speedway Life: Twitter & scuttlebutt – June 2012
1st June Sam Masters* “Aaaaw road works annoying me I got a train to catch! #bludgers” Chris Holder* “Jus got home from peterbourough! Awesome win again tonight! Darcy can’t be stopped!! Ricky scared us all! But got it done!” Hans Andersen* “Shocked just realised how fare we got to drive now #flatout just started our […]
Speedway Life: Twitter & scuttlebutt – May 2012
1st May Hans Andersen* “Morning people… YAWN way too early for travelling by plane to Sweden” Kenneth Bjerre* “Hope the weather is better in sweden tonight. Early morning at stansted airport” Chris Holder* “Stansted ✈… Errrrrrh to early” Nicki Pedersen* “Flying to Sweden now. swedish League starts tonight. Danish League tomorrow #fulltimespeedwayrider” Mads Korneliussen* “Germen […]
Speedway Life: Twitter & scuttlebutt – April 2012
1st April Fredrik Lindgren* “Funny how the water spin the other way around when you are halfway round the globe” Roman Chyla “I am wondering why there is no comments on yesterday’s GP in Auckland? As far as I am concerned, it was fully worthy getting up before 5:00am (CET), turning on my laptop and […]
Speedway Life: Twitter & scuttlebutt – March 2012
1st March Neil Machin “I’m aware of the criticism I get and the reputation I have, but I’ve been at this club for 19 years now and we always honour our agreements with riders and pay them on time. These are tough times financially but our partnership with Ian and the fact that we have […]
Speedway Life: Twitter & scuttlebutt – February 2012
1st February David Hoggart “When Ricky called me on Sunday to say he had failed to agree terms with Plymouth and had declined their offer of a team place for 2012, I had to think on my feet. I had already tried several clubs when we were unable to accommodate him this year and I […]