[theo_luddite]

I just watched the highlights from Wroclaw, this was the final.



If you think that was fun, this was the British Final at Belle Vue a couple of months back



I can't remember a race like it in all my days of going down The Shay, Belle Vue, Bradford, Sheffield and anywhere else. In all my years in Wolvo - I never went once. Tell me why but I didn't like Monday's which s when they mostly raced. Compared to The Shay, I considered it a Mickey Mouse track that you could only really go round on half throttle. Anyone on full throttle was always going backwards on the crown of the bends.
With Brum closing this week, there isn't a track operating anymore in the West Midlands. Wolves gone, Brum gone, Cradley and Coventry long gone, Stoke gone. Leicester are still around but Long Eaton are also long gone and the first meeting I recall going to in 1965 was Halifax v Long Eaton Archers and they stuffed The Dukes that night. Things got better for the one and only season the following year. They almost made Town look successful.