Hancock kirjoitti:Hyvinkäällä Vauhtipuistossa voisivat jakaa ilmaisia ämpäreitä speedway-kisojen yhteydessä, että saataisiin lisää katsojia.
Hancock kirjoitti:Hyvinkäällä Vauhtipuistossa voisivat jakaa ilmaisia ämpäreitä speedway-kisojen yhteydessä, että saataisiin lisää katsojia.
"Since 2009 I have watched with pride as the track surface and lighting were improved beyond recognition, our foam-fence – the best and safest in the Premier League -- was installed and we introduced track covers, first in 2012 and improved upon this season”. "
Posted: July 2, 2016
The track covers are on for Plymouth's visit tonight at 7!
With a dodgy forecast set for this afternoon, Scott Courtney, Ian Rae and the track staff have put Berwick's famous track covers in place at 11.30 this morning.
Posted: April 2, 2016
The Covers Are On!
The forecast predicts that there may be rain this afternoon so Scott and his team have organised a squad to cover the track!
We believe that this is a PL first!
Posted: December 30, 2015
BANDITS BOSS BUYS AMBULANCE
In an innovative, and very positive, move Berwick speedway director John Anderson has arranged to purchase the 'spare' ambulance used to cover meetings at Shielfield Park, ensuring the continuing presence of two fully-fitted ambulances at all speedway events.
My 12 year old son has liked speedway for a while. So I just asked him what he likes and doesn't like about Speedway. Here's his answers. (Sorry, but it is what he said)
Likes:
Crashes (that was his first answer)
The races and overtakes
Getting selfies with the riders
Filling in the programme
The horns at the Grand Prix
The bike noise
Dislikes:
Nicki Pedersen (except when he starts fights. He likes him then)
When the ref makes a rubbish decision and there are delays
The tractor going round - that's boring
Getting stones in the face.
There you go. Sorted.
THE following is part of a pice I wrote for Speedway Star this week. Comments?
THE biggest conundrum facing the current crop of British promoters is how to attract more people through their turnstiles and especially those of a younger generation.
Speedway Star has a vested interest in this. More people attending domestic speedway in the UK increases our potential market as well. BSI, too, looking to increase their annual attendance at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium for the British Grand Prix.
It is the BSPA who hold the keys to a new audience. Schemes such as free admission for under 16-year-olds attending with at least one adult, for example, have merit.
But the question that needs to be asked is this: why would teenagers want to go to speedway in the first place? What’s in it for them?
Kelvin Tatum, newly appointed to the Lakeside management team, and I were chewing this over during a protracted lunch last week.
We agreed that speedway tracks have to be more imaginative in providing ways in which young boys, and girls for that matter, can inter-act with speedway.
How can they get to experience what riding a speedway bike is all about without actually doing so? This has always been a root problem for speedway, which even in the wider world of motorsport exists in its own little bubble.
You cannot buy a speedway bike and ride it down the road, it’s a unique piece of equipment. But that shouldn’t necessarily mean that it is of no interest to potential young fans. Make its inherent weirdness an attraction rather than a deterrent.
Would it be feasible for tracks to allow a limited number of young fans prior to each meeting to discover what it is actually like to sit on a bike, to learn first hand what the idiosyncrasies of it are?
Learning how a speedway bike performs, its unique nature, how it could outgun an F1 car off the grid could be used to add to its allure.
Better still if they could test their reactions at a simulated starting gate. There was one at GPs in Gothenburg for a while and it was a massive attraction.
Kelvin says he would be happy to do that at Lakeside and to walk a group round the track so that they get a further idea of what is involved.
At a recent SGP in Torun he took four fans (not youngsters) onto the track, stood them at the starting gate and walked them through a race. They were quite entranced by the experience because previously they had only looked on from the outside and could now envisage what riders were thinking during the course of a race. Simple and at no cost.
It is also being suggested that promoters and/or riders should be encouraged to visit local schools to talk about speedway and encourage pupils to become engrossed with the mathematical aspect, scoring, averages, etc, as part of their curriculum.
At the SGP rounds we can use tablets and smartphones rather than a pen and programme to register riders scores and the simple app automatically calculates the final numbers and positions.
Is it not time that collectively the promoters commissioned something similar for league matches so that kids can attend with their iPads, fill in the names and follow the meeting in a manner that would appeal to them much more?
It might minimally detract from programme sales – although not if the editorial content of the programme is good enough to still warrant purchasing – but this progression to the digital age is long overdue.
It doesn’t require any wi-fi connection and would appeal to those youngsters who are joined at the hip to their smartphones.
We are only scratching the surfacing here but the bottom line is that speedway bosses need to up their game when they go fishing for a new speedway audience that can provide the core attendance for years to come.
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