Post by admin on Oct 31, 2016 10:23:02 GMT
PETERBOROUGH can announce they will race home meeting almost exclusively on Sundays during the 2017 season. Panthers promoter Ged Rathbone has revealed the popular 5pm slot will be used whenever possible.
It is off tomorrow. Seems to be a early call off. I live 30 miles away and we have had hardly more than a shower. Anyway I am personally quite pleased because I hate Sunday afternoon racing. Let's hope they can restage mid week.
I agree hate afternoon racing - much prefer speedway under lights.
GLASGOW have revealed plans to race home fixtures on Saturday nights next season.
The Tigers, who have previously raced at 3pm on Sundays, wish to move to 7pm on Saturdays in 2016 and will make an application to do so this week.
Owners Michael and Gerry Facenna said: “We are very aware of the fact that we have raced on a Sunday afternoon for the last 17 years and that our proposed change will not suit everyone, but in a city of 600,000 people it would be remiss of us not to explore other options to further bolster our income. We will honour last season’s pledge that there will be no increase in ticket prices next year.
“A lot of the initial increase in attendances came from speedway fans coming back, where they had perhaps fallen out of love with the sport or the dilapidated state of Ashfield. We now need to grow our following further and we believe there is a better chance of doing so by moving to evening racing.
“It is no coincidence that the vast majority of other speedway teams up and down the country race at night. The consensus is that speedway is a better spectacle under floodlights and unquestionably the track is easier to prepare and maintain, which in turn will create better, more exciting racing, as could be seen last Monday in our KO Cup Final against Newcastle.”
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GLASGOW have revealed plans to race home fixtures on Saturday nights next season.
The Tigers, who have previously raced at 3pm on Sundays, wish to move to 7pm on Saturdays in 2016 and will make an application to do so this week.
Owners Michael and Gerry Facenna said: “We are very aware of the fact that we have raced on a Sunday afternoon for the last 17 years and that our proposed change will not suit everyone, but in a city of 600,000 people it would be remiss of us not to explore other options to further bolster our income. We will honour last season’s pledge that there will be no increase in ticket prices next year.
“A lot of the initial increase in attendances came from speedway fans coming back, where they had perhaps fallen out of love with the sport or the dilapidated state of Ashfield. We now need to grow our following further and we believe there is a better chance of doing so by moving to evening racing.
“It is no coincidence that the vast majority of other speedway teams up and down the country race at night. The consensus is that speedway is a better spectacle under floodlights and unquestionably the track is easier to prepare and maintain, which in turn will create better, more exciting racing, as could be seen last Monday in our KO Cup Final against Newcastle.”
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