BRITISH SPEEDWAY STATEMENT

BRITISH Speedway bosses remain ‘100% committed’ to staging racing this year.
 

The board of directors at the British Speedway Promoters Ltd have held a conference call on Tuesday to discuss the way forward.
And Vice Chairman Damien Bates said: “We had a productive conversation and we all agreed we remain 100% committed to putting on a season this year at the first available opportunity.

“There are absolutely no thoughts of cancelling the season. We all want to stage the season in whatever format that can take.

“Naturally nothing can happen until the government allow it to, indeed when the next decision is made on the current lockdown situation we will talk again between us.

“We want to give fans, broadcasters and sponsors what everyone wants and that is live speedway to enjoy.

“If it’s July, August or whenever it may be we are determined to stage racing should the government rules allow us to do so.

Those words are fully endorsed by Pirates' co-promoter Danny Ford who said "This is an extremely frustrating time but we of course recognise the reasons behind it. Everyone's health has to remain the most important thing and the restrictions imposed on the country are there to help  save lives but once we are given permission to start our season we will be ready to do so. In the meantime we are doing our best, as indeed are all the promotions and the BSPA as an organisation to try and give supporters something to keep them interested during the lockdown."

"This coming Wednesday night we will be having our second evening of video streaming where we are looking back at some of the golden moments in the club's history."