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BRITISH Speedway will roar into an ex- citing new era with live coverage on BT Sport this year.
All eight Premiership clubs will feature in a sizzling summer of action on the channel, which will also be showing the FIM Speedway Grand Prix and Monster Energy FIM Speedway World Cup for a second season. The move means BT Sport is the new home of speedway on British TV – and fans are in for a treat.
British Speedway Promoters’ Association, said: “We are delighted to the 2017 season. Prix and World Cup last year and we are pleased to showcase our sport el.
ewers who can now see regular speedway, both at league and interna- ertaining season and once again show the wider audience what a
o negotiated the new deal, said: “Our thanks go to BT Sport for wel- ort.
s a home on TV and of course it sits very nicely alongside the GP and al and I’m sure our fans will enjoy the coverage BT Sport provide. and into the autumn, including the play-offs which always provide
kept his cards close to his chest. He said: “I don’t like to share too much info and what we put into it. We like to keep everybody hanging! But we work on everything. “There is not a lot to a speedway bike, so it’s not hard to see changes. I’m always trying to make things better, lighter and quicker, and of course durable if we can. Sometimes when you do this stuff, it doesn’t end up being durable. “You have to think about the expense and what goes into it. You want to win and it comes at a price, so we’re trying all the time to find something that little bit better.” Testing can send a rider backwards as well as forwards, so Grin admits he’s careful not to jeopardise his SGP or league scoring.
ke every TV meeting an exciting event, to promote it hard and make it o working with BT Sport.”
He said: “You can definitely
overdo it, which I have done sometimes. But we have learned to curb that too. Last year we tried some new equipment two or three times and we didn’t end up racing with it because it was working well, but we weren’t 100 per cent sure about the durability. “You can’t put it into any race. The leagues are so important. You want to be faster, but if you lose a
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