Ask the referee

[Deleted]

Another refreshingly new innovation at Lakeside which started last year is an 'ask the referee' feature. The idea is to ask the meeting referee for clarification on any 'grey areas' of the speedway rule book.

Depending on who the referee is, this can be an interesting side line to the racing. Naturally, some referees aren't so keen to expose their knowledge of the rule book as others.

If any Weirdos have a good question for a referee, please post it below and I'll do my best to get Geoff Cox to 'ask the referee' at a forthcoming meeting.

[admin]

Okay, here's mine.
Why is a Rider Replacement allowed to take a Tactical Ride, but a Reserve Replacement isn't?

[Genghis]

Apr 13, 2008 0:03:38 GMT admin said:

Okay, here's mine.
Why is a Rider Replacement allowed to take a Tactical Ride, but a Reserve Replacement isn't?

You're nothing but predictable, young Subedei.

[Deleted]

An old chesnut of mine .
In an instance during a race when a rider locks up going into a bend . And it looks for all the world that he is coming down , causing the rider behind to lay down his bike to avoid a nasty injury . If the first rider somehow stays on his bike , but the race is stopped because the rider who has laid down is still on the track and rightly miffed . Why is it that the rider who has laid the bike down is the one excluded , because it's the guy who has got out of shape who has really caused the stoppage .
But anytime i have seen this occurance it has always been the rider who has laid the bike down who gets excluded from the re-run .

[Deleted]

Apr 13, 2008 8:45:29 GMT @paulco said:

An old chesnut of mine .
In an instance during a race when a rider locks up going into a bend . And it looks for all the world that he is coming down , causing the rider behind to lay down his bike to avoid a nasty injury . If the first rider somehow stays on his bike , but the race is stopped because the rider who has laid down is still on the track and rightly miffed . Why is it that the rider who has laid the bike down is the one excluded , because it's the guy who has got out of shape who has really caused the stoppage .
But anytime i have seen this occurance it has always been the rider who has laid the bike down who gets excluded from the re-run .

I agree Paul, it happens all the time and comes across as very unfair, surely the out of shape rider was the primary cause of the stoppage?

[admin]

Apr 13, 2008 8:45:29 GMT @paulco said:

An old chesnut of mine .
In an instance during a race when a rider locks up going into a bend . And it looks for all the world that he is coming down , causing the rider behind to lay down his bike to avoid a nasty injury . If the first rider somehow stays on his bike , but the race is stopped because the rider who has laid down is still on the track and rightly miffed . Why is it that the rider who has laid the bike down is the one excluded , because it's the guy who has got out of shape who has really caused the stoppage .

It almost happened at Berwick last night in Ht 4, with Nick Simmons laying it down to avoid Adam McKinna, who was doing a very passable impression of Simon Stead. But, as it happens, Simmons got up and carried on.