Speedway is a minority sport, fact.

Speedway is a minority sport, fact. If you ask most people who Leigh Adams and Chris Harris are, chances are you'll get a shrug of the shoulders. Even when Team GB pull out all the stops to get to the World Team Cup Final, you'll need a magnifying glass to find a write up in the daily papers, let alone a picture or an eye-catching headline. The excitement and thrill when watching every single race during each meeting doesn't even compare to football or tennis, for example. With the close finishes in races, spectacular crashes and sheer high speed entertainment, it baffles as to why the majority of people seem to be oblivious to this motorsport in Britain. The amount of risks the riders take to win races are endless, having no brakes certainly doesn't help! But being a dangerous sport can have it's pro's and con's. It is exciting as hell for a spectator, but the amount of horror spills, that are part and parcel of Speedway, often result in broken bones and sometimes even worse.

It's amazing the amount of people who ask 'What is Speedway?' when there are also thousands of people who can't do without their weekly Speedway fix and count down through the winter months from October to March to the start of the new season. Throughout the three leagues, Speedway can be viewed all the way from Glasgow and Edinburgh in Scotland, to Plymouth and Eastbourne in the south of England, all the way to Newport and Cardiff in Wales, so there's really no excuse no to go to your local track to experience the thrills and spills of Speedway. Take the Grand Prix series, where we have British competitors fighting to win silverware, even getting on the podium does not create the hype in the UK as it does with Formula 1. Yet countries such as Poland and Sweden celebrate each single race win as if they had won the championship. The amount of support for their riders is crazy and must psychologically boost their countrymen to deliver the goods. Poland are unbelievable with their encouragement... Think banners, chanting, flares, the lot... And that's not just in their own country, they will travel far and wide and will always be the ones making the most noise, no matter how many of them there are! So why is this not the same for Great Britain?