My question has to be Why 15 days ?? I always thought it was 2 weeks ? If you actually add up the hours the track was actually closed to practise taking into account the sunday meeting and the exact time the track was run on on the Sunday of the National then the track was actually only a few hours short of being shut for the 24*15 ----days anyway ??
Why 15 ??? Why not 16 or 17 or 18. So anyone can practise all day on the friday and thats OK under the rules .. I always thought that the track was shut after the warmup so if the track was changed then no one could run on it and gain an advantage. Seeing how The Deerdale track stayed the same is there an advantage ????