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Yes, I got a seat I was happy with, and I can confirm that, at least on the day that I bought my ticket, Ticketportal were selling seats in the main grandstand by the start grid

I did not click on SGP site... I clicked on the links available on the Prague club site, www.speedway-prague.cz Had a choice of Ticketportal or Ticketstream. I chose Ticketportal...Job done :)l

Have been for a while, Badge... I ordered mine from www.ticketportal.cz on 26th October, it was posted on 27th October, and I received it on 31st October, irrespective of the postal strikes

Thanks for that Pete

Officially ? my GUESS is after the FIM Congress, which is sometime in November I believe

Sportowefakty are reporting that Bydgoszcz will stage final round of the 2010 series, probably on October 9th... With all these little snippets coming out here and there, BSI / IMG may as well hurry up and announce things officially...

May 2nd 2010 is a Sunday... May 22nd 2010, the date advertised in the Czech Golden Helmet programme, is a Saturday...

Pete living the jet set lifestyle, eh UK, Croatia, and maybe Czecho in three days...Piece of Cake LOL

Pete, Are you / Can you make it to Pardubice for the Golden Helmet the following day ?

The Vargarna track, Krakvilan, is VERY similiar to Brough Park.... Been there a few times, had some good times in Norrkoping....

I expect so, Rob, as he is not in the line up for the Cumberland Open at Workington tonight

Didnt even notice that... I just copied / pasted from "Speedwaya-z"

From : http://www.speedwaya-z.cz 41. Memoriál Luboše Tomíčka – Praha, sobota, 18:00: 1 Renat Gafurov, RUS 2 Greg Hancock, USA 3 Jozsef Tabaka, H 4 Davey Watt, AUS 5 Nicki Pedersen, DK 6 Martin Vaculík, SK 7 Aleš Dryml, CZ 8 Tai Woffinden, GB 9 Matej Ferjan, SLO 10 Mattia Carpanese, I 11 Adrian Rymel, CZ 12 Maksim Bodganovs, LAT 13 Luboš Tomíček, CZ 14 Jacek Rempala, PL 15 Christian Hefenbrock, USA 16 Grzegorz Walasek, PL 17 Pavel Pučko, CZ 18 Jakub Fencl, CZ

Results of the CZECH Golden Helmet / Zlata Prilba, from 1999 to 2008 can be found here : http://speedway.vmnet.cz/?new_lang=en Format is 36 riders, 32 races, 6 riders in a race

While the "BGH" was an annual event, I dont think it has been run for a few years, Doug

Result taken from www.speedwayfakta.cz : The winner of the Golden Helmet SNP in a little while before Žarnovica become home pet Vaculík Martin. Second place won this year's Champion of Slovakia Tomas Suchanek and bronze brings the teenage Jan Holub from Pilsen. I next positions were Czech riders. Martin Malek finished fourth, fifth Richard Wolff. The last was our driver Jaroslav Petrak, who won eighth place. (Translated by Google) Výsledky: 1. Martin Vaculík, Slovensko (4,4,4,4) 16 + 1SF, 1F 2. Tomáš Suchánek, Česká republika (2,4,3,4) 13 + 1SF, 2F 3. Jan Holub, Česká republika (3,2,4,3) 12 + 3SF, 2LCH, 3F 4. Martin Málek, Česká republika (4,4,4,4) 16 + 3SF, 1LCH, 4F® 5. Richard Wolff, Česká republika (3,3,3,2) 11 + 2SF, 5F® 6. Max Gregorič, Slovinsko (4,1,1,3) 9 + 2SF, 6F® 7. Mattia Carpanesse, Itálie (3,1,1,3) 8 + 4SF, 3LCH 8. Jaroslav Petrák, Česká republika (2,3,2,2) 9 + 5SF, 4LCH 9. Alessandro Novello, Itálie (4,4,1,1) 10 + 5SF, 5LCH 10. Ján Hlabrín, Slovensko (2,2,1,4) 9 + 4SF, 6LCH 11. Ronny Weis, Německo (1,3,2,2) 8 12. Damian Celmer, Polsko (1,0,4,1) 6 13. Vladimír Višváder, Slovensko (3,3,0,0) 6 14. Shandor Tyhanyii, Maďarsko (2,0,3,1) 6 15. Kamil Pulczynski, Polsko (1,1,3,1) 6 16. Lukas Simon, Rakousko (0,2,0,3) 5 17. Matija Duh, Slovinsko (0,2,2,0) 4 18. Manuel Novotny, Rakousko (1,0,0,2) 3 19. Robert Nagy, Maďarsko (0,1,2,0) 3 20. Milen Manev, Bulharsko (0,0,0,0) 0 21. Jaromír Otruba, Česká republika NS 22. Tomáš Kis, Slovensko NS

What Ole Wants ??? Surely, its what IMG / BSI / Paul Bellamy wants that matters ???

Will stick with Crumpy...

To be fair to Richardson, he only pulled out of the qualifier at Gorican as he was hospitalised due to a problem with his kidneys

The Tomicek Memorial meeting was due to be staged in Prague on 5th October, the day after the Czech Golden Helmet in Pardubice, but an article by Vitek Formanek in the SStar yesterday said that the last round of the Czech Play Offs was on 5th October instead. Just checked the Calendar on www.speedwaya-z.cz, and the last round of the Czech League Play Offs are indeed taking place on Monday 5th October. The Tomicek Memorial is now on Saturday 5th September.

Sadly, I have to agree, GP's becoming an absolute waste of time to watch ! What made it worse was that a guy in work caught the start of the meeting, said he watched "7 or 8 boring races", before switching over to something else, and then said to me yesterday "WHY the hell do you travel to Swindon every week to watch a rubbish sport like that ?" Tried to tell him that watching it live and watching league racing is totally different to watching a GP, but his final comment of "There would have been more passes in the car park at the back of my house" summed up the Latvian GP, really....

Dont think so myself, as Adam Shields also rides for Leszno As Troy is ony recently back from injury, I would have thought Adam was the better choice, unless for some reason, he didnt want to ride

Madsen turned down Glasgow 2 or 3 seasons back...Had even made a couple of visits over to Scotland, then backed out at the last minute. THINK he had already signed a contract, but not sure on that, Alun Biggart would be able to confirm though

I thought it was very common knowledge by now that the draw for all GP's this year is made at 13.00 on the Friday before the event itself, hence the blank programmes ?

Pity that the stream is no longer available...Was looking forward to seeing the meeting