BWitcher

Last night's meeting was awful, the bikes had no engines, and the stadium was empty. I don't think Michael Jepsen Jensen deserved to win either. Nobody was enjoying the meeting, I could tell from watching the TV. Nobody was cheering, there was no noise. The shale was the wrong color as well, I didn't like it being green. Finally, I'm fed up with them racing clockwise in GP's.

Then again, wrong sport for you. Besides, you didn't give it as an opinion, you clearly stated the events didn't happen. They did.

If you're unhappy with passing in 17 of 23 heats then speedway is the wrong sport for you.

From, you, you can't argue with facts. Passing in 17 of 23 races. Doesn't matter what you claim, that it was took place.

And more fictitious nonsense! a few comments just taken from live updates.. which according to you never happened.. Heat 2: Zagar round Jepsen Jensen on bend 3 lap 1 Heat 3: Holder gets past Hancock on lap 2. Heat 6: Doyle goes under Kildemand on bend 1 lap 2 and brings him down. Re-Run: Kildemand gates moves out wide, taking Iversen with him. Cook cuts up the inside to lead off bend 2. Kildemand reclaims the lead coming into bend 3 and Iversen takes second coming off bend 4 lap 1. Heat 7: Zagar got past Batchelor at the end of lap 2. Batchelor re-passed Zagar on bend 2 lap 4, ran wide on bends 3&4 lap 4 and Zagar cut back to re-pass Batchelor on the run to the line. Heat 8: Harris emerges from bend 2 in front but leaves a huge gap going into bend 1 lap 2 which Hancock takes advantage of. And that's just from the quiet part of the meeting as the racing got better from then on. There were several incidents, two involving Kildemand being taken off, Nicki wiping one out and Garrity wiping one out. Holder was bouncing off the air fence regularly (unless you mean a repeat of the T-Rick ride, which has happened once, ever). There were cutbacks resulting in passes multiple times during the meeting as well as numerous outside passes. Yet you claim none of these things happened.. Stunning.

You claimed it took till Heat 19 to get anything 'near to a race'. That is made up as there had been passing in the majority of heats.

You must simply have been doing the poor camera mans trick of just watching the leader... as there was passing (multiple in some cases) in 17 of the 23 heats. In at least 3 of the others there was very, very tight racing. Which leaves just 3 out and out processions. IF gate 1 hadn't been so advantageous it could have been one of the best GP's of all time, but because so often the rider off 1 had such a lead, they couldn't be caught. The races between the other 3 gates were excellent.

You're entitled to an opinion, but when you make things up to back it up it loses credence.

Final tally saw passing in Heats 2,3,6,7,8,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21 & 22. Multiple passes in some of those. That's passing in 17 of 23 heats. You won't find many GP's ever that live up to that. Rubbish it was then.

Yeah its terrible they talk about a British rider leading the World Championships on the British coverage of the British GP. I see once again the jealous mob are out in force tonight. Earlier posters whinging because he was entertaining the crowd with a couple of laps of wheelies? Pathetic moaners. It was not a show of disrespect, the medallists time is on the rostrum. I'm assuming he means Troy Batchelor.

He made it ahead of NKI, but chose to shut off and switch to inside which was never, ever going to work as Holder knew that is what he would try to do.

Big big error from Tai there, Holder was always going to stay tight on the inside and block his run, and it left the entire track for NKI.

I'd have thought so, given he won.

Nicki didn't jump off the bike then did he? Despite being bashed into. Had Nicki rode like NKI did there he would be being abused by now.

I'm far from the only one looking at other sources. Heats 2,4,6,7,8,11,12,13,14 had overtaking in. A damn good ratio for any speedway meeting and a lot more than in last years meeting. Yeah, I agree the gate 1 issue takes the shine of it somewhat. It's the smoothest its ever been and no sign of any ruts. As you say decent overall and really picking up at the end. Chalk up another fantastic race in the 1st semi.

But is exciting!

And another fantastic race in Heat 20 with a track that is allowing them to race. Not ruts causing mistakes. How ANYONE can criticise this track (aside from the gates) is beyond me. Best Cardiff track ever, bar none. If only the gates were more even.

Yep, we've seen it all night, just not for the lead

Garrity!

Oooh Lambert and Garritty in now?

Many times. What do you want from a speedway meeting out of interest? Most people just it by whether a track is conducive to overtaking.. There has been lots of overtaking tonight.. unfortunately due to the significant advantage of gate 1 most of the overtaking hasn't been for the lead which reduces it from a great meeting to an above average one. It most certainly is NOT a bad one as some on here seem to want to make out. It all went wrong for Cook early on. Looked fast.. made changes. Major mistake!

No, I'm giving the facts. The reality. There has been passing in the majority of races. Both inside and outside passing. That is rare in MOST speedway meetings. The issue is Gate 1 has too much of an advantage which DOES spoil it somewhat. However, better that, than 16 processional heats with race winners from different gates.

I'm watching a GP with overtaking in Heats 2,4,6,7,8,11,12,13,14.. a very close race in Heat 15 with 3 riders.. and then a good one in 16 till a rider fell. What channel are you on?

Don't talk such utter absolute nonsense. Then you're just trolling. There has been plenty of exciting racing. Heat 16 another cracker till Batchelor fell.. 3 of them abreast.

So? The accusation is there is no passing. There has been plenty. Even more now after Heat 13, with passing and repassing, with a Nicki exclusion thrown in for more entertainment. Jepsen Jensen was also overtaken, he was off gate 1 in Heat 2, and Zagar passed him. Now passing in heats 2,4,6,7,8,11,12,13,14. Still awful no doubt though!