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I have to disagree Subedei....that has to be the best GP I have ever been to and that includes Cardiff. The atmosphere was electric, the racing was pretty damn good and the track was fast. I would love to go back again next year.

Bloody amazing experience!! That is my honest opinion, certainly one of the best GP's I have been to, the atmosphere even 3 hours before it began was awesome and it just got better as the night went on. We were standing on the back straight right up by the fence and I the racing from there was not dire or boring but bloody fast and sometimes a bit eeeekkkk as the bikes were passing no more than a few feet in front of us (reminded me of Exeter) Last night confirmed that speedway fans have to be the friendliest people around, no knowledge of a Language was no barrier to conversation, in fact we had maintained a conversation with the Polish group just behind us for most of the night despite I know zilch Polish and they only English they knew was Ipswich Witches and John Louis!! Amazing what you can do with sign language. I would come here again next year if I could, the whole weekend has been brilliant from start to finish. FTM...you mean I actually did well????

Oh Main Man, how I wish it had been due to falling down water then the others wouldn't be taking the mickey out of me quite so much. The fact of the matter was I was stone cold sober, not a drop of alcohol in sight! It didn't ruin my night last night though, just had several beers and I was feeling no pain by the the time the GP started!! Today is a different matter though, strong painkillers later and I can just about move about without too much pain..........the worst part is that now everytime we come across a kerb the others shout out to me...."Kerb!!! Sue watch out!!"

In the words of Matt Davis " He went like psshhttt into the corners" He didn't look too bad Subedei .

A few more beers.....a few more hours to sit in the sun..... Bliss!! A few more hours to get over falling over a bloody step in a Decenzano street and sprawling over the pavement!!! Ouch!!

I would love to see Scott do well in this GP, not only because I am over here to watch the GP but also because it would give him an excellent chance of getting an automatic place for next year. Scott didn't practice yesterday, I think because of a knock on Thursday night but the rest seemed to have a good old go on the track. By the end of the 2 hour session there were a few holes appearing, one in particular that caught Antonio and he came a cropper and ended up bouncing down the straight. The weather has been absolutely beautiful today, lovely sunshine and very very hot, Matt Davis,my son James, Emma and Chivs have been out on Lake Garda on the peddaloes .....with Chivs and Davis deciding to go for a little swim fully clothed. Lets hope the weather holds and we don't have a repeat of the rain and lightning that arrived just after practice finished yesterday....when it rain here, god it really rains!!

Oh yes, I intend to have a brilliant time...had a bit of a panic today, went up town and got my euro's, came home and just sort of dropped the bags on the floor. When I got back from the school run I asked youngest if he would like to count my euros and he said yes....and I couldn't find the bloody things!!! Mad panic followed with stuff being uprooted in the front room and me becoming ever more in stress and panic mode untill I finally discovered I had put them in a safe place and had forgotten about it.

And I can't wait!!

01: Jason Crump = 3,2,2,0,2 = 9 3RD 02: Ryan Sullivan = 1,0,1,0,0 = 2 03: Antonio Lindback = 0,0,0,0,0 = 0 04: Bjarne Pedersen = 2,1,1,2,1 = 7 05: Lee Richardson = 0,0,3,2,3 = 8 2ND 06: Nicki Pedersen = 1,2,0,3,3 = 9 07: Piotr Protasiewicz = 2,2,2,2,3 = 11 08: Leigh Adams = 3,0,3,2,3 = 11 09: Jaroslaw Hampel = 1,1,1,1,2 = 6 10: Tony Rickardsson = 3,1,0,3,1 = 8 11: Hans Andersen = 0,3,1,1,0 = 5 12: Andreas Jonsson = 2,3,2,1,2 = 10 13: Greg Hancock = 2,3,3,3,1 = 12 4TH 14: Tomasz Gollob = 3,3,2,3,2 = 13 1ST 15: Tomasz Chrzanowski = 0,1,0,0,0 = 1 16: Scott Nicholls = 1,2,3,1,1 = 8 17: Krzysztof Kasprzak = 18: Karol Zabik HT01; Sullivan passed Lindback on lap 3, then closed in on Bjarne at the end. Crump = 3 Sullivan = 1 Lindback = 0 B.Pedersen = 2 HT02; Richardson pushed out at the start Richardson = 0 Protasiewicz = 2 N.Pedersen = 1 Adams = 3 HT03; Jonsson passed Hampel beginning of lap 2. Rickardsson = 3 Andersen = 0 Hampel = 1 Jonsson = 2 HT04; Super race between Gollob and Hancock. Chrzanowski = 0 Gollob = 3 Nicholls = 1 Hancock = 2 HT05; Crump stuffed at the start, but managed to pass Richardson and Hampel to finish 2nd. Hancock = 3 Crump = 2 Richardson = 0 Hampel = 1 HT06; Gollob made the gate went wide, Nicki and Tony passed him but Gollob came back and fantastic pass on Nicki on last lap, Rickardsson World Champion 2005. Gollob = 3 Rickardsson = 1 Sullivan = 0 N.Pedersen = 2 HT07; Protasiewicz last to 2nd in 1 move superb. Andersen = 3 Chrzanowski = 1 Protasiewicz = 2 Lindback = 0 HT08; Jonsson missed start and passed all 3, Adams retired end of lap 1, Scotty sneaked past Bjarne. B.Pedersen = 1 Adams = 0 Jonsson = 3 Nicholls = 2 HT09; First bend bunching Andersen fell, All 4 back re-run, Re-run Andersen fell once again after being caught by Crump and Nicholls , All 4 back again. 2nd Re-run, what a fantastic race, Nicholls led than Andersen, then Crump then Nicholls. What a race. N.Pedersen = 0 Nicholls = 3 Crump = 2 Andersen = 1 HT10; Pretty decent battle between Lee and Andreas. Jonsson = 2 Richardson = 3 Chrzanowski = 0 Sullivan = 1 HT11; Adams just beats Gollob who omg is unbelievable last to second. Adams = 3 Hampel = 1 Lindback = 0 Gollob = 2 HT12; From gate. Hancock = 3 B.Pedersen = 1 Rickardsson = 0 Protasiewicz = 2 HT13; Protasiewicz = 2 Jonsson = 1 Gollob = 3 Crump = 0 HT14; Hancock fell b4 they even got to the first bend slightly touched by Sullivan, All 4 back Sullivan = 0 Hancock = 3 Adams = 2 Andersen = 1 HT15; Lindback 1st to last, Super last lap pass from Tony on Lee Nicholls = 1 Lindback = 0 Rickardsson = 3 Richardson = 2 HT16; Hampel = 1 N.Pedersen = 3 B.Pedersen = 2 Chrzanowski = 0 HT17; From Gate. Crump = 2 Adams = 3 Chrzanowski = 0 Rickardsson = 1 HT18; Hampel = 2 Sullivan = 0 Protasiewicz = 3 Nicholls = 1 HT19; Lindback = 0 Jonsson = 2 Hancock = 1 N.Pedersen = 3 HT20; Richardson = 3 Gollob = 2 Andersen = 0 B.Pedersen = 1 SF1 = Crump from last to 2nd, Gollob long gone. Gollob = 3 Protasiewicz = 0 N.Pedersen = 1 Crump = 2 SF2 = Richardson wins by a mile yeahhhhhh go brits. Hancock = 2 Adams = 1 Richardson = 3 Jonsson = 0 FINAL = Gollob = 1ST Hancock = 4TH Crump = 3RD Richardson = 2ND

Well I know I won some money on the GP tonight but not that much!

Under 16's 19 Shane Waldron 0 1 1* 1* 3 + 2 Joe Reynolds 1 0 0 2 3 Tim Webster 3 3 2 8 Chris Widman 0 R 1* 1 + 1 Jay Pickard 2 2 4 Under 15's 29 Joshua Auty 3 3 3 3 12 Ben Taylor 2* 2* 2 R 6 + 2 George Piper 2 1* 0 3 + 1 Brendan Johnson 1* 3 3 7 + 1 Daniel Greenwood 1 0 1 Heat 1 - Joshua Auty ; Ben Taylor ; Joe Reynolds ; Shane Waldron ; 61.60 (1-5)(1-5) Heat 2 - Tim Webster ; George Piper ; Brendan Johnson ; Chris Widman ; 65.15 (3-3)(4-8) Heat 3 - Joshua Auty ; Ben Taylor ; Shane Waldron ; Joe Reynolds ; 61.76 (1-5)(5-13) Heat 4 - Brendan Johnson ; Jay Pickard ; Daniel Greenwood ; Chris Widman® ; 64.57 (2-4)(7-17) Heat 5 - Tim Webster ; Ben Taylor ; George Piper ; Joe Reynolds ; 63.26 (3-3)(10-20) Heat 6 - Joshua Auty ; Tim Webster ; Shane Waldron ; George Piper ; 61.02 (3-3)(13-23) Heat 7 - Brendan Johnson ; Jay Pickard ; Chris Widman ; Daniel Greenwood ; 64.67 (3-3)(16-26) Heat 8 - Joshua Auty ; Joe Reynolds ; Shane Waldron ; Ben Taylor® ; 60.60 (3-3)(19-29) “Young Stars Shine in Somerset" A good portion of the crowd remained after the main League match to get a view of what the future has in store for British Speedway. They were treated to a fine display from the up and coming British talent, in this first Test Match, between the Under 16’s, and Under15’s of Peter Oakes Youth Academy. Fourteen years old Joshua Auty looked a cut above the rest, with a fine display to return a 12 maximum, on his first look at the Oak Tree arena circuit. He produced some very quick times, with his last, 60.60 secs, not far behind some of the times recorded in the earlier Premier League encounter. Not too far behind him, in points scoring at least, came Tim Webster, with a fine 8 points from three rides. Another who looks to be a future prospect, is Ben Taylor who, had in not been for an engine failure in his last ride, would have returned at least 8+3 from his 4 rides, as it was he had to make do with 6+2. Shane Waldron, who had been one of Auty’s main rivals in last years Under 15 Championship, had a disappointing evening, with an EF, and only three third places to show for his night’s endeavours. Brendon Johnson was another on the score sheet with two wins, and a third from 3 rides. The ends result was a 19-29 win for the Under 15’s side, in a match where all rider rode with enough enthusiasm, and commitment to show that we have a great crop of young stars coming through the ranks. The only disappointment was that the other rising start of British Speedway, Lewis Bridger, was not here to take on Auty, as that would have been a match up to produce the fireworks. Courtesy of Dave T

Yes but which gigalo is going to help me with my luggage?

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I'm going....with eldest son in tow.

Think I have found something Here Click the tab at the top 500ccm team, and then Danish Speedway League.

Thanks ha en bra födelsedag, I have placed that link on the Updates site.

Garf, can you let me know if they definately appear and I will put a link on the updates site to it. Thanks

Awesome looking stadium, yet another reason to visit Croatia in the future, along with being able to get a cheap place to stay courtesy of a work colleague and being able to speak some Croatian.

And I was just copying and pasting!! I didn't cover the meeting, just copied and pasted over from the updates site, so I can't be sure of what really went on but it does indeed seem to be very petty.

I think for any of the lads taking part it is very well done. I know my son reads all these comments and keeps asking why he can't do the same (he is nearly 12) but I don't think it would do my stress levels any good, especially after the fright he gave me on the Sittingbourne training track . I keep telling him to stick to the swimming, less stressful for dear old mum

Texter : Louise Updater : Silver Cheetah 1 Ben Hopwood 1, NS, NS, NS, NS = 1 2 James Pichard 2, 2, 2, FX, 2 = 8 3 Dan Kirkman 0, FX, NS, NS, NS = 0 4 Ben Taylor 3, 3, 3, 3, 2 = 14 5 Josh Auty 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 = 15 6 Brendan Johnson 1, 3, 3, 2, 3 = 12 7 Tom Davies 0, 2, 1, 1, 0 = 4 8 Joe Hains 2, 2, 3, 3, 3 = 13 9 Ben Thompson 2, 1, 1, 1, 3 = 8 10 Daniel Greenwood 3, 1, 2, 2, 2 = 10 11 Richard Franklin 1, 3, 1, 2, 0 = 7 12 Jack Butler 0, 1, 1, 2, EX = 4 13 Scott Meakins FX, 2, EX, NS, NS = 2 14 George Piper 3, 2, 2, 3, 1 =11 15 Chris Widman EF, EF, NS, NS, NS = 0 16 Ben Reade 2, 0, 2, 1, 1 =6 Heat 1 Taylor, Pichard, Hopwood Kirkman EF 66.75 Heat 2 Auty, Haines, Johnson, Davies 67.06 Heat 3 Greenwood, Thompson, Franklin, Butler 76.59 Heat 4 Piper, Reade, Widman EF, Meakins FX 72.41 Heat 5 Auty, Meakins, Thompson 66.56 Heat 6 Johnson, Piper, Greenwood, Pichard 70.00 Heat 7 Franklin, Davies, Widman EF, Kirkman FX 81.50 Heat 8 Taylor, Hains, Butler, Reade 65.67 Heat 9 Johnson, Reade, Franklin 71.37 Heat 10 Auty, Pichard, Butler 66.28 Heat 11 Hains, Piper, Thompson 68.50 Heat 12 Taylor, Greenwood, Davies, Meakins EX 66.82 Heat 13 Piper, Butler, Davies 78.82 Heat 14 Hains, Franklin, Pichard FX 70.52 Heat 15 Auty, Greenwood, Reade 65.31 Heat 16 Taylor, Johnson, Thompson 67.18 Heat 17 Hains, Greenwood Heat 18 Thompson, Pichard, Reade, Davies 71.65 Heat 19 Johnson, Butler EX Awarded Heat 20 Auty, Taylor, Piper, Franklin 65.06 Track is awfull - was complained about by the Isle of White after just 1 race. Ben Hopwood has withdrawn Heat 4 - Meakins FX on bend 3 lap 1 Heat 4 - Widman EF while leading on lap 1 - shed chain Heat 7 - Kirkman FX Heat 7 - Widman EF while leading Widman had withdrawn Kirkman has withdrawn from meeting. Heat 12 - Meakins bike caught fire when lifted. Put out by Gordan Meakins who had to run on centre green to get an extinguisher. Heat 15 - Auty told to change helmet colour from yellow and black to all yellow ! Heat 17 - Was the other way around but the ref says different. "it is that turnball women in the box" apparently Courtesy of Speedway Updates

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2005 SCANDANAVIAN GRAND PRIX Saturday 13th August @ Malilla, Sweden. WINNER = Jason Crump 3-0-0-0-0 = 3 x 1 Lee Richardson GB 11 2-2-2-2-1 = 9 > 2 Tomasz Gollob Pol 6 1-0-1-1-2 = 5 x 3 Hans Andersen Den 9 0-0-0-1- 0 = 1 x 4 Tomasz Chrzanowski Pol 15 2-2-1-0-3 = 8 > 5 Greg Hancock Usa 3 1-3-2-3-1 = 10 > 6 Scott Nicholls GB 12 3-3-3-2-2 = 13 > 7 Jason Crump Aus 1 FINAL= 25 0-1-3-3-2 = 9 > 8 Leigh Adams Aus 4 FINAL= 16 0-3-0-2-0 = 5 x 9 Jaroslaw Hampel Pol 8 2-1-1-2-1 = 7 x 10 Antonio Lindback Swe 14 3-2-3-X-2 = 10 > 11 Nicki Pedersen Den 5 1-3-3-3-3 = 13 > 12 Andreas Jonsson Swe 7 FINAL= 20 0-1-2-1-0 = 4 x 13 Jonas Davidsson Swe 16 1-0-2-1-1 = 5 x 14 Ryan Sullivan Aus 13 3-1-0-0-3 = 7 x 15 Bjarne Pedersen Den 10 2-2-1-3-3 = 11 > 16 Tony Rickardsson Swe 2 FINAL= 18 17 Peter Ljung Swe 18 Fredrik Lindgren Swe HT01; Richardson passed Gollob lap 4 turn 2 after pressuring him from the gate. 3= Richardson 2= Gollob 1= Andersen 0= Chrzanowski HT02; 2= Hancock 3= Crump 1= Nicholls 0= Adams HT03; Lindback gated but Nicki was passed by Turn 2. 2= Lindback 3= N.Pedersen 0= Hampel 1= Jonsson HT04; Great first lap between Trick and Bjarne. Good battle for 3rd 3= B. Pedersen 1= Sullivan 2= Rickardsson 0= Davidsson HT05; Unstatisfactory start all4back Tapes didnt go up on inside properly. In re-run Tapes didnt go up again on inside. Davidsson passes Richardson on the line. 1= Davidsson 0= Richardson 2= Hancock 3= Hampel HT06; Great ride by Scott. 0= Sullivan 1= Lindback 2= Gollob 3= Nicholls HT07; Crump wins from gate but Nicki not far behind 2= N.Pedersen 1= B.Pedersen 3= Crump 0= Andersen HT08; 0= Chrzanowski 1= Adams 3= Jonsson 2= Rickardsson HT09; Trick and Richardson great battle for 3rd 2= Nicholls 1= Rickardsson 0= Richardson 3= N.Pedersen HT10; Jonsson passes Gollob on inside last lap turn 3. 3= Jonsson 1= Hancock 0= B.Pedersen 2= Gollob HT11; All close together for the 1 lap after that well spread out 3= Adams 0= Hampel 1= Andersen 2= Sullivan HT12; Crump last to 1st on back straight of lap 1 2= Davidsson 0= Chrzanowski 1= Lindback 3= Crump Leaders after 3 races 9= Crump 8= N Pedersen 7= Jonsson 6= Nicholls, Gollob 5= Rickardsson, Hancock 4= Adams, Lindback HT13; 2= Crump 3= Jonsson 1= Sullivan 0= Richardson HT14; Adams takes out N Pedersen on first turn. All4back. In re-run Great battle between Gollob and N Pedersen passing and re-passing Pedersen passed Gollob. Gollob falls. Pedersen excluded wrong decision says Millard and Tatum. 2= Gollob 1= Davidsson 3= Adams X= N.Pedersen HT15; great by lindback to pass Hancock then Andersen 3= Rickardsson 1= Andersen 2= Lindback 0= Hancock HT16; Bjarne rears up and falls but Remounts. Nicholls passes Hampel home straight of lap 3 2= Hampel 3= Nicholls 1= Chrzanowski 0= B.Pedersen HT17; POOLE 4 Swindon 2 0= Richardson 2= Adams 3= B.Pedersen 1= Lindback HT18; Gollob in his world cup kevlars all clean falls after incident with country man Hampel on first turn all4back. In re-run great race between Crump and Gollob for 2nd 0= Hampel 1= Gollob 2= Crump 3= Rickardsson HT19; Great race between front 3 2= Andersen 3= Jonsson 0= Davidsson 1= Nicholls HT20; 3= Hancock 1= Sullivan 2= N.Pedersen 0= Chrzanowski SF1 = 3= Jonsson 0= N Pedersen 2= Adams 1= Gollob SF2 = 3= Crump 2= Rickardsson 1= Nicholls 0= Hancock FINAL = 2 = Jonsson 1 = Rickardsson 3 = Crump 0 = Adams Courtesy of Speedway Updates

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Hi Mimmo Looking through, Jamie Pickard got a second in heat 7 but has only been put down for 1 point....I will amend his individual score and it should then be correct. As for your other question, I am afraid I do not know the answer.