John Leslie

Might need another of your famous "Post Deleted"

and then there were two....

This Polish commentary is easy. "contact" in Polish is "contact". and earlier I learnt that "false start" in Polish is "false start"

Why would anyone pay £6 for the Eurosport player? The Polish stream is a perfect picture. I've no idea what the Polish commentators are going on about, but that's not really any different from Pearson & Tatum.

The best way to measure the engine is to remove the spark plug and get an off-duty policeman to fill the hole wih neat vodka. If the engine is the right size you should still have a third of a 75cl bottle left. Then put a straw in the spark plug hole and send for Darcy Ward. The engine will be completely emptied with no rebuild cost. p.s. Don't leave the empty vodka bottle lying around unless you want Darcy to attempt to measure some other hole.

Indeed. If Harris had two Gerhard engines, and one is better than the other, then that blows the theory that they are standard engines which don't need tuning or regular servicing. If, out of the first two engines Harris has, one is tuned better than the other, then everyone with a Gerhard engine is going to want to tune it to get more out of it like the best Harris one. Already the object of the exercise seems to have been defeated.

All the commentators agree that if the ruskie had gone down then Pawlicki would be excluded for foul riding. So why should he get away with foul riding just because the Ruskie doesn't fall? Foul riding is surely foul riding irrespective of the balance skills of the victim...A brave call from thr referee though. Don't think many others would have the bottle to make that decision.

Russia should be kicked out, fined, and banned from next year's competition.

I assume Barbara Horley was refereeing as the referee didn't notice a drug dealer and a (presumably off-duty) policeman having a gun battle on the centre green. However unrealistic it was, at least it got speedway on the BBC in their prime-time drama slot. Programme was terrible though. dreadful cringey, cliched dialogue and wooden acting.

That's a fantastic whoooooooshhh! He's forgotten the significance of June 1st already, and it was only 5 days ago!

Wonder if Mr & Mrs Tatum could claim a refund of those wasted Public School fees? Especially the maths lessons.

So Pearson thought Zmarzlik threw away three points on purpose and then Pawlicki was also going to throw away three points (and then hope that the Swede won) so that they could bring in a tactical joker to try to get back some of the 6 points that they'd just deliberately thrown away? Was Pearson off school the day they did maths?

How can Lindback not be excluded?

Is Annabel Croft still in it or is it an off-duty interceptor?

He's waiting until Jerran Hart gets out so they can issue a joint statement

Phil and Jason Crump.

Presumably due to some kind of court order?

And he's still showing no remorse. Once a braindead tosspot....

Bjerre - What a plonker!

It's good to see he came back to edit his "who have been warned" spelling mistake and change it to "you have been warned" before he comes back again to remove it and make another post to say the post has been removed. Wonder if he's worked out what 42 divided by 7 is yet?

Craig Cook is, (I think without checking), about the 4th highest averaging Brit in The EL, and one of the PL top performers. In terms of the SWC team for King's Lynn, I'd have Woffinden, Harris and Lambert nailed on, with the last place between King and Cook. In a 7 man GB team Cook would be definitely in. So he's probably in our top half-dozen Brits. The fact he possibly isn't all that bothered about riding Polish league is a bonus in my opinion. British Speedway should have far more Craig Cooks staffing the boiler-room of our EL teams and heading up our PL teams. If Britain could produce a stream of Cook type riders some would push on and some would remain journeymen, but we'd need far less crap foreigners clogging our leagues and far less guests.

I've been having the same thoughts. Even if someone develops an engine which is as fast as a GM and can go a whole season without servicing, someone else will still want to take it to pieces, tweak it, tune it, anything to get a bit more out of it. And even if it can't be tuned any better, someone will still want the psychological advantage of believing they can tweak it.

Peter Clarke needs to grow a backbone. He says the track is fit to ride, but when Havelock says it will be his fault if someone is hurt he claims it's unfair to put that on him.....so clearly that means he knows the track is unfit. If Clarke isn't willing to stand by his decision and accept responsibility for saying "race on" then it clearly is the wrong decision.

Will Poole come out for heats 11 to 15? If it's OK to race heat 10, then it's no worse for heat 11.

Think we'll be invoking the rule of call it off as soon as Poole are 7 ahead after heat 10.