tomhaines

Very true. The wildcards don't distort it too much. We have both wildcards from round 1 riding in the Elite League, we did have Svab from round 2 until a few weeks ago along with Dobrucki. And have Walasek who was wildcard a fortnight ago in wroclaw in our league. Then in Copenhagen we also have two riders going well in the Elite. To be honest i expected us to have the least GP riders when i set out to do those lists! Other interesting thing, Niels Iversen's Swedish Elite Average is over 8 points

Swedish Elite League Averages Greg Hancock - 10.35 Jason Crump - 10.32 Ryan Sullivan - 10.11 Tony Rickardsson - 9.62 Leigh Adams - 9.60 Tomasz Gollob - 9.33 Andreas Jonsson - 9.29 Jarek Hampel - 8.80 Piotr Protasiewicz - 8.48 Mark Loram - 8.40 Mikael Max - 8.27 Hans Andersen - 8.25 Lee Richardson - 8.13 Rune Holta - 8.00 Nicki Pedersen - 7.85 Jesper Jensen - 6.67 Kaj Laukkanen - 5.47 Bjarne Pedersen - 5.38 Bo Brhel - 4.86 Ales Dryml - - Chris Louis - - David Norris - - Lukas Dryml - - Scott Nicholls - - Averages from http://world.speedway.org

Polish Extra League Averages Andreas Jonsson - 10.95 Tomasz Gollob - 10.43 Tony Rickardsson - 10.26 Leigh Adams - 10.16 Jason Crump - 9.45 Nicki Pedersen - 9.12 Ryan Sullivan - 8.90 Greg Hancock - 8.76 Jarek Hampel - 8.62 Piotr Protasiewicz - 8.50 Rune Holta - 8.50 Mark Loram - 7.91 Ales Dryml - - Bjarne Pedersen - - Bo Brhel - - Chris Louis - - David Norris - - Hans Andersen - - Jesper Jensen - - Kaj Laukkanen - - Lee Richardson - - Lukas Dryml - - Mikael Max - - Scott Nicholls - - Averages from http://world.speedway.org

British Elite League Averages Leigh Adams - 11.30 Tony Rickardsson - 10.82 Jason Crump - 10.55 David Norris - 10.24 Mark Loram - 10.15 Greg Hancock - 9.84 Mikael Max - 9.57 Nicki Pedersen - 9.36 Andreas Jonsson - 9.16 Bjarne Pedersen - 8.81 Hans Andersen - 8.63 Ryan Sullivan - 8.62 Scott Nicholls - 8.50 Lee Richardson - 7.77 Chris Louis - 7.57 Jesper Jensen - 7.32 Ales Dryml - 6.77 Lukas Dryml - 6.76 Kaj Laukkanen - 5.00 Bo Brhel - - Jarek Hampel - - Piotr Protasiewicz - - Rune Holta - - Tomasz Gollob - - (Stats by Speed Web X - http://www.speedwebx.co.uk/averages) Polish and Swedish League to be posted soon!

Joonas is in theory first reserve and I cant see why he wouldnt be up for it. Same problem for me with flag

What a load of carp (not sure if writing it correctly will get me in trouble hehe) that press release from the GP website is. Stating that Kylmakorpi decided not to compete in a previous round. He was riding in a grass/long track meeting on the weekend of Prague. And Simon Stead injured? Must be his twin scoring points for Workington

Top 4: 1) Jason Crump 2) Jarek Hampel 3) Tony R 4) Norris But the real winners will be the fans because it will be such a great occasion... Again! I CANT WAIT

According to todays speedway star they are as Tomaz pointed out

Sudden Sam Ermolenko. Was in todays speedway star. What do you all think?

Walasek will take the number 23 race-jacket for saturdays Grand Prix.

Just as long as the pre-meeting entertainment is better than last year It made no atmosphere and people were just ingnoring it lol. How about the giant ants again for the interval

I don't think anybody is being a 'Louis Basher' as you put it. I think people feel there are more deserving candidates. Coming back the way Chris has is quite amazing and I will also be cheering him, floppy, rico, mark and scotty all the way @ Cardiff.

It's a pathetic system as I have said in the Rawicz thread. In Rawicz my mate Kyle Legault scored 11 points which would have placed him 5th overall but instead does not qualify. In the GP qualifiers last week a guy was unbeaten until the semis and failed to qualify!

I can only assume it is because Jamie beat Kyle in heat 9. Seems pretty unfair really cos Kyle got 11 points compared to Jamie's 9 Although it wouldnt really be worth Kyle travelling from Canada to Austria/Sweden to be a reserve! Not very happy with this new system of qualifying though. We had one a few weeks ago where somebody was untouchable in his 5 races then lost the semi and was out!

What does (w) mean in a race? Cos Kyle got a w in his semi Schlein qualified. Smith along with Legault didn't as they were 4th in their semis

From http://www.sportowefakty.pl/ 1. Christian Hafenbrock 12 (3,3,3,2,1 2. Janusz Ko³odziej 12 (1,3,3,3,2) 3. Ivan Vargek 1 (0,0,1,t,0) 4. Denis Gizatullin 11 (2,3,3,3, 5. Tobias Busch 4 (0,1,0,2,1) 6. Daniel King 9 (2,2,2,2,1) 7. Adrian Miedziñski 14 (3,3,2,3,3) 8. Trevor Harding 6 (1,0,2,1,2 9. Leonid Paura 4 (1,0,3,d,d) 10. Roman Ivanow 3 (3,d,-,-,-) 11. Kastas Poudzuks 6 (2,1,1,0,2 12. Jason King 5 (0,1,1,1,2 13. Andriej Karpow 7 (w,2,-,2,3 14. Alexandras Dobrzenko 0 (d,w,d,-,-) 15. Miros³aw Jab³oñski 6 (2,2,2,1,3) 16. Maxim Kallimulin 9 (3,2,0,3,1) Semi Finals: 1: Kolodziej, D King , Kallimulin, Gizatullin 2: Miedzinski, Jablonski, Hefenbrock, Karpow Gizatullin & Karpow do not qualify. Final: Miedzinski, Kolodziej, Jablonski, D King Well done Dumps

Has anybody got any semi results? the polish site hasnt got one and its been a long while

Tom you forgot Miskowiak, so Fencl is out. Oh yeh, didnt spot him COME ON LEGAULTSKI!!!

From the scores on there I think the top 8 going into the semis are: Swiderski Hlib Legault Schlein Smith Suchanek Vida Fencl COME ON LEGAULTSKI (To answer my own question it is top 6)

On http://www.sportowefakty.pl/?dysc_id=4&k1_...7&news_id=35160 we are now just waiting for the semi and finals. Is it the top 6 or 8 which go through?

Well in my opinion Mr Morris and Mr Westacott should be out Welsh wildcards But as you say, lets not go there

Top British Riders in Elite League are: Norris Loram Nicholls Grieves (From quite a few less rides) Havelock Bird Hurry (Only a few rides) Richardson Louis Havelock and Bird are much more deserving than Louis. Norris is an obvious one as he is the top Brit at the moment lol. Havelocks average is over a point higher than Louis' while Danny Bird's is just under 1 point higher! Stats from Speed Web X Averages

Tough looking line-up. Hopefully Kyle will give it his best shot and go back to Canada happy. Has an outside chance of qualifying I feel if he gets some luck.

Have just heard that Scotty has pulled out and will be replaced by number 27, Rafel Dobrucki. (Joonas K is riding Grasstrack in France and Simon S is injured) So the first heats are: 1 - Loram, Jonsson, Andersen, Svab 2 - B Pedersen, Dobrucki, L Dryml, Barth 3 - Sullivan, Max, Hampel, A Dryml 4 - Brhel, Holta, Protasiewicz, Laukkanen --- --- 9 - Adams, Gollob, N Pedersen, Jensen 10 - Crump, Rickardsson, Hancock, Richardson I havent heard anything else on Scotty just that he is replaced by Rafel.