Vincent Blachshadow

Thanks DW. Excellent as always.

Thanks DW. A great card and much appreciated.

Nice one, DW. Good on yer, mate.

Thanks again, DW. As always, excellent.

Thanks for the race cards DW. Everything on one page. Clear and very easy to follow.

I thought Peterborough's last staging of a WTC round was an excellent effort with great racing. Didn't matter when future rounds were handed out in GB.

Exactly. If it was any team but GB that pulled that stroke this thread would have reached ten pages by now.

Too true. But if the Aussies had pulled that move - replacing their worst rider with their best in the 'qualified for' heats - they and the rule allowing it would have been well pilloried on here.

There's two different things here. The Russians had 63 points available to them (as did the Americans) but the Poles and Danes only had 60. Taking off their three extra points, two teams scored more than the Russians so how can the Russians have been the 'best team'? But yes, they deserved their win in as much as it was within the rules. Personally, I'd like to see a team 8 points down before being allowed to play a Joker. I agree re Heat 20. What an excellent advert for the sport.

Slight error on this one, I think. (Wishful thinking?)

Is that because we improved or because the Poles eased off since they had built up a sizable lead and we'd blown our Joker?

At least we'll be spared the 'Norwegian riding on a Polish licence' moan.

So was Leigh Adams riding PL in 2007 (Somerset) and Chris Harris in 2009 (Berwick and Redcar)? I also note Hans Andersen as the track record holder at Foxhall.

The track record at Mildenhall is actually 49.81. This was set by Kenneth Bjerre on Oct 31st 2007 in heat 5 of a four team tournament which included a Panthers' quartet of Niels-Kristian Iversen, Bjerre, Danny King and Claus Vissing. The track record was equalled in heat 1 (50.19 Iversen), lowered in heat 2 (50.17 Bjerre), lowered again in heat 4 (50.04 King) before finally being set in heat 5.