THE DEAN MACHINE

around 2013 when I last had a licence you had to tick a box to say you would compete in all bspa meetings, you could opt out but you couldn’t pick and choose,I take it that’s not a thing anymore

The silencer ones no he wasn’t but the other suspicions were when he was world no2

They are checked and it’s very hard to get away with anything at that level, a few years ago there were suspicions about madsen and his ability to gain massive straight line speed after a couple of laps, he has form remember the silencers,on a long van journey I had a chat with a member of the FIM about ideas of how it could happen,it wasn’t his engine,if it was anything it was something else on his bike, fuel was ruled out as it was provided at the meeting,we discussed things like an exhaust brake of some kind causing the bike to drive on slick straights or a Bluetooth device of somekind connected to his ignition, maybe voice activated in his helmet? we discussed things like can you freeze nitro into a little cube put in the tank which melted in the fuel giving extra power after 2 laps,thing about nitro is your eyes know it if your close to the bike using it, nothing was ever found but his GP form has deteriorated ever since

Perhaps Mcgregor doesn’t like Edward’s and wanted kemp in semi final

Decent meeting that, well done to all those that turned up and put on a good meeting, congratulations to Pickering

Sick of riders taking the pee, no consideration for fans as usual

I will never forget Torban Hanson as possibly the worst rider ever to don a wolves race jacket (and that includes me lol) but the rest of the speedway world wouldn’t have a clue who he was

Zmarzlik is the greatest rider this sport has had for the last 5 years and without injury will go on to be the greatest ever, it has never been so open to win a GP as it is today as proven by the different winners this year, with zmarzlik the tittle would be wide open but he has stepped up and his level of consistency is way above anyone else and he does it in an age where GP bike scrutiny is so strict and you can’t say that about the mauger/olsen days

I would say about 100. He rides in Sweden, Poland and all the individual and Poland test matches

Zmarzlik gets 4 GM engines a year free for being world champion from GM, he gets huge sponsorship from the door company, Astorin watches and god knows who much he gets from orlen oil as well as his many other sponsors, I think that alone gets him £250,000 before you even get to his polish league money which is well over a million, I don’t think it money that motivates him, he has a desire to win no matter what the meeting, something I alluded to last weekend about timed practice is have you noticed how zmarzlik is never the fastest so eliminating the decision of picking the wrong gates, also last night he and his crew were in deep discussion before his last race, was it to tell him to get second behind bewley so he didn’t meet lambert in the semi final as he knew lambert would be doing his best to eliminate him ? Maybe it wasn’t ? Maybe it was to sit wherever he was after the gate as he already through,These things may seem tiny insignificant details to us mortals but when the difference between winning and losing is so tiny they can be everything, remember last year when he would step infront of everyone else at the gate pick ? It’s pure psychology

Congratulations to lambert, hopefully the monkey is off his back now,well deserved and congratulations to zmarzlik I don’t buy into the opposition being rubbish, yes the Russians would be a challenge but neither are as consistent as zmarzlik is

I just think life is about things you can’t buy so have to achieve them, when you’re gone the only one who benefits from your wealth is the government(they get it in the end )

But will anybody remember Piotr protasiewicz in years to come ? Money isn’t everything

Was that race world title no5 for zmarzlik

I think it’s too dry

On his day was a fairly quick rider but his EFs were Bizzare, he would just stop half way through a race and come back in pits and speak to his dad for a bit and then go out and win his next ride without finding a fault in his bike? I can remember trying to speak to him about an EF and he just said “I’ve sorted it “ and sure enough he would do four laps, it was always a worry to put him in a last heat decider as you never knew if a EF was mysteriously going to occur, he stopped in so many races, I alway thought he wasn’t quite right in his head, maybe that’s a bit of a harsh thing to say but he wasn’t having bike issues when he stopped

Spent a season with Elkins at Weymouth, Certainly a strange character

Correct decision, good job turnball not in charge tonight or jack holder could of been excluded for that

Averages is a no but there has to be some sort of restriction on teams next year to stop teams being put together like Lublin, I thought about only 2 GP riders per team ?

Well Toruń have made them look good

Lambert apart Toruń have been awful

Orleon

Great race there, sayfutinow has so much speed

Gate 1 and 3 suspiciously over watered there and both Toruń riders left at the start

I think they can, I sort of want them to win as Lublin have clearly tried to buy the league with that team but just hope for good speedway meeting really whoever wins, my team is grudiadz and they gone out already so have no allegiance to the winners