THE DEAN MACHINE

The GP graphics are as useful as the cameraman

Don’t think zmarzlik can qualify even with a race win in 20

Don’t think I’ve seen the throttle been shut off so many times by so many riders in one race

What a race that was,,shame the camera work was appalling

Decent racing so far, track looks bumpy coming into corners but not caused by ruts or holes

God save the queen/king is such a depressing song/anthem, everytime it’s played I can imagine someone winding up an old gramophone slowly, time for a new one, maybe Russ abbots atmosphere

That crowd doesn’t look great but they are making a decent amount of noise

As a measure of the man, I think being passed easily by lindgren in the final in gorzow hurt zmarzlik and despite him being a country mile infront of the opposition and nailed on world championship it’s not good enough just to win, he wants to win big, no I don’t think he is related to the Wroclaw rider

Zmarzlik is now using Peter johns as a tuner after years with polish tuner Kowalski

Got no appetite for Cardiff this year at all, don’t know if I’m not looking for it but there seems to be no buzz about it from anywhere, it just seems dead flat

Women’s results

Run in terrible weather conditions as it rained from 5pm right through to end

If your on you are travelling down to Cardiff and the pairs at Oxford,why not make an extra day to the Isle of Wight on Thursday for the NORA upright championship

Not sure what they are, I know we have to contact the club for whatever it is when we get home from our Scottish holiday

Couldn’t believe what I was seeing tonight, I felt cheated and to be honest I was glad it rained at heat 8 and got called off, there was no racing and a couple of ridiers were rolling round

If I’m honest I was disgusted in the attitude of certain riders tonight, “some “looked like weren’t interested, me and my family paid good money to watch that and it was dreadful, it wasn’t racing, if modern bikes don’t work in those conditions then change them because the conditions will not change, those 7 heats were not acceptable with the exception of a couple of riders

Swindon council haven’t been played at all, this is what councils do, it’s about money, having seen first hand another councils work recently Swindon’s council stance is no surprise, they say anything to appease in public but do the opposite in reality

I thought fricke was dangerously hard on sayfutinow then on lap 2

Pawlicki rode better than his points total, flint looks down on speed, can’t fault Freddie in heat 15 he took janowski to the fence to stop him but janowski kept it on and the clattered together inches from the fence, Birmingham didn’t really lose the meeting by fault they were unlucky in 15 with Brenen being excluded

Oh Birmingham, so near but, great entertainment though, Riss definitely took one for the team there and it paid off

First time for me at Birmingham since 2016, tonight was a bridge to far for Birmingham, a very slow start being a killer blow, 5 race winners for a home team isn’t good enough

They interviewed Michelsen on magazine programme, he said he doesn’t have an issue with madsen but when he saw something going on with team he wasn’t going to do nothing so jumped on

Kubera deserved winner

Zmarzlik had to go, but jeez he wasn’t going to give up was he

I think laguta has dropped off a bit, still a fantastic rider but not the rider he was, sayfutinov is still hungry and a great rider but in the years he was in the GP he was there or there about but never really looked like being WC and I don’t think he has changed