THE DEAN MACHINE

In 1998 I beat Nicki Pedersen in a stoke v Newcastle meeting but doesn’t mean I was a better rider than him

Yes I posted on the wrong topic

This goes back to what I was saying on a previous post, that when you pick a gate you automatically think have I made the right choice but when you’re left with last choice and no choice that slight doubt isn’t there, speedway is a massive psychological sport, these things matter, in the final last night Dan picks gate one despite his wins were using the dirt on the fence, so why not pick gate 3or 4 ? Because he knows unless he makes a decent start he will get blocked and so picks 1 but then thinks Freddie has also been flying off 4 so he automatically has a contrasting thought

I’m not having a go at lambert, he has had a great season but the only way someone is going to dethrone zmarzlik is to get in his head and lambert had that chance tonight

Michellsen,Doyle, kubera and madsen will be wild cards, feel a bit for kvech as not only did he qualify on merit he has put himself about this GP season and isn’t afraid to mix it

If my auntie had balls and all that

Congratulations to Lambert but had the perfect opportunity to lay down a marker tonight for next season, to give zmarzlik someone to worry about,had the momentum and on his own track and went missing

And that ladies and gentlemen is why he will be the greatest rider the sport has ever had

And that ladies and gentlemen is why he will be the greatest rider this sport has ever had

Prepare for some hugging and kissing

Wrong decision but I could see that decision coming when seeing the replays, pretty sure the ref thinks there was no contact (just heard that’s what the ref thought lol )

Then it would be at Workington

Zmarzlik never picks a number in first 2 heats and is usually in heat 4 ,he has picked 13 in Toruń, 13 in vojens, 15 in Latvia, 16 in Wrocław, 12 in Gorzow, 11 in Sweden, 14 in Prague, 13 in landshut, 12 in Warsaw, is this so he can observe the track in the first 2 rides, while the others are thinking about having their favourite gate twice ? Speedway is a psychological game and he obviously sees something in avoiding those first 2 races

Are they keeping thorsell and Pedersen ?

I just hope it works out financially for belle vue speedway, that’s the important bit for me

Yes but that doesn’t pay the bills, I want great racing too but I’ve been to some shockers here and abroad over the years but had a great time and cause of that I would go back the next year

Doesn’t get fans to go

And that’s exactly why Cardiff got a crowd of 40,000 before the novelty wore off, the GP needs a new Cardiff not a BV, I’ve been to belle vue a couple of times this year for league matches and as great as the racing is it’s not what I and others want from a GP

Imo putting one at belle vue is a case of thinking inside the box, this is not about the have or have nots about BV but Cardiff was something different, it was the whole fan experience and that’s what’s new is needed now, a new fan experience and you ain’t getting that at belle vue, it’s not for me

I’m under no illusion it goes on but the higher up the sport you go the harder it is to get away with it because of the checks that go on but it’s very rare for it to be the actual engine these days

It wasn’t oversized, it was the first GM engine which was far superior to the weslake/godden or Jawa that was used at the time and it was pretty much the end for those 3 manufacturers, the mk1 GM was a very quick engine but was very unreliable with rocker arms and conrods breaking frequently

No they don’t but as I see it woffinden at his worst is still better than pretty much anyone who is availible to replace him, I think he will go to somewhere like ostrow and it will rejuvenate him and it will come back to haunt Wrocław, the talk is Michelllsen to replace him, well his form has gone missing on many occasions for Częstochowa in recent seasons

He is already the best reserve in the polish extraleague and if rumours are true he is one of the highest paid too, he will get to the top if he stays injury free, world champ well that’s a one in thousand but a future GP rider and round winner I think yes

The bikes are less forgiving these days and you have such a small optimal useable range that outside that range the bike is uncompetitive and it’s reading things like that you think well why don’t we make the engines like we had before where it was competitive without a limited range, well the answer is because the sport is run by the riders for the riders via the tuners and it’s quite the little cartel they have going and turkeys don’t vote for Xmas

Think Gorzow can lay the blame firmly at Wozniak.’s door, for a GP rider his form over the 2 legs has been abysmal