THE DEAN MACHINE

The poles really don’t care about 3rd/4th place do they

That really didn’t excite tonight, I feel the whole series is just flat, I did watch all of it but wasn’t really paying attention with only zmarzlik’s races getting the interest up, it was really dull meeting, even the crowd that was good seemed subdued

And with the flap of his right arm zmarzlik see’s off his main challenger to the title,at the top level speedway is a battle of the mind

Dicko had a stroke last year, not sure how his health is now

As bizarre as this sounds the only realistic threat to zmarzlik title hopes I believe will come tonight from Dan bewley, if bewley were to win tonight and zmarzlik not make the semi (unlikely)but the momentum would swing in Dan’s favour and he would just ride that wave of momentum with no pressure where zmarzlik would feel that pressure knowing he has to perform to keep dan at bay, I think zmarzlik has enough to see it through but would be a interesting end to the series were tonight go the way of bewley

While I agree that better tracks would be a bonus, the GP for me is about the whole experience, I’ve been to Prague GP four times, not really seen a decent GP but it’s been a fantastic Fan experience , been to around 20+polish GPs and being in Toruń town after the GP is an experience in itself and that’s been the case for Cardiff too but in the last 7or so years they are getting imo less about the fan experience,, I get it’s not my money but for the cost of a free ticket they could get speedway vendors to create a whole speedway village around the fan zone, get bands involved (remember richie Webb’s band) just make the whole thing an event even before you get in the stadium

Knowing the passion poles have for clubs and riders I can’t imagine how gorzow fans must feel to be losing zmarzlik, he is imo the most exciting rider in modern speedway history and your always guaranteed big points and 100% effort no matter what the track, I understand him leaving to a point, if someone is going to pay you huge money or you just feel you need a change but I don’t think gorzow will ever find a replacement as good as him and that must be on the minds of the fans too, be interesting to see if gorzow are able to stay in the extraleague without him, perhaps he feels his lack of dominance in the GPs is because of his league racing but I believe it’s because he has lost his rival in laguta

You say stadium but to me they looked like open containers being stored, lydd’s track in Kent also stores containers

This is really sad but that said I don’t get why people thought the outcome would be any different, when your going up against company’s with £s and company’s that don’t always play by the rules and on your side you have sentiment, you will never win, as with most things in life the cards are stacked and money talks, sad but life, hope they now look for other land, which if they are genuine about Reviving Coventry speedway imo they should of done back when Brandon shut

Right discovery, let’s start from scratch, what gone on before is history, me and my family are potential customers, we tick the right boxes, speedway fans, we can travel ok and sorted for somewhere to stop, that’s half your work done, you’re a new company to speedway with fresh idea’s(supposedly )so what are you going to do to make me us want to go ? Just running the same thing as the last 20 years isn’t going to cut it, so let’s see

It’s not the heat, the storage the track and to a large extent the tyres, it’s the revolution of the back wheel , it is too much, we have been asking too much of the tyres and track surfaces for years nothing will change because nobody gives an arse we will be adapting 1tyre per race soon like they do in Poland and then the riders tyre bill goes up too £250 per meeting and then the mechanics will ask for more to fit them and on track nothing changes, at times this sport deserves to die

Yes but to be fair there have been some really good ones too and some who’s heart was in the right place but maybe their brain wasn’t or the were literally doing it on a shoe string for the love of it, there are also some still in the sport who are like vultures circling a Caracas when there is a whiff of financial trouble

The track was already booked on the 18th for the BV experience which people have paid a lot of money for and booked hotels, they haven’t even been told it’s been changed, this isn’t the first time this has happened, it happened a couple of months back when the riders turned up and there was an American football match booked on same day

The most astonishing thing about this meeting is it’s 8.50pm and we only on heat 9

Can’t speak for all of them but some are even before tonight, I did 5 rides with an anlas at 7psi on the Isle of Wight Thursday night with no issues and it was very slick but was doing around 3000 revs less as I was on an upright GM, I’m sure there is a lesson in there somewhere

I’m told some riders are running an extra couple psi with anlas tyres

The business side of football is money laundering at worst and tax off setting at best and gets a play thing thrown in and to a very lesser extent so is speedway although speedway’s is so small it doesn’t create a ripple in the financial world or even in the British tax system, the tax man has stuck his oar in a few times over the years but nothing ever comes of it, I’m yet to see an ex promoter living on the streets after his club folded owing 1000s to every man and his cat

Well deserved gorzow, gorzow should get jeppersen out for the bumps

Shocking decision, woryna at fault, leaned on Hanson

Not actually sure what rules are regarding riders for heat 14 and 15 but surely gorzow should put zmarzlik and vaculik in 14, guarantee the win, then 15 doesn’t matter ,first past the post and all that

Not sure who I want win, Częstochowa get bigger crowds and better atmosphere for a final but Bartoz is entertainment even when the track isn’t

Strange situation again with jeppersen, clearly there is issues with him and the management

Some shocking camera work going on, have Eurosport been training canal + camera crew

Rubbish racing but gorzow are making Częstochowa fight for this

Big crowd in Częstochowa, let’s hope the meeting is good too