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And still they wait in Tarnow for Lindgren to show them he can ride speedway.

Tarnow have plenty of juniors and are likely to have Martin Vaculik eligible to be a "Polish" junior as soon as his citizenship is confirmed. Great race between Holta and Kasprzak in Ht 13.

Was that a naughty word from MJJ? Anyway, TVP should've gone to Czestochowa, where there is always great racing and the score is very tight between Czestochowa and Rzeszow (41-37 after Ht 13). Also, in Czestochowa, there is always the comely presence of Ms Blue. Hubba, hubba. Edit: Czestochowa win again (47-43).

Superb ride from Holta in Ht 7, but it's a dreary meeting in Tarnow.

Przemyslaw Pawlicki in hospital after a crash today in Krosno: http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&sl=pl&u=http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/2011/05/08/karambol-w-krosnie-martin-malek-i-przemyslaw-pawlicki-w-szpi/&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dsportowefakty%2Bzuzel%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1G1TSEA_ENUK335%26prmd%3Divns&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&usg=ALkJrhgCyZWEoKiMhQIhNGCUZWbmudSKzg

Nasty tumble for Miedzinski. Exclusion seems fair enough.

Pitiful from Lindgren. Michael Jepsen Jensen made him look silly there.

Tough one for the referee. Kostro was in a bit of trouble, but Pulczynski did seem to come in jolly hot.

Jerzy Szczakiel's sportowefakty.pl predictions: Tarnow 40 : 50 Torun Czestochowa 43 : 47 Rzeszow Leszno 53 : 37 Wroclaw Gorzow 45 : 45 Zielona Gora Moving swiftly from the 1973 world champion to the man Poland really wanted to be 1973 world champion, here are Zenon Plech's sportowefakty.pl predictions: Tarnow 44 : 46 Torun Czestochowa 43 : 47 Rzeszow Leszno 50 : Wroclaw 40 Gorzow 47 : 43 Zielona Gora

Following on from the above, pictorial evidence of the Wroclaw fans' handiwork: http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/2011/05/08/tylko-sparta-na-stadionie-im-alfreda-smoczyka-zdjecia/ Defacing the sign warning about camera surveillance. Priceless.

And the long road to the world championship started with this point, courtesy of an engine failure for Apator's Wojciech Żabiałowicz (easily copied and pasted, harder spoken, I'd say), for Bydgoszcz against Torun way back in 1988: http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/2011/05/08/zobacz-jak-tomasz-gollob-zdobyl-swoj-pierwszy-ligowy-punkt-w/

Trouble in Leszno, where it appears some enterprising Wroclaw fans managed to gain access to the stadium during the night for the purpose of a little unauthorised and unhelpful re-decoration: http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&sl=pl&u=http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/2011/05/08/wandale-pomalowali-leszczynski-stadion/&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dsportowefakty%2Bzuzel%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1G1TSEA_ENUK335%26prmd%3Divns&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&usg=ALkJrhjfe0Lzsc2doayVj6-nBy8pD_K8lg

Not just the top three. Even Lukasz Cyran is above him in the averages. Going to be tough for Andersen to get back into the Gorzow team when he's fit again. Rightly or wrongly, it seems Andersen has got himself a poor reputation with Polish clubs and the stories of unrest at other clubs when Andersen was there are playing on the mind of Władysław Komarnicki. Notable that Gorzow's form improved once Andersen was out of the team. I'd say he'll have to jump through hoops to get back in and I'm not sure he'd go for that.

Result from Krsko: http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/2011/05/07/gp-2012-miedzinski-wygral-w-krsko-awans-protasiewicza/

I've a feeling "Joker" rides only start when BSI get involved.

A start would be making sure rules are followed. Ever rung up the ACU and asked them about their role in the governance of speedway? I did. The answer I got was that they weren't sure, but that they thought they might've signed away their rights to the BSPA.

Cripes, Ms Yellow.

Looks like the participating riders got a couple of "goodie bags" as well.

This has to be the longest parade ever.

A sort of junior race. A race to determine No 16 in the main meeting between juniors. You can follow the scores at: http://live.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel5.htm

Anyway, it looks like sportowefakty.pl will have live updates, sort of: http://live.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel2.htm What do I mean "sort of"? Well, reading that link it looks like they'll be taking their updates from: http://www.speedway-forum.de

Here is the line-up for Gustrow: http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/2011/05/06/cztery-czolowe-miejsca-dla-polakow-przed-polfinalem-imej-w-g/

Get rid of the BSPA, SCB and ACU in favour of the GSKZ and PZM.

Would give Dowhan something else to talk to the media about. Not that he seems short of reasons.

It seems we could be down to just one televised fixture on Sunday. It all depends on the SGP qualifier in Krsko. The SGP qualifier is scheduled for Saturday, but in the event of weather problems the reserve day is Sunday and that will lead to the postponement of Tarnow versus Torun: http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&sl=pl&u=http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/2011/05/06/mecz-w-tarnowie-uzalezniony-od-zawodow-w-krsko/&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dsportowefakty%2Bzuzel%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1G1TSEA_ENUK335%26prmd%3Divns&rurl=translate.google.com&usg=ALkJrhiZJ1PhqZo9ALYqVAWw5mzSfZND2w