Great meeting last night and the best i can remember of all of them. Read people moaning about the queen tribute act- they were ok as far as i could see, the sound system isn't up to much so you just need loud guitars which is what we got. The floating ballerinas or whatever were ok, something different and combined with queen it was loads better than every act bar tony hadley imo.
The racing is what we're there for, and i thought it was the best track they've put down in the 9 years- smooth and almost withoutruts, it was better than a lot of permanent tracks i've seen this year! was nice to see some good overtaking, and proper racing rather than mistakes leading to dropped placings. The crowd was interesting too- i don't know what otherposters were looking at but it looked bigger than last year to me- many more in the upper tier and spread further round as well.
The issue that I can see is not the entertainment (racing and pre show great), but the lack of a decent world class british rider to follow. I don't think it's the lack of a rider from a club to follow that's the problem- it's still a great day out and if you follow certain riders possibly your only chance of seeing them this year. In some ways it's a good thing as it makes the meeting MORE special, as you won't see them round your own track next week. The main issue for me is that Scott's struggling and has never been (or ever will be) world class, and try as hard as Chris Harris does, he's not sharp enough at this level.
The aim for Rob Lyon and team MUST be to start working on the long term plan he was outlining in the programme- we should be looking at 5 years time having 2 world class riders who can claim a world championship and win GP's semi regularly. Until then, it will always have the flatening of emotion once the 'plucky' brit has been eliminated from the semi.
One thing i wasn't happy about (only one!) was the chris harris interview where he acepoted the semi ruling and said he'd be back next year to try again. I hope he was just trying to look positively, because otherwise that suggests that he thinks one ofr the seeded places is his- and i don't think that should be taken for granted. until we get brits qualifying and staying in the series by right, i think we should be viewing on past performance or future potential. on current standings, that should mean tai woffinden/bridger/kennett etc rather than chris who 2007 brit gp apart has not done much
