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I also haven't read it from the beginning,but it seems to have developed into a 'pick the bet pair for a country'.Now obviously Morton wouldn't feature in hardly anyones best pair for England,but given you say Belle Vue then ok.But Ivan and Barry were super there.In the pairs meetings that were held at Belle Vue Ivan beat PC both times(74 + 77) and at their best i'd take Briggo to beat Morton even if he didn't beat PC,which he probably would have more often than not.So at best i'd say a 4-2 to NZ .I understand what you are doing,but by choosing BV,you are choosing one of the best tracks for the NZ pairing

I think I would take Mauger and Briggo over those two.Ivan had a few great seasons there(11.67,11.18,11.33,11.37....some record) and what about Briggos BLRC record......

Seen a discussion about new FIM standards for tracks,in particular new tracks must meet these.The older already approved tracks it seems have a bit of time to get up to standard.I guess the new Belle Vue meets this kinetic energy absorbing fence standard?From what I gather the fence the whole way round the track must meet this,not just on the bends

Seems Luca Bauer agrees with me about his starts and that he can't give better competiton that advantage(i.e German Championship),but seems he did have technical problems rather than just being a bad gater http://www.speedweek.com/eisspeedwayem/news/88215/Luca-Bauer-Miese-Starts-dann-Angriff-auc39fen-herum.html

Just seen this and not that it makes much difference and turns Austria into a great side,but surely Leopold Killmeyer should be one of their riders,having been runner up 3 times in the Paris run world finals?Neither Funk nor Hauzinger had anything like that record Uhlenbrock's inclusion for East Germany is also very questionable considering his record https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Deutschen_Meister_im_Speedway And not a great fan of Smolinski,but maybe his record of actually riding in the series and winning a GP and a few national titles puts him ahead of Maier?Just a thought there

Emil is box office.You don't ask him to qualify.It would be like asking Marlon Brando to do an audition

Doubt it.Will be a spontaneous decision based on what my kids are doing.I have the Assen weekend free,but again that will be a day before decision based on weather,because we have a great speedway meeting on that weekend with Nicki P and Emil etc

Looking to Robert Lambert to really come on and smash his way into the top this year.Hope all the young British guys do well.Looking to Wajknecht and 1 or 2 others to improve big time

I saw the Wild Angels at the Hammersmith Palais supporting Little Richard.Not that this has anything to do with bands playing live at a meeting

Could there be a German going to King's Lynn?Saw mention of a rider looking for a mechanic in the east of England area......maybe another team,but who else is looking for a rider in that area?

You mean one person got it wrong and two people followed like black sheep.Hardly everyone

Des it have a goat or a monkey on it?

Yes,i saw that Greg was back on the ice,alongside some of those Russian riders I thought were missing from the season like Akimenko and Baraboshkin.Think Laguta scored about 5pts.But wonder if there has been some sort of break with those riders in the far east or is it just down to finances that they didn't compete in the Russian championship.Eduard Krysov won the meeting if my memory is correct Link for day 2 of the Euro Finals in Ufa.Start in just under an hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PcvKQbeYKQ&feature=share&app=desktop Krasnikov wins easily.Not really troubled the whole 2 days.Again not a good meeting.The only exciting parts were Luca Bauer passing Ebner jr and the guy in the crowd who slipped and fell just when the camera was on him ....Simon fell whilst leading on the last bend of the run-off for silver.Looked like Solyannikov wasn't happy on the first lap.Seemed as if he was indicating Simon kicked him out of the way on the first bend,but got going again and put pressure on Harald,though why he fell I have no idea.He seemed t be cruising on the inside a bit to easily.Good crowd though. 1.N.Krasnikov 2.D.Solyannikov 3.H.Simon

Olsen looks to have broken his collar bone.....

That is unless the champs decide they don't want to be in,so they ask another team You can't force a team to be in I guess.Just like you can't force a rider to be in the GPs..... Don't think they want it to be any more than a 1 meeting final,just that they might open it up to maybe Germany and Czecho and then have a quali meeting...

Bauer does need to gate better though.From what I have seen so far he isn't that fast from the start and with a better standard it won't be so easy to pass.But a super international debut..

Good display from Luca Bauer,but from the heats I have seen the riders were well strung out after the 1st lap.Only Toni Klatovsky in one heat made it look exciting.Have to admit I was out and so only saw about 6 heats.Probably missed the best.And like you say a good crowd,looking very happy and seemingly loving Klabo

http://www.speedweek.com/eisspeedwaygp/news/88004/Almaty-GP-Sieg-fuer-Igor-Kononov-Zorn-fast-im-Finale.html

What happened?Was at ice racing or something to do with your new track?Or just couldn't get the sauna working? You could get a set of lasers installed for the new track.Not far from Russia

You on the Koskenkorva again last night?

Crowd looked very sparse in Almaty! Any figures on how many were there?

I think in Russia that is probably what will happen

A Russian wants to do away with tapes and use lasers to start a race.He is looking for help to get this off the ground.A piece with a little video clip of how it should work http://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/580748/ujawniamy-rewolucyjny-pomysl-dotyczacy-maszyny-startowej

Even on German tv I saw lots of flooding in England.Did you miss that Ray?Didn't look like good weather to me.And the US+A got hit by very harsh weather on the news.But I get the point with two months ahead,half the time they can't predict the weather two days ahead......

If I have nothing planned then I might drive over to Wolfslake,but I bloody well ain't going to any middle eastern country to watch it.I'll leave that to nutcases like Jesper