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Exactly.Untried riders!!! And how do you choose them?If you put 16 untried riders together from Australia,NZ and Argentina.....they might be 16 who want to have a go at PL or worse.They might also be the 16 worse riders available.Someone is going to win and someone is going to come second,no matter how bad they are.........Why would the authorities grant visas to those guys or girls?

You are talking Pl standard or worse!!! That is hardly "the very top Riders" Make your mind up.The Australian championship does the job without trying to make some other competition up that probably the authorities wouldn't even recognise,the public wouldn't flock to and you might find it hard for a promoter to host .It just doesn't make sense

You can be a bit stupid at times. Just look at scb's post.....and anyway,why would we want to hold meetings for riders who are "of PL standard or worse" ??????? Beyond belief from someone who is always moaning about immigrants to be honest

That is probably the reason.Unpalatable as it may seem a league football stadium brings more prestige to an area than a jumble sale.In by gone days a speedway stadium did the same thing.Sadly for our sport, those days are long long gone

You don't want to go too overboard.Maybe some will get taken in by Jimmy Tarbuck or a Bucks Fizz thing,but no-one is going to believe you aren't a wannabe wind-up merchant with stuff like this

Exactly.I haven't seen the article,but having read a number of Backtrack mags I can't see them as publishing comments that are too scandalous or unfounded

Quite an eventful year for you Rob.Getting under the binliner dress of a Bucks Fizz star and then having your hero booed.Sort of explains why yu grew up to be the person you are

Were they funding with any significance the sport beforehand? Must admit I don't know,but I do remember talking to a few fathers when their sons were competing in Denmark for the Youth Gold Cup and it didn't seem they were getting much help.I think maybe Darcy Wards dad,i know I talked quite a bit to Arthur Sissis' father and Mick Poole I seem to remember told me straight that riders should get on and sort themselves out without looking to MA for support

Problems with the plans for the new stadium in Assen?If I understand correctly the council are asking for are detailed plans which cost €100,000 and the guys behind the project say they haven't got that kind of money to spend without a guarantee the project will be accepted by the council http://www.rtvdrenthe.nl/nieuws/103298/Initiatiefnemer-ijsbaanplan-Assen-kritisch-op-handelen-provincie-Drenthe Sure Jesper will correct me if I am wrong on that

Hmmm clicked on 2 vids.The first were sidecars and the second was a two rider heat and the guy left the girl for dead before his bike packed up!!!!!

Well I wasn't wrong Polands first game is on sunday 12th June at 18:00.Then 16th + 21st of June and then if they get through......haven't looked if there are any big games involving other speedway countries on the sundays though

Day 2 live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG5sKS84W9k Results Moscow 32 (Koltakov 18pt max) Mega-Lada Togliatti 28 Kamensk 22 (strong performance from Harald Simon) Ufa 19+3 Sterlitamak 19+2

4 time speedway world finalist and 3 time European longtrack champ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Hofmeister_(Motorsportler) video of Josef winning a meeting on his home track in his last season https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqy1T_AsZTc But what really got me started was the great link to all the photos on the technische museum wiens website.There are some wonderful pics of Hofmeister,Kamper,Seidl etc on tracks.But if you look further there are also pics speedway from 1952-70s and of Sterling Moss and a female motorbike racer from the 30s Anny Dein and a lot more http://www.technischesmuseum.at/motorsport-in-oesterreich/person/articleid/1707 Of course when Hofmeister finished his career he didn't go on to race cars,but interestingly planes and was 3 time German champ

A good article with some interesting photos from Egons career http://www.spiegel.de/einestages/rennfahrer-egon-mueller-sie-nannten-ihn-raketen-mueller-a-951313.html

Coud be a point.But I would say those 3 Swedish world finals he wouldn't have made the spot as Fundin would have been favourite.Then as I mentioned before he failed to get through when a lot of relatively not so great East Europeans did.He also finished in other quali meetings behind the likes of Bob Valentine,John Boulger and Ray Wilson,who although decent riders were also not elite level.

Of course you do.You have plenty of time on your hands and don't attend speedway nor stock car any more.So why the fascination with both especially when you say your time involved with speedway were wasted years and you take some sort of delight in predicting its imminent demise.........you also seem fascinated in hula hoops,Russia and roller skate speedway amongst other things

I wasn't looking for your view on that.I asked you a different question.........twice

I think they way you have changed it,it is a lot red and rather large ,otherwise I don't see a problem. You fail to answer the question I put to you though.Which was...... You also haven't been to a speedway meeting and i'd guess a stock car one for years and also stated speedway was a wasted time in your life and seem to predict its demise quite often.I wonder if you don't really care much for speedway any more......why?

No,you didn't start that one,but quite a number before that.You also haven't been to a speedway meeting and i'd guess a stock car one for years and also stated speedway was a wasted time in your life and seem to predict its demise quite often.I wonder if you don't really care much for speedway any more......why?

I think comparisons can be made for sure.Even speedway and football,as here.But I am not sure on the worth of on a speedway forum continuously bringing up stock cars year after year as we can see by a quick search.What is even more galling on a speedway forum is the delight taken in predicting its imminent death which seems to come through from your posts.It would take a longer search to find all those posts,but probably possible with time

heard that Ufa only have half the money they need to complete a season!!!! The Night Wolves are known to be well funded by Putin,so maybe it is financial support.But normally these people don't just give money away without wanting something in return? There are well known stories of trouble at Mega-Lada with one or two Presidents of the club being "bumped off".Was also trouble in the Ukraine with with Trofimov coming up against so called gangsters and a few theories about who is behind some of the polish clubs and their troubles...... It does seem from my dodgy translation that there is some sort of sponsorship/financial relationship between Ufa + the Night Wolves.....

Not worth considering that period.If just 1 spot was up for grabs in the 60s then Jansson would likely never got a spot with Fundin pretty sure of getting that

good post makes sense,so won't be implemented

I did qualify my statement by saying "might" not, would have We could also argue that if the number of places had dropped then Jansson might not have qualified as often as he did back then and so on and might not be thought of as "great"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YMV1achd2A Result from day 1 of Superleague in Kamensk Moscow 35 Mega-Lada Togliatti 28 Ufa 23 Sterlitamak 19 Kamensk 15