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Exactly.Just a glorified challenge really.Super line-up,but you know most aren't going to treat it like a league meeting,let alone a GP

Harris goes from the front to the back so effortlessly,you'd think he is training for the Tour de France of some other cycle race.....

Not only for BSI,but our sport in general :-)

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Who's the daddy now??

Saw that the meeting has gone to Denmark(Randers?),but didn't know why.But i thought it was a rule for a few years now that FIM meetings must have an airfence?I can understand where you,or the riders are coming from.We had the issue last season where riders didn't want to go to Russia for the team meeting due to costs....Argentina as i/we mentioned last year is a big ask for most young riders.Especially those that are struggling without any chance of a medal.But will they really fine/ban anyone?have they before?Just look at Dosaev in Ice Racing.How many times has he been listed as a starter and never turned up?But still he gets accepeted for the season afterwards!!!!He must have some bloody good excuses

Exactly.We have seen enough evidence to see that Hoskins didn't invent speedway,even if he might state so in his book.It might be that unlikely as it seems seeing as at least one of the riders at Maitland had ridden in similar events elsewhere,Hoskins didn't know about previous meetings at other tracks.That is being kind.Did he attach the 'speedway' name to the sport?That i guess is a possibility,but 'speedway racing' as a term was being used for motorsports held at American Speedways before Hoskins started in Maitland.Maybe he used it for this particular sport specifically,but it isn't a big deal if he just attached..a general name to a specific sport.And it didn't become the universally used name in the first years.That said,i don't see anyone who thinks Hoskins didn't play a major part in the rise of the sport internationally.Like others have said,the main problem comes from people trying to use spurious evidence or misinterpret statements to try to claim something that has been disproved.It is rather like listening to people trying to claim the earth is flat........

No,this was much earlier.Looking at Morrish's book it states that in 1951 New Cross wanted to sign Nygren,but this was turned down.He ended up with Harringay.A few years later the fact that Nygren couldn't be signed led to Mockford pulling the shutters down.Also read that because of clubs closing the riders were allocated to other clubs.Most were ok with the moves,but Split Waterman refused to go to Belle Vue

Wasn't Olle Nygren involved in a tussle when he first came over?Keep forgetting the details,but the club who wanted him were deemed too strong,so he was't allowed to sign for them

Great website.Will bookmark that as i am finding the new look sportowefakty too much for my laptop.Takes ages to get through all the results on there now.Super to have a simple site for results

Oh typical.You come out with some outrageous statement and then start saying others are 'trouble-making' Okifyou want toget into what we contribute.How about the fact that Edinburgh goti n contact with me asking for ideas for a replacement forJonasson.Isaid get in contact with Kevin Wölbert.The reply was "he is too busy ....." But as luck would have it i had chatted to Kevins press guy a week or so before and he told me because the Swedish club he had signed for wasn't giving him any meetings he was looking for something else.Soi passed this on to Edinburgh and bobs your uncle......I'd reckon just on that alone it has contributed more to British speedway than your programme notes.I'd guess more people go to see Kevin than read your jottings Guesshe has also generated more interest and value.....and there are another couplei have putin touch with clubs and are riding in Britain.Plus Mikkel B.Jensen used a few of my pics for his autogram cards forl ast season or Mikkel Michelsen used one over the winter for a sponsorship drive,one was used for the poster at a big meeting in Germany,etc.....and i have managed to bring along a few newbies over the past year or so.Only one of which will probably go to another meeting Not that i have to justify myself to you,but i hope that is ok. Just try and engage your noddle before posting such damaging stuff.The US guys are trying to get some practice in before their assault on the world.King's Lynn are trying to run a business.As has been stated this has never happened before.It is just unfortunate.No-one can control the weather and i don't think it is likely that a big Bank Holiday car meeting will be cancelled because it might ruin the track for speedway.......Let's move on,not start slagging off the promotion for trying to make money by filling blank spaces in the calendar

Best to try and ignore such comments.People work their guts out behind the scenes and then someone sitting behind their keyboard with no idea what has gone on, comes out with something like that.I notice we haven't seen any complaints from the US team/entourage.Whatever decision you make someone will put the boot in.But rider safety is of utmost importance in this oh so dangerous sport of ours.Quite an outrageous attack on a speedway promotion!!!!

Seem to remember a number of riders weren't too happy to be allocated to Wimbledon.Mick Hines(although it turned out to be a move for the best really) ,Kevin Jolly(???) and one of the Christers(Lofqvist?)who refused to ride.....It is unthinkable to have such a system nowadays and was fairly unpopular with riders and who can blame them

http://www.speedway....2012/index.html Bit of a strange format with 17 riders and typical i guess that the two best didn't meet each other.Looking at the results(and i don't want to take anything away fromthe lad),but he did have it quite easy.Goodwin against Savelev in his first heat,but after that he was in heats with maybe only one opponent because of disqualifications and one of those heats where there were only 3riders programmed,so it seems.Anyway,great to see a Brit competing in such a comp and hope he builds on this

Energy firm.They were involved in Gorzów when i was there back in 2008.Seemed from the programme they were regional.Poznan the main HQ,but also in Zielona Góra,Bydgoszcz,Szczecin and Gorzów

Only just noticed? Some of us have been lucky ..... watching him for years

It is an ongoing problem for the past few months.The owner will try once again to sorts things out in the next few days i think.As it is free and he is risking his life for our entertainment we should cross our fingers and maybe a prayer or two,Hope the priest of speedway in Gorzów said one for us poor souls as well Looks more promising than the dire meeting before.LiGlad looking goooood

Crikey!!!There was a bloke topless there in the crowd^^It is only 8 degrees here.......

Makes up for Vojens dropping out of the DSL Know this i a bit off topic Rasmus,but what is the latest on a tv deal for Danish speedway?Saw something on the DMU site about a new sports channel covering speedway.....

Cnut You got me there

Wonder why people expect such things to be shown.Speedway is a minority sport in Britain,,,,,,British speedway.So why do you think that something even more minority like a foreign league will be shown?????Forget football and the fact that you might see Italian Serie A or Spanish,French or whatever.Speedway can't compete with that.But do you generally see foreign leagues from minority sports on tv? I don't

Strange spelling both in the title and on the Swedish site of the Final.Amazing coincidence though But the best is the country of the first quali.....Ungern in German = reluctantly or unwilling

Christian Weber is a member of this forum.Maybe he will contribute.But it does once again seem to blow a link up in someones face.No doubt there will be more dragged up from cyberspace or books fromthe 70s or 80s

I just remember a German fan asking me what Freddie Williams looked like/could i point him out.I had to admit i didn't know,as i hadn't seen a photo of him since the 70s and mainly pics from the 50s.I did recognise Bert Harkins though!

So,apparently Krasnikov met the President of Bashkortistan and said he liked him very much.Not sure if we should read too much into that