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His reaction toward that member of his support team was way over the top, the fact that it was a woman makes him a despicable character imo..

Agreed, but I don't think he did anything wrong, he was going round Zagar so it's not as though he should have been obliged to leave room. It was good to see Pedersen seeming to acknowledge that it wasn't unfair riding. Good GP so far, hope it continues in the same way.

As for Ward, whatever ban he receives matters not to me, I just hope he is hit hard in the pocket by being fined and, more importantly losing some sponsorship. I believe this would deliver better results in encouraging him to give up on the laddish behaviour and concentrate on maximising the huge talent he is so lucky to have been gifted with.

http://speedway.manchesterpaul.net/racecards.html Cheers Paul

Chris Harris, one tough cookie, didn't think he'd be up from that so soon.

More importantly its not good for Speedway, what a ridiculous thing to do. Absolutely no excuses for that, shame on him.

According to the schedule the programme starts @ 12.45, so yes it would seem they are showing it live.

I feel for you mate, genuinely... I just rely on the tv for my GP's but too have spent money like you have must be absolutely galling, I hope you get satisfactory replies when you do eventually locate the contact details for the people responsible.

http://speedway.manchesterpaul.net/2014/MiniMax_2014_SGP_Latvian.pdf thanks again to Paul for the race card.

Kelvin - Barwick Bendits. Brilliant

On seeing that replay I think the airfence did do a bit of a job in softening the blow, although whatever damage was done over the other side of the fence, who knows, really hope he's ok.

Hope Wethers gets up from over that fence, awful to see, good luck lad.

Would love to have seen Peter Collins ride that track, it's as though it was made for him, just a few years too late though, great racetrack.

But it wasn't live, they did have time put a better programme than that together. You're right though, we are very lucky to get what we do from Eurosport and Sky.

Not great but considering the rain they had it's not as bad a I expected, heat 17 was race of the night so far for me

This is Eurosport as I remember it from watching years ago, loads of ad breaks and very little attention paid to continuity. It's still good to have so much speedway available from the armchair. Eurosport have been good so far, this is the first time they've reverted to type for a speedway meeting..

Agreed Steve, he's given us all so many great memories, one of a few riders who could really get you on the edge of your seat when watching them race, brilliant rider, maybe he will bow out soon while he's still a fit man.

Is there a difference I wonder. Ah well, we're lucky to have as much speedway as we do get these days, mustn't grumble. Edit, now Dave has burnt himself out in heat 9, Vaculik/Pavlic, it's all gone Pete Tong...

Sort of wishing I'd watched the foreign stream now, was looking forward to it, full meeting with commentary in English and what do we get, first 4 heats missing and Sam doing commentary. Dave's ok though.,

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Thank you for that, as usual the thread was being derailed by the childish arguments between the usual suspects, pathetic. I agree that once he became aware of Iversen on his tail he dropped to the inside and lost momentum, Iversen has turned out to be a really good rider over the last couple of seasons. He has a really smooth riding style but is always prepared to get out by the fence and wind it on when required. That last bend pass was sublime, there was probably only one way to pass the Pole and he had it sussed when it mattered. Great final, better than we could have hoped for after the first 4 heats.....

Despite the jokers, despite GB finishing where anyone with an ounce of foresight would have expected, despite the low crowd- that was a great meeting of speedway, fantastic finsih, well done Iversen, cometh the hour cometh the man, brilliant ride. Well done Team GB for qualifying in the first place..

Give it a rest ffs, Team GB qualified on merit, nobody expected much from them and they have delivered exactly that, take a chill pill and enjoy the speedway..

It's speedway ffs, try the library if it's quiet you're after.

Thanks again to Paul for the racecard http://speedway.manchesterpaul.net/racecards.html