PHILIPRISING

ONLY two? Who are they?

BEEN vigorously tested on a dyno but, no, obviously not done that many races so far. Long way to go yet but so far so good.

HARRIS all evening but not Lambert. Probably both in Vojens.

13.30 and the clouds have cleared ...

FROM BSI ... The council were very reluctant to run the fanzone on St Mary’s St due to health and safety issues – it had outgrown that spot and got very, very congested during the day. To give you an idea, their footfall monitors showed that St Mary’s Strret alone had over 20,000 more people through that area than normal when the fanzone was on St Mary’s Street. There are very few suitable locations to run the FZ close to the stadium and Wood St is the best option available to us by the Council. Wood St will be closed to traffic to accommodate the FZ – just like last year.

WATCH out for The Interceptor, BBC1, 9pm on Wednesday, about a special police drugs team, The Unit, making an arrest at a speedway meeting...

IT wasn't on St Mary's Street last year. Don't think money comes into it.

BSI have to work with the local council ... cannot just have it where they like.

WATCH out for The Interceptor, BBC1, 9pm on Wednesday ... a special drugs enforcement team, the Unit, make an arrest at a speedway meeting. Wonder who that can be?

ARTEM Laguta is obviously a very different rider to the one who rode in the SGP a few years back. That was all too much too soon.

IT is the same as last year ... St Mary's wasn't an option

FUNNY how different people can watch the same thing and come to totally different conclusions. Or perhaps their prejudices colour their judgement or alternatively are too biased. Who knows? Personally, I thought Ward was quite contrite. He was never going to go down on one knee and beg forgiveness.I thought his references to Hancock were more to do with his off track life-style than how he rides a bike. Whatever side of the fence we are on, time will tell. But I find the vitriol aimed at Ward by some on here rather sad and do wonder whether he rode for anyone other than Poole it might be less so.

WE don't translate although many moons ago, after the fall of communism in Poland, we came close to an agreement to have SS published in Polish there. However, the economics simply didn't work out as there was no distribution network for magazines and the cover price would have had to have been next to nothing. The people who wanted to do it were the same infamous trio to 'took over' Wroclaw and then attempted to embezzle millions of dollars which no one is quite sure how they acquired in the first place. We do, of course, have subscribers right across Europe and also in America, Australia and New Zealand.

THINK Wells doesn't want to ride ... no idea why

JUNE 27 ...

LEAVING aside that one is in a European capital city and the other in the middle of nowhere, no real comparison. Track in Riga has meeting coming up so will have a chance to see whether they have sorted the track.

AGREE .. the one true young talent around is denied an ideal opportunity to compete in one of the most important meetings of the season and, who knows, he might even have sneaked a place at Cardiff. Believe that Rosco wanted him in the BF but was turned down.

TWO wins and more importantly two good starts by Chris Harris on the GTR at Coventry tonight. Both he and Peter Karlsson have ridden two different prototype engines but Kelvin Tatum has also been available to provide advice, based on his own testing, about gear ratios, ignition timing, etc.

WAS actually taken there a few years back while at Croatian GP via Hungary (!) to have a look at the stadium, if you could call it that. Very, very basic but local Slovenia guys were actually taking about having the GP Challenge there. Don't think so!

UNDER consideration but currently only about 1.5% of sales are for online edition. That may strengthen your argument or could alienate the overwhelming majority who still prefer the paper edition.

WHEN we first started adding an additional 16 pages to Speedway Star after each GP there were .... less GPs than today, higher weekly sales and lower production, printing and transport costs. All these have changed fundamentally. When looking at our 2015 budget we were faced with two stark choices. Either reduce the number of times we added 16 pages post GP or scrap our pre-season bumper edition which is a very costly exercise. We decided on the former and are confident that most of our readers would agree. We will still provide additional pages throughout the season, notable pre and post Cardiff. The number of pages given over to GPs will vary and the Trackside column will definitely resume. We have never shirked from admitting that the speedway magazine market is shrinking and that we must cut of cloth accordingly. But we will strive and endeavour to maintain what we consider to be a high class, value for money, magazine while accepting that we cannot please all of the people all of the time.

BERT Harkins' diary can be found on our free online mag speedwayXtra ... http://content.yudu.com/Library/A3orox/xtra160May302015/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fspeedwaystar.net%2FXtra.aspx or via speedwaystar.net and the Xtra link Will answer other questions later

APPARENTLY 'negotiations' have not been finalised so have to wait another week... NO connection with GM whatsoever and no after market parts either... NOT BMW ... either

AND, of course, the capacity can be greatly increased to (I believe) around 16,000 should the need arise.

IT has to be competitive and both reliable and durable because that is where the savings will kick in not with the up front price, although as stated it will come ready built and not in kit form.