PHILIPRISING

CARE to tell us why? Always found him to be a quiet, polite, nice guy...

THE referee and the start marshal will always have a meeting but that does not include the riders, who know that they have to be ready at the tapes within the time limit. The process adopted by the referee and the start marshal last night may be common practice in Poland but it isn't in the SGPs. Yesterday in the race in question none of the four riders was actually ready so the question is why the referee chose to exclude one, and not the others, or warn all four.

CANNOT answer your last point other than to say that I attended over 100 riders briefings and it was never mentioned. Most referees said very little although most common was "it won't be green light and go."

NO one is suggesting that Tai was ready ... just that nor were the other three riders. It's not another discussion ... it is the same one. They then came to the tapes to the satisfaction of the start marshal so the race could have been started.

PRETTY well spot on. It was a decision the referee didn't have to make. The riders were actually ready when he put on the exclusion light. He should simply have got on with starting the race and nobody would have been none the wiser. Also agree it was a very poor SGP.

THEN why not also exclude those that were also not ready?

RIDERS have to be ready not just at the tapes

CRAZY decision by the referee ... if Tai was to be thrown out so too should the other three riders. FIM referees are getting worse and worse

EMIL has lost his spark. Might need more racing but says he only wants to ride at weekends, hence his decision to turn down a big offer from Sweden. Think a wild card might be debatable, which is not something I would have said a few weeks back.

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IT'S no secret that he is looking to get out

THE FIM are very keen for these events to be taken to new venues.

COULD do with some Danes, Swedes and an American!

DON'T think it will happen much as I would like it to. BSI are fearful of doing anything that would diminish the crowd at Cardiff, which is their jewel in the crown. The fact of the matter is that none of us actually know whether it would or it wouldn't. The two events would be very different, no one is going to spend the day hanging around Kirky Lane, the weather could be a factor, the stadium doesn't have the facilities of the Principality, etc, etc. But what we saw last night underlines what a fantastic race track they have at the NSS and that alone should attract a decent crowd. But would fans go to one or the other or both? That is the 64,000 dollar question that we cannot answer and I don't see BSI taking a risk, at least not in 2019. Cardiff attracts many, many fans who do not go to any other speedway event in the UK during the course of a season.

ACADEMIC really. In a rerun both BV riders would have needed to not finish to stop the Aces reaching the play-offs.

WELL put ...Daniel Smith needs to get his facts right.

PARADOXICALLY, too often track preparation is an easy target for cutting costs.

IT'S not a secret but very few seem to make the track a priority. The NSS provides proof that given the right stage speedway can provide compulsive viewing.

YOU are deluded if you think I have any mates at the BSPA

WELL done Chris Morton ... credit where it is due. Never wavered from his determination to produce a great track worthy of the old Hyde Road.

HE did... although talking to Armando Castagna in Gorzow two weeks ago it is now probable. When better than to have Russia as the defending champions. The scoring will be different too. Badgered Armando about changing the name (Speedway of Nations sounds like an 'open' meeting - just call in the Speedway World Cup which is, after all, what it is but with a different format). Also suggested that riders with tape warnings have them scrapped before the semis or final. Nothing worse than a title being decided in a three man race. Of course, if a rider breaks the tapes he should still be excluded but not for a relatively minor offence which could just be in the eye of the referee on the night.

TRANSPONDERS are being introduced along with photo finishes but unsure whether they will be involved in picking riding numbers

NO Gorzow next year apparently. Wroclaw instead. Nicer town, easier to get to but the track inferior to Gorzow in my opinion.

TRUE but they have moved on from there and feel that the qualifiers could become superfluous if riders were just chosen at random.

YOU could well be right. But for a last in his first race (clutch problems) at the Challenge, Lambert would have qualified.