PHILIPRISING

PROBABLY because all the personal and officials, plus equipment, who attend both meetings need time to get to one from the other

WOULD the SGPs on TV on Saturdays affect this? Fans tempted to stay at home perhaps.

WHAT British speedway needs is for the government to make every Monday a Bank Holiday.

BUT Sky wanted to make it easier to tell one team from another. It's a team sport. Just imagine if footballers all wore different outfits.

BUT a 20/20 match lasts three hours

QUITE right

I VERY much doubt that longer races would provide the panacea we are all desperate to find

LAST time I looked he wasn't riding. And very much doubt that he will return to Leicester this season.

AND you agree with that?

MOTORSPORT in general, with the exception of F1, gets very little press.

THE one minute race is a strong point. If speedway races were over eight laps (for example) it would rapidly become a turn off.

YOU guess wrong. You and I seem to be struggling to understand each other of late. Huge sponsorship in RX. Difficult to judge size of crowd (it was also over two days) in such a large arena. Think Silverstone will be happy. £5 for a small can of lager.

BIG day for IMG and Paul at Silverstone. Chalk and cheese from speedway with cars from manufacturers like Audi, Ford, Peugeot, VW, etc along with many major component manufacturers. Personally find RX quite boring to watch, each race seems very much like any other but each to his own. For me no comparison between Silverstone and Warsaw this year. But RX is a big money spinner for IMG and it was good to catch up with some of the guys who previously worked on speedway and the delightful Nicola Sands (ex BSI) was there too. Come to think of it, Saturday evening in the hotel bar was the highlight!

WITH NKI injured, there are only two (Cook and Doyle) GP riders here now.

TRUE but not every rider who competes in Poland gets the big numbers.

NOT riding for King's Lynn tonight

FIXED race nights was primarily to stop riders who double up being wanted by two teams on the same night. Where are the GP riders "gracing us with their presence" as a result of FRNs?

THINK you are right and probably won't be alone

AT least there was more passing in Prague than Monaco or the Rallycross at Silverstone which I attended for the first time.

SORRY, been to the pub for lunch so a bit behind the eight ball

APPARENTLY Holder has arrived in Prague ...

I AM only surmising at present, but perhaps the reason he is not in Prague is because he cannot enter the country without his Australian passport. If that is the case, the British government are preventing a foreign national (in this case Australian) from plying his trade in another country outside their jurisdiction. And regardless off whether or not the British Home Office grant him a work visa (and why would they not, he has lived and worked in the UK for many years, has a child there along with property ) at present he cannot see his son Max and, trust me, that is causing him massive mental distress.

NO I'm not.

WITH respect, you are missing the point. It is only the British authorities who are questioning his right to work in the UK. not the EU.He can work in Sweden and Poland. He already is. My point is that the British Home Office are retaining his Australian passport while they consider his application. Why can they not request his passport to enter a visa if authorised or if refused would have no need of it. It is not simply about work either. If he had his passport he could at least enter the UK to see his son Max. It seems like bureacratic nonsense.

IF this is because the British Home Office have his passport then surely they are preventing a foreign national from earning a living in a country (countries) outside of the UK? Regardless of who it is, that doesn't sound right to me.