PHILIPRISING

HE is indeed

Now 11 + 2 from five ... Chris struggling with one from three.

JACK Holder 6, Chris Holder 1 ... is this the future for Torun?

WILL see what I can do. From what I have heard (not necessarily gospel) Lambert's parents are none too receptive when it comes to others attempting to give him advice. All young riders can benefit from the 'right' advice and that's one reason why there is so much hope for Dan Bewley with Steve Lawson at his shoulder.

THAT'S a view that has been circulating for a long time, Of course, early doors he didn't have a driving licence and needed his parents to ferry him around but he needs to cut the umbilical cord.

A BACK injury isn't necessarily the result of a speedway accident. Hancock dislocated his shoulder after slipping on the stairs at his home. Golfer Dustin Johnson did a similar thing and missed the Masters.

DIDN'T ride for BV on Monday and cannot see why he would have missed that if he wasn't carrying an injury.

UNFORTUNATELY averages and points limits never have and never will achieve equality in team building. In reality riders are human beings, not a number. A rider could well achiever a certain average racing on a particular track but get nowhere near it elsewhere. It isn't an exact science and doesn't work.

SIXTY pages in Xtra this week and some stunning photos from the British SGP ... and it's free. Access via speedwaystar.net

WHO are the many? Not anywhere near 40,000 people regularly attending speedway in the UK.

SPEAKING for myself, I never suggested that you couldn't change a team, only that you are not forced to at the end of a season.

NOT just talking about the winning team. Any team. Should be up to others to aspire to achieve better performances not expect others to come down to their level.

AND therein lays one of speedway's major issues. No sooner have fans built up a rapport with a rider then they are forced to let him go. If a team wants to keep an unchanged team from one season to another they should be allowed to do so. All this dumbing down (among a multitude of other reasons) is helping to kill British speedway.

CORRECT

NO doubt that having Lawson as his mentor is a huge plus.

WHY? Just because it is a great track, and it is, doesn't mean that riders who get ahead are going to be passed. They have every chance but if the man ahead rides better he will stay there. Nothing to do with the actual track. Kenneth Bjerre couldn't pass Sam Masters. Blame the track

YOU were saying ... nothing wrong with the track. It's the riders who have to make the most of it.

THINK you can make a better estimate when you are actually there.

WHEN I ran the Press Conference I always ascertained the crowd figure from the stadium beforehand. Not my role anymore and no information available on Saturday. But I will enquire. BUT'S that what makes it an event, not just a speedway meeting, for thousands for whom this is the only speedway they actually see live all year.

STEVE ... no rider was "sent" round for a lap. They just mis-understood what they were supposed to do. That's why belatedly a steward was posted by the victory lane to let them know where to go.

TYRE packing the track PLENTY of programmes left at the end. BUT with thousands less attending British speedway on a regular basis that is quite an achievement.

UPPER tier along the back straight was pretty full. I thought it was one of the biggest attendances. Great meeting to watch, some terrific racing, none better than in Heat 11. Not for the first time thought Emil made the wrong gate choice for the semi. If you don't make a clean break from one, which he didn't, you cannot get to the dirt line and he was toast. Shame, thought in his previous three rides he looked like the Emil of old. Didn't shy away from some hairy moments. Doyle, who had to cut short his press conference appearance in order to remove his boot, was asked whether he would now take some time off. Just a day ... Poland, on Monday (re-arranged fixture), Sweden on Tuesday and Swindon Thursday.

AND they are both going to Oz for the final SGP in Melbourne

I WOULD have done but was beaten to it. The photos look even better on a digital platform as opposed to print and, of course, we have the room to accommodate them.

BELIEVE it is just British kids. Just as it was Danes in Horsens. And will be Swedes in Stockholm.