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How would the financials work out ... For BT to screen an extended advertorial of this type ?

No he didn't !

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I get what you're saying but I just don't think it comes close to banking championship points in every race. For the riders. Or for the spectator.

True, but quite a few riders seem to be fairly clueless about gate choices anyway. Do they really go chasing points in the heats with the mental processes working on their ability to choose gates so much later. I think championship points are a better incentive, surely.

Because the points scored in the heats for those who do qualify for the semis are not counting towards the championship anymore. Getting through by a whisker or by a margin doesn't matter. Dropped points will seem to matter less ... Just get through. Qualify for the semis and you can then your final score is decided on just the next one or two races regardless of your score before, be it 7 or 15. It changes everythIng . As you will see in the meetings to come as the riders get clued up.

I don't think anyone HAS said it is UNFAIR. A poor change that detracts from the product. Yes. Don't worry, you'll be able to whine in 2021 when it's changed back.

But throughout the whole history of Speedway , particularly since WW2, only a handful of championship events, were specifically crafted to ensure that happened. Some happened by natural accident of course with run off where needed plus the Mickey Mouse events like Rider of the night finals where the money was split and the race was a sham to con the public. All the rest were just won by the team/rider scoring most points regardless of which heat the final winning score came in. Using any one person as if it were a peculiar aberration of the sport was your choice. BUT I am not an advocate of removing finals from GPs. .. far from it ... I love them. The GP scoring was perfect last year. And it is so definitely NOT this year. EVERY POINT COUNTS IN EVERY RACE was a massive plus point. Not just for PR but because it really followed through on to the track and to the racing, especially in that final block of races before the semis. And it has been tossed away... by tossers. I don't think it helps to talk about Gary Havelock as if he is part of the current problem. That is just diversionary. The names that should be tarred and feathered over this are Viegas, Castagna and Bellamy. The rest of the month is going to be dominated by this discussion at every GP when, if the action is as fantastic as last night, that is a travesty. And THEY are to blame. Let's stick to naming and shaming those people.

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Surely, they've only sold out of a smaller number set to allow for social distancing.

Mind you seems a little rough to single Havvy out for this distinction ... Mauger in 79 and Olsen 78 also won the title in heat 17 ... As did many many others going further back. Perhaps Gary in 92 just adds the correct frisson of derision to make a point.

Somewhere in there was the merest hint that you think they were wrong to change it.

Boo hoo.

When it's the ones at the top to blame in BSI and FIM... who does the sacking ?

And this was so predictable when the numpties came up with it. So so stupid ... Castagna is as thick as mince.

Paul Bellamy confirming the dim witted thinking behind the points change. He sounds like a middle manager promoted well beyond his capability. Platitudes and nonsense. Done to a turn.

Way off on your numbers

First example from Pearson of 'every point doesn't count anymore' only Armando's addled mind could think that sounds good.

No ... Of course not ! I meant among the crowd themselves.

Not sure that the series would survive an outbreak that could be traced to the crowd at a GP either.

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KK... Could it get more sh!t.

Just about every World Champion there has ever been will have had a first bend crash at some point in their career, perhaps even in the very year in which they go on to win the title. Only Jerzy ever gets lampooned for doing so.

If the 1973 championship had been held in a similar fashion to that being implemented for 2020 then good old Jerzy Sczazakiel could have shown that he too could win over a grand prix format.