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Darija Pavlic on twitter yesterday with a quite a harsh comment regarding Nawrocki. Always thought she was quite a sensible person so something must be really wrong...

Yes, you know it.

Only flat track action I saw this season was at Forssa during the LT Nordic final. A 1000 meter long gravel track with four bikes doing a 12 lap final heat. Needless to say I used the remaining 11 laps to have a wee before the final heat of LT.

I was speaking with a mate some years ago who was very much in to motorbikes and Motogp racing but knew bugger all about speedway. He thought flat track was pointless as it did not serve purpose training wise to other disciplines. So a bit like speedway...??? Dont have an opinion on that myself. Also the Superprestigio was growing back then and he just said that the whole Spanish setup was due to MArguez doing it. People wanted to race against him and that was possible...

Here in Finland. In Finland we had a racing class that translates more or less "Sports machines" (thats not good translation) that was very active lets say until late 90's. It was mx or iceroadracing bikes that had approved tires for the tracks they used. It was a class that was ridden in longtrack meetings as a support class and had enough riders to justify themselves. For some reason with the decline of LT racing itself that class disappeared completely. Until FT was re-invented by Castagna and taken under CCP in the FIM early this decade. I think the first FIM Cup was at Forssa and won by that italian fellow. Anyway, FT in Finland is the same as the old class mentioned, only that U need to use FT tyres homologated by FIM. So far we've had a few "speedway-quitters" taken on FT but not the other way around. There really arent meetings for this class on speedway tracks, I think there's been one since the class was launched as FT, and they've ridden a few alongside LT. I have to put my hand up and say I'm a speedway fan and these mx bikes doing circles while bouncing and braking in to corners does not appeal to me AT ALL. It's boring. But I'm just one, there are over 5M of us more in Finland.

Though theoretically all your comments are valid, I've not yet seen that happen over here… Blokes and motorbikes, well I guess thats true.

The Finnish rider to ride in the meeting in question knows he’s doing it like all the others doing it for SML allocations do too. So you are correct. Not my place to name them yet though...

Yes they are set in stone. But like SGP’s they too can get postponed or moved. From memory the deadline to name riders is a month before but naturally there can be a change until practise starts and signing on has finished.

Well played by plets in heat 19? today!

WHO gives a d1ck about flattrack?

Theres a stream from övik I’m told. No idea where.

Never been there and most likely never will, but having followed the stuff for long enough I bet it’s plain ugly.

Tani has to get some results and I can't see why he couldn't be in the top6. Isoaho did well last year in the Kauhajoki meeting, all others are first timers without practise on a frozen SPEEDWAY track. Looking forward to a few harmless wobbles in the first set of heats. EDIT: added word harmless

It's the best possible lineup for the year, like always.

Of course there is a draw, ask anyone who was present and they'll say there was. Logistics play a part naturally. Thats why Finland is in Manchester and not Landshut.

Not funny riders getting injured but funny still. It happens!

Nyrönen travels to Övik to replace Divis so Kirilov is 1st and Jani Koivula 2nd reserve at Kauhajoki.

Temp is gonna be on the plus side for friday falling below zero by sat morning. The meeting itself is in no danger.

Nice to know you still get it!

No. Its gonna be a 5tt league this season with 9 teams in total. But for the past decade it was a 4tt.

Well I’d call it a success as the only thing I think went wrong last season was that the ukrainian club only rode one meeting. As to its level of professionalism, since I think no got paid I think it was an amateur league with young riders, mostly U21.

We have a league. Had one for 46 times and without interruptions since 1977. And despite a decent effort against it we gonna have one this year as well.

Never been to Landshut but not Landshut...

MONSTER ENERGY SPEEDWAY OF NATIONS DRAWRACE OFF 1, LANDSHUT, GERMANY (May 4): Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Poland, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine.RACE OFF 2, MANCHESTER, GREAT BRITAIN (May 11): Australia, Denmark, Great Britain, France, Finland, Latvia, USA.

Brilliant!