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Looks like it's a Howard Jones magazine, but not out yet.

I've heard that there is a new magazine out, "Speedway History Magazine". Anyone seen it? Is it any good? Know where I can get a copy? Thanks!

Fact - the riders will ride for whichever organisation is offering the most money! FIM have played right into the hands of the UEM by not having qualification rounds for the GP's. So the "second-best" riders (no disrespect) will happily ride in a European Championship if it's worth their while, since they can't qualify for a GP.

TV audiences. Don't think it would be run without the TV money!

POLAND A 52 (Janusz Kolodziej 12, Pawel Hlib 12, Marcin Rempala 12, Krystian Klecha 10, Karol Zabik 6) POLAND B 36 (Kamil Brzozowski 11, Sebastian Brucheiser 8, Patryk Pawlaczyk 7, Adrain Gomolski 6, Marcin Jedrezewski 4) RUSSIA 25 (Daniel Ivanov 7, Maxim Karaychentsev 7, Alexei Kharchenko 6, Roman Ivanov 5) FINLAND 7 (Rene Lehtinen 4, Tero Aarnio 2, Joni Keskinen 1, Jani Eerikainen 0, Petri Koivunen 0) FRANCE withdrew FINAL is on Oct 1 at Pardubice: Czech Republic v Sweden v Denmark v Poland

No need to apologise, Peter, you are obviously a very proud Dad - and quite right too! So we can expect to see Simon riding in the UK around 2013 then ...

Sounds like a purely financial decision. With that sort of encouragement from the ruling body, I'm surprised you still have some young speedway riders! If they won't take part in competitions they are unlikely to win, how will they ever improve? A sad situation.

Blimey, too old for the World Cup at 32!! No, let's just say that Joe reached his peak earlier in his career than most riders. Still, congratulations to TRick, 35 yesterday, and still a World Champion!

Somebody is selling it on eBay, looks official

Can anyone tell me where I can get the official DVD set of this year's World Cup? Can't see it on the official SGP/SWC website.

There's a map here if it's any help

Pictures from the opening meeting are here And, at the top of that page, a short video clip of last night's racing. Nice big crowd!

Well, here's hoping for a big score from Jurica tonight, it would round off what must be a wonderful day for the whole Pavlic family.

The new track at Gorican stages a round of the Tri-Nations Championship tonight. The stadium looks excellent, judging by the photos posted on the Slovenian Forum here

Harold rode twice for England "C" against Sweden in 1952 Details are here: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/intspeedway/engcvswe.htm There is also a pic of him at the Hastings Saxons website at: http://hastingssaxons.doverathleticvideo.com/index.htm

1. To what extent were Poland motivated by the PZM's prize fund of £17,000 (100,000 zlotys) (as mentioned in this weeks' Speedway Star)? 2. Would GB have performed better if a similar prize fund had been made available to them if they had won?

Marcin's site was the very first that I accessed when I went on line in 1997, and I must have visited it a thousand times since then. If there is anyone out there that never saw it, take a quick look before it disappears completely: http://world.speedway.org/ It actually began in 1994(!) when hardly any of us had internet access. It never worried about appearance or graphics, it was all about information, and much the better for that. All the information that was regularly updated on Marcin's site will almost certainly still be available on the internet - but probably on 20 or more different web sites instead of just one. As usual, the problem will be locating the information. I can only imagine how many thousands of hours that Marcin must have spent working on the site over the last 11 years, and he provided a fantastic service to us all. Thanks, Marcin, and I know that your site will always be remembered as the mother of all of the thousands of speedway web sites that were to follow.

I think the GB star is Middlo. Every year, he is left with a depleted team. Every year, they ride above themselves and do us proud (I've never seen Bomber and Steady ride as well as they did last night) Dunno what he says to them, or puts in their coffee, but it certainly seems to work! I really do hope that, one year, we can put our strongest team on track, and win the World Cup - it would be a just reward for Middlo.

I've been told that these meetings have been rearranged for 12.8 - Pardubice 13.8 - Mseno Can anyone confirm this? Thanks

With reigning champion Kyle Legault in the UK, Nick Fafard became the new Canadian Champion at Welland, Ontario on Saturday night. For a full report, go to http://www.speedwaybikes.com/csra2005/main.html and click on NEWS

Somebody has asked me off-list where I got the information about the Ice Racing. It came from the latest edition of the FIM magazine at the FIM website: Track Racing Commission (CCP) Track Racing: the Management Council has agreed to give Benfield Sports International (BSI) the right to organise as from 2006 the Individual and Team Ice Racing World Championships, as mentioned in their option. Long Track World Championship: the last Final in 2005 will be held in New Zealand again. Some European organisers find unfair if New Zealand always has the last Final of the sea- son, which brings more spectators. On the other hand, to keep New Zealand on the calendar does not give much alternative, as for climatic reasons it is only possible to race there from November to March.

Thanks, that explains it

Top 8 from each semi go to the Final at Togliatti on Sept 11 Note: October = Oktyabrsky 20.7.05 Salavat Sergey Darkin Tolyatti 13 Oleg Kurguskin Tolyatti 13 Simeon Vlasov October 12 Vladimir Dubinin Tolyatti 10 Sergey Eroshin Vladivostok 9 Albert Tibeev Salavat 9 Alexey Harchenko Vladivostok 9 Roman Ivanov Tolyatti 8+3 Grigory Harchenko Vladivostok 8+i Marat Gatijatov October 7 Talgat Galeyev October 6 Maxim Karajchentsev Vladivostok 6 Lenar Nigmatzjanov Balakovo 3 Igor Kononov Sterlitamak 2 Alexey Poptsov Vladivostok 2 Vitaly Matveev Balakovo 1 Ilya Ruzanov Sterlitamak 1 Vladimir Chapalo Sterlitamak 0 21.7.05 Oktyabrsky Renat Gafurov October 15 Maxim Kalimullin October 13 Denis Gizatullin October 13 Edward Shajhullin October 13 Emil Sajfutdinov Tolyatti 10 Daniel Ivanov Tolyatti 8 Radik Tibeev Salavat 8 Evgenie Gomozov Tolyatti 7+3 Cyril Filinov Balakovo 7+2 Ruslan Gatijatov October 6 Alexander Kosolapkin Balakovo 6 Alexander Kazionnyj Vladivostok 5 Evgenie Drevjatnikov Vladivostok 4 Arthur Nafikov October 2 Alexey Guzaev Balakovo 1 Victor Hodzitsky Vladivostok 1 Leonty Starostin October 1 Evgenie Mihajlov Vladivostok 0 Can someone tell me what country Roman Povazhny is riding for now? He didn't ride in this Championship, nor for Russia in the World Cup qualifier.

I think they are, these days. But I remember seeing Ice Racing on natural tracks in Russia and Italy, on Eurosport in the 90s - now THAT was SPECTACULAR!

Not sure if it has been reported before, but BSI are to stage the World Individual and Team Ice-Racing Championships from 2006. Ever get the impression that the FIM want to offload anything to do with track racing?