OveFundinFan

Watched a reply last night and I thought Doyle was hard on Pawlicki but Pawlicki I think went down on his own accord to get a reply - which is what happened. Again, by looking at the meeting a second time, Lambert, IMO, actually did very well. He wasnt too much off the pace, and who knows what confidence factor he will get by doing well in a meeting such as that.

and if Tai had stood down to let a youngster have a chance.... I wonder if you would have said the same? Tai not riding in this years British Championship to give others a chance caused more then a bit of argy bargy on here.

Fridays meeting has been referred to as favouring the "rocket ships", referring to engine tuning. Track record broke a few times and ended 2 seconds lower then when Fridays meeting started. Last nights meeting someone said times were a lot slower, but the racing in the 20 heat heat final was fantastic. That just proves you dont need to spend thousands of pounds with engine tuners to get exciting racing. I doubt the lesson will be learned that close exciting racing can be had without spending the money. I would like to see a return to the bikes of the 70's, 4 valve uprights that were more rideable.

Re Robert Lambert. The Polish team (apart from KK) were full of youngsters. If you include Janowski, all of them have been under 21 world champions. Zmarzlic was on the podium in a GP as a wild card at the age of 18/19. Robert is 18 and I think does amazingly well. Perhaps Tai is right when he criticizes British speedway for not bring along its young riders. He put a 5 year plan to the Brit speedway authorities some time ago....what have they done??? Could be why Tai doesnt seem to keen to ride in the British Fianal... why should he put money into the pockets of British speedway when they dont re-invest it for the future. Robert will succeed - why - because he already has a foot in European speedway, and thats what he and other youngsters need - quality competition. It would be easy just to ride at top level in UK and earn some easy money, but you got to mix where the best ride to get the experience to beat them.

Thanks for the bit of fun Robbie B, I enjoyed it. Appreciated how much time you must of put into doing it.

Re Kurtz, not so much dropped but put back into reserve where he was last night, again no chance of a ride unless a rider is deemed to be injured or cannot carry on - so effectively dropped.

Dudek KK Doyle Masters AJ Lindback Tai Cook

I am more then 6 points behind the leader..... can I play the JOKER !!!!!!!!!!!!! Now theres a good idea I'll get my coat...

So whats the track record now? and who holds it? Good post Ouch! ....... I hope the correct people read it and learn from it. After hearing what BV track has been like, that was poor do's last night. I don't want tonight to be the same, Or maybe it was like it was last night, change it for tonight so Aussie don't have a head start on all the others. Some light drizzle here, but I am 30 miles west of Manchester but the wind blows that way.

Did you try them all Steve.??? and £10 for a program.... did the program cover tonights racing as well. £10 for a prog is moe then a bit steep.

All we need is tonight Tai withdraws from the meeting to "let youngsters" have a chance and Chris Harris rides in his place.

Got to add my disappointment about the racing being not at its best. Good to Emil again but a bit disappointed in his performance to be honest. The stadium really looks good, but the same grumble as others who were in the East stand - no sound system there worth mentioning of and the big screen was too far away to be able to read what was going on. Great viewing from East stand though. Tonight I took a friend with me as the wife wasnt feeling her best, tomorrow she says she going but that will cause a problem, as I am sure she will want something to eat but she wont like the choice - its either this burger bar or that burger bar. Not allowed to take own food in, yet there are many people whose digestive system will not allow then to eat burgers or chips etc. And the "missing Greg", disappointed and annoyed at the same time. Sorry, but he let the fans down badly, very badly and I think a lot of fans will remember this night, I certainly will. I dont do social media stuff but it would be interested on whats be said there.

He rode last year when they got to the same playoff. No bother then.

Thanks R&R

At 2:56pm I dont think you got a chance of Germany riding.

I hope he has a very very good reason for not riding, and I dont grab giving the youngsters a chance....if that was the case why bother in the Event 2. Probable that USA would finish last tonight, maybe not, but or there top rider to pull out (except for exceptional reasons) is very poor and a very bad decision which he may regret.

Emil Artem Iversen Madsen Doyle Fricke Fisher Janniro

Who am I supporting... well its a sport and I dont go for nationalism any way.... I support whoever I like as a speedway racer Emil, Fricke, AJ, Robert are up there

Thats a diabolic move by Hancock, sorry but he has lost my respect, unless he has an injury.

Looks like we looking at different weather forecasts. Light showers today till about 2pm then fine. Tomorrow oing to be fine all day. With the good drainage at BV its all looking good.

That seems very tight Steve. If you on M6, Birmingham is usually a nightmare any day but especially Fridays.

Can't see anyone logically not agreeing with that.

Just been on the BV website and cant see anything about no more disabled parking spots. Where did you find out about the shortage?? I can see that still parking available in the school next to the stadium for Friday night.

Thanks. Looked bigger then that. Belle Vue is 347m, not seen it yet but looking forward to it.

I like the Vastervik track, looked like loads of lines to take probably something to do with its width. They kept saying it was small track, what is the length of it??