OveFundinFan

When I said would Adam "sustain a very high standard in all the rounds" I was including in that statement his riding ability, his sponsorship package, his fitness, his machinery, his mental fitness, mechanics.......the whole package. In the line up for tomorrow, there is a few that I could see giving it a good go and ruffle a few feathers in the gp's, whether they would sustain it for a full year. If 3 good ones get the GP next year, thats fine, but its not always the case and a full GP season (hopefully 2022) is a long time.

If he does qualify that means he is in all the GPs next year. Would he sustain a very high standard in all the rounds, or would he be fighting to be clear of no15 spot.ie like Berntzon and KK this year.

Italy has held crop FIM contest ie world team championship, best pairs and I think they had GP Challenge final. Germany has a GP round, this years got cancelled due to COVID restrictions, Spain is massively into MotoGP, Moto2, Moto3, Red Bull Challenge etc training young kids from very young age - would be difficult to break into Spain with speedway. USA, even in the heights of USA riders, and they were extremely good for years, had a World Championship final in Los Angeles, and I think a world team championship, but it never caught on for big tracks, they like Costa Mesa which can’t be much longer then a cycle speedway track I used to race. And remember Ivan Mauger and Barry Briggs took a world class tour of USA on massive stadia but it didn’t catch on some 40 years ago. Argentina has a rider in Europe. Again Ivan and Barry took riders to Arab countries, no real interest. South Africa was popular 50/60 years ago, but short lived. More effort and help could be put into Europe, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, even Finland and Norway struggle, France is simmering, why it’s not bigger there, don’t know, Austria has produced good riders50/60 years ago, Hungary too. Difficult, needs money thrown at it but it may all fail.

The reason why Poland for 2020 and 21 are having more GPs is entirely due to COVID. Travelling last year and up to middle of this has been restricted to to C19’ . Getting across borders and possibility of having to isolate has caused problems. With Vaculik injured the replace,met should have been Locachev from Ukraine, but he couldn’t get back to Ukraine isolation) to get a visa for next go. That’s how it goes, C19 still causing problems. And you know that Polish speedway is awash with money, so it’s only them (basically) that can afford double weekend GP’s. It would have been good to see 2 gp’s at Malilla but I suspect promotors short of money. And yes you are right, Australia and New Zealand didn’t make any money, that why if a promotor has money to burn the gp circus will go distances, sadly not enough promotors with spare cash

I don’t agree. We have seen that if a promotor in a far off country has the money then there may well be a GP ie New Zealand.

Well, if Vaculik cannot ride then Kvech is a good replacement.

Hope you successful, I think this will be an interesting meeting. Has Mikelson pulled out or been puled out?

The weather forecast for Manchester today is temp around 16deg C all afternoon running into evening, low chance of “precipitation” around a high of 17% this morning and around 7% at meeting time. Moderate winds of 13mph (for drying your washing). Pity NSS is not being streamed.

What is needed is more promotors like Barry Bishop. Maybe not follow exactly his meeting style (he is promoting on an island with lots of holiday makers) but with his creative thinking and application. Speedway has got to get more youngsters involved. It was a family sport when I was took by my parents over 60 years ago, but from what I see now it’s mostly those that were there as kids back then and the youngsters are, in the main, missing. So some creative thinking needed to attract younger ones, to make the sport more cost effective for competitors, and make a profit for promotors to reinvest.

Where is more central? Poole by any chance. Someone has posted there is only 30 miles in it between Poole to Manchester and Glasgow/Edinburgh and Manchester. That seems pretty central. You not going to please every supporter. NSS is a good race track, lots of chances to overtake, and can take more rain then most other tracks.

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Actually I think Laguta has come out of his comfort zone. His manager says there has been a difference since Laguta winning Prague. Certainly he is chasing with a view to take on a pass. He went round the outside of Freddie last night…… brave man.

The last half the meeting was good racing, but half a meeting wasted waiting for the track to come to the riders. This is the world championship, the pinnacle. The riders deserve something better, the fans who have paid good money to be there deserve something better, the tv viewers having paid good money to view deserve better, and so do the sponsors of the event and riders alike. Malilla is a better race track then we got last night. I know track staff will have worked very hard to get any racing on, and I appreciate that, but it would take not a lot of effort from a load of juniors doing different racing lines for 10 or more laps just to help the track along.

I think tonight has highlighted the fault in the scoring system like it’s not been highlighted before.

They each won a race, but Thomson had 2 seconds to Tais one, does that do it.

How Does that go? Madsen switched on and he leaves them.

It might annoy “us” if a procedural point is mentioned more then once, but what if someone new was watching (which we all wish). Repetition for emphasis is very useful in such cases.

I hope the track is sorted by heat 12.

Just send out 4 riders at a spacing so they don’t get filled in, rider different lines for 10 laps, job done.

Why don’t they send some riders out and develop the track a bit. Madsen big loser there.

Nice tribute to Phil Rsing from Scott and Charlie in the studio. Prostate cancer I heard, if you over 50 go get checked.

Have the meeting somewhere else and it would be far away for most of the country. Manchester is well placed for the national M-Ways

You can imagine the rush for the second night when the final positions are determined and the rostrum is filled. Could be someone who wants to see both nights is restricted to Friday only. Doing the way they have, a ticket for a double nighter means the true fans get to see both nights.

So to see the worlds best it is very good value. When speedway dies in the uk we have to treasure certain race tracks, NSS is one of them. The Phoenix will rise from the ashes.

So is it £45 total for 2 nights, or £45 for each night