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I agree with HGould. Sorry Rob, if you cant see that the situation is real and this lockdown will only be released very slowly and in stages. Just banging hundreds and thousands of people together at sports events and similar is just looking trouble straight in the face, the hospitals will be full, front line staff will be back into danger, so events with spectators are just not going to happen this year I reckon. I have my concern about professional football taken place, even behind locked doors. Its a contact sport. Speedway seems ok, because the riders are naturally pretty well protected, pit crew will just have to stay apart and be fewer in number.

I cant agree with you that its just an Open Meeting. Those riders in this year GP either battled it our through last years GPs, fought the way through the GP Challenge series, or impressed a selection committee in some other way from their riding last year. So they are there on merit. And, IMO, whoever wins will be the 2020 World Champion.

I sure its been said before John, but you really are missing out on some fantastic racing IMO. Some of the moves are breathtaking. Yes, we have seen breathtaking moves over the years, always have been, but on the right track there seems to be an abundance of them ie Malilla, Gustrow, Wroclaw and Torun. Obviously passes are up to the rider as well, and the current crop of riders really are giving it all.

Surely, John, the starters are already known......... the 15 who have already qualified for the series that would have been held plus 1 other, which in my mind would be first on the list, already established, that would be used to replace an injured rider (I don’t mean a meeting reserve, I mean series reserve).

The problem is not with one off world finals - the problem is if the powers that decide which track choose an inadequate one for good racing. A one off world final on a proper race track would provide some tremendous racing IMO.

Well, 2019 Czech GP announced for Sept 19. Certainly hope its not a one day world championship this year.

Same error for me.

BVue is one of the top 5 tracks in the world in my opinion. I doubt it will ever be a World GP track due to low number of spectators there could be even with temporary stands on 3/4 bend. However, if riders could travel and race with no spectators I think BVue would be a great venue as racing would be superb, but there would be no hugh empty stands in camera view. Income would have come from pay as you view, and that could make a lot.

I predicted couple weeks ago that Spedway GP World Championship this year would be 3 GPs all in Poland. I did not name tracks then but here goes :- Warsaw, Wroclaw, Torun

Someone said speedway gps are rubbish, no they not. Watched 2019 Malilla and 2019 Teterow, both amazinMonday night I got You Tube via Rocku and watched 2012 Championship Final, both legs, between Somerset and Scunthorpe. Good racing on very good tracks. Also watched a match between Somerset and Sheffield. Again a good match to watch.

I couldnt see these listed on my BT2 anytime last week at the times shown. Not looked at the "new" list yet.

Really.

My prediction is that there will be 3 Speedway GPs, all in Poland. Thats where the money is (at the moment).

but the National Speedway Stadium has proved in the short time since it opened in 2016 that it can hold raceable meetings when others tracks have failed. Add to that, the BLRC used to be held in October at Hyde Road stadium, and that is only a few hundred yeards down the road - same weather patterns..

Josh Brookes, favourite to win the 2020 British Superbikes championship is back in his native Australia and he does'nt think BSB will take place this year. That's what I am thinking for speedway in 2020 too. This virus is not going to go away as quick as we may wish it to.

The Principality Stadium is now an improvised hospital like the Excel, now Nightingale hospital, in London. Will take some major decision to remove that facility. I don’t think we will see much speedway this year if any.

Last night on You Tube I watched all 23 races the 2016 Cardiff GP, the one where Danny King scored 7, including a last race win over some of the worlds best. Apart from that there was many a good race. For sure Cardiff has had its share of boring races, all tracks do, I seen more then a few at the infamous Hyde Road track. Year in year out boring, not Cardiff in my opinion. yes, the current BV track would be a worthy race track for GP, but only 10,000 capacity at the best, I would go for that, but don’t you think hotel prices in Manchester would shoot up in prices, all cities do when their is an event on, and Manchester has plenty of events so the hoteliers are well used to hosting guests and raising prices accordingly.

Would be good if the SON in last week n October was held in the afternoons, still be cold but maybe a bit better then a night meetings.

Definitely 9 of the 16, 11 out of 18. i can’t definitely say I saw Hofmeister, if I did it would 1960 world final at Wembley. He did 4 world finals, all at Wembley :- 1957 0 points, 1958 2 points, 1059 4 points, and 1960 6 points. See what he was doing, he was progressing by 2 points every year. Not riding regularly in Britain he was slowly getting used to Wembley. Give another 4 years and he could have been world champ with 14.

I would love to see a speedway meeting fro Somerset, but what if no one from Somerset management reads this forum? your request will not be seen, therefor no match. Why not contact Somerset direct?

Sid, why is it you say league racing is now what the British speedway supporters want. It’s not for the standard of close racing surely. Team riding has disappeared, note the SON, team riding seems to be as you cross the line look behind to see if your team mate is behind you ie Jason Doyle. It’s every man for himself (with a few exceptions). So if it’s every man for himself that is why speedway gps are so exciting. Of course the “right” track makes a difference to good close racing. Some (most) of the televised British league racing last year were rubbish, I recorded them for future viewing, but then erased the recording as soon as the meeting was over.

I doubt very much a business like BT would even dare think about something like you suggest, it would cripple them financially if found out, and it would. I have a reasonable relationship with BT, see my post 3 before this one. I find if I talk calmly to them ( or other companies I may have a contract with), tell them my situation, and what I would like to do, even tell them what I am thinking of doing, I don’t always “win” but usually come to a reasonable settlement. Take Saturday when I rang them, I was in a position where legally I could have cancelled my whole contract (BT was changing my contract by them dropping Movies24), but if I had done that I would have lost super fast broadband (n other supplier can offer that to me apparently). So I would be big time looser. I didnt particularly want to lose but sport either, speedway and Moto gp will be back some day, and I get good discounts on my package. So I had to be sure not to put myself down a “bad route”. I was suggesting suspending the whole tv package (£18 per month)’, they wanted to suspend just the £4 p sport package. I respectfully reminded them what I could legally do (cancel £52 pm), adding that I don’t want to do that, but would, and got the concession to suspend the whole tv package month by month till this mess is over. i think in any business where they sell a service over the phone the “sharp guys” (and gals) will always be there, pushing things in a way to benefit them personally. Having had my own business over the last 25 years, until retirement, I have heard them all, got caught out too many times, but learnt from it.

Waited 40 minutes this morning to talk to a BT guy. I only got BT TV to get Speedway GP and Moto GP plus wife wanted Movies 24. Speedway/MotoGp finished last October so I have to pay 4-5 months for nothing except wife gets Movies 24. I got a letter from BT couple week ago to say Movie 24 is being dropped, so legally I could cancel my contract and as Speedway and MotoGP postponed it could be tempting. I put my case and said what could be done, Was told they would suspend the Sport package (£4 per month) on a monthly basis reviewed, I reminded them I could cancel the lot but didn't want to, could they suspend the TV and sport package, total £18 per month as per the Sport package. After consulting his supervisor again they agreed to do that on a month bt month basis..... but I have to request it month by month. So some sort of success. Must admit some of the BT packages are good value, but I have got discounts running. And whilst I live a bit countrified area, Openreach has put in fibre to the house (not a green box 2 mile down the road). I pay for 72 mbps, when I renew contract I will drop down probably to 37. Previously on copper cable I woud get 1.3 mbps and that was on a good day.

That may have been better then breakdown in Poland. I know Poland was a bit raw in 1976, and I imagine not much better in 86.

Can’t remember who we travelled with. Met the coach at Harwich, sailed to Bremerhaven, crossed Germany to enter Poland, for the next weekend we coached to Marianski Lazne for world long track. I remember in Poland being approached by a lady asking to exchange pounds for zlotys....well I think that is what she was after! On world final day, the wife got stuck in the hotel lift, and I was not too well pleased as we may be late. She wasn’t too pleased with me - don’t know why lol. We delayed at border leaving Poland going into Czech at Ostrava. One of the guys had too many Zlotys going out then he changed from pounds going in. That was a pain. Long track spectacular speed etc, but not as good as speedway IMO. Finally, we got the boat in Hamburg, but sailing down the river to North Sea the kitchens caught fire, eventful to say the least. Wonderful memories of the 1976 world final, now available on You Tube. After the mess at Wembley in 1975 when the over watered track by a spectator messed up PC world championship bid, and he should have got it. That’s when we decided to go to Katowice in 1976. My claim to fame was leading PC for the first half a lap in a grass track. He flew past me on the back straight so fast he would have been in the pits relaxing as I started the last lap. He was class.