Rob B

No it doesn't, the athletics track was ripped out straight after the commonwealth games to make way for more seating.

Having a quick look on a map Verona looks the closest, Ryanair fly there.

Quite a few years yet, isn't he only 13 still?

Can't see why not, Sweden have won it the last two years, crowds are generally quite good in Sweden.

The WTC has not been held in Sweden yet so why not have it there?

Yep, they both beat Mark Loram and did better then other wild cards this year.

I think your top 4 are right but I think Holta will get the 5th place.

We are staying there too. Have stayed there the last couple of years. Its ok. We will all be wearing Jason Crump caps, I will be wearing a Jason Crump coat aswell.

We'll be there, you'll see the Jason Crump flag on the second bend.

Basically I think the only way Crump can not win the championship is if he gets knocked out at the first eliminator (in main event) and Rickardsson wins GP.

BSI seem to be having some problems now, anyone noticed that there is only 3 sponsors now on the airfence and centre, Castrol, Viedec and Fiat Vans, there use to be loads, the meeting sponsors on the front of the bikes use to be big like Coca Cola, Egg etc now we have HSE in Slovenia and Meridian Lifts in Sweden that nobody will have heard of. Also they are cutting back on the big stadiums in Sweden and they have let off a lot of their staff who use to work on the airfence and organisation. They said they would promote the Australian GP themselves but it's never happened.

FlyinRyan, what a load of rubbish! Pointing the finger is not loosing it, and where was all the fighting and mass brawl?

Got back from Slovenia last night, I thought it was one of the worst GP's in the last few years, so much for permanent tracks being better! The track was slick and and soon as some dirt did build up on the outside they bladed it back to the inside every 4 heats. Was talking to Neil Street at the airport, he said Jason knew second was good enough in the semi and was just taking it easy, when he hit the rut it completely caught him out, if he had been fully racing he probably would have been able to control it better. Glad that Rickardsson finally won a GP this year, Crump still holds a 15 point lead so it should go down to the last round.

I was told the day after the Stockholm GP that it was the last one there because they are having a new running track installed and won't allow a speedway track to be built on it. Running at Avesta etc though is a backwards step for BSI.

I seem to remember them being called Backtrack or something similar.

To be honest Great Britain were very lucky with referee decisions tonight and Sweden were the better team. This Hans Andersen stuff is nonsence, there were 4 riders in the race, it was not a match race.

I agree that Havelock is the better choice round Poole than Screen but if the track is like tonight then the quickest way round was riding right up by the fence and Havelock doesn't do that so will just get passed by Gollob, Jonsson etc.

I still say Sweden will win the World Cup as long as Lindback keeps his cool.

I've got a bad feeling we will have to put up with Sam 'Woohoo' Ermolenko comentating on Saturday.

No it's not, the track could have been like the M1 (in fact it was towards the end apart from the dirt piled up against the fence) and the racing would have been still as good as the riders were so determined tonight. That meeting could have been anywhere and it would have been just as entertaining because it was do or die.

Nothing wrong with using the joker in the last heat, it's not nominated it's a programmed heat. To be honest Crump always seems to mess up the last heat recently he hasn't done well in it for Belle Vue in the last 3-4 meetings. Great meeting, don't think it was down to the track, mainly lots of determination from the riders. I've said for a while that Australia weren't goign to do anything this year and laughed everytime the commentators said they were favourites, with Johnston and Boyce/Shields in the team they were going to struggle, especially with Sullivan who doesn't ride his home track that well. Sweden won in the end with having 3 exclusions, if Lindback can keep his head then I still think they can win on Saturday!

Can't believe Max got excluded, Johno knew it was his fault when he got up as he was banging his own helmet and holding his head down

Why did SKY goto adverts straight after the race when Johnston fell then missing the start of the next race.

If the Aussie do manage to get through tonight then I would use Lyons instead of Boyce.