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Gollob's huge smile well justified tonight, two more to go, hope he wraps it up in Italy and goes to Bydgoszcz and soaks it all up.

On first reading Tayls sounds good

The GPs coincided with the birth of satellite tv didn't they, certainly since BSI bought 25 years of rights anyway ..........

That's interesting to note, thanks Chris Louis NOT! Seems to me that on the whole it's take, take, take from most top boys, don't they ever dream of giving?? You sure about that? I'm not usually one to moan about too much grading but that guy on the tractor was going round probably about 4 to 6 times with the blade, then 2 or 3 times with the grader and there were no ruts and no shale and it took 10- 15 mins each time! There was a guy from one of the teams came out and tried to find a little shale himself to rake, the actual track rakers were also constantly searching for a piece of shale or two to justify their job!

And why did Len's track man spend so much time grading nothing??

Oh god, where do I start, if it wasn't for Bridger's celebrations, watching the Poles shaking hands with their supporters at the end and having pics taken and the danes giving Jan Steachmann and another larger member of their team the bumps I'd have had a totally wasted day, at least they showed passion and caring. I really should have known that the bloody Rye track is almost impossible to pass on anyways, £60 down the swanny

I'd much rather the world championship was a series of qualifiers and maybe the best of 3 final. More riders would be involved starting from scratch every year, every ride would be absolutely crucial. Sounds more exciting to me than the 11 round series we have now.

Owwwwwwwww yes cos every ride counted big time in every qualifier and of course hugely in the final, the tension was massive unlike in the GP series ...........

This thread has got to be the bsf at one of it's worse

Well yeah, doesn't everyone get annoyed when important things go wrong, particularly in sport? Of course the TV people must love winding them up more than they already are, anyone could tell by Holder's body language in particular that he was ermmmmmm "annoyed" lol Time to leave well alone if they didn't want the viewers to hear expletives I'd have thought??!!

So good to see a brit do so well and from the back too, brilliantly well done Bomber!! Great to see Ted showing his support too

Yep King's Lynn

Sounds like you have probably got it right, it was in the Star this week.

Most British fans would prefer if the brits qualified properly, in fact I think most would prefer all the riders to qualify.

This would be good for Polish Speedway and BSI. I hope Gollob does it. It's odd that Poland, being the main speedway nation, haven't produced more world champs!

I wondered if that bit of lift he got meant that he couldn't pass Emil as tight/wasn't then on as tighter line, as he hoped, hence the clash?

Just a shame he can't race under the flag of his home nation though or doesn't he care?

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Thank you, best look after them then

The BSPA oughta buy the rights to this and do a deal with SKY, I'd like to be able to see it, wouldn't you? Even better hold it over here so we can see some of it live

I have one of Lionel Van Praag and one of Frank Charles. It says on the back copyright photo by C F Wallace, Manchester.

Can anyone tell me if these are rare or not please?

Agreed that promoters would work the averages as always but those who go out to win the league probably wouldn't get the chance and that in turn would share the winners around? I would go for less gradings: Grade 5 8.5+ Grade 4 7.5 - 8.49 Grade 3 6.5 - 7.49 Grade 2 5.5 - 6.49 Grade 1 4.49 and less Then teams built to 20 points perhaps. I'd had thought that the promoters would have to work out to see if the riders that are on the books at present would all get a job with these gradings, it's pretty important for british speedway to keep the riders that do want to race here! Another way of changing speedway/possibly making the racing better imo would be to change the meeting format so that there are more races with riders of similar calibre. If that happened the riders averages would change completely of course, more thought has to go into this idea than I have given it haha, sounds good though

I'm sure all our promoters would like to run their tracks like Poland and/or Sweden/Denmark but as you say it's impossible. What all our promoters could do here would be to invite councillors to speedway all the time so they can see that speedway is good for their communities perhaps.

Really, didn't realise that, can the riders still get plenty of practice on the tracks then or do they only stick to official practice day and race day?