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The meeting actually started at 3pm with the french championship. Result 1. mathieu tresarrieu 2. christophe dubernard 3. stephane tresarrieu. As the last race didn't finish until 00-45 it was just as well the bit in the middle looked naff, so that enabled us to find a hotel and go back for the main event. Great track, but a very uncomfortable stadium, no seats, no terracing, just a bank of stones, rocks, gravel and a bit of grass. But the organisers must have been happy with a crowd of 3,500<approx> there.

Like a lot of people i also heard it was off. luckily got another call to say it wasn't. But lots of people left the stadium assuming it was off, that little rumour must have cost len a fortune! Justice really, when you whack the prices up and dont tell anyone. No mention of price hike on here, in the star, or on the website. Why do we always feel the need to rip the public off in this country? 3 weeks ago i watched another qualifier in germany, 9 euros plus 1 for prog. Last night £15 plus £2-50 prog, that had more mistakes than a millard commentary. Germany has roughly the same cost of living as we do. So can anyone explain why it's 150% dearer to watch the same type of meeting here than it is there?

Must agree with that. 4 of the teams didn't even bother to send a reserve. Anyway it was an enjoyable meeting, only marred by the dangerous stupidity of simota. When will this idiot learn that speedway is dangerous enough without the likes of him barging into other riders without no thought of the other blokes safety. Luckily fritz wallner got up and was only bruised, but it could have been a lot worse. There's no place in speedway for riders like this!!!!!

You good people at herxheim deserved a big crowd for all the hard work making sure the meeting passed by without a hitch. Well prepared track, plenty of good racing, excellent catering <well priced too>, and all for 9 euros. I hope the F.I.M. give you another world meeting in the near future, you deserve it. On the racing front, the highlight for me was the performance of the unknown Martin Vaculik. This boy is gonna be a star, and whats more will be well suited to british tracks if yesterday is anything to go by, as the herxheim track is the only british type track i've ever seen on the continent. British promoters take note, herxheim is not a speedway area, yet 2800 turned up yesterday, why? because it only cost 9 euros to get in.

I witnessed the plymouth v usa meeting on friday, plenty of incident, yes, but most of that was down to poor riders on a tiddly track. On sunday i witnessed gniezno v gdansk, now thats what you call passing in most races, plenty of incident, and a very enjoyable afternoon. On top of that, witnessed by a massive crowd, creating a wonderful atmosphere. Now thats real speedway!!

According to www.speedway.org/kalender/2007/index.html theres a meeting in st johann on the 19th. But it just says speedwayrennen, hopefully one of our germen friends can enlighten us a bit more. If you do go, theres a nice guesthouse the other side of the railway line, about 2 mins walk form track. You cant miss it, it's a big yellow house.

Must agree with rob here, i'd be horrified if a g.p. cost me more than £150. Travel, front row ticket and hotel in gelsenkirchen £90 the lot.

The biggest ever prize for a speedway meeting and it's on a temporary track, i just hope the $100,000 is won by the best rider and not lost by some poor sod hitting a rut. Bad decision b.s.i., the biggest prize in the history of the sport should have been raced on a PROPER track. Nevertheless i've booked front row seats and my hotel, so lets hope it will live up to all the hype it's gonna get over the next few months

On the assumption the U21 final starts at normal polish time <5ish>. leave bydgoszcz 10-12 arrive ostrow 14-39 via poznan, all for the princely sum of £7. Sounds like a damn good weekend to me!!

G'day dave, see where you're coming from, but £150 <max> per g.p. and a few little dramas is certainly my way of doing things, always reckon the odd drama adds to the fun of it. 3000km for a meeting? Good luck mate, hope the rain holds off.

A lot of people are under the impreesion that san bonifacio is the nearest station. 2 years ago i picked some friends up there, but the verona-venice train goes to the next stop which is lonigo<about £2 from verona>, other people were coming of trains and were struggling to get a cab. The best bet is get off at lonigo then cab back to san bonifacio. As the italians start late you cant get a train back afterwards, just after 10pm is the last one back to the best of my knowledge. Fully agree with other postings re verona, best place to fly too and stay. £185 for week is good deal, i think big fat dave saying you might pay a "little" more with tp tours is well off the mark!!!

Or you could do the sensible option. Book your own flight for about £90 <max> then 20p for bus to the centre, stay as long as you like in riga, then £2-50 on the train to daugavpils, but i recommend the bus at £3-50, it's a darn sight more comfy. No "extras" to fork out for, have a lovely time for half the price!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll go back, only £3-50 for a very comfy coach ride from riga, friendly people, lovely girls, footy in the afternoon before the meeting and very very cheap food and drink, only disappointment was seeing the locals outside unable to afford the entrance fee, would certainly have been a full house if they had sold cheaper tickets to locals. And to complete a great weekend i got upgraded to business class on way home, while the coventry lads, boggle and mr lindback were slumming it in the cattle truck.

As well as your brolly, a decent jumper good be handy, says showers, max 14% min 10%, if it's on sky at 7pm, then it's 9pm out there so could be chilly by midnight, then back to the latgola and drink with boggle until 5am <if she lets me>.

Me and the girly will be there cheering for danny, cant see him doing it but just hope we see a damn good meeting <lets face it, living in england we have to travel abroad in the hope of good stuff>.

Regarding the transport out to slany, theres a bus/tram from dejvicka <for those that eint been before, this is where the bus from the airport stops at the end of the metro>. It says depart 13-42 arrive 14-25, 32km, 33kr. Coming back thers a 22-35 thats get back to dejvicka at 23-20. There's other options but this seemed about the easiest one to me. I'm sure there's a train service out there, but i couldn't find one that comes back after 10pm. If anybody has found a good train option, please post it as i'm sure most would prefer to go by train.

Dont bother booking hotels up for the 2nd june, theres a game of footy at the stadium that day!! Looks like the 9th to me.

Thanks bavarian, i'll be flying to salzburg as the times and fares are very good for a day trip it's only about 90 min drive from there.

Me and the missus will be there.

Cheers boggle, Was in landschut last season and meeting lasted at least 3 hours, as well as the speedway there was trials bikes, big blokes exhibiting big bikes and various other things the germans seemed to enjoy. As long as i'm out of there by 7-15pm i'll be happy, so if it listed at 2pm or anything before 4pm i'll be going.

Does anybody know the start time of this meeting, it's a bank holiday so i assume it's an afternoon start, i reckon if it starts between 2pm-4pm i can book a day return to salzburg and get there and back ok. I've tried emailing the addresses on 2 websites, but got both returned by server. Any help would be appreciated, especially as the flights are dirt cheap at the moment.

For those that are going <i'm sure they'll be quite a few of us there>. This info was in the getingarna prog last night. Gates open 3pm, meeting starts 6pm, entry 150kr, seat 50kr, prog 50kr. There is a combi ticket available for 225kr <obviously entry,seat,prog> if you book in advance, but that only seemed available via the local tourist board, if this is not the case and anybody knows if we can book in advance, let us know please.

Thanks rusky, shame i'll only be there for 24 hours, but i'll get round as much as possible.

Thanks again Joakim, i didn't realise how close getingarna was to nynashamn until i looked on their website, are you going? If so i'll see you there, i'll be the one with the ipswich witches programme board.

Thanks Joakim. You may have joked about staying in the prison, but it sounds like a novel idea to me, and at that price i've booked it! Because of the links you gave me i also figured out it was better to sail from nynashamn. We'll be going to kumla on tuesday and nykopings on thursday. Thanks again for the info, it certainly looks a wonderful place to visit.