chunky

On the plus side, there was always Berntzon!!!

Obviously, some tracks are better than others, but the last few races have been a LOT better than the earlier ones, and at least they have been able to race in the second half.

I'm not sure if it's down to the modern machinery, but I don't recall it being this bad years ago. Yeah, the opening race used to be the best for track records - it was often TOO good - but the tracks seemed to settle down a lot quicker than they do now.

Frustrating, isn't it?

How's your v***na, Mike? Still full of sand?

Yet again, give some juniors a bunch of laps on the track before the meeting, and you can see how much better it would have been...

Or you can get updates from the SpeedwayGP website...

The one thing I've been noticing recently - particularly with his last race just now - is that he doesn't seem to know where on the track he should be. He really is all over the place, and going backwards most of the time.

At 38, Gafurov must be the oldest track reserve we've seen in the GP's?

Why don't you say how you REALLY feel???

Yeah, I've been wondering about that!

Overwatered yet again...

Are you suggesting that Vicar comes down to the Waitrose to see Rob?

Never saw a race at Ullevi, but... I was in Gothenburg for darts, so I decided to have a wander. The place was wide open with nobody around, so I managed to walk the entire track!

Plus, the GP's are designed to have the best riders in the world. The World Final was designed to qualify riders based more on nationality, and every year, there was a least one rider who SHOULD have been there that wasn't.

Yeah, he's got Piotr Protasiewicz by a couple of years...

There was a lot more than that few that had bloody disappeared...

Yeah - and they used hair spray on the tires to help with grip. Honestly, that South African track made Wembley look big, but at least it had dirt.

You're probably the only person who missed Les Collins' entire career!!!

Seven Englishmen have won the World Championship, compared to six Aussies, five Danes, and five Swedes.

See below...

That's why I mentioned it! I knew that not everybody would know that...

Ouch!!! True though... Funny enough, did you know that England has provided more individual world champs than any other country?

Well, the OP stated "other than England, Australia, Sweden etc" (which I would take to include Denmark), so I think we should just focus on the minor speedway nations...

Arnold Stolting and Fritz Niemeck came over in 1930, although I don't believe either made the team, but Gustav Kellner did make a few appearances the following year.