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Fair enough

No. He wouldn't be given anything by default except another chance as an invited wild card entry for the following year.

No. He did not miss them because of injury or illness. He quite simply did not become an official GP rider until he replaced Tony Rickardsson. Only his points scored as such should count.

If Scott Nicholls or any other rider for that matter misses any GP's because of injury or illness I think that after the series has been completed they should be credited with the average points lost. ie. At present Scott Nicholls has gained 67 points from 7 GP's for an average of say 10 points per GP. If he finishes out of the top 8, but by adding 10 points to his final total for every missed GP he would have in fact finished in the top 8, then he should be given one of the 2007 wild cards.

I would personally like to see Mark Loram back in the GP's but to invite him back at this time would not be fair to those riders that went to the trouble of racing in the qualifying competition. Mark has said many times that he wouldn't mind another go now that the format has been changed but he can't be that bothered otherwise he would have had a go to qualify. Even if he had not qualified by showing his intent he may have earned himself a wild card in the way Chris Harris or Peter Karlsson may do as a result of their recent efforts.

The top 8 automatically requalify. The remaining 7 to go in a GP Challenge Race Off against the top 8 qualifiers from the GP qualifiers plus the World Junior Champion with the top 7 going into the GP proper. Remaining place to be available for a wild card rider. Won't happen I know but this is what I feel and I will shout it from the rooftops at every opportunity.

Still think there should be a meeting for those outside the top 8 and the winners of a qualifying series with the first so many getting in

Totally agree SCB

He should have entered the qualifiers this year if only to send a message that he was genuinly interested again. Even if he did not automatically qualify which is unlikely, there being only 3 places available, he would have been given serious consideration by FIM/BSI.

Don't care. Should be the best riders wherever they are from

Same with Footy. No fall, no free kick or penalty but the intended foul was still performed.

Please add me to your fine appraisal MikePK

How about each country that qualified for the World Cup Final and Race Off be entitled to have their National Champions represent them in the following year's GP series. All non national champions that finished in the top 8 in the GP also to be reinvited by right. The World under 21 champion only to be invited if he does not come into either of the above catagories. All remaining places to be filled by the winners of a GP Challenge Final

Good morning Wizza. Thanks for your response. Just like to clarify your first comment though. What I meant was that of those non automatic qualifiers only Scott Nicholls had gone into the top 8 this year but that someone had to as a result of Tony R being in swan song mode. I think we are of the same mind on this.

So, after the Lonigo dust has settled we have only one of last year's invited riders in this year's top 8 in Scott Nicholls who has merely taken the place of the retiring Tony Rickardsson which means that all of the other non automatic requalifying places are filled by riders that were given a lifeline or were chosen for political and financial reasons.

He had the best white liner around in his corner so he was obviously very well advised

It most certainly is a tough sport. It is the toughest riding meeting in the world after all. It's a pity a certain colleague of yours won't see it this way. There would not have been a murmour if it had been the other Pedersen involved.

Millard and Tatum are in a studio in England watching it on a TV monitor. They can only comment on what the local producer is showing at the time.

As I have said many times before the original GP challenge meeting was the fairest method of selecting the qualifiers for each following year's GP series. If say the top 8 were reinvited, 7 could come from a meeting involving the rest plus 9 that had successfully come through the World Championship qualifiers. If the GP Challenge's top 6 then joined up this would leave a place for the Under 21 champion who I agree should be invited. Jason Crump started his GP career in such a manner I think. Personally I think places should be offered to each of the top speedway nations national champions first and then the remaining places offered to the others finishing in the top 8 and the remaining places going to the Under 21 Champ and to those doing best in the GP Challenge.

I would like it if all the major speedway country's national champions were all invited to the GP World Championship by right. Such nations being say GB,Sweden,Poland,Denmark,Australia, USA. Would make the Britsh Final more meaningful.

Don't think anyone who is not in the original 15 competitors count in the final standings

We might have finished only a handful of points behind Denmark but we needed to use up all our sub options to do so.

It's a laughing stock anyway (well British Speedway is)but I agree with you about these commentators

"JOKE" R is a very apt speedway word. Just scrap it and simply allow teams that are 6 or more points behind to replace a rider with a tactical substitute up to a maximum of 3 times using 3 seperate riders. No more unfair "JOKE R" double points.

But Crump was himself crowded out from his outside. He could either shut off or move over. Just one of those things.