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And whilst we are at it, is Mark Webber, Keith Huwen's love child or something, how many times did he keep going on and on and on about him being there, and chartering a plane to support Jason zzzzzzzzzzzz

And here's the article: TRACK ACE TOMASZ TOPS £1M ABOVE: Poland skipper Tomasz Gollob is the first rider to break through the £1m-a-year pay barrier 3rd February 2010 By Peter OakesYour Shout ( 0 ) POLAND skipper Tomasz Gollob is the first rider to break through the £1m-a-year pay barrier. The World Cup hero has not raced in Britain since turning out for Ipswich in 2000. But he’s still rated the highest-paid racer in the world with annual wages last season of £1,038,121. The figure is based on official on-track earnings in Poland and Sweden but doesn’t take into account his sponsorship deals. Gollob, 38, is ranked as the ninth highest-paid sportsman in Poland, with F1 ace Robert Kubica No.1 on £3,661,000. Gollob has been a national hero for more than a decade and finished runner-up in last year’s world championship. Australian world champion Jason Crump, 34, and Danish rival Nicki Pedersen, 32, are believed to earn in excess of £500,000 a season. taken from Daily Star

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Well I enjoyed it too.

For some people it's not convenient to watch at 6 o/c in the evening, so we sky+ it to watch it when it is convenient, and being one of those that had to sky+ the first meeting with the red button, sadly it wasn't until late on the Sunday evening that I found I only had 16 heats and by then it was too late to record the later showings. The last GP I was working at Blenheim Horse Trials so once again had to rely on Sky+, luckily my son realised it was only programmed for 1 hour, so recorded the Sunday morning showing. The Italian GP is on Sky Sports Xtra at 7 o/c and seems to be on for 3 hours, and once again I will be Sky+ as it's ITFC v Newcastle at 5.30 on BBC as well, so will see if it goes interactive again tomorrow. At least when you sky+ you can fast forward all the boring inane talking that goes on, snd even some of the racing

Whilst I agree that Zorro qualified by right, how will he enhance the GP's , at least Scott and Bomber are heat leaders

Taken from speedwaygp web site, full lineups: 2009 SWC TEAMS The official team declarations have been made for the FIM Tobet Speedway World Cup and are detailed below. TEAM DECLARATIONS: 2009 FIM Tobet Speedway World Cup Event 1: Vojens, Denmark, 11 July 2009 Start Time: 1900H LOCAL TIME COUNTRY COLOUR RIDER NAME RUSSIA RED 1 Roman Povazhny 2 Denis Gizatullin (Captain) 3 Renat Gafurov 4 Emil Sayfutdinov 5 Grigory Laguta Team Manager Oleg Volochov COUNTRY COLOUR RIDER NAME DENMARK BLUE 1 Nicki Pedersen 2 Bjarne Pedersen 3 Hans Andersen (Captain) 4 Kenneth Bjerre 5 Niels Kristian Iversen Team Manager Jan Staechmann COUNTRY COLOUR RIDER NAME SWEDEN WHITE 1 Antonio Lindback 2 Fredrik Lindgren 3 David Ruud 4 Andreas Jonsson (Captain) 5 Jonas Davidsson Team Manager Tobias Johansson COUNTRY COLOUR RIDER NAME CZECH REPUBLIC YELLOW 1 Ales Dryml (Captain) 2 Adrian Rymel 3 Lukas Dryml 4 Josef Franc 5 Matej Kus Team Manager Milan Spinka TEAM DECLARATIONS: 2009 FIM Tobet Speedway World Cup Event 1: Vojens, Denmark, 11 July 2009 Start Time: 1900H LOCAL TIME COUNTRY COLOUR RIDER NAME AUSTRALIA RED 1 Ryan Sullivan 2 Rory Schlein 3 Leigh Adams (Captain) 4 Chris Holder 5 Jason Crump Team Manager Craig Boyce COUNTRY COLOUR RIDER NAME GREAT BRITAIN BLUE 1 Edward Kennett 2 Lewis Bridger 3 Chris Harris (Captain) 4 Tai Woffinden 5 Daniel King Team Manager Rob Lyon COUNTRY COLOUR RIDER NAME POLAND WHITE 1 Tomasz Gollob (Captain) 2 Sebastian Ulamek 3 Piotr Protasiewicz 4 Adrian Miedzinski 5 Jaroslaw Hampel Team Manager Marek Cieslak COUNTRY COLOUR RIDER NAME SLOVENIA YELLOW 1 Matej Zagar (Captain) 2 Denis Stojs 3 Izak Santej 4 Maks Gregoric 5 Aleksander Conda Team Manager Tomaz Pozrl I understand that Kasprzak may be in for the injured Ulamek for Poland

I felt he went down like a girl . However you are right, he'd been stuffed going into the corner, was out of control and Bomber only clipped his front wheel, but it was enough for him to attempt his swan dive....more like Ugly Duckling though, it was so obvious, but it was enough to get Bomber excluded, and yes Nicki should not have been excluded.

Can anyone tell me how Danny King got on please?, I see Tobi Kroner was 7th. Many thanks

That's going to be a bit difficult for 4 of us from Ipswich, as ours have been arranged through the supporters club

Hopefully he won't have a choice, and perhaps he will retire gracefully, sooner rather than later

I have to say, that I agree with you Lupus.

Can I add my voice to the coming up to tapes music....what was that all about, 3 tunes intros all played at the same time , just need a fanfare of some sort, then at least if you had snuck off to the loo or to get drinks, food, you could at least identify when the next race was about to start....just my opinion you understand. Also can't stand those cheesy, Wonderful Copenhagen, Wizard of Oz type themes, but I think the Land of Hope and Glory and Rule Britannia bit when all the crowd (of Brits) were waving their flags in time to the music was brilliant.

Something not quite right with Jarek ATM I reckon, family bereavement aside that is. He looked very pale, last week at Ippo

I thought Bomber said that Hans and he had a problem, as well as Hans and Freddie, not Bomber and Freddie And Rob, no-one is saying that Dribble did it intentionally, just that Freddie should not have been excluded For you to call Freddie names, is rather pathetic TBH, and don't go blaming your cold on your total biased viewpoint.

Oh was she the one with all the teeth , and the one with the yellow wig....thought that was a transvestite TBH Ooops just seen Hansfan's reply lol!!! SNAP

No disputing the fact that Bomber and Nicholls are good solid BEL riders, but that is all I'm afraid, they just cannot seem to cut the mustard on the World stage and are found wanting everytime. Time as has already been said, to let others have their chance, from whatever nation they come from. It's ridiculous to say that the 2 Brits have to be in it for the sake of Cardiff, people don't just go to Cardiff to see those 2 do they . Anyway we would have a British wildcard there. And as for Tai, when Johnno interviewed him the other night on TV, I'm sure he said that "he was born in Scunthorpe and you can't get anymore British than that"!!

Good GP I felt tonight, and big well done to Tomasz. Must admit bad decision by ref over Dribble/Lindgren, no way should Freddie have been excluded, still justice was served when Dribble was excluded. (not saying it was dirty or anything, but Dribble definitely went into Freddie ) Roll on Cardiff.

With that first team Rob, I don't think you need worry about the 2nd team . I'm with Star Lady and Spook. Blood those youngsters this year, we are not going to win anything this year, so get some mileage in those youngsters. Kennett Woffinden Allen King Wright.

Well done Tobi

Think this taken from speedwayworldtv: THE FIM have confirmed the regulations for the richest race in speedway at the end of the season. A prize fund of $200,000 will be up for grabs in the last heat of the Grand Prix series at Gelsenkirchen on October 11. Last year, Andreas Jonsson won $100,000 for his win in the German Grand Prix to mark the 100th GP since the competition began back in 1995. However, this year's prize heat will be an extra race on the card after the German GP has completed - and it will feature the winners of the four meetings deemed as Super Prix, those being Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Cardiff and Gelsenkirchen. The winner of the race will pocket $120,000 with the consolation prizes being $40,000 for second place, $25,000 for third and $15,000 for fourth. A chance to the World Cup regulations announced at the FIM Congress was that teams will revert to being made up of five riders, as it was agreed that the six-man format used in 2007 was unsatisfactory. Ole Olsen has signed a new three year deal to continue as Race Director for the Grand Prix and World Cup series, and Olsen is also a member of the SGP Commission alongside CCP President Roy Otto and FIM Sporting Director Ignacio Verneda. will help push the tickets for this year, an extra race for a large purse, sounds like a great finale to the GP's , however have to hope we have 4 winners of those picked GP's, otherwise could cause problems

Chris Schramm: http://www.chrisschramm.net/ Tobi Kroner: Home ... www.kroner-speedway.de/ - 2k

Well, my first thought on seeing the incident from on the 1st bend was that Scott took Bomber out, and we were shocked that the red lights didn't come on.Bad bad decision (or non decision by the ref) However, what concerned me more, was the fact that with Bomber still down on the track Nicholls didn't even go check he was OK or did he want a lifty back or anything. And before any of you ask, yes I do know Nicholls. And I'm fairly certain he will not be at Ipswich next season, why on earth would Coventry want to get rid of, in all honesty, probably their most successful Captain. What I would like to add though, is why should it matter what nationality Scott Nicholls is, as regards to people seeing incidents differently. What I felt I saw was Scott, having been 3rd, Holta taking 2nd placed Bomber wide and allowing Scott through briefly to 2nd before Bomber re-passed Scott,...... going into the last lap, Scott then smacking into Bomber causing him to fall. And no exclusion.!! End of.

Better change my siggy then , best of luck to Christian, however a big cheer for Tobi on parade methinks.