BritPete

This used to be such a prestigious meeting at one time. The annual pilgrimage to Hyde Road was one of the highlights of the year. The riders seemed to have more pride in those days and the old Belle Vue track always gave us some great racing. How different it is now, year after year riders drop out, often at the last minute. This meeting has been completely devalued now, and they may as well scrap it altogether. In my opinion, of course.

Yep, I just noticed that!

Surely the most amazing winner in history, and he re-writes the history books: Oldest ever winner, longest time ever between wins, and maybe, best of all, the first rider ever to win in two different centuries. That one will last for a while! Apart from Tony Rickardsson! ( I missed that one!)

Happy Birthday, Zetters!

There's nothing wrong with that at all, t's just a standard speedway tactic that you see all the time.Rory has made a complete fool of himself.

Only once?

It's also GP week!

Surely the most absurd post on this forum of all time. Don't you recall Poole's blatant cheating at Oxford and Belle Vue years ago? Would you care to comment on those matches?

The bottom one was uncalled for!

Absolutely ridiculous by Kennett, and if proved to be true, he will deserve all he gets.

I hope they check all the bikes after this meeting!

Maybe Tampax will sponsor him.

Are you sure about that? http://top-10-list.org/2010/10/04/10-most-watched-world-sports/

This should be a great three way battle to sort out who the finalists will be.

Fantastic news! Stuff the rules, breaking them is a common enough thing in speedway anyway, ask the Bspa! Lol. Now we can look forward to watching THE most popular rider in the sport today. P.S. KKs does it again!

He's said so himself now, it seems.What an odd way of deliberately finishing last.

I thought we fought back well after a disastrous start.. We got through comfortably enough in the end, and that's the best we could hope for anyway..

Yep, that's it then. If they had used all their practise time up, the Brtis would have won with ease.

Absolutely!

A speedway race is very easy to fix. Why would he make a dangerous move like that to finish last? He could just have just gated behind them and stayed there.But he didn't did he? He was ahead of the German rider at the first attempt to run the heat, in fact he was disputing the lead wit Pedersen.Why would he do that if he intended to be last? In the re-run he gated last, yet he passed Dilger, once again, why? Troy was poor all evening, was he also giving points away in his other races? ( Troy Batchelor - R , 1 , DW , 2 , 1 = 4) Glory Rory was last to a German rider, another fix? Holder messed up his race whilst taking his joker ride even though he led from the gate. Another fix? As for what Ward said on tv, well I stopped believing what riders say publicly a long time ago. Have a good day. Read more:http://speedwayupdates.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=world&action=display&thread=8375#ixzz1RgCCckvK

Not on purpose in my opinion.

I thought it was a very entertaining meeting. I'm really not sure what some fans expect. Gollob was found out tonight,he seemed to have got over his Cardiff jinx last year, but tonight he was back to normal. Bjerre and Lindgren demonstrated that they are the biggest bottlers in the Gp series,yet both of them so good on their own tracks. Meanwhile,the 41 year old Hancock goes marching on!

A very entertaining meeting,one of the best British finals for years.Woffy was unlucky of course,but how often does the best rider in the qualifying heats fail to to win the meeting?

Thanks for that.