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Most of the team rode like complete wobblers last night, especially in the early races, Cook, and all the best to him, he was having back spasms which must have been frightening looked like he'd never been on a speedway bike before in his first race!

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Seriously?!? I missed that... not a good day for Leicester at all!

City are looking for a new manager... I wonder if we could do a double? I've not seen a Lions performance as bad as this since the Blackbird Road days!

If there is, give him a race suit... can't do much worse than this shower

The one saving grace is Doyley ain't riding!

Becker needs to be riding CL

Absolutely pathetic so far from the Lions! Just rank bad speedway riding! England footballers would do better! Usual caveat, Lawson excepted

And in the GP qualifier... just not Belle Vue matches! He may well have aggravated his injury... like Covatti and Musielak, but for some reason they got bans and still nobody has explained to me the difference

Speculation... but when @Phil The Ace posts it, it's usually true

There is no back tracking... it's as if nothing has been previously said, it's like she's got a protective boot in her mouth

They should try and get it back dated to when the offence originally happened

Forget that... what about his legendary protective boot? When you do get it I think you should seriously consider donating it to the Speedway museum, at Paradise Park, where it could become a major exhibit.

Normally in legal documents/rules there's a force majeure clause, I would have thought both Doyle and Tungate should have been covered by this, why a flight delay in a foreign country trumps a traffic delay in a foreign country I'm not quite sure. Neither should have been banned imo... or both (definitely neither)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the rules don't mention missed flights, broken down planes, traffic jams etc. It just says the SCB have to be notified when and why a rider is missing. It then seems to be up to the SCB if and what any sanction will be. Why Tungate gets a ban and Doyle doesn't has never been explained. There's far too many 7 and 28 day bans being handed out for my liking.

He missed the meeting

If only that were true, but once you start basing rules on common sense... or opinion as I would call it, you're onto a loser

It doesn't really matter that he missed his flight tbh, he missed the meeting which is what the rule says

This has already happened, granted it wasn't Poland... it was Slovakia. Also Tungate got a ban Doyle didn't... And you can throw Lee Complin into the case, as he was banned with no facility allowed until the next day!

Has there been another era when there have been so few world champions competing? Past, present and future? Obviously Zmarzlik's achievements will be judged in the future, when he's retired along with the current crop. But Rickardsson competed against more world champions: Jan O Pedersen, Per Jonsson, Hans Nielsen, Sam Ermolenko, Greg Hancock, Billy Hamill, Mark Loram, Tomasz Gollob, Gary Havelock, Jason Crump, Nicki Pedersen = 11 champions, 21 world titles 6 wins, 3 2nd's (to Jan O, Crump & Nielsen), 2 3rd's (to Loram, Hamill, Crump & Pedersen), 2 4th's (to Hamill, Nielsen, Gollob & Hancock): 18 World Champions Trick rode in 8 home GP's and won 2 in his 6 title wins. GP win ratio 23.81% Zmarzlik: Greg Hancock, Tai Woffinden, Chris Holder, Jason Doyle, Nicki Pedersen, Artem Laguta = 6 champions, 13 world titles 4 wins, 2 2nd's (to Woffy & Laguta), 1 3rd (to Hancock & Woffy): 8 World Champions Bartek rode in 16 home GP's and won 7 in his 4 title wins GP win ratio 26.37% A higher proportion of GP's have been held in Zmarzlik's home land in the modern era (and I don't care what you say, that is an advantage), with 2020's championship almost exclusively being held in Poland. Add in the ban applied to his 2 closest rivals as good as he undoubtedly is, he ain't no GoaT (yet). Somebody else might want to look at Ivan Mauger's record

Didn't they say he was a sponsor representative or something.

RnR!!!! GET HIM OFF THIS FORUM!!!!

Zero I would have thought as everybody else manages to spell his name correctly ... but Fricke looked over three times at Smarslick last night as they were coming out of turn 2, lap 1 and still failed to slam the door shut on him at the end of the back straight! I don't think anybody was going to stop BZ from winning last night though.

Maybe a quick 4 fingers up while still holding onto the handlebar grip... but that's all

He actually missed 2 meetings (so far) for Belle Vue, at Oxford after getting injured abroad, he then returned for the GP qualifier, then missed the next Belle Vue match... but don't let the facts get in the way