IainB

yes 4 this year... marginally better than it was but it will only feature 3 of the current of the GP crop, Vaculik, Doyle & Holder... Lambert, Nilsson & Fricke failed to qualify, you could question whether the other 9, Bartek excepted, are really (and I mean really, really!) that interested in becoming World Champion. They may tell you they are but they're not really displaying the hunger that World Champions need. If they want to make a nice living milking the golden Polish t1t, that's great, don't waste everybody else's time by going through the motions in the GP every week. I'd rather watch 16 riders wanting to win something than 6 or 7 wanting to win with the rest going through the motions

When was the last time he "qualified" for a GP? In fact has he ever done the qualifying rounds?

Er... qualification

World Championship speedway should not be about who can get around a Polish track though. I'd call 3 qualifying spots pretty much a closed shop

That's what I was getting at with Holder & Bewley... it was debatable when they were given their places in the GP that they were up to that standard... but being in the GP series has made them genuine world class riders. How many more could that apply to? We'll never know because it's a closed shop

I don't think it helps that we've only really seen him ride here as a Birmingham reserve for a couple of meetings, so there's still a big question mark around how he'd get on around our "special" tracks... he'd be awesome of course but we've never really seen a World Champion give Britain a complete swerve

He is... his occasional grumpiness is quite endearing

That's not quite right, R&R will be along in a minute to give you all a lesson

There's currently nobody in the series with the intensity to win a title except for Doyle, Lambert and Holder... everybody else seems delighted with 2nd!

It doesn't help that its all kisses and cuddles after the race too. Where's the anger? While he keeps getting reactions like that he's going to continue to do things like that

It's highly debatable whether Jack & Dan would have received wild cards based on their league form... the GP's have been the making of these 2, taking them onto the next level

It's a closed shop though isn't it? Jack & Dan would have to have finished top 3 in the GP challenge to qualify and that's almost a lottery

If we had them... we probably wouldn't have had Jack & Dan

If he's serious about winning, which up until the last GP, when he was clearly gutted to miss the final, I'm not sure he has been with having the likes of Paco and Ellis in his pit bay. He would probably benefit from having a former Champ in his corner, at times it seems he doesn't realise how good he is and can be.

I wonder if that's why he said he wants to come back to England... to ride for who I'm not sure?

"Start as sharp a a bowling ball", brilliant!

Must mean he's a 25-30% worse rider than everybody else

Tai's bikes at least 10-15% better than everybody else's FACT!

Dickson has gone down in my estimation because of this... I've been binned off by email in the past, like you say cowardly. Turns out the special one is not so special after all.

And the commentators didn't mention that Ashley Holloway is the son of Mad Wellie or Tai the son of Rob

Is pit to rider communication banned in Speedway? Speedway seems to be one of the only motorsports that don't have it. How do riders know what time they've posted in quali until they return to the pits? Could also be useful for riders who are in front to know where an attack is coming from.

2 more potentially outstanding talents assessing their futures: https://twitter.com/MAKtGWB1/status/1672353681784598531?s=20

The only thing that may stop him is s rainy Friday night in Vojens... but it never rains there, especially in September! It should be in the bag though

Top draw final that

I think you're on the wrong forum