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yeah... whatever that means I would agree with absolutely everything you say, but honestly so far this year it's consistently been far superior to anything I've seen at BP before... could all be crap for the rest of the season of course

And for the love of all that is holy when are they going to have a super slo mo camera on the start/finish line for close finishes. A big fail for Discovery, it's 2022 and we're still looking at blurred images at 30fps from a camera at an angle!

Just tell it as i see it Gambo

Yes, i think that was an improvement, in the last couple of years the riders started to hide away in their pit bays, they are now totally open so there is no hiding place.

and even the updates didn't mention half of the racing passes that were made last night.

My preferences are: 1. close match with great racing 2. a hammering with great racing 3. a close match with no racing 4. a hammering with no racing If you think that anything you see other than a number 1 is crap, then I fear you're going to be disappointed the majority of the time. There were plenty of races that went beyond bend 2, maybe you were just in a bad mood last night

The tractor driver nearly fell off his tractor when he went over the starts while grading the track at the interval Leicester riders didn't seem to have a problem with the track though, track record in heat 1 proves that and from the back (twice). The track is the same for ALL riders

... and the next 6 or 7

So what did you think to the GP then and the new Discovery coverage? Who's going to challenge BZ on a consistent basis?

FWIW here's my take on the new Discovery Events era... Not impressed and overall a bit of a step backwards imo. Why have a presenter who speaks English as a foreign language as a presenter for an English language transmission? Sure have her on the Polish coverage or the pit interview slot but I don't think she can think quick enough in a foreign language to present a live show, perhaps she'll improve I hope so, it's early days. The whole transmission was too loud for me and left me with a headache, it was almost like being there with the noise from the PA system and the racket they played over the replays was grating to say the least. The heart rate monitors... a nice idea, but they can't be accurate surely! If they are I hope they've got 16 ambulances on standby at the track! The telemetry that was starting to be introduced over the last couple of years has now gone, so we now don't know if a rider is using a different bike. None of the so called new innovations were on view, no rider cam, no analysis, no stats, no touch screen analysis. All pretty poor imo and just what I've come to expect from Eurosport Website hasn't been updated with any results yet and it's 10am the following day! Are Monster Energy not now the series sponsor? They seem to be just official energy drink supplier... seems a step backwards to me. Fortunately the on track action was top draw! One swallow doesn't make a summer though, it's good that we're back to 1 night GP's on different tracks in different country's.

I thought Brando was a professional floor manager?

What are you talking about? Kelvin Tatum is an experienced commentator, in fact he's probably got more experience now in commentating than he had riding speedway!

If you can call that watering the track, I've done bigger wee's

What about you arrrggh... speaking as a pirate?

And producing some fantastic racing once again... Morris passed Wright twice in heat one getting that track record!

That's because it was a complete waste of time

The timing is not working half the time, making it even more pointless

I just started to read it... but lost interest, sorry, it's quite long isn't it

I take it that this qualifying session is fastest lap gets first pick of rider number? If so it's completely pointless as the track is gone after the first 3 sets of quali already. Surely they should aggregate the times or average them after the completion of all of the quali sessions. Or a knock out format like F1, this current format just doesn't work for me

From what I saw of Gilmour last season Stewart Dickson would do a better job if he donned a race suit himself!

Match of the season

Stonking cup tie that!

Drop them a line and ask for an audition, and it is "it's" not "its"

Drop them a line and ask for an audition, and it is "it's" not "its"