IainB

I blame Poole

Erm... I did

I called this before the start, Ellis to Cardiff and British Championship rerun in October. It's the common sense decision and hopefully it won't be on Eurosport and will be on a Saturday night so I'll be more inclined to actually attend. What is unacceptable though is the inability of anybody to make a decision that I reached half an hour before the start. Again the fans are at the very bottom of anybody's concerns. Which is pretty much par for the course with the current and every other regime. Eurosport running their show as if no rain was forecast at all, despite everybody saying rain is forecast didn't help things either

Should have held it at Odsal under the superdome roof

Adam Ellis in his Doug Wyer tribute race suit! I do like a tassle

October? Adam Ellis seeded from last year?

Surprised they didn't cancel it based on the forecast

looking at the rainfall radar they'll be lucky to start let alone finish!

I'm sure it wasn't just to annoy me

Do you know what the attendances/capacities are for the other GP venues?

There should be equivalent tickets available, I'm not saying there are, but if that's not the case they need naming and shaming and the authorities need notifying

My ticket was £22 and I get the SGP2 on Sunday also! How much VFM do you want?!?

We do like our tractors at Leicester, we even got to see it after heat 2 last night and a heat earlier than normal for an extended interval

A common denominator with all of those you mention is Heritage/Ethnicity... I don't think it's any coincidence that Tai gets the same

For Billund see any airport on mainland Northern Europe or private plane from England to France/Germany

Absolutely it can if you can watch it out of the context of it being meaningful to anything other than just Speedway racing, making your match on Friday an "official" fixture just devalues the competition completely

It was just your average run of the mill meeting Lisa, which seems to be far too rare an occurrence these days, nothing to comment on like a team of guests etc.

In slightly related news, I'm not technically minded at all... but did anybody else notice the "gizmo" attached to Max Fricke's machine? You could see it in the gap in the engine cover, a box with some red lights on it with what looked like a data cable plugged into the top. Not everybody had one... what was it? And do any other riders have one?

I'm pretty sure Team GB have a seamstress on the payroll... besides he would have fitted right in with the rest of the crew with their ill fitting uniforms

How much is a Ryanair flight to Billund? Scott Nicholls?

It was strange, because as a layman the track looked in the best condition it has done all season... just didn't produce any real close Speedway racing (except 10 and 14) with riders generally strung out 20 yards between them

Good effort from our boys... well done Aussie. We can all take a year off next year as it's back to Poland to give them a home victory to keep them interested. It looks as though their fans have finally cottoned on to their "foreign" exploits as in previous years there was always more of a travelling support.

You should see the ASF!! I think there in lies the difference between a "professional" commentator and a co-commentator... the pro would do their research beforehand and have a sheet full of stats to call upon during commentary, not sure if KT does, he may very well do.

In an word No... London may as well be a different country to the rest of us who don't live there, it's a completely different demographic to the rest of the country

It was really quite unremarkable, a bit of a FTGfest with only 2 races of any note