John Hannibal Thomas

Dickie Juul

After a miserable first 19 heats the meeting sprung to life, then calmed down again at around heat 24. Congrats to Team GB, I think if they had a real EL quality team manager like Middlo they would have hit nearer 60.

I think the number of Polish GP's has devalued the GP Series as a whole.

Gutted for KB, he has been dreadfully unlucky again, Holder trying an impossible move and staying down has cost KB the Danish GP. Tony Steele needs to watch the starts, the riders were taking advantage of his poor eyesight in all the heats, particularly the Poles.

dreadful refereeing. how many rollers have gone unpunished?

The poor GP's are back, time to get rid of this Olsson fella. Shame for KB that he made a monumental error picking gate one in the semi, if he looked at the past ten heats he will see there was one win from gate one and that was thanks to a massive rolling start from Jason Crump. If KB picked blue I have no doubt he would have added another GP win to his achievements this season. Tai had his best GP to date, well done lad.

A deserved GP win for KB, if only he had not received the horrific injuries he has done over the past 5-6 years I think he would have had at least one World Championship to his name by now.

It was good to see a track follow Newcastle's lead regarding track preparation. I think what let it down was that gates one and two had such an advantage over three and four, hence the riders who got more rides from them having higher scores. Crump was lucky as usual, right place and right time to get an easy route through and win. There is still time for BSI to call in Robbie Best if they want truely great racing.

Why don't we just move all the events to Poland and rename the series to the Polish championships, then they can keep their biased referees and oversized engines to themselves.

Crump must be removed from the GP series, having a ginger world champ is no good for any sport.

Steele's GP career is no doubt over, the exclusion of Pedersen was a career ending decision for any ref. Maybes Steele should be demoted down to the NL if he is serious about his career?

That will be a shame, I remember when Ole was recommended to Newcastle by none other than Ivan Mauger. To see him leave the limelight will be a sad day indeed.

The track looks spot on, our lads would have raced on it that is for sure!

Exactly, hopefully the BSPA will have finally realised that there is a difference between chequebook PL speedway and the World Cup.

This must be Lyons spell as Team boss over. Over to Rosco.

I hear it was the Newcastle track staff who prepared it.

Everytime. Speedway would get far more coverage at Wembley, having such a high profile event in Wales is just wrong! You would never see the Football World Cup being held in Kazakhstan!

on a more positive note, hopefully William Hill will have noticed the cardboard 5 pint holders that you get at Cardiff. Could do with those to help the muckmen encourage the lads without too much of this traipsing back and forwards to the bar.

The way I look at it the guy is almost as old as some of the Redcar team, he should have packed in years ago.

he still in the GP's?

2009's GP series should be null and void. Nicki should take legal action against the referees, he would win for sure.

110% agree, these Polish refs need removing from FIM meetings.

Dreadfull decision by the referee, easily conned by Emil the cheat. Polish ref no doubt? They should not be allowed positions of such power, time for Polish officials to be banned from competitive meetings.

What a joke of a GP. Like the Poles, Hungarian referees can not be trusted and should not be allowed to officiate outside of Eastern Europe ever again. Yawn-fest to suit the slick boys.