mickthemuppet

ease their prices for a GP weekend.With the greatest of respect , like for like it is cheaper to stay in a Hotel in London than Cardiff. The reason is most of the hotels in London cater for Business people from Monday to Friday and would be nearly empty on Fridays and Saturdays so there are plenty of special offers from firms like Holiday Inn, Hilton etc. Take the other way round ,nearly all the hotels increase their prices in Cardiff knowing they have a captive audience.

What about Gelschenkirken. It was a abslolute ideal stadium for a GP. Although they had problems with the wet shale why is it never mentioned as a GP site again. I went to the first and only GP there and thought the atmosphere was fantastic but the racing was awful. Was the gate there not 22,000 which is a great gate for a GP. Why is it never mentioned as a possible GP today. There must be other problems why this is not considered plus there is so many ways to get there from the UK

But most stadiums that stage Grand Prix's do not have roofs , so what are you saying Phil. Is there a roof in New Zealand then>

Am I missing something here . Big Fat Dave lands at Heathrow and he is in Cardiff 4 hours later. Wembley is 12 miles away from Heathrow. I wonder if he thinks it would take 4 hours to get to Wembley. Then there is a slight difference in costs. Please go back on my previous posting and tell me where it is more convienent to get to Cardiff than Wembley. Ask the Poles,Danes or Swedes what they would prefer to go to. They cannot even fly to Cardiff direct.

How can it be convienient. Coming from abroad Cardiff has no direct flights from Poland,Denmark,Sweden, Czech Republic or Germany. Wembley is 12 miles from Heathrow with flights from everywhere. Coming from Europe by road Wembley is much better than Cardiff. Taking all the Speedway clubs in Britain perhaps 3 or 4 of them are easier to get to Cardiff than Wembley.

Sorrry woz01, my post was directed to a 2nd GP in this country. I think Cardiff is ideal but I was thinking of a second GP in this country

I wonder if they said that in 1949 or perhaps you thought it was not a gamble then. Surely any world final at Wembley was a gamble with the weather a very big feature . How many Speedway meetings were held at Wembley. Far more than will ever be seen at Cardiff.

on that basis that make New Zealand the top country pro rata so that does not prove anything does it

So your parents are not related by marriage. I think I have heard it all now. Anybody elses parents in the world that are not related by marriage except mr Snackette or perhaps Mr Wriggle. Give it up. Once again your are on a loser.

As someone who spells the tiny creature gnat without a g like nat I will quote you what is says in the Modern Oxford Dictionary (P.S. Not to many people on here spell four letter words wrong or in your case a three letter word) Related 1. Being connected:associated 2 Connected by kinship,common origin, or marriage 3. Music . Having a close harmonic connection. Hope this will help you.or are you going to argue with the dictionary as well

It does not but you in a very good light if your parents are not related . I think there is a word for it

I think you will find there are more people go to Speedway in Britain than go to speedway in Sweden and Denmark combined There are twice as many go to Cardiff GP than the two Swedish Grand Prix's

Please tell me which part you do not understand then I will try to explain it to you.. So what is your definition of RECENT then

Great but they were that dull but two of them were world champions and another one finished in the top three

Virtually all the talk on here is about previous world finals. Some peoples memories are pretty good and people still speak on fond memories of these meetings Except Chris Harris winning a GP at Cardiff there does not seem to be many memorable GP's of which there has been far more of. and also more recent. It's a shame we could not carry on with the GP's and have an individual world championship as well

The statement by Chris Louis that the long term aim to to get back in the Elite League is the best statement to come out of the Witches camp for over a year. Ipswich are a big club that belong to a big league. Lets get back to local matches against King's Lynn, Peterborough and Arena Essex . I cannot wait for a Easter Bank Holiday double against the Stars with perhaps 3-4000 watching compared now to the 7-800 attending home matches. It;s odd really that all the Premier League matches between the Star Of Anglia and the 16 lap classic were all lower gates than those two meetings. yet people say they prefer team racing to individual meetings

So you can rectify that now and put up who were the great partners with Norman Parker, Ken KcKinlay, Ronnie Moore and Kelvin Mullarkey and that will put the thread back on topic

I thought the Forum asked how many great parterships there were and not name one rider and guess who might his partner be

When you talk about the money side of the sport did you mean the one off World Finals at Wembley. There all profits from these finals went back into British speedway as compared to the current GP's where nothing goes back into British Speedway

I am afraid to say the scoring system is rubbish. Say for instance Rider A won every Gp but rider B top scored in every GP. Then rider B would be world champion without ever winning a GP. So rider A wins all the GP's yet is not world champion. That why the scoring system must be changed.

Unfortuneatly Wembley Lions were forced out by the stadium wanting too much rent. I think it was the region of £7500 per meeting. Such a shame as they were getting up to 20,000 a meeting. Another annoying feature there was the drinks in the bar were dearer at a Speedway meeting than they were at a Greyhound meeting It's as Wembley stadium did not want Speedway to continue there. As for Sverre after his terrible accident he lost all confidence and was never the same rider again

Most Speedway meetings are not very good in the afternoon Nothing worse that dust billowing all over the place then watering .then shortly after the dust is back again. Much better Speedway in the evenings

So what promoters would want run on a Monday night when there is Live Elite Speedway on Sky. You only have to look at how many people attend a live Sky meeting to show that would finish Speedway completely

Yes - Heard Richie Hawkins is going to Ipswich

Now correct me if I am wrong but the subject on this posting are supposed to be about "Replying to next Issue Of Classic Speedway" Now not having seen the current Classic Speedway magazine is there now a Bible section or is this the biggest straying off topic ever.