mickthemuppet

Anybody have any ideas who is riding in this or is it another no interest meeting?

Don't know if this is true or not. The riders have two minutes to be up to the tapes everywhere except at Coventry where I think it is 3 minutes as Ben Barker did not get to the tapes until 2 mins 56 secs in the 2nd heat. In a later heat he was much quicker onlyl being 2mins 24 seconds.

Who is riding in the Polish Championship. Bookies have Piotr Swederski at 30/1 but I had him down as a non runner due to injured hand

Friday was the hottest day of the year in Prague and guess what 8.30 local time it's raining and the sky looks very overcast for the rest of the day

I went to the Speedway meeting in Majorca in the early 1970's It was held just outside Palma at a place called San Pardo. The meeting was won easily by Marshall Pugh. I think all the Spanish riders were complete novices. The crowd was good round about 7000 although there never was another meeting.

So who finish third in Saturday's GP. Today's Times has 1st JC 2nd GH and 3rd Bjarne Pedersen and 4th SN Is this correct or was Nikki Pedersen third?. As Nikki Pedersen and Scott Nicholls were both credited with no points in the final surely Scotty should be placed higher than Nikki Pedersen as he scored more points overall in the other races.

It's a terrible shameore that Speedway and in particular the British Grand Prix gets so little publicity, in the media. There were probably more people at Cardiff yesterday that in any other Sport in Britain or even Europe . The stadium looked close to capacity which is four times as many people on Centre Court at Wimbledon watching Andy Murray. I would think the Cardiff attendence will be higher that the European Football final tonight. I wonder is there will be any report of the GP final in Monday's papers. I will be very suprised if there is.

Dakarna 28 Vastervik 20 Mammarby 20Vetlanda 16 Lejonen 34 Pirates 26 Rospiggarna 23 Masarna 13 Smederna 20 Indianera 22

Latest Scores Rospiggana 5 Marsarna 1 Smederna 9 Indianerna 9 Lesonen 18 Piraterna 12 Hammarby 8 Vetlanda 4 Dackarna 11 Vastervik 7

Dackarna 5 Vastervik 1

Having been to the practice and the meeting, the practice was the longest I have seen lasting nearly 2 and a half hours. I don't know how Scot Nicholls was the 3rd fastest becauce I din't think any rider went flat out for four laps. They came out in groups of threes and practiced starts and perhaps one lap flat out then four or five laps then the next three and so then repeated this about four times. The track was perfect at practice. It was unfair critisim of the commontators to say the track was so bad because it was notas bad. as they made out. . A lot of the accidents had nothing to do with the track at all .Neils Kristian Iversen's crash was because he had too much speed going into the third bend and nearly hitting Jason Crump causing him to spin and then hit the air fence. Chris Harris, Scott Nicholls and Andreas Jonsson were all racing incidents. Greg Hancock shed a chain. Could not see how Hans accident was caused as it was in front of me and could not see any visible ruts there. Then Kelvin Tatum saying t hey must regrade the track now when Thomas Gollob fell.His words"Thomas Gollob has just crashed in the same rut as Hans Andersen.(as TB crashed on the 2nd bend and HA on the 4th bend it must be quite a long rut).The track was thoroughly graded after every 4 heats then after the 20 heats then again after the semi final. There were a lot of mistakes made during the meeting but it might have been because the riders were going so fast due to the size of the track and the fairly narrow straights. . Thought Nikki Pedersen was unlucky in the final as he made the gate and just got out on the wet stuff. as was Freddie Lindgren who was super every race except his last. Rene Holta was brilliant to come from gate four to win the final.

If the end comes for League Racing it will also become the end for Grand Prix Meetings as well, because where will the new riders come from. Could not see many people going to Cardiff or other GP's if there was no league racing

According to todays Daily Mirror Jarek Hampel is a non starter

Can anybody tell me what is on the back of the gelsenirchen ticket.I think it means free travel in the ruhr on the day of the grand prix or is there something more in it that that

11/4 expekt n pedersen 10/1 betfair J Crump 17/2 Betfair L Adams 20/1 Betfair C H arris 70/1 Bet Win S Nicholls 66/1 Bet Win B Pedersen 500/1 Centrebet L Tomacek

For everybodys whingeing Poland won an excellent meeting. Probably one of the best meetings ever put on by Sky. When they had the old system of 4 riders and a reserve the reserve could come in any time.So why not have the reserve rider to replace any rider at any time and up to seven rides like in the Elite League.Riders to be classified by the averages(Mean average of all leagues)and the reserve is genuine the fifth in the averages.The injury and doctor thing is all rubbish as a rider if he wants to can drop out at any time. Get rid of the joker and let teams that get 6 points or more behind replace a rider with any other ride and allow them one tactical ride each as in the old system So that a team 6 or more behind can keep replacing a rider.

Thought Chris Louis was again excellent and the new presenter was excellent for the first time and good luck to her.One word of advice keep well clear of Scottie Nicholls .She might take seriously something that was only poked at her in fun