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2. Gollob £50,000 3. Sayfutinov (captain) £50,000 7. Holta £35,000 11. Zetterström £25,000 13. Hampel £25,000 Total £185,000 Thanks

Good weekend all round, the Finns had everything organised really well, but the -17 on Sunday felt cold after the mild start to the winter in Sweden. It always feels good to get the first ride of the season under the belt, all the new parts worked so I'm happy. I'm hoping to ride Berlin this season, watch this space. I don't know what I've done to upset f-s-p and be missed off the result list

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Thanks Ian, I will be trying to ride wherever possible, as always. I'm heading off to Finland this weekend for training in Rovaniemi. I hope the weather stays cold, 1,200 km's for a washout is no joke.

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So if I wasn't selected I'm not an anorak thats good to know, thanks

I've never really understood these 'veiwing' figures, when I was a resident in the Uk and had Sky tv no one asked me what I watched. How do they arrive at these figures? I know the music singles chart at one time was, three London record shop's sales, but how do Sky work out their numbers? IMO your about 5,000 to many with active supporters.

They fulfill the criteria. They're both British and own a speedway bike the only qualification needed, presumably.

Woffinden and Lindbäck were both eliminated at the Motala Semi Final. Woffinden scored 5 points, Lindbäck scored 7, with all the statistics neither will do much at GP level. But on nationality Woffinden choose a winner, if he would have stayed an Aussie he would need to wait till Crump retired. Now he can guarantee the same 4 years as Harris regardless of results.

At least it's not Kennett

As I posted previously, substandard riders to appease British suporters

To be fair there's not much to choose between the two Swedes, but Lindgren did try to quailify through the GP challenge and made the final. Three of the most popular choices on this thread, Woffinden, Zagar and Lindback all had an attempt at the same Motala Semi Final and all three failed. Gafurov the Russian outscored two of them in his five rides one of which was an ef.

IMO the safety side of centre greens needs to be sorted, start line girls, track announcers, photographers, medical staff, start marshals, flag marshals are all potential victims. On some of the Sky meetings it looks like there's more people on the infield than in the crowd

The position you have described, is the preferred position the FIM officials want a rider to stop his bike, if not under power.

Nynke de Jong rode the Vassa longtrack in Finland 29th 0f August, she had a bad crash after crossing the finish line in the semi final.

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What may have an effect on the wildcards is whether the picks will ride in GB. Cardiff is filled with British fans, but with possibly only three riders in the GP's Crump, Bjerre and Holder riding in British speedway, it could reduce the attendance. So once again we will be watching substandard riders to appease the British supporters.

Weak referee tonight exploited to the full by an ex champion

Pedersen can get away with worse twice

Hans Andersen Jason Crump Andreas Jonsson Jaroslaw Hampel Greg Hancock Chris Holder Rune Holta Tomasz Gollob Freddie Lindgren Adrian Miedzinski Nicki Pedersen Piotr Protasewicz Lee Richardson Emil Sajfutdinov Ryan Sullivan

Kennett's form in Sweden isn't good either 15 points from 20 races this year

I've done what you sugested and checked with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_Sp...ld_Championship and it states 2009 1st Ward 2nd Pavlic 3rd Hougaard

The Kumla Semi Final programme quoted Janowski's age as 17.

Woffinden is not the most deserving, Harris is, as he was the only Brit to reach the GP Challenge Final. To answer the question about Hougaard and Pavlic being better in the GP's, that is unknown at this time, but they performed better in the U21. So form would suggest that woffinden will bring less to the series.

Using this criteria the 4 nominations would be Ward, Pavlic, Hougaard then Woffinden. How can you bypass riders who performed better just to get a Brit in.