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Disapointed to see that Pawlicki isn't in the line up now. He looked really good at the Kumla Semi final.

Be fair they usually commentate on British speedway where noone overtakes

Woffinden rode in the Lonigo GP Quailfier and failed to qualify finishing 7th, T H Jonasson, Schlein and Nieminen all qualified for the semi finals. He got a 2nd chance in the semi in Motala, due to other riders injuries, but finished on less points than Risager and Gafurov.

On other threads on this forum, people are already booking hotels, sorting their tickets for Cardiff. Noone even knows who's riding but it doesn't matter to them. A British wildcard ? It would be better to have the best riders which would mean no Brit, and maybe an Aussie wildcard (Ward)

The same Woffinden that finished 7th in the Lonigo GP Quailfier and failed to qualify, T H Jonasson, Schlein and Nieminen all qualified for the semi finals. The same Woffinden that got a chance in the semi in Motala, due to other riders injuries, but finished on less points than Risager and Gafurov. How low is the standard of the GB riders when the only qualification they need is the Sky sports commentator's waffle.

The points from the also rans in this meeting have never been used to select wildcards before, whats special about Harris

On current form, it looks like a straight race between the four Poles for the three places. Would make the GP's interesting, with five Polish riders in after Holta finishes in the top eight. At least then the worlds top speedway nation would have adequate representation.

The track at Terenzano was used in 2008 for the GP qualification semi final, in 2007 it hosted a GP qualification round. During these meetings there would be FIM representatives who assess the suitability of the track.

Thats the problem with British speedway on the world stage. I was at Eskilstuna on tuesday and watched Woffinden get 5 points from 5 rides in the reserve races. Kennett was scoring 3, 4, 3 from his 12 rides in 3 Swedish league meetings for Vargarna, he also came 11th in the 4th GP qualifying meeting with 5 points. How could anybody take a GP seriously with that standard of rider, just because of nationality. The qualification should be widened to include all riders interested in riding, with the best 14 joining the WC and local wildcard.

T. Kroner should be his replacement as Lindback was at the Motala semi not Daugavpils

No Nicholls is obvious, total lack of form and confidence. D.Ruud's Swedish average is higher than T H Jonasson, P Ljung or D Nermark. But interesting to see that B Pedersen is selected for Denmark despite his Poole form

He did a job but he was very poor.

Poland need to be second, for the crowd at the race off. Australia need to be second, to use the race off to get their bike preparation right for the final. Team GB may find the enthusiasm of a youthful Slovenian team harder to beat than they think. Maybe a strange meeting, as the top two teams not wanting to win, may throw up some odd race results.

The worst posible punishment, he should be made to mechanic for team GB in Peterborough Last week he was put forward as the saviour of British speedway

The 2 semi finals had a seeded rider, but where is the information on a seeded rider in the GP Challenge ? According to the Fim web page it's 8 and 8 to qualify

Better than nothing, so who can we cheer for?

Looks like an updaters nightmare waiting to happen. The possibility of 5 Jensens in the final. Good to see entries from Australia and Norway in the mix, but nothing from GB

Thats impossible iris123 you can't have Pedersen and Sayfutdinov both finish in the same race After being at Kumla and watching the pass by Holta, (which left Crump looking like a novice) he looks in good form.

At Kumla on the 27/6

1.Patrick Hougaard DEN 2.Maksim Bogdanovs LAT 3.Matic Voldrih SLO 4.Tabaka József HUN 5.Darcy Ward AUS 6.Martin Vaculik SLK 7.Aleksander Conda SLO 8.Szymon Kielbasa POL 9.Tai Woffinden GBR 10.Matej Kus CZE 11.Jurica Pavlic HRV 12.Wiaczeslaw Giruckis LAT 13.Michal Mitko POL 14.Artiom Laguta RUS 15.Linus Ekloef SWE 16.Lewis Bridger GBR 17.Jan Holub CZE 18.Matija Duh

He wasn't ready to start, so it was a 2 minute exclusion