Niclas

I do following this thread and thought it was a god Idea to give you some extra info. Did you hear the interview with Max Fricke, was the quality god enough?

When you see Darcy and THJ in the GP, its hard to believe that noone of these two execellent rider managed to qualify for the GP Challenge.

Plenty of fans outside GB love to watch the GP at Sky Sports cause the production is so much better than their own national. Unfortunatly, viewers outside GB, atleast not in Sweden, are not able to buy Sky Sport even if they would love to. Didnt Emil win his first GP?

We can have plenty of opinions and ideas about who we would like to see in the GP or what kind of qualificationsystem we would prefer but has BSI ever surprised us? No is the answear and it will not happend this year neither. The nineth and tenth place will get a WC and Harris will get one as long as he is considered to be the best british rider. But I would prefer if the bottom-7 in the GP could have met the top-9 from GP Challenge and the best five would get a ticket to next year GP and that BSI only could nominatee two riders (in case of injury for example). But that solution require the best of worlds. I hope atleast G. Laguta gets a WC next year. He is tough enough to fight with the best and I believe he could end in the top-10.

If the standing stays like it is now, Nicki, Freddie and Harris will get a Wild Card. The last one is between THJ, Darcy and G. Laguta. As a swede i would love to see THJ in the GP but BSI will probably prefer two russians or three aussies instead of four swedes.

If I strictly pick the best from the list Lindbäck is the one I would choose. Next after him comes Andersen followed by Zagar. So I go for these three. If Freddie and AJ ends up in the top-8. I can switch Zagar for Ljung even if I believe Ljung would end up like Zorro, between 12-14th place in the final score.

I miss the times when the team just included two riders. If you change the World Cup from five riders team to two riders tem more country will be able to participate and its more likely that other team than Danmark, Poland and Sweden will win. For example is it à greater chance Russia Will win with Emil and Laguta or USA with Hancock/Fisher. Even countries like Ukraine and Slovenia will have à chance to mess up à little bit for the topnations. Ride every heat in pairs and let all team meet eachother once. I have no idea how many teams you need in à final to get 20-25 heat but I believe we need to do something to make it more equal for the smaller speedwaynations.

Poland wins because World Cup is a huge event for them. When Poland arrange the World Cup thry pick a track that suits them very well. Then they add 25000 screaming fans and suddenly they have the atmosphere that would have done Adam Skornicki to à superstar. I am convinced that Poland could have been ridden with Janowski and Pawlicki and still have been standing on the top of the podium. And to be honest, tonight we had ten GP-riders, some riders that are on there way down some riders on the way up and few riders that actually aint good enough for à World Cup (ie Mads K, Dave W and Jonas D). It harder to score points in à GP then in the WC, that is the reason why Pepe, Kolodziej and KK seems to be top-class riders. As far as I know the Race-off and the final will be held in Eskilstuna in Sweden, at the stadium where it used to be GPs back in the days. Congratulations Poland. You did an amazing competition tonight. I am glad Sweden managed to get the bronzemedal even if AJ had an extremly bad evening. But THJ is a man for the future. He Will soon be an ordinary GP-rider.

Maybe payback after Hampel sent Darcy down to the ground

I agree, hopefully there will be plenty of good lines to ride and I also hope all gates will be equal. Gate 3 during race-off seemed to be à little tricky for most riders.

So, the great question is how the final will end. We have a great debate on the swedish forum if Sweden will be able to beat Danmark and Australia. Polen is considered as winner by most of the Swedish fans but me and some others believe Sweden can manage to get second. But if that Will happen Freddie needs to deliever tomorrow and AJ and Anton continue to score points. What do you think?

Mr Bridger might have something to learn from Freddie Lindgren who just twittered: Just seen the crash from last night heat 16 and I must say well done and thank you Tai. That could have ended up nasty. Stupid move by me.

Maybe Bridger and Barker should try to get a contract with a club in Allsvenskan in Sweden (the second league). They are not good enough for the elitserien but could get good training in Allsvenskan. Allsvenskan nowdays includes riders like AJ, THJ, Zorro, Jonas D, Simon G, Mikael Max, Dennis Andersson, Danil Ivanov, Ty Proctor and Patryk Dudek. I guess its not wellpaid but it gives atleast a possibility to ride outside GB and that is what I think both Bridger and Barker need to get to a higher level.

I found it finally på sportowefakty.pl. http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/2011/07/08/zlote-trofeum-w-minizuzlu-woryna-w-finale/