BPR Posted May 12, 2005 Report Share Posted May 12, 2005 so let me get this straght, there is no quilfling so then only selcet can do it there for it surlly cant be called a world campionship, just a gp championship. Also if u use the idea of wild cards and the highest go's in next year.... what will a new USA or Austrlian or New Zealand rider have to do to get in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Meynell Posted May 12, 2005 Report Share Posted May 12, 2005 Positions 13-15 are eliminated and replaced by the 3 top scoring Wild Cards throughout the year. It's not a bad idea, but it's just tinkering with what is an unfair and uncompetitive system. The World Championship should be an open competition so that any rider in any speedway-riding country has a chance to make it to the SGP. However, whilst the SGP remains in the hands of a company that is allowed to conscript its riders from domestic competitions, I really don't care what they do. The qualifying rounds had become a joke because half of the new SGP riders each year were still handpicked anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Meynell Posted May 12, 2005 Report Share Posted May 12, 2005 so let me get this straght, there is no quilfling so then only selcet can do it there for it surlly cant be called a world campionship, just a gp championship. It's rarely referred to as a World Championship these days. It's called the FIM Speedway Grand Prix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Meynell Posted May 12, 2005 Report Share Posted May 12, 2005 (edited) F1 GP most the the drivers of lesser teams have paid for their drive. No qualifiers either. Speedway is not Formula 1. It's also fundamentally different in that the top riders make their living in the national leagues rather than the SGP. The Speedway World Championship until recently, was always structured as a number of qualifying rounds that (in theory) allowed any rider in the world to enter. By contrast, motor racing has (or used to have) a hierarchy through which upcoming drivers progressed. I'm not sure that the move to having drivers pay for their seats in F1 has been an improvement for the sport. In fact the opposite - F1 is now filled with mediocrities and is more boring than ever. Edited May 12, 2005 by Kevin Meynell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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