The Race Off

[Matt Davis]

Damn you beat me to it Subedei

[jill]

another one if SCB's posts to be ignored

Edited August 4, 2005 by jill

[SCB]

Bugger, Pedersen!

 

Pedersen, Holta, both dirty sods who I don't like, may as well be the same person IMO.

[Subedei]

Anyway, speaking of Tomasz Gollob, he was absolutely superb tonight. It's great to see him back on top form. I've said all season that he's been under-power in the GPs, but now with a super-fast GM under him, he's looking great again. He certainly gave Nicki P plenty to think about.

 

Edit:

 

Actually, he seemed to give his mechanic plenty to think about after that heat as well. Maybe disappointed with the start he made.

Edited August 4, 2005 by Subedei

[jill]

Anyway, speaking of Tomasz Gollob, he was absolutely superb tonight. It's great to see him back on top form. I've said all season that he's been under-power in the GPs, but now with a super-fast GM under him, he's looking great again. He certainly gave Nicki P plenty to think about.

 

got to agree with you there he was pure class

[Ace no.5]

To be honest, if Crump had ridden I think it would have been a very different story. At one point the Aussies were 2 points up on the Danes. That would most likely have been more had Crump been riding. Psychologically everything would then have been different. The Aussies would still have had plenty to race for even when the Danes got a couple of points on them. The Aussies seemed to give up in the end, and that's why the difference in score looks so big. If you have a look at the last 11 heats, the Aussies got 6 points, finishing last in 7 of the heats. They just weren't interested at the end. And whoever it was said they've got a 5-1 bet on Poland. You lucky...!

Sounds like a very good bet right now.

[Lucky Star]

An excellent meeting last night but as someone has already pointed out there was a very disappointing crowd to watch it.

 

It looked like there were only about 2,000 fans inside the Olympic Stadium. I attended Wroclaw's last home league meeting and the crowd that night was 8,000 so where were all the Polish fans last night?

 

Was it live on Polish TV as well as on Sky?

[philfromcov]

probablt BSI pumped up the price

 

i like sullivans comments "jason who?" maybe a falling out1

 

mind you "flyin ryan" needs some adjustment these days too!

isnt he still on thiose tractors tuned by tatum? the ones Aj threw in the bin after 6 weeks?

 

looking at the poles and sweden, team GB will have alot of hard work, but lets hope they can do it!

[rabbit]

From memory I don't think Crumpy and Sully were ever the best of buddies...goes back to their junior days I think and some pretty intense rivalry.

 

It was a dire crowd last night, hope final is better than that. Not like the tickets were exactly expensive and seem to have been marketed at local prices if those I've heard quoted from people going are correct. - £8 for the run-off and final added together! All very well holding the final in that huge stadium but to the casual viewer it did seem like no-one had bothered turning up. Can now see the rationale behind BSIs staging decisions the last couple of years.

[frigbo]

Thought that was the dullest race-off yet, the Thursday is normally the highlight of the tournament, but that was pretty dreary fayre last night with nobody watching it either.

 

I'm even more convinced that GB will struggle tomorrow now as the track didn't produce a great deal of passing.

[Subedei]

Photographs of this meeting can be found at the following:

 

http://www.sportowefakty.pl/index.php?dysc...6&news_id=76183

[Mr. Clemens]

Unlucky or what??? >>> I didn’t even have time to alter my ego >>> spin into my colourful Halifax jumper >>> and make a cuppa tea >>> before a newly baptised and confirmed Belle Vue supporting nephew arrives >>> to watch his favourite rider >>> ‘cos unluckily for him >>> and th’australians of course>>> Jason’s not riding.

 

The unlucky Crump >>> who ought to have taken advantage of this bit of luck >>> (if you think about it) >>> has contracted GB Maximum-Man’s lucky race winning bug >>> sick or what >>> eh >>> how???

 

But Jason >>> unluckily >>> felt too ill to take advantage of GB Maximum-Man’s lucky sickness bug >>>> (Not to be confused with that sick Millennium Bug) >>> and unluckily for th’australian stayed in bed.

 

All this bad luck eh >>> and t’meetings not even started yet!!!!!

Blimey O’Riley!!!!

 

‘Who’s riding tonight’ >>> asks already disgruntled nephew??

 

Th’unlucky Danes >>> th’unlucky Poles >>> th’un lucky Australians >>> (luckily you already know that) >>>> and th’incredibly unlucky Czechs.

Wit’ pundits having already decided that th’unlucky Australians were going to be the th’unluckiest team on show >>> and would inevitably go out of the t’World Cup >>> and wit’ lucky Danes set to capitalise on th’australians bad luck >>> and wit’ lucky

Poles on a track they’ve practiced on for a month >>> in a meeting that’s probably been fiddled for them to win anyway >>> On with the Motley !!!!!

 

Heat 1.

Hampel wins from gate

(T’other three had no luck in their efforts to catch up with Hampel)

 

Australia 0 Denmark 2 Poland 3 Czechs 1

 

Heat 2.

Holta first.

‘I don’t agree with him riding for Poland’ quoth Kelv

Holta’s luck is in and he his >>> eh >>> what??

 

Australia 1 Denmark 4 Poland 6 Czechs 1

 

Heat 3.

Gollob brilliant win >>> great tussle between Andersen and Sullivan.

How are you managing without Jason Crump asks the lovely Sophie??? >>> her of the profound intellectual in depth question.

Jason who?? >>> ripostes Ryan >>> with tongue firmly in cheek >>> eh >>> what?

(‘Sarky or what’, quoth disgruntled nephew???

‘Watt’ll be riding instead of Crumpie’, chortles Uncle Mr. Clemens).

 

Australia 3 Denmark 5 Poland 9 Czechs 1

 

Heat 4.

Tricky Nicki first

Th’equally cheeky and lucky Nicki moves at start.

‘Race should have been stopped’ quoth Kelv >>> but it wasn’t >>> was it > >> eh??

‘Hungarian referee’s eh >>> where did they get HIM from’ gasps Kelv????

(Hungary of course, where else Kelvin)???

That cheeky Leigh Adams moved too but in the heat of the moment >>> myopic pundits didn’t notice till end of th’race.

 

Australia 5 Denmark 8 Poland 10 Czechs1

 

TV pundit interviews Neil Middleditch

‘Are all of Team GB here tonight’ asks TV pundit?

‘Not all of them’, says Team Manager.

‘Unluckily Lee Richardson can’t find his way to Wroclaw’, quoth Mr. Middleditch, ‘Though he’s been here many times before’.

‘Perhaps he’s mislaid GB Maximum-Man’s lucky sickness bug’, says the nervous TV pundit.

‘No, no, no’, chuckles mildly amused Mr. Middleditch,

‘He loaned it to Jason Crump for tonight’s meeting >>> but Lee’s reliably informed me that it’s safely tucked up in it’s rightful place >>> his stomach >>> don’t worry’.

 

Heat 5.

Jonno excluded for not making contact with a bouncing Czech >>> Unlucky!!!

Walosek wins rerun

(Out of luck Czech comes in second behind fast gating Walosek >>>> Lucky!!!

 

Australia 5 Denmark 9 Poland 13 Czechs 3

 

Heat 6.

Walosek wins again

TV pundit Sophie collars Walosek in the pits.

‘I don’t think he understands what I am saying’ grins the sophisticated, intellectual Sophie.

(‘Does anyone’, wonders Uncle Mr. Clemens)???

Australia 7 Denmark 10 Poland 16 Czechs 3

 

Heat 7.

Iversen first

‘That’s a surprising result’ quoth TV pundit Nigel Pearson

(That’s because the fast gating out of luck Adams >>> is where he wasn’t expected to be >>> back in third place >>> unlucky!!!).

 

Australia 8 Denmark 13 Poland 18 Czechs 3

 

Heat 8.

Andersen wins

‘He’s a real battler is Jonno’ quoth Kelv >>> as th’unlucky australian goes round the inside but is overtaken by Andersen and Holta.

 

Australia 9 Denmark 16 Poland 20 Czechs 3

 

Super Sophie interviews Boycie

‘You’re really missing Jason tonight’, aren’t you’, Sophie asks a disgruntled th’aussie Team manager? ‘When will you use the joker’?

‘I don’t know yet’, said th’australian manager, ‘but we certainly could have done with that GB Maximum-Man’s lucky sickness bug tonight’!!!

 

Heat 9.

Brilliant Gollob win

‘I wonder what he will have to say about that’, asks TV pundit Nigel >>> as Watt almost puts tricky Dane Nicki through t’fence???

‘It’s been a tough race all round’ quoth Kelv, ‘luckily speedway riders are tough’!!!

 

‘You have to remember that Andersen rides for ‘Rotslav’ says th’informative Kelvin. (It’s Vrocslav Kelv >>> you pronounce your W’s as V’s)!!!

‘And Holta rides for Chestakova (Czestochova)’, says th’equally informative Nigel.

(It’s Chelmsta-ova Nigel)!!!

 

Australia 10 Denmark 18 Poland 23 Czechs 3

 

Heat 10.

Pepe first

‘The Poles are laying down a psychological marker for Saturday’s final’, quoth Nigel!!

(‘Where’, says disgruntled nephew ‘I can’t see it’)???

 

Australia 12 Denmark 19 Poland 26 Czechs 3

 

Heat 11.

Adams brilliant win

Superb race between Adams and Holta >>> no luck involved in this race.

 

Australia 15 Denmark 20 Poland 28 Czechs 3

 

Heat 12.

Gollob marches on

‘Is that Jason’s bike you were on’, asks fact finding TV pundit Sophie???

‘I couldn’t possibly comment’, says th’rueful th’australian Jonno!!!

(I wonder if Jason knows about that’, quoth wicked old myopic Mr. Clemens???

‘He does now’, says a still disgruntled Belle Vue supporting nephew)!!!

 

Australia 16 Denmark 20 Poland 31 Czechs 5

 

Heat 13.

Adams >>> Protasiewicz >>> Andersen >> > Rymel

Adams >>> a brilliant double points win

‘Meetings come alive’ quoth Kelv!!!!

‘Boycie got it right’, quoth Nigel!!!

(Unluckily for th’danes >>> th’australians are ahead >>> without a th’world champ >>> with nothing else to hang around for >>> but who still couldn’t be bothered to wait for’t GB Maximum-Man’s lucky sickness bug to kick in)!!!

 

Australia 22 Denmark 21 Poland 33 Czechs 5

 

Heat 14.

Walosek >>> Shields >>> Nicki >>> in a thriller

‘With all due respect to Shields’ quoth TV Pundit Nigel ‘but he was lucky to beat Nicki Pedersen’.

‘Shields, brilliant reactions’, contradicts a more astute Kelvin!!!

 

Australia 24 Denmark 22 Poland 36 Czechs 5

 

Heat 15.

Hampel wins from Bjarne Pedersen >>> Sullivan >>> Ales Drymel

Sullivan and Bjarne tussle with each other throughout >>> the Dane comes second

‘Bjarne Pedersen just had the legs there’, quoth TV pundit Nigel as Bjarne crosses the line just ahead of Sullivan.

 

(‘What’s ‘just had the legs there’ mean’, asks a now perplexed and still disgruntled Belle Vue supporting nephew???

‘It’s highly sophisticated technical TV jargon for summat that only th’educated

Public School boys like Kelvin understands’, replies wicked old Uncle Mr Clemens.

‘Good job for th’danes though that Bjarne Pedersen’s got some lucky legs isn’t it?

They might very well come in handy on Saturday night when they come up against GB Maximum-Man’s lucky sickness bug’).

Australia 24 Denmark 23 Poland 39 Czechs 7

 

Heat 16.

Tricky Nicki in for Bjerre.

Shields rolls and almost touches tapes as race stopped with all four riders back in.

‘How lucky is that’, quoth Kelv???

Rerun

Fantastic classic race between Nicki and Tomas Gollob, Pedersen wins on the line.

‘Pedersen has got the legs’, quoth expert TV pundit Pearson >>> eh >>> what???

 

(That’s two Danes that’s got legs now, I wonder if Nick’s borrowed Bjarne’s legs or has he got a pair of his own’, ripostes a wicked old Uncle to a bemused, perplexed, disgruntled nephew)?

 

In order to discover the secret of these mysterious lucky Danish legs, for’t speedway viewing millions, roving TV pundit Sophie, corners an ice packed tricky Nicki Pedersen in’t pits.

 

‘Why are you wearing an ice pack Nicki’, asks the beaming Sophie?

‘It’s an old arm injury and the blood can’t pump through to my hand’, Nicki smiled.

‘But it’s a good job I have my lucky Danish legs. As long as the blood keeps on pumping through them I will be all right’.

‘You’re a real trouper’, Sophie giggled, in reply.

 

‘Tomas Gollob looks angry with his mechanic’, observes TV pundit Nigel.

‘I wonder what he’s saying to him’.

‘I don’t know I can’t speak Polish’, Kelvin replies.

(In order to throw clarity on Gollob’s conversation with his mechanic, Mr Clemens called upon his Polish speaking, mother in law, for the translation into English.

She kindly obliged and reliably informed him this is exactly what Tomas said.

‘Where was my pair of lucky Polish racing legs when I needed them, that’s what I want to know?? Tell me goddamn you’!!!

‘Rune Holta’s got ‘em on’, replied Tomas’ disgruntled mechanic!!!

 

Australia 24 Denmark 26 Poland 41 Czechs 8

 

Heat 17.

Pepe >>> Iversen >>> Sullivan

Pepe shoots past a fast gating Iversen

‘Protasiewicz didn’t deserve to hit the front there’, quoth Kelv >> eh >>> what >>> why????

Iversen scraps with Sullivan but keeps in him third place.

‘Iversen’s got the legs on Sullivan’, quoth Nigel >>> eh >>> what >>> how??

(Where would th’danes be without their lucky legs’, chuckled wicked old Uncle Mr. Clemens across to his bemused, perplexed, disgruntled nephew)???

 

Australia 25 Denmark 28 Poland 44 Czechs 8

 

Heat 18.

Walosek >>> Adams >>> Andersen >>> Ales Dryml

Adams brilliant battle with Andersen

‘Brilliant’ raves Kelv, ‘this is what speedway’s all about’.

(Is that why we watch it’, comments disgruntled nephew with a painful grimace!!!

‘Kelv obviously made this astute observation to remind all us supporters why we watch speedway in the first place. But I see Pearson failed to mention t’ fact that Andersen wasn’t armed with his pair of lucky Danish legs though’, chuckled Uncle Mr Clemens)!!!

 

Australia 27 Denmark 29 Poland 47 Czechs 8

 

Heat 19.

Tricky Nicky >> Johnson >>> Hampel >>> Topinka

Jonno brilliant cut up the inside to head the race >> Nicki passes him end of lap one.

(Unfortunately for th’australians this is their last bit of luck for the rest of the night).

 

‘If Poles win they will be awarded 100,000 zlotys’, quoth Pearson!!!

(That’s zwoties Nigel you pronounce the L as a W).

‘I wish I was a Pole >>> Holta his’ chortles Kelvin!!!

Kelvin almost chokes >>> has he realises what he just said!!!!

 

Australia 29 Denmark 32 Poland 48 Czechs 8

 

Heat 20.

Andersen double points win >> Holta >>Lucas Dryml >> Sullivan (for Watt) >> eh?

Andersen super gate >>> Holta chases all the way.

(‘Who needs lucky Danish legs’, says Hans, ‘some of us don’t’)!!!

 

Australia 29 Denmark 38 Poland 50 Czechs 9

 

TV pundit interviews Lee Richardson who finally remembered where Wroclaw was.

 

‘I’m not nervous about Saturday’, says Lee. ‘I was too ill to think about the racing on Sunday. But I know I will be sick enough to race on Saturday as I have brought my GB Maximum-Man’s lucky sickness bug with me. It’s safely tucked away in my stomach. And anyway if Screenie’s had a shave it should prove to everyone that we’re all committed to a Team GB World Cup win on Sunday, beyond a 5 o clock shadow of doubt!!!!

 

Heat 21.

Pepe >>> Ales Dryml >>> Bjerre >>> Johnson

Johnson boxed in on first corner by Dryml.

‘Jonno could have come off there, lucky he shut off at the last moment’, quoth Kelv.

‘Otherwise he would have been unlucky >>> if not he would have clipped Dryml’s back wheel >>> things could have turned ugly!!!

 

Australia 29 Denmark 39 Poland 53 Czechs 11

 

Heat 22.

Walosek >>> Iversen >>> Lucas Dryml >>> Watt

Walosek passes Dryml round the boards >>> determined to get his maximum.

‘Breathe in boys’, yells Kelvin!!!

 

Australia 29 Denmark 41 Poland 56 Czechs 13

 

Heat 23.

Andersen >>> Lucas Dryml >>> Hampel >>> Shields

Andersen forces his way past Dryml to a great win.

‘It’s all academic now’, quoth Pearson, in an aside to Public school boy Kelvin!!!

(They must think it’s all over’, chuckled Uncle Mr. Clemens).

 

Australia 29 Denmark 44 Poland 57 Czechs 15

 

Heat 24.

Holta >>> Tricky Nicki >>> Rymel >>> Sullivan

Nicki hits a hole thrown across track shoots past Holta who brilliantly repasses Pedersen for a great win.

‘Nicky almost stepped off the bike on his right leg’, quoth Pearson!!!

(‘Good job he’s on his lucky legs’, chortles Uncle Mr. Clemens)

 

Australia 29 Denmark 46 Poland 60 Czechs 16

 

Heat 25.

Gollob >>> Bjarne Pedersen >>> Adams >> Suchanek

Brilliant racing from Adams and Gollob but Czech bounces out of race.

Rerun

Gollob from the gate passed by BP >>> Gollob flies by BP on his way to a fine win.

 

Australia 30 Denmark 48 Poland 63 Czechs 16

 

Now for the Grand Final along with all those lucky finalists.

 

Lucky Great Britain > (and their GB Maximum-Man’s lucky sickness bug)

Lucky Sweden >>>> (and their lucky th’world champ in waiting)

Lucky Denmark >>> (and their cheeky little lucky Danish legs)

Lucky Poland >>>> (and their lucky Norwegian Polish talisman)

(Riding on their lucky favourite track >>> that they’ve all been practising on for a month >>> that will be probably be fiddled for them to win anyway)

 

Good Luck to all of you and to all those lucky speedway supporters who will be privileged to have Kelvin Tatum and Nigel Pearson to tell us all what’s happening >>> and why >>> in case we don’t know!!! Lucky us >>> eh >>> what ???

[BritPete]

Please, it's Walasek, not walosek!

[Mr. Clemens]

Please, it's Walasek, not walosek!

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It sure is

[Subedei]

And it's Tomasz or Tomek, not Tomas when referring to the great man Gollob.

Edited August 6, 2005 by Subedei

[Mr. Clemens]

And it's Tomasz or Tomek, not Tomas when referring to the great man Gollob.

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Actually its the immortal Tomasz Gollob to get it precisely right.