Swc Final

[stevehone]

thats not the sentence i quoted though is it

[Hazzman]

I'm not clutching at straws    I just can't understand how he can do so well in the SWC but so badly in the GP.  Is it an adrenelin thing, difference in tracks or something totally different

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Or maybe you just look at one track and think ''it's in good nick'' and then turn up to the next after riding it on Friday thinking ''If it's ought like yesterday, I am not bothering''

 

You only had to look Jonsson who rode Prague flat-out......the track was disgrace and Gollob quite rightly IMO snubbed it.

Edited August 2, 2007 by Hazzman

[shazzybird]

and then building all these conspiracy theories doesn't make much sense really.

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it's called clutching at straws

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Oh dear there you go Steve just for you, now as per my reply I'm not clutching at straws not am I building on a conspiracy theory I'm just wondering how his performance can be so different days apart. Bearing in mind the only time I've ever been on a speedway bike I was very very young burnt my leg on the engine and have never rode in a meeting so don't understand the rider thinking? If you could give a decent answer I look forward to reading your reply.

[SCB]

Ain't we done that in the past....

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sssshh

[stevehone]

Oh dear there you go Steve just for you, now as per my reply I'm not clutching at straws not am I building on a conspiracy theory I'm just wondering how his performance can be so different days apart.  Bearing in mind the only time I've ever been on a speedway bike I was very very young burnt my leg on the engine and have never rode in a meeting so don't understand the rider thinking?  If you could give a decent answer I look forward to reading your reply.

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Or maybe you just look at one track and think ''it's in good nick'' and then turn up to the next after riding it on Friday thinking ''If it's ought like yesterday, I am not bothering''

 

You only had to look Jonsson who rode Prague flat-out......the track was disgrace and Gollob quite rightly IMO snubbed it.

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[shazzybird]

So you can't answer the question from a rider/ex-riders point of view?

[stevehone]

So you can't answer the question from a rider/ex-riders point of view? 

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every rider has a different mentality, i thought Hazzman summed it up hence the quote.

[Kevin Meynell]

If that FIM representative was really drunk, then why is it our fault?

 

Isn't it usual for one of the FIM Jury members at such meetings to be a delegate of the local federation?

[SCB]

Or maybe you just look at one track and think ''it's in good nick'' and then turn up to the next after riding it on Friday thinking ''If it's ought like yesterday, I am not bothering''

 

You only had to look Jonsson who rode Prague flat-out......the track was disgrace and Gollob quite rightly IMO snubbed it.

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So what was Gollobs excuse at the start of practice? As he looked terrible then when the track was smooth.

 

This he just had a bad couple of days, you could also ask why was Bomber so good at Cardiff but poor at the SWC and average at Prague?

Edited August 2, 2007 by SCB

[Hazzman]

So what was Gollobs excuse at the start of practice?  As he looked terrible then when the track was smooth.

 

This he just had a bad couple of days, you could also ask why was Bomber so good at Cardiff but poor at the SWC and average at Prague?

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I think we're on the same point here SCB. Just simply Gollob's fall from grace is believe is from attitude - the track didn't agree with him (regardless of whether smooth or rutted) so he simply didn't put the effort in. I bet he didn't even touch his bikes after practice.

 

Hampel and Holta carried on good form in the GP yet the Danes have chose to ignore those two and their ''super charged'' bikes.

 

I can't believe you are being so naive Shazzy to believe Gollob has the mindset of every other GP rider because he don't and that's the great enigma he is. He's comfortable with money, half knows he will never challenge for the title again and takes some pleasure from entertaining the Poles twice a year at SWC and Bydgoszcz.

Edited August 3, 2007 by Hazzman

[f-s-p]

from FIM

 

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Speedway World Cup

 

Defamatory allegations after the Final in Leszno

 

On the occasion of the Speedway World Cup final held in Leszno, Poland on July 21 last, the team manager of the Danish team Jan Staechmann was quoted in an interview, reported by the Danish press, to have made defamatory allegations against the FIM, the Polish Team and some officials responsible for the event and suggesting that cheating had taken place during the running of the event.

 

It is worth recalling that less than a year ago, following the 2006 Speedway World Cup, a Danish rider was sanctioned by the FIM and his team manager Jan Staechmann was given a warning for not acting in order to stop the incident.

 

On August 7, the Danish Motorcycle Federation (DMU) decided to seriously warn Mr. Staechmann even though he had partly retracted and distanced himself from his earlier statements.

 

The FIM, for its part, reserves the right to take legal action against Mr. Staechmann and requests from all parties involved in the sport that they behave in conformity with the rules of the FIM and of Fair Play.

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[iris123]

I wonder if the FIM will or have actually investigated the allegation against one of their officials?I would hope they haven't just swept that under the carpet as it seemed there were plenty of witnesses