shadow Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 Someone is responsible, that someone is obviously Ole Olsen. You suggest discarding years of experience in lieu of 1 cock up! He may well have been complicit in the decision to call off the GP, but I don't for one minute think this was simply because of another Olsen track cock-up. I think that was just used as an excuse. All the more believeable is that they simply hadn't sold enough tickets for the 'show-piece' and wanted to dump the whole thing because it would have been a fiasco had they gone ahead with it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humphrey Appleby Posted November 25, 2008 Report Share Posted November 25, 2008 Lifts do not drop down the lift shaft unless its on tv. I did actually know that lifts have safety mechanisms to prevent this, but you take my point. However, the real point is how much longer do the IMG/BSI management give Olsen, given the crap tracks he continually produces, and that he's seemingly responsible for unimaginative wildcard choices? [i will be fair and concede that it may simply not be possible to produce decent temporary tracks in the timescales available, but for the permanent circuits there's much less excuse.] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humphrey Appleby Posted November 25, 2008 Report Share Posted November 25, 2008 Quite simply it was accepted as a mistake, albeit one of monumental proportions, and lessons learned from it How many mistakes has Olsen now made then, and how many lessons has he learned from them... ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucifer sam Posted November 25, 2008 Report Share Posted November 25, 2008 How many mistakes has Olsen now made then, and how many lessons has he learned from them... ? Surely the only lesson learnt is a simple one: Don't employ Ole Olsen All the best Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedwayondisc Posted November 25, 2008 Report Share Posted November 25, 2008 (edited) Nonsense, at that time Wembley was still used at least annually with World Finals, Inter Continental, European and Worl Team Cup Finals, not to mention the Daily Mirror Series Final. Wembley was not temporary in the truest sense of the word, in the main it was just hidden beneath the turf making the job much simpler than Gelsenkirchen. Len Silver was preparing the track for all those meetings, not to memtion preparing Hackney on a weekly basis. Why then were there not the cries for him to resign after the Fiasco in 1975, why no witch hunt trying to discredit the whole World Final system. Quite simply it was accepted as a mistake, albeit one of monumental proportions, and lessons learned from it, none of this current trend of a frenzy of internet fuelled hype demanding a resignation, although that seems to be the way of the world these days. I think your facts are wrong on this. To the best of my knowledge Len Silver had absolutely nothing to do with preparation of the 1975 World Final track ... nor, as far as I know did he prepare any Wembley tracks before this date either. That was the whole point as to why the track was crap. Up until the 75 World Final the track was the responsibility of the ACU/SCB, which in those days were very seperate indeed from the BSPA, and they employed numpties who had no idea (shades of BSI). I think you will find that Uncle Len was actually brought in to sort out the tracks after the 1975 debacle .... I think apologies may be in order. Edited November 25, 2008 by speedwayondisc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucifer sam Posted December 19, 2008 Report Share Posted December 19, 2008 So ANY news of ANY action to be taken against Ole Olsen following Gelsenkirchen. All the best Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemini Posted December 19, 2008 Report Share Posted December 19, 2008 Don't be daft! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pollyanna Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 That was bloody clever how it also updated printed magazines. All the best Rob Took the words right out of my mouth, Rob! No re-run schedule was in the TV / Satellite programme book, which came into the shops the Tuesday before the GP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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