machinn Posted August 2, 2009 Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 The track shape and size was good, but as far as racing goes- another borefest. In Greg's words "follow the leader" racing, two adequate gates that provided the only wins of the night, two extremely poor gates. The only reason no rider was dominating (as Tony Millard put it) was because you could only get anything from gates 1 & 4- so it didn't matter who you put into gates 2 and 3 (Crump, Emil, Gollob etc) they weren't going to get much for their efforts. I ended up muting the commentary and then fell asleep halfway through Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil bv Posted August 2, 2009 Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 Was the blue start girl Jordans rougher & smaller breasted sister? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salty Posted August 2, 2009 Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 Well, seeing that no one (as yet) has blamed the (well what can we blame in lieu) track or Ole Olsen yet- lets blame the riders for not trying hard enough to make a race of it for us. Life is hard being a speedway fan for christs sake. What has the world come to? Who can we blame? Don't see anyone blaming anyone to be honest. But you can't argue with the fact it was a disappointing spectacle, with a ridiculous amount of disparity between the effectiveness of the gate positions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul84 Posted August 2, 2009 Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 Congratulations to Greg Hancock always like to see Greg do well!! Shame about our boys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pugwash Posted August 2, 2009 Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 Total boredom. Bring back the elimination system that they had about 5 years ago, I say. At least that gave a bit of excitment to the proceedings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruno Posted August 2, 2009 Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 i hate moaning about the gps but not a good one again.im starting to get tired of staying in on a saturday night just to be bored.plus i had to fetch my son at 1130 so couldnt even have a drink Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
refereerick Posted August 2, 2009 Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 Was the blue start girl Jordans rougher & smaller breasted sister?Is it possible for anyone to be rougher than Jordan? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepper Posted August 2, 2009 Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 Glad to see Kenneth do so well in a Grand Prix. Hopefully it's the start of many final appearances for him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topaz325 Posted August 2, 2009 Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 I thought there was some decent races in the GP last night (Sat). Well done Greg Hancock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPNY Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 (edited) Definately not the best GP I've ever seen, which is a shame because Cardiff was very good & the World Cup was pretty Damn good from start to finish. I really dont see the point in this GP. Year after year its a bore fest. They only get a crowd of 10k plus its on TV at not such a good hour in the UK because of the time difference. If they have one in Russia, surely this one gets tinned? There are too many GP's at the moment, should be 10 rounds tops, but really could be cut down to 8 or so. Edited August 3, 2009 by Tex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trees Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 BSI/IMG clearly earn good money from other sources to keep this GP in the series ...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPNY Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 BSI/IMG clearly earn good money from other sources to keep this GP in the series ...... Doesnt suprise me, its always money which it the ultimate factor! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveccm Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 Not much different from "trailing at the back" which annoys me! Four riders in a race - one wins, one comes 2nd, one comes 3rd and one comes 4th, but not necessarily "trailing at the back"! No one comes last these days. It might give them an inferiority complex that could blight their lives forever Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humphrey Appleby Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 BSI/IMG clearly earn good money from other sources to keep this GP in the series ...... Isn't the Latvian GP one of the locally promoted GPs, where the financial risk is assumed by the club? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trees Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 So the home promotion just runs the meeting like any other but doesn't have to pay out any wages to the riders but has to pay BSI to stage the meeting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pugwash Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 Isn't the Latvian GP one of the locally promoted GPs, where the financial risk is assumed by the club? Yes. BSI/IMG make a huge profit from Cardiff and as long as 40k plus punters turn up at Cardiff they really don't give a toss about the rest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenn Posted August 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 I'll be honest - I watched 3 races in this GP. Its a poor show when grown men throwing plastic balls at soft toys is more entertaining than a speedway meeting Won some pennies on Bjerre coming 2nd though which was nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pugwash Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 So the home promotion just runs the meeting like any other but doesn't have to pay out any wages to the riders but has to pay BSI to stage the meeting? That about spot on. The way I see it is that, if you can buy tickets for an event directly from BSI/IMG (or thro' their ticket sales agents) then that meeting is wholly run by BSI. ( Cardiff, Parken, Ullevii, Gelsenkirken etc, i.e any track that is not a Speedway Club) If the meeting is being held at a Speedway Club and tickets are sold thro' the Speedway Club then that club rents the GP from BSI/IMG, keeping the gate receipts but BSI will pay the riders out of the rental money. BSI obviously benefiting from the revenue generated from TV coverage and Sponsors.(That's why the local adverts at these tracks are always covered over). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humphrey Appleby Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 BSI will pay the riders out of the rental money. I heard that it's the FIM that actually pays the prize money, although no doubt the BSI lurker on here will correct me if I'm wrong.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwalker Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 the riders does not get paid by BSI/IMG or any organizers to ride in The gps, they only get prize money and of course money from their own sponsors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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