Torun Get Gp From 2010

[jeff...]

It's all about finding mug...erm promoters willing to stage a GP. Presumably the majority of promoters in Britain have got better things to do with their time and money, and although I suspect there's a degree of BSI wanting to keep the Cardiff GP somewhat exclusive as their 'flagship'.

 

How many GPs do people want anyway? There are already far too many, and from what I'm reading, the racing is pretty boring at most/all of them.

 

Poland has thousands more speedway fans than the UK and could probably fill the 3 Polish GPs without any travelling fans or expecting the same people to attend each one.

 

In Britain that isn't the case, in fact Cardiff probably attracts more support than the British Leagues could muster combined.

 

As such another British GP would be suicidal, one would compromise the other, the foreign contingent, the once a year fans etc would pick one or the other.

 

Cardiff as a stand alone British GP attracts 40,000 plus. I would think 2 GPs in Britain would be luck to attract 50,000 total.

 

And you are right the racing this year has been, in the main, dire. So much so I have almost given up on them. That said a piss poor GP still provides ten times more entertainment than a good league match

 

[Humphrey Appleby]

Poland has thousands more speedway fans than the UK and could probably fill the 3 Polish GPs without any travelling fans or expecting the same people to attend each one.

 

Yes, but I'm not sure Denmark or even Sweden have more speedway fans than Britain, and those countries have two GPs each.

 

In any case, I think in the case of the non-BSI promoted GPs, it's more down to what financial support the locals provide than how many fans they're likely to draw. The crowds for the Italian GPs are abysmal, and those for the Latvian and Slovenian GPs are nothing to write home about.

 

I wouldn't disagree though, that two British GPs would likely seriously dilute the attendances.