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Malilla back for 2014?

 

http://www.barometer...014(3943001).gm

 

Meh I don't really care tbh, good venue but totally in the middle of nowhere and extremely boring surroundings

if you want to do something else then the GP. Personally there would have been enough with just the Stockholm GP.

 

Grand Prix should should be held in cities not in remote villages in the middle of the forest.

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Meh I don't really care tbh, good venue but totally in the middle of nowhere and extremely boring surroundings

if you want to do something else then the GP. Personally there would have been enough with just the Stockholm GP.

 

Grand Prix should should be held in cities not in remote villages in the middle of the forest.

 

Great track and tidy venue, but after visiting Malilla a couple of years ago for a GP, I would question a return.

 

Literally in the middle of a forest with no life about for miles!

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surely its about the speedway & on a dry day the track at Mallila is as good as it gets.

 

Perhaps for you but not for me.

 

For me the racing is not all that matters, of course its important but there is other things that also are important.

I just don't want to spend 3½ hours travelling to Målilla by car and then 3½ hours back home a just a few hours later.

Public transport means over a 5 hour journey which is even less desirable.

 

I usually like to spend some time in the area when going to a Grand Prix but the Målilla areas is totally uninteresting and to sparsely populated area.

Small villages and few smaller towns but not really anything to see and do except for the GP. A 7+ hour journey for 23 minutes of action? No thanks.

Also the weather in Målilla is to unreliable, the Småland highlands are in general more rain prone then the area around Stockholm.

 

Also in Stockholm even if the weather is rainy there is lots to do and the stadium got a roof, in Målilla if the weather is bad the racing will be muddy and

there is absolutely zero things to do which means that the entire trip would be a waste of time and money.

 

I had originally planned to spend the entire weekend in Stockholm during this weekend but unfortunately it wasn't possible this year.

 

As I said, I think the GPs belong in reasonable big cities rather then in some remote village in the middle of nowhere where there basically

is a super market but nothing else. A typical "håla" as we say in Swedish. ;)

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According to Race magazine Paul Bellamy from BSI says that there will be two Grand Prixs in Sweden next year.

the Swedish Gp have still not been decided about and both Ullevi and Målilla is still in contention.

 

He says that BSI have several different options regarding contract length. Either a short or long term contract with either of

the tracks or they will do some alternating between the tracks from year to year.

 

The article also says that he have been in contact with Smederna from Eskilstuna regarding a different matter and

although he doesn't say it straight out Bellamy hints that it could be one of the SWC events.

 

There will be 12 GPs next year as well and three positions remain to be allocated.

 

http://www.racemagazine.se/bsi-tva-grand-prix-i-sverige-2014/

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Was there a bit of spite from the SGP in the Speedway Star hightlighting the small crowd for the European Championship round in Gorican and the possible absentees for the final round? Surely better concentrating on their own competition.

 

Sadly that stood out to me too.

 

Interested in doing the Prague Gp next year has there been any indication yet on the date?

 

No offence but i wish they would ditch it. Doesn't seem to be any great interest in speedway in the Czech Republic these days. There have been some fantastic league meetings but sadly raced in front of one man and a dog with the likely highest attendance being the epic day when one man and two dogs attended!

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A bit rich of them considering the crowd for the Italian GP... :blink:

 

Think it seems to be relevant in asking just who the Speedway Star are serving.Are they really giving unbiased and informative stories to their readership or are they serving the people who supply the stories?Do they publish anything about the poor attendances at GPs or at league speedway?Do they criticize track prep at GPs or British speedway?Guess we might get a story about the Polish Final farce,but was there an in depth feature about the farce at Belle Vue?I would hope a speedway magazine has no bias towards any promotion or organisation over a rival

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