f-s-p Posted March 15, 2014 Report Share Posted March 15, 2014 Talks about Warsaw hosting one of the SGP round have been going on for some time now but as yet have not been finalised by the signatures on the dotted line. As far as back in July 2012 Polish fans were informed about ‘advanced’ plans. It was then that the media were even talking about ‘would be’ date – October 5th, 2013. BSI looking for new venues noticed a brand new stadium built for European Football Championships. PZM seeing BSI interest began looking for sponsors. Warsaw Town Hall was an obvious candidate. They wanted to know on how big financial support of local government they could count . Costs were estimated then at 1.2 to 1.4 million PLN. There was also a considered cost of purchasing and laying the material needed to build a one-day track. Paul Bellamy, director of the BSI, an English company organizing SGP series, invited even the PZM representative to Cardiff to personally see how the work associated with the preparation of the artificial track are carried out. It was also revealed then about the plans to build in 2013 another artificial track at the Home Depot Center stadium in Carson, the home of the football team Los Angeles Galaxy . Since then a year has passed when the news about the Grand Prix Speedway at the National Stadium in Warsaw have appeared again. This time Poles were told that the talks about Warsaw SGP round for 2014 were entering a decisive phase. Again, the precise date for the event was talked about – 28th June 2014. Originally PZM and most likely BSI wanted it to held in April 2014, but the term was in conflict with the Polish football cup. Now we are told again of the Warsaw GP round being planned... this time for 2015, and again the date is mentioned ... this time it is April 25th, 2015. Wait and see. Who's telling this, is this a copypaste or your own story? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolskiZuzel Posted March 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2014 Who's telling this, is this a copypaste or your own story? Does it look like a copypaste ? Is it something I've said that I shouldn't ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bavarian Posted March 15, 2014 Report Share Posted March 15, 2014 Warsaw will be an interesting test. Can you fill a largish stadium in Poland, where speedway is apparently 'the most popular sport'? LOL. Does nobody remember that the Poles have already tried something similar before and failed? About ten years ago they held the SGP in the then national stadion, the Slaski Stadium in Chorzow (Katowice) and could not fill it, even though the capacity of teh stadium has been much reduced since the times of the 1973 and 1979 world finals at this same place. Warsaw has proven to be difficult territory for speedway. There is a speedway stadium in town, but it is not in use anymore. They tried to establish a league team in Warsaw, but it did not get enough support. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy jimmy Posted March 16, 2014 Report Share Posted March 16, 2014 Does it look like a copypaste ? Is it something I've said that I shouldn't ? No, it was a very informed statement, we in the UK aren't used to that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy jimmy Posted March 16, 2014 Report Share Posted March 16, 2014 Does it look like a copypaste ? Is it something I've said that I shouldn't ? No, it was a very informed statement, we in the UK aren't used to that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolskiZuzel Posted March 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2014 Does nobody remember that the Poles have already tried something similar before and failed? I certainly do ... but I would not compare Stadion Slaski with the brand new National Stadium in Warsaw. It would be like comparing old Bradford and Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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