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2 hours ago, R-d-f said:

I haven't been to a foreign GP before and am looking to book tickets for Wroclaw, really struggling with the tickets page, it won't accept postcode or passport number, any advice?

 

I have bought many tickets via the Wroclaw website. All I needed to do to register was to say I was from Great Britain, then put in my passport number and no postcode.

If you are really struggling I can buy tickets for you - I've done this for several Brits. Feel free to PM me.  If you don't trust that route, the next thing to do is to email the club and they will advise you. The email address is sekretariat@wts.pl

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At least that

But this touches upon a topic that was discussed on the darts thread

Speedway isn't about sprints. Never was. And this is the problem with many sports that the ruling body for whatever reason start introducing rulings fiddling with things that change the nature of the sport altogether. Will we get points for best style ? Best looking outfit ? Or point reduction for a certain number of failures to complete a race ?

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One other point in yesterday’s press release is that apart from Warsaw and Cardiff( held the day before) practice/qualifying on the afternoon of the GP now will start and finish 2 hours later than before- this i believe will cause major problems for the track maintenance teams in having to prepare a raceable track in 3 hours after an hours pounding in practice. I can see far more ruts appearing during the meetings than previously.

 

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On 1/26/2024 at 8:30 PM, iris123 said:

Speedway isn't about sprints. Never was. 

Well, it actually always was about sprints - namely a given number of very short races that form a meeting. :D 

What it's never been about is endurance races (apart from occasional 16-lap gimmicks) or timed qualifying. 

 

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14 minutes ago, Humphrey Appleby said:

Well, it actually always was about sprints - namely a given number of very short races that form a meeting. :D 

What it's never been about is endurance races (apart from occasional 16-lap gimmicks) or timed qualifying. 

 

Now, a 16 lapper after qualifying with the top 8 sounds like something interesting and different, unlike what they have proposed :D

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1 hour ago, Humphrey Appleby said:

Well, it actually always was about sprints - namely a given number of very short races that form a meeting. :D 

What it's never been about is endurance races (apart from occasional 16-lap gimmicks) or timed qualifying. 

 

Just jumped to the conclusion that when they announced these new sprints, they would of course be something different. I never in my life thought it was just the same old 4 laps under a new name. I was thinking more of the one lap dash/flying lap that they used to have as a filler. Although quite by coincdence i think the only few i saw were at Stralsund and a certain Mr Morris was the fastest :D

Ivan Mauger breaking the 1km flying lap

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=734870230870249

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53 minutes ago, iris123 said:

Just jumped to the conclusion that when they announced these new sprints, they would of course be something different. I never in my life thought it was just the same old 4 laps under a new name. I was thinking more of the one lap dash/flying lap that they used to have as a filler. Although quite by coincdence i think the only few i saw were at Stralsund and a certain Mr Morris was the fastest :D

Ah yes, the old 'bahnrekord' or whatever it was called... :D

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On 1/13/2024 at 7:19 PM, stewmac said:

I have bought many tickets via the Wroclaw website. All I needed to do to register was to say I was from Great Britain, then put in my passport number and no postcode.

If you are really struggling I can buy tickets for you - I've done this for several Brits. Feel free to PM me.  If you don't trust that route, the next thing to do is to email the club and they will advise you. The email address is sekretariat@wts.pl

Thank you Stewmac, very kind :)
I did persevere and managed to purchase tickets.

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20 minutes ago, racers and royals said:

Anyone going to Riga beware !! The GP and the SGP 2 are both 12pm starts-which is 10am UK time !!! SGP 2 is on Friday 6th September and GP Saturday 7th September.

That's gonna be a good and long evening out...

Seems stupid, but probably with good reasons behind it. Like having the meeting in broad daylight to maximize the difficulties with watering...

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1 minute ago, racers and royals said:

More to do with no floodlights i reckon.

The sun has behaved pretty steadily for the past couple of seasons in providing light.... For how many hours are they currently predicting for the meeting now to drag on with a noon start?

 

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2 hours ago, racers and royals said:

Anyone going to Riga beware !! The GP and the SGP 2 are both 12pm starts-which is 10am UK time !!! SGP 2 is on Friday 6th September and GP Saturday 7th September.

Where have you seen this? I questioned the Riga SGP Instagram on this point (as the tickets say 12,00) and they responded saying fan zones open 12.00 but both meetings start at 19.00

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58 minutes ago, tomhaines said:

Where have you seen this? I questioned the Riga SGP Instagram on this point (as the tickets say 12,00) and they responded saying fan zones open 12.00 but both meetings start at 19.00

It’s all over the tickets - Travel plus tours i also understand have had confirmation. Last year was 5pm local time start i think. If it is 19.00 they will have had to install floodlights. There shouldn’t be this uncertainty and i blame Discovery Sports events fully !!!! 

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On 2/24/2024 at 12:26 PM, racers and royals said:

It’s all over the tickets - Travel plus tours i also understand have had confirmation. Last year was 5pm local time start i think. If it is 19.00 they will have had to install floodlights. There shouldn’t be this uncertainty and i blame Discovery Sports events fully !!!! 

I agree it must be a 12.00 start.

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