Paragon

I can't see why this GP is in Sweden this time of the year, every time I've been to Sweden towards the end of August it's been raining & that includes 4 Mallila Gp's & a couple of Gp challenges at Vetlanda. I don't see why they don't swap with Cardiff as there is nothing going on at the stadium at the moment & it's only a couple of weeks to the Stockholm Gp. Seams like poor planning to me.

Thanks for the reply Ghostwalker. The AA website in Britain says that children in Sweden under 18 kilo's must travel rear facing so I don't know if we can risk it.

We are thinking of travelling to the Mallila GP & I don't fly anywhere so we have to go by car. We have a 15 month old child, now I have read that in Sweden you need a rear facing car seat for all children under 3 which would mean a £250 special seat just for Sweden making the trip too much hassle, or have I been misinformed. Many thanks in advance Paragon.

I may well try and get to one of these next year. Definatly no more GP´s now they are even having put down rounds in Poland.

Having been to nearly 100 GP's since it started, I am very disillusioned with the way the GP's are looking evermore to the put-down tracks, so for the first time since the series started in 95 I have not bothered going to one this year, even though I live in Cardiff. There have always been issues with the put- downs but coupled with the new silencers its like watching Motocross rather than Speedway. I remember MJJ's sublime pass round Super Nikki in the final the other year at Vojens, can you see this happening on a rain soaked put-down around a football pitch.

I do kind of feel that the Polish promoters have a point about riders getting hurt at GP's. The standard of put down tracks this year has gone downhill & contributed to some bad crashes in this seasons GP's. I'm not sure that the new silencers help either especially when you have the ruts that you get with the put downs. With the old silencers you had an instant response from the engine which allowed the bike to kind of glide over the ruts where as now the slight delay in the throttle response time causes the back wheel to drop into grooves and then pick up too much grip causing at best a rider to go off line, or at worst a collision. This is just my opinion as a Speedway fan who went for 4 seasons without missing a GP in person , I now would not bother other than Cardiff & I only go to that one because its 20 mins by bus away.

I've driven there three times from Cardiff which is a 2500 mile round trip & I don't think I've wasted my time. I would also rather travel to a proper track in the UK than a put down track in my home town.

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

If Bomber is now in the line up then there is no need for a wild card. So that should mean that Danny King should be dropped for the next one on the semi final list.

The thing is that the qualifying heats are very much dependent on the draw. We saw Covati beat Emil in the heats which was down to the draw. Riders are much less likely to have a real go for 1 extra point where they might got an extra 5.

I think that the winner of the final should have the most points at the end. The system we have now is a joke, can you see the England winning the World cup in football because they scored more goals in the group stage. No other sport on the planet can have a competitor not even make the final and win the meeting.

If the BSPA gave a stuff about the long term of the sport they could have bought Newport Stadium of the Mallets and run a speedway centre/school where riders could practice & youngsters could learn . The BSPA could have owned the contracts of the riders they are teaching and could be loaned out to clubs with the loan fees paying for the running of the track.

My tickets came from See Tickets and were sent Royal Mail second class so I did not have to sign for them. In previous years they have used a courior who had to take a picture of your house as well as obtaining a signature. I suppose they have tried to keep the cost down as much as possible this year.

Yes just like I did at Gelsenkichen

Well we got to see the presentation & post meeting interviews tonight,which would not have happend with Sky, we would have been lucky to have got to the semi's without the red button. Well done Eurosport.