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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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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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4 because FT is useless.
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9 hours ago, LagutaRacingFan said:I will be boycotting all FIM events until Artem and Emil are allowed to ride.
The GP series is as dull as a dictionary.
see you later... NOT! 
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On 10/27/2023 at 1:49 PM, iris123 said:I do remember this time last year they put out the skating hire shop and I think catering for tender to try and extract more money for that..
I was sceptical this year's meeting would run because one or two ice rinks looked to be in trouble due to the energy problem caused by the war in Ukraine, which was the reason I found the news on the tenders.
The one thing that does fall a bit flat, is talking about the number of fans it attracts to a City like Berlin. 8,000 over a weekend is a drop in the ocean really. The ice hockey gets more I think for one game. Concerts and theatre etc ..without mentioning football
One other stadium is having trouble in Berlin. Home for ice hockey and speed skating etc
Pay more, get the deal with the city.
whats the other solution?
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On 10/10/2023 at 7:41 PM, racers and royals said:Bellego joins Tarnow
Is Tarnow in 1st league next season or are they building a team to get there for 2025? Lahti and Bellego are too good IMO to start winding down and collecting money in the lower leagues...
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2 hours ago, Technik said:Great to see Timo Lahti pull off the win after he was cheated of a run in the final last year after a clash at the start his race was over in 6 metres
not many times a rider gets a second chance this quick, glad he made it stick.
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Who actually does the testing in UK speedway? Is it the same VADA that föcked Robert Helenius?
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11 hours ago, racers and royals said:Are you being complimentary to me ? Or have you been on the beer lol
Both and having a dig at the FIM at the same time… Pretty efficient I’d say!
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On 9/1/2023 at 10:34 AM, racers and royals said:For a start it won’t be the SWC as that is not run every year- next year will be the SON competition. It’s too early for any information but should be known before the end of 2023.
In Finland in my city we had this ice hockey player Raipe, who was good, really good. He had the ability to give passes to and from situations no one else good, always spot on…
What you just wrote was just like a Raipe pass for me to comment on what the FIM would decide for 2024… But I’wont… No point… They do what they do, and then we’ll see in November.
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18 hours ago, Gambo said:All credit to the FIME for producing a format where riders meet all of the others in their 13 Rider group. But the downside of the format means that Seth Norman will not get his first race until race 12, (The two groups feature in alternate races) and two of his group will have already had 3 of their 4 qualifying races.
Been around for atleast 20+ years…
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23 hours ago, racers and royals said:European Pairs Speedway Championship Semi Final 1 IMN 527/01 date: 15.07.2023 venue: Varkaus, Finland
Finland/Latvia
1 SÄYRIÖ Niclas
2 ANSVIESULIS Ricards
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Sweden
3 HENDERSON Daniel
4 KARLSSON Anton
14 ANDERSSON Joel
Norway
5 MOI Glenn
6 KAMHAUG Truls
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Denmark
7 HANSEN Mads
8 JENSEN Rasmus
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GB
9 BRENNAN Tom
10HARRIS Chris
17 JENKINS Jordan
Finland
11 MUSTONEN Jesse
12 VUOLAS Antti
18 SALONEN Timi
Top teams the lot of them…
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39 minutes ago, Daniel Smith said:Not sure I'd want any of that field in the GPs though. This series staryed off so well with some big names but it's deteriorating year on year
This series was a big mistake from the word go.
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3 minutes ago, iris123 said:Sounds like yu were stuck on a roundabout in North Germany......
We have mountains, skiing and even glaciers in Germany
Touchdown in Berlin, then Teterow to Travemunde so U not that far off.
Ive driven down south a well… But yes, I still think we different.
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38 minutes ago, iris123 said:But you get all the perks of cheap alcohol and clothes etc. Load up the van...there ain't many perks in going to Finland
You have bugger all idea how it works…
But as it happens, I’m currently on the Travemunde ferry to Helsinki with a 6000km driven Polestar2 stacked to the roof with beer on third the price it has in Finland…
But yeah, we expensive and all. But also we different. We only drove about 500km in Germany but it was all boring and flat.
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2 hours ago, DutchGrasstrack said:France also pulled out. So there will now be a mixed pair.
There is only one way my comment will be taken, but who cares. After decades of us sending riders (mostly on their own expense) to Macon, Marmande, Rivne and also Holland for various meetings, this is what we get in return…
Thats not how it’s supposed to work.
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On 5/8/2023 at 5:48 PM, stewmac said:Roads from Helsinki to Varkaus are excellent, and generally quiet, but there are speed cameras everywhere, and Finns know to their cost that the speed limits must be adhered to. If the limit is 100km/h and you are caught doing 101km/h, you will be charged. Fines are related to income, so the richer you are, the more you are hammered.
But does all that apply to foreigners as well?
Also, 1 over the limit does not get you fine, whats ever your score, there is a deduction of 3 km/h from that…
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On 5/8/2023 at 3:26 PM, stevehone said:unusual for a permanent track the practice is the day before on the Friday
They want people to come and STAY as well, even if only for one night…
Also, even if its permanent, me thinks its doubtfull it would survive the hammering of both during one day.
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17 hours ago, DutchGrasstrack said:SGP4 bike is now for sale: https://minispeedway.pl/en/home
The bike will also be on display at the Warsaw GP fanzone this weekend.
For 5k you get "The motorcycle will be produced especially for your order. Completion and assembly of the motorcycle will take up to 3 months."
I'm all positive for this
, but I thought one of the main points of this project was that you would be able to go to the store and walk out with one?
But, and this in very small font size, one of the big talking points for the 20 years I've been involved in the sport seems like to be still just that, talk. No amount of (Discovery) money seems to change that.
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31 minutes ago, BuxtonTiger said:all is fully available on the FIM website under track racing.
Only took 20 years for them to make them public instead of telling FMN’s that they cant be made public.
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On 4/23/2023 at 9:20 PM, Bavarian said:It used to be a minium length of 450m and up to 1000m long. But to get Poland involved the FIM dropped the minimum length a few years ago, and it is now open for any kind of track, sand, shale or grass and regardless how long or short, which is just ridiculous. They have reduced the number of riders in the world long track championship to only five in a race, which was neccessary because of the smaller tracks such as the Polish venues.
Me thinks it’s a fine line between getting a Polish track involved and getting a track anywhere involved in LT.
Also the main reason in going to 5 rider races was to make them race each other in the prelis like in speedway. Guess they only started with the format a week before the season to realise it would not happen…
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9 hours ago, Bavarian said:Yeah, and here in Germany we don't get to see any live speedway on Eurosport at all, it seems. DISCOVERY+ is the only option.
In fact, no German TV station is covering any speedway at all. That indicates the status of the sport over here.
Another reason to just die, and not waste one's time to complain online and waste someone else's time.
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7 hours ago, racers and royals said:teams confirmed in Poznan
Poznan
9 Cyfer
10 Loktayev
11 Lindback
12 K Fajfer
13 Seifert-Salk
14 Zupinski
15 Teska
16 Breum
Landshut
1 Huckenbeck
2 Smolinski
3 Nilsson
4 Baumann
5 Berge
6 Bachhuber
7 Blodorn
The best part of this meeting was the sun that made me warm for the first time this trip… Then the meeting started and it went in to the clouds…
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Weather?
Looking forward to watching football in Poznan in one week with the forecast for the evening around +2...
SGP venues for 2024
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Whoot ever, make them put floodlights on.