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I watched on Eurosport, a channel I got for free, so having to pay the £30+ extra per month to keep watching is far from beneficial to me. Will it still be available through the normal Discovery+ packages, just using the BT linear channels for scheduling, or will it be exclusively part of the BT Sport subscription? I could not justify the cost of BT Sport for speedway alone previously, it is all I would watch on there and I do not watch any other motorsports. So I stopped watching British speedway after it left Sky, and used a VPN to watch the GPs via the YouTube world feed. But there is no longer an easy to watch world feed, only their useless app which does not even have iPad support. If it remains part of the Discovery+ service I would end up subscribing to that, otherwise I will try to watch the GPs on illegal streams but if they become too unreliable then I guess I am done with them. So much for all the comments back when FIM awarded the promotion to Eurosport Events of how the new partnership would grow the sport and open up speedway to reach new audiences. First they make most of the Speedway of Nations exclusive to a streaming service, and now they seem set to move the coverage from a basic package channel back to a premium one.

It is like two weeks ago when I was shouting at the TV that Zmarzlik was champion as soon as Madsen was excluded. It is no that difficult to keep on top of, but commentators should have someone doing that for them with all the details they need on a screen in front of them. As for the rules for breaking the tie for the top size, if Discovery did one thing competently this year it was having had them on their web site all season long. https://fimspeedway.com/rules

I make it Lindgren in fourth with a second and two thirds over Lambert with a second and one third. Bewley in sixth with two victories over Dudek with one.

The rules:

If that is the standard to judge by then Discovery Sports Events will have a much bigger problem with the attitude of Discovery Sports Events. Discovery did not even put a story on the official website until this morning. Even just the scores were not put on it until long after the meeting finished, if not this morning too. Looking at the official site during a round, the only way you would know the meeting is taking place is the countdown being at zero. Assuming it does not automatically start counting down the next round. When BSI ran it, the site had live scores during the meeting, but Discovery only do that on their app. And that app is only a phone app. I did not have a scorecard but was make notes on my iPad as I followed it last night (before remembering running scores had no baring on the overall championship!) and needed to use the app to check back on scores. Because it is designed for phones it wasted most of the screen and could only fit 9 riders and 4 heats on the screen at a time. Even when viewed on the phone the design is just too much wasted space and could easily show 8 heats and possible all he riders. This is a truly awful way of spreading the sport, just a badly designed app. A web site should come first as it can be accessed on any device, will easily adapts to suit them all, and will be found by anyone searching Google or whatever to find out more about speedway. Which is where the new horizons will be found. Anyone who had just caught it on TV and wanted to know more will be look at their web site, not on an app they do not have, and even many speedway fans will not have bothered to install. But that app is the only thing Discovery update on a Saturday evening. I have no idea who would be looking on the British Speedway site instead of the official one to find out about a Grand Prix. But why should the BSPL be expected to do what even the promoters of the series cannot be bothered with?

If the track was too dangerous for the meeting to continue then heat 20 should not have been rerun. Regardless of how unfair anyone may think the final result would be, safety is supposed to come first above all else. What if there had been a serious accident, that they wanted to be able to get to the end of 20 heats would have been little consolation. And the decision that it was unfit to continue appeared to have been made after Basso went down yet they still made him and Kemp go out again anyway. Presumably only to avoid affecting the final positions by striking out three heats Schrödinger's rerun, at the same time both safe and unsafe

The track that was deemed safe enough to be able to hold a rerun of heat 20 became so unsafe as soon as it ended that the meeting was immediately cancelled without even needing an inspection.

I thought they could call races in Grand Prix meetings now, and I think they were in lap 3, so why did they not just do that? If they had not rerun heat 20 surely it would have meant the result was the standings after heat 16.

The red lights have become so used to coming on that they are now just jumping to conclusions.

Maybe I am stupid, but I could not see anywhere on the actual Speedway GP website that said what time this meeting started. Really struggling to understand why Discovery seem to be trying to hide speedway. Thankfully came here and got a stream in time to catch the end of the first heat.

The ping-pong was part of the overall package of events they got from Matchroom Sports, the darts etc. people. Though they appear to have used Covid to quietly kill it off as it never took place this year and there is no mention on their website of it ever having happened! But that was only a two-day event at the end of January with nothing at all to do with speedway decisions. But Sky dropped the GPs because of a period of British failure and declining audiences, and that they won back the Saturday evening Premier League matches. This gave them three live events on Saturday evenings with a Super League match played then, the soccer at the start and end of the season or cricket in between. So because of the audience being split and to cut costs they dropped the speedway and moved Super League to Thursday. And as soon as they did that Woffinden became World Champion and it no longer mattered that Harris was at the back. But I am certain that Cardiff looked a lot better on television today than had it been in Manchester and full. I agree that a full smaller stadium looks better than a half-full big one, but there is a limit to how small they can be before they just look small. And the National Speedway Centre looks not only small, but like it is part of a leisure centre. Just a row of trees between the track and the massive brick wall that is obviously the back of a hall would have helped. No doubt it has a much, much better track, which is a good enough reason to argue a GP should be held there instead of Cardiff. But, to me at least, Manchester looks so municipal that if you want to sell the event and sport to TV viewers I fear it would just say small time sport. The third biggest covered stadium in the world (apparently) or a local sports complex.

Phew! When Dudek said he was sad I was worried for his balls.

Bewley!

Lower that Warsaw 2015 where it was so bad they just gave up on the meeting halfway in?

They never overturned the rule book. 011.1.32 "Match Procedure: Ties in Individual Meetings" says that if count back and head to head "cannot be used the order shall be determined by a ballot" 015.1.3 "British Championship Final: Racing Regulations" says that "The method for deciding the hierarchy will be as per these Regulations. This system will also be used if a meeting is abandoned after the completion of heat 12, and the meeting is not re-staged, the results will stand at the last point when all riders had taken the same number of rides." The regulations allow restaging the meeting, and that is what they chose to do. They do not say anything about Cardiff wildcards because that is an FIM issue. http://www.scbgb.co.uk/regulations