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On 10/3/2021 at 11:39 AM, Fingersfin said:

Totally agree, let's get back to every point counting for something and the problem above is easily solved by awarding winner of the GP 20 points. 

It is solved by going back to making points count double in the final.  Every points would still count, and winning individual meetings would matter to the title chase because six points is a lot to give up to a rival.  It had to be embarrassing for them when Woffinden would say in interviews he did not care about winning meets so long as he kept picking up title points.  A problem they created by getting with of double points, then they went from one extreme to the other with the current system making most of the meeting irrelevant.

As to the World Cup, the meetings will be the same as before but over five days instead of eight.  So something like Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Saturday instead of Saturday, King's Lynn, Friday, Saturday.  The press presentation did say it would feature nine teams, which I took to mean the hosts still going straight into the final.  But the news story today only talks of "the eight highest ranked nations," which may mean the best eight other than the hosts, but it is a bit ambiguous.

 

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On 10/3/2021 at 11:39 AM, Fingersfin said:

Totally agree, let's get back to every point counting for something and the problem above is easily solved by awarding winner of the GP 20 points. 

Spot on. It's so simple. All points count. Winner of the final gets 20 points regardless.

It is a simple solution and solves everything by making winning the meeting the ultimate goal without undermining the heats.

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4 minutes ago, Grachan said:

Spot on. It's so simple. All points count. Winner of the final gets 20 points regardless.

It is a simple solution and solves everything by making winning the meeting the ultimate goal without undermining the heats.

Agreed, but with the proviso that you would get all 21pts if you were to win all 7 races. 
How about an extra point for fastest time of the night

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9 minutes ago, iand said:

Agreed, but with the proviso that you would get all 21pts if you were to win all 7 races. 
How about an extra point for fastest time of the night

That would work too. 

Not sure about the fastest time thing though. I never take much notice of race times.

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One really interesting bit in the Speedway Star interview with Francois Ribeiro head of Discovery Sports events is that unlike BSI/IMG they will not be the promoters of the Cardiff event. He says a solution has been found and will be announced in November. Surely not the BSPA/SCB/ACU putting  it on ??? If not who ????

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Maybe the Welsh tourist board with owners of millennium stadium, as they sponsored previous GP's then they will get all the money that comes through the stadium

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On 10/9/2021 at 2:28 PM, racers and royals said:

One really interesting bit in the Speedway Star interview with Francois Ribeiro head of Discovery Sports events is that unlike BSI/IMG they will not be the promoters of the Cardiff event. He says a solution has been found and will be announced in November. Surely not the BSPA/SCB/ACU putting  it on ??? If not who ????

BSI/IMG

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12 minutes ago, racers and royals said:

Now that would be interesting :)

I wrote it to stir, but in all honesty, why not? It's their baby and they know it.

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Yea maybe they still have a long term contract with the millennium stadium

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On 10/7/2021 at 2:31 PM, Grachan said:

Spot on. It's so simple. All points count. Winner of the final gets 20 points regardless.

It is a simple solution and solves everything by making winning the meeting the ultimate goal without undermining the heats.

 

On 10/7/2021 at 2:38 PM, iand said:

Agreed, but with the proviso that you would get all 21pts if you were to win all 7 races. 
How about an extra point for fastest time of the night

 

On 10/7/2021 at 2:49 PM, Grachan said:

That would work too. 

Not sure about the fastest time thing though. I never take much notice of race times.

How about a mixture of both scoring systems?? 

Up to & including the semi finals it's all points scored during the meeting. 

Just those in the final are:-

1st - 25pts

2nd - 21

3rd - 19

4th - 18

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8 hours ago, Daniel Smith said:

 

 

How about a mixture of both scoring systems?? 

Up to & including the semi finals it's all points scored during the meeting. 

Just those in the final are:-

1st - 25pts

2nd - 21

3rd - 19

4th - 18

I actually like that as an idea.

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Mentioned in the Star and on Eurosport tonight that live GPS to be shown on Eurosport and Discovery plus next year

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