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That may be true but it's also true that the speedway generates far less income for the promoters than stocks. When you hanged less money it's much more difficult to spend on increasing the entertainment. I don't think better racing is the answer at all.

Well, that GP had a flat finish! For me Kurtz deserved the title by beating Zmarlik on so many occasions, 5 GP wins in a row was awesome. That one piece of bad luck in Prague may play on his mind but it didn't seem so. You could argue it was poor preparation or that the bike got into on a position to cause the chain failure but I consider it bad luck. Who knows, if that hasn't happened he may not have won all those GP's but he couldn't have done any more.

I don’t get all this if there was more speedway at weekends more would attend. If you make the product & the competition’s something that appeals to the public then they would attend whatever night it was on. Ipswich have always ran on Thursday nights & have always historically & currently attract some if not the best uk crowds for speedway. The product & value for money is the biggest driver.

He seemed to gate better in the gp!

GB Gold medal !

In the ideal world nationality should not come into it when qualifying for the GP series, if you are good enough then the rider lines up but then it would mean having to qualify every year without the need for Wildcards.

One thing that seems to be very quiet is discovery over next year, venues, dates, have they announced anything regarding next year ?

It's interesting this year (or should be) because you'd expect Fricke, Vaculik, Doyle, or Thomsen/Michelsen to get them, but I'm not sure they will. Fricke is nailed on obviously, but will Doyle be when there are 3 other Aussies. Same as Thomsen/Michelsen when you already have Madsen/MJJ. I think Vaculik just about deserves one more season. That then leaves a nice Emil/Artem shaped gap...alas...

Only rider who deserves a wild card is laguta who was robbed of defending his title by the woke tossers that are the FIM

After the complaints about Kurtz and Bewley on Thursday night, it was good to see Fricke and Holder on Saturday prioritising their Prem SF commitments 😉

Line-ups Tarnow 9 Szczepaniak 10 Gorzkowski 11 Bowes 12 Levishyn 13 Lahti 14 R Kowalski 15 Heleniak 16 Lodz 1 Lyager 2 Zagar 3 Wojdylo 4 Andersen 5 Chmiel 6 Buszkiewicz 7 Orgacki 8

Final 1st Smederna v Vastervik line-ups- live on Premier Sports 1 Smederna 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Vastervik 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

I thought he was 78! His contacts (however old) in Professional Football and Horse Racing should be a valid opportunity to develop some serious financial partnerships. Both those sports are 'swimming in money', littered with sponsorships and are also 'media-savvy'. Should be interesting......

So your telling me there’s no dates up until then that are free!!!

Doyle has had many wild cards now and is always missing injured, and there are 3 Aussies ahead of him so I think his time is up IMO. Max Fricke is a given and only missed out on the points system (the old format he would have been 7th over Lambert) Then there’s the conversation around Martin Vaculik who had a massive fall off this year but has been a consistent rider for the last 6+ years so I think he deeerves one also. I’d give one to Laguta if the powers that be finally have some sense. I’d love to give one to Emil but I believe we are starting to see him past his best. then I believe the SGP2 champion should be an automatic qualification. So if there is four (dependant on SEC), I would like to see: Max Fricke Martin Vaculik Artem Laguta Nazar Parnitskyi

Yes I agree 100%. Last was typical of Morris and co in how they do their business. After every block of rides out comes the watering can. Regardless how good or bad the racing has been. You can bet your bottom dollar, the poor riders who have to go out after watering are in a lottery. Wroclaw being a fine example. Good racing on a dry track week in week out yes, slick sometimes, but at least it's a fair playing field. Come the GP and the track didn't even remotely look like Wroclaw. The FIM, rather than play about with scoring system and introducing silly sprint races, should concentrate on what Morris has been doing all season, which is f**k up good speedway tracks!

Yes normally weekends and bank holidays with the two biggest being (crowd wise) Speed weekend and the bonfire bonanza. If only more speedway teams raced at weekends.

Hope Sam Hagon makes a speedy recovery and sort of spoilt the rest of the meeting for me.

It is so both teams can be at full strength for the play offs and makes it fair,The season ends October 31st.

Life's tough in the Ukraine, or is it? Judge for Yourself. Here is a video of the Ukrainian championship speedway meeting held at Lviv a fortnight ago.

Tarnow v Lodz POSTPONED until tomorrow Monday 15th at 3pm UK time.

Thought LBW would have been en route via some flat whites but nothing! Maybe he has knocked the Pirates on the ead until next season.

Me too, I wanted zmarzlik to win anyway but after Thursday I thought sod Kurtz, if he can’t be bothered to turn out for his club in such an important meeting the I’m glad he lost

You he will change anything, he will put ideas forward and he will be laughed off sadly. You just hope he can bring in some sponsorship from contacts he has