Rob B

Slovenian GP draw : 1 9. Hans Andersen 2 8. Jaroslaw Hampel 3 12. Scott Nicholls 4 10. Bjarne Pedersen 5 11. Lee Richardson 6 16. Matej Zagar 7 1. Jason Crump 8 6. Tomasz Gollob 9 15. Tomasz Chrzanowski 10 3. Greg Hancock 11 4. Leigh Adams 12 2. Tony Rickardsson 13 13. Ryan Sullivan 14 14. Antonio Lindback 15 5. Nicki Pedersen 16 7. Andreas Jonsson TRACK RESERVES 17 17. Izak Santej 18 18. Denis Stojs

Got back late last night, not seen it on TV yet but I thought that was one of the best GP's for quite a few years. There was passing in nearly every race. The crowd may not have been as big as Stockholm or Gothenburg but everyone was packed in like sardines so the atmosphere was brilliant. Congratulations to the Smederna club, that is a very nice stadium you built up in 4 years, grandstands on both straights, raised terracing on the first and second bends and grass banking on the third and fourth bends. Nice training track round the back too. Only downside was the car parking was a bit of a nightmare getting in and out of the narrow forrest lanes with hundreds of bicycles! Have to admit that we thought Crump had no chance in the final as he hadn't looked that fast and had the worst gate. When he did win the stadium went silent as most of the crowd was supporting Rickardsson or Nicki Pedersen (home rider). Apparently in the parade afterwards someone threw a bottle at Crump, luckly it just miss him and hit the BMW he was coming round in.

Yeah don't worry just Shovlar showing that he doesn't know the rules anymore.

Glad we are flying on Saturday morning rather then Friday like usual else we wouldn't of been happy!

Jan Staechmann is the new Danish Team Manager.

Qualifying days have gone out of the window now, BSI hand picks riders.

I think if riders who were brought in by BSI this year don't automatically qualify this year then they should not be given another chance next year, bring new riders in with the other ones a chance to get back if they are riding well enough in 2007.

First of all Rickardsson was very fast tonight and no one could touch him but that was only 1 GP out of 9, I remember last year when Adams won the first GP everyone was saying it was Adams year. All it takes is one bad semi final and it could be all over.

The last few years the Polish GP tracks have been crap, very slick, nothing like they use to be a few years ago with loads of dirt on the outside that Gollob and others could blast round the outside.

The one thing I don't like about this new points format is the big gap between riders in the final and riders who didn't make it through. Lindback got 16 for finishing 4th in the final, Pedersen got his 11 race points for coming 3rd in the semi. To win the championship you will have to make the final every time.

I'm surprised by that, there's enough Swedes about who haven't got a GP place.

He wasn't dropped, he withdrew himself.

Just rung Ticnet and they say we can't pickup tickets from the stadium so not very happy now, as we are flying into Nykoping and going straight to Eskilstuna they said the best place to pick up the tickets is from Biljett Byran in Norkopping on Dalsgattan. Can someone from Sweden tell us how to get there from Nykoping? In the future I don't think I'll bother booking on ticnet again if there is going to be this hassle.

We stayed near Swindon last week, we stayed at the Travelodge at Chievley the M4/A34 junction about 20 miles from Blunsdon and it was £26 for a family room (All rooms are family rooms, double bed, sofa bed and pull out bed).

Belle Vue said at thier meeting in Febuary that they would be running one on the same night as the Junior Championship which is 1st of August so maybe this one is Belle Vue?

I'm sure there will be something there, we use to go to the GP's at Linkoping and always picked the tickets up from there.

I'd think you can pick them up at the track, we've been able to do that with all the other Swedish Gp's.

Why are some of you panicing it's 14 weeks away yet!

Not for a long time yet, probably about May/June.

Is it confirmed yet? Thought someone said it would be confirmed at beginning of February.

Will there be a coach from Stockholm to Eskilstuna?

We'll be getting standing, no rush yet, will get them closer to the time.

That website has always been like that for some reason, I think it's suppose to be allocated to e-tickets but the figure never seems to go down, don't worry it never gets sold out, tickets (standing at least) are always available on the day.

That link is this years tickets, they go on sale tomorrow (15th), I have always bought e-tickets from that site and printed them off myself. Different sections are closed off, standing is from 1st bend round to 3rd bend and you can obviously walk anywhere round there, there is seating on 4th bend and 1st bend and of course the main grandstand on the home straight, we've always had standing tickets but I guess if you bought a seating ticket then you might be be allowed into the standing section aswell.

We looked at them but they don't fly out on a Saturday.