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More like...when he mentioned the excellent Spreadsheet he was using! ATB Dave

I personally found parts of Millard's commentary very good! ATB Dave

Oh No!! he's had a "Upadek na ostatniej pozycji Schleina" in his 2nd ride Decay on last position Schleina............according to Poltran ATB Dave

I believe that for "Health & Safety" reasons the roof is not allowed to be moved (opened or closed) whilst the public are in the stadium, and so a decision on 'open' or 'closed' has to be made before 5:00 pm. ATB Dave

Sorry SCB, I thought you were talking about watching competitive racing. Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly is pre-stage Rallying? (No, I'm not extracting the urine...I really don't know what pre-stage rallying is!) ATB Dave

Ah! But......Can you see ALL of the action ALL of the time at a Rally? ATB Dave

Whilst I'm not trying to justify the £27:00 figure, don't forget that when comparing the the price of tickets for Speedway at the Stadiumn, BSI have to rent the stadium for around a week, plus pay the costs of staff and materials for laying the track, and clearing it all away afterwards. ATB Dave

Because of the fact that points also decide which semi-final you are in, you could then end up with two or three run-off's, just to decide which riders go in which semi-final! Tonight, for example, you would also have needed a run-off between the four riders who finished on 9 points, to decide which semi-final they went in.

Normal points scoring: 3, 2, 1, 0. If two or more riders fail to finish a race they get 0 points, as in League racing.

NEW FORMAT AND ‘YELLOW JERSEY’ FOR 2005 FIM SPEEDWAY GRAND PRIX SERIES THE new-look world championship FIM Speedway Grand Prix Series kick-starts this weekend with the world’s top 16 riders lining up for round one - the FIM Dominet Bank European Speedway Grand Prix – that takes place at the Olympic Stadium, Wroclaw on Saturday (30th April). The 2005 Series sees a number of changes to the competition with a new format and the SGP Series’ own ‘yellow jersey’. Sixteen qualified riders will contest each Grand Prix (GP) rather than 24, as in previous seasons. Under the new format, each rider will compete against every other rider in at least one race of the 23 heats. Each rider will also start from each gate position at least once. The current leader of the world championship at each GP will wear a distinctive yellow race jacket. Therefore, for the first round in Wroclaw Jason Crump will be the first rider to wear the exclusive jacket. Whoever wins on Saturday night will be the leader of the GP Series and will don the jacket for the second round – the FIM Swedish Speedway Grand Prix - in Eskilstuna, Sweden. After 20 heats, the top 8 riders will progress to the semi-finals, with the first semi-final featuring 1st, 4th, 6th and 7th placed points scoring riders, while the second semi-final will feature the 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 8th placed riders. The riders will pick their own preferred starting gate positions, with the highest scorers taking first pick with following choices made in descending points scoring order. The first and second placed riders in each semi-final will progress to the Final, with the same process will be applied to choosing gate position. The winning rider will be awarded 25 Grand Prix points, second will receive 20, third 18 and 4th 16. All other riders will be awarded the number of race points that they accumulated up to and including Heat 20. The full rider line up and draw is; 1. (13) Ryan Sullivan (Australia) 2. (4) Leigh Adams (Australia) 3. (6) Tomasz Gollob (Poland) 4. (8) Jaroslaw Hampel (Poland) 5. (12) Scott Nicholls (Great Britain) 6. (10) Bjarne Pedersen (Denmark) 7. (16) Krzysztof Kasprzak (Poland) 8. (5) Nicki Pedersen (Denmark) 9. (1) Jason Crump (Australia) 10. (15) Tomasz Chrzanowski (Poland) 11. (3) Greg Hancock (USA) 12. (7) Andreas Jonsson (Sweden) 13 (14) Antonio Lindback (Sweden) 14 (11) Lee Richardson (Great Britain) 15 (2) Tony Rickardsson (Sweden) 16 (9) Hans Andersen (Denmark) Reserves: 17 (17) Janusz Kolodziej (Poland) 18 (18) Adrian Miedzinski (Poland) The Full 2005 FIM Speedway Grand Prix calendar is; April 30 FIM Dominet European Grand Prix, Poland May 14 FIM Swedish Grand Prix May 28 FIM Slovenian Grand Prix June 11 FIM Fiat Vans British Grand Prix June 25 FIM Kansas Danish Grand Prix July 9 FIM 888.com Czech Grand Prix August 13 FIM Scandinavian Grand Prix, Sweden August 27 FIM Polish Grand Prix September 10 FIM Italian Grand Prix

The 2005 GP rules have at last been published on the FIM site. Appendix 077 on the link below FIM

Me too! I bow to Whacko's superior knowledge!