2016 Speedway Gp Qualifiers

[Mr Blobby 2,662]

Does anyone know if someone is showing the meeting (kings lynn) via periscope or not?

[iris123 20,993]

Since Harris is out and we all know well that Tai'ski is in fact an Aussie there's no Brit in BSI's tournament. Shame. I feel genuinely sorry for British fans of black sport. Hope BSPA will stick its finger out someday and try to do something good for the discipline.

Why do you care?Thought GPs were of no interest to you........probably because Poland have failed over the decades to produce world champions.Tai has as many titles as Polski.

[iris123 20,993]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Individual_Speedway_World_Championship_medalists

 

Look and weep,look and weep UK 11 world titles,Poland 2!!!!!

[lucifer sam 3,953]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Individual_Speedway_World_Championship_medalists

 

Look and weep,look and weep UK 11 world titles,Poland 2!!!!!

 

And since the start of the GP series:

 

UK 3

Poland 1

 

PS Hopefully Bomber will get one of the wildcards for the semis - he certainly has better credentials than almost any other non-qualifier, as a former GP winner.

 

All the best

Rob

Edited May 7, 2016 by lucifer sam

[customhouseregular 1,651]

As much as I like and admire Bomber and want him to retain his GP status, finishing 11th. in a quarter final is not good enough to merit a wild card. As a top 8 finish is extremely unlikely we have to accept he will not be gracing the series next year.

 

I understand Rob's view but winning a GP 9 years ago does not really count for much. How many finals has Bomber appeared in since Cardiff 2007?. I shall be sorry to see him exit the series but sadly every rider has a "sell by" date.

[Daniel Smith 5,666]

Don't think we'll see Harris back in the GP series ever again after this year.

[customhouseregular 1,651]

A bad night for the British riders at Kings Lynn. Anyone have news from Terenzano?.

[racers and royals 8,734]

A bad night for the British riders at Kings Lynn. Anyone have news from Terenzano?.

see post 49

[customhouseregular 1,651]

see post 49

Many thanks...no surprises there then.

[moomin man 76 171]

A pretty shocking day for the Brits - 4 riders in qualifying and 1 reserve place obtained. When qualifying places are allocated for next year's qualifiers, I wonder if this years and last years non-performance will result in a reduced allocation of qualifying places?

[Starman2006 2,354]

Well done both Hans and Brady on qualifying tonight at KL.

[tellboy 3,662]

Shame for Lambert tonight.An e/f while a long way ahead which would have given him 11 points and an easy qualification.Some good racing tonight and Kasprzak was brilliant,if it wasn't for his off I'm sure he would have breezed to 15pts.

[waiheke1 4,295]

Sounds like lambert was very unlucky to go out, and a fall cost Cook a possible spot. The bits seemed to have by far the hardest qualifiers, can't see it impacting on their spots for next year.

[T.N.T. 355]

Kings Lynn

13 Freddie Lindgren

12 Krzystof Kasprzak

12 Kenneth Bjerre

11 Hans Andersen

10 Joonas Kylmakorpi

10 Sam Masters

9 Brady Kurtz

8 Craig Cook =res

 

Terenzano

14 Piotr Pawlicki

13 Kim Nilsson

12 Michael Jepsen Jensen

10 Krzysztof Buczkowski

10 Peter Ljung

10 Nicolas Covatti

9 Jurica Pavlic =res

 

Slangerup

12 Bartosz Zmarzlik

11 Andreji Karpov

11 Mikkel Bech

10 Martin Vaculik

10 Thomas H Johansson

9 Andzejs Lebedevs

8 Anders Thomsen =res

 

 

Not many shocks but sadly the British riders just miss out. Is the lack of racing abroad a reason possibly and the fact in recent years Cook, Lambert and Garrity have concentrated more on doubling up rather than riding in Sweden or Poland or managing to reach the level to ride in those leagues.

 

Good to see the four Wolverhampton riders easily getting through and carrying on their good form and all four are riding in at least one other country this season.

[Gavan 5,050]

Well done both Hans and Brady on qualifying tonight at KL.

you would rather Hans and Kurtz got through than Cook and Lambert????