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Plymouth have called time on the 2020 season See link here. https://plymouth-speedway.com/chequered-flag-comes-down-on-gladiators-2020-season/ While sad that there wont be anymore action this season, I have to agree with their reasoning. Mark and his team have quite rightly received a lot of compliments of how everything has been handled at this testing time. Their communication has been exceptional. It goes a long way to keeping fans happy. I, for one, cant wait for next season, whatever League they run in. I hope the locals get right behind them.Their efforts this season deserve support. Well done to all involved. See you in 2021.

Of course it mattered, I backed Max at 33s.

Thanks a lot, I was going to watch that match later, as live, you've ruined it. Now Pearson has ruined the whole night/weekend.

1 meeting paying less than normal wages which would of run at a loss, possibly a big one at that ,unless speedway finds a major sponsor it can’t run with limited fans or riders ride for next to nowt and if this isn’t sorted soon will there be any riders left to ride ? Even top football is getting uneasy about the situation and we will go to the wall a long time before they do

Traditional race sheet for Rnd 7 https://www.keepandshare.com/doc16/25092/gp-2020-7-pdf-849k?da=y

From round one up to tonight Fricke has found his feet on the world stage I would say. He seems to have added that little bit of ruthlessness when going wheel to wheel with other riders that is needed in the GPs. I would happily see him in the series next year again.

Would love to see Pedersen get one more go. No stand out Danes aside at the moment, Thomsen not taking his opportunity at Gorzow.

Lidsey coming up on the rails ...not next year but won't be long

AUSSIES will be strong in SON ... Doyle, Fricke and Lidsey?

Fricke emphatically showing who the best young Aussie is, well done young man.

KEEPS me amused ... racing so much better now the track has dried and they have roughed it up

Pretty sure his old man is wheeling mk2 out the back of the van as I type this.

Oh shut up, he's not got what it takes, brilliant team man but not motivated enough on an individual basis.

U21 result read out by Nigel... Edit : Just the top four in detail though.. Didn't do 5 to 16...

Tbh tho if your watching on delay best not to come on here

IT'S not all over ... I was premature, tonight and several decades ago

Watch out for the each way bets in-play when you get to the final... sometimes they offer them but sometimes they don’t. Normally quite easy to cash in on a final!

I won’t but it’s not even going to be a choice, it’s not just speedway it’s everything like retail etc, these places will go under, people will not go, there are a few obviously like yourself that don’t have a problem living your life like someone on the naughty step but I don’t need a label on a bleach bottle telling me not to drink it,

As far as I can see the FIM have pulled a blinder. They have sold the SGP for massive bucks to a second company/group that hasn't got the faintest idea about Speedway and it's limitations ... Just like they did with BSI twenty years ago. And they have done so on the same bogus premise of the bizarre idea that there is vast untapped market .... . All those countries who haven't shown a ounce of interest in the sport in almost 100 years of its existence are all going to be won over THIS TIME . Bonkers The truth is that they have not shown any interest in Speedway because ... THEY REALY ARE NOT INTERESTED. It is that simple. The FIM have actually sold the SGP at a massively inflated price, not based on what it actually IS but on a fictional 'what it might be' in a parallel universe. For the second time. Mr Viegas saw a bunch of mugs coming in and sold them a chocolate teapot for a King's ransom. Brilliant work that man.

You're obviously entitled to your opinion but I don't know why you'd cut your nose off to spite your face, I can't see how wearing a face mask and standing 2m away from somebody effects your ability to socialise and watch Speedway... do you like touching people? Rules on things change all the time and you obviously weigh up the pros and cons on whether to keep doing whatever it is that the new rules effect. I don't understand why you can't separate your enjoyment of Speedway and socialising and punish Speedway for it. If you felt that strongly about it you should be organising a revolution and not taking the easy way out of spitting your dummy out and complaining about it on a Speedway forum where nobody is going to see it and do anything about it

Nikki in the gps would be good think they got rid of him a little too early someone needs to go toe to toe with fast Freddie ???

Absolutely. He was never going to come in and clean up, but he's been quietly impressive most of the season. Before tonight, I felt that he deserved another crack, and that fantastic performance proved it.

All jokes aside, Fricke has rode well tonight but been crap for most of the season. No way should he get a wild card.

well done to Max Frickie....and Jaimon Lidsey:-)

Well done to anyone in the world who backed Max Fricke to win the GP tonight.

Terrible commentary by Pearson in that final, never even acknowledged Fricke for 2 laps. Well done Max, brilliant night for him.

So pleased for Max Fricke, what a performance!

Wow Bartosz!! A worthy two time world champion.

Fricke giving Lindgren a taste of his own medicine there! Title chances over for Freddie. Huge chance for Tai if Zmarzlik doesn’t get through and he does.

100% disagree. It’s not the same Emil of say 2013, but he is IMO a racer, not just a gater like Laguta.

A lot of noise about Jack Holder being better than Fricke! Nice ride Max, definitely deserves another shot next year.

Perhaps it’s because the Poole boys have gated and left the Coventry riders in their wake? It has been. Bit bumpy the last couple of seasons but it’s always good for passing.

Suprised it’s not all four back.......

FORMER British referee and man of high integrity.

Thanks- i`m pretty sure they are the same operation- if one goes the other one does

They managed to run the British final without a loss and without any paying supporters.

Premier League missing out here. Imagine how much clearer VAR would be if Nigel and Kelvin could add commentary to the process

Iversen over 4 looks a banker in the GP. I’ve taken abit of a gamble and backed Jaimon Lidsey fairly heavily each way in the under 21s too. He’s been mega quick in recent weeks so expect him to score quite heavily today.

No... I'm going to attend a speedway meeting as soon as I'm allowed to following whatever restrictions are required

Live updates from 4pm UK time https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/relacja/105356/final-imj-w-pardubicach

So you're going to fight for your right to be a free person by not going to Speedway and not going to any protests but by letting everybody know on a Speedway Forum that you won't be going to live Speedway? I think you may have been to your last Speedway for a while then

I'd agree that on paper it looked ideal, and Finland deserved a GP more than many countries that staged them. But yet again poorly executed - an inspection of the stadium by someone who understood something about the technicalities should have quickly revealed the difficulties of putting in a decent track. At that point you make it a condition the track has to go over the football pitch (which was non-existent at that point anyway), some solution needs to be found for the drains, or whatever the excuse ended-up being for putting in a rubbish track. If not, then you politely say thanks but no thanks. I ran a motor racing series for 15 years and even though it was amateur low-level stuff, I'd still always personally go and inspect a track that I'd not raced at before, or recently. As the series grew we increasingly got offers from circuits which was nice, but sometimes you had to turn them down because of inadequate facilities or geographical location.

I really don't see the point in speedway trying to go to 'other markets' when it's pretty much at death's door in its core markets. Maybe if a local promoter was prepared to pay substantial amounts to stage a GP, but that's really not going to happen with a sport that has virtually no public profile anywhere in the world. Local despots are only going to be interested in things with high profiles where they can be seen patronising, and I'm afraid no sheikh is ever going to get their robes dusty at a speedway track. And to what end? It's highly unlikely that a GP would spawn a thriving speedway scene in somewhere like Ireland or the UAE, and I think speedway has already been tried in places like Spain and Portugal with no success. Maybe somewhere like Amsterdam (or more likely Arnhem) would be worth a punt as there's at least some speedway in the country already, plus it's close enough to bigger speedway markets to pull some fans from there. But really the sport needs to be focusing on making the experience better in the countries where it still has some support. As for Argentina, I suspect a lot of GP staging is based around 'a bloke someone knows'...

It will be interesting to see what transpires. I admire BSI's ambition with some of the more prestigious stadia, not always successfully. And it's perfectly understandable why they settled upon a strategy of "safe bets" in the core markets in Poland, Denmark, Sweden and the UK. Despite some of the above critiques, the SGP is well ahead of where it was in the late 90s, so BSI deserve credit for that. Having worked in sport, I understand a lot of the hard work that goes on behind the scenes and - more often than not - the bright ideas that come from outside have been investigated and are not viable. That said, I can't resist tossing my tuppence in! To expand they are going to have to take it into markets where there are deep pockets and no financial reliance upon gate receipts or take it to new, but lower risk markets close to their core markets. For the former, I am talking about places like Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Qatar where they happily pay through the nose to host F1, MotoGP, ATP Tennis, European Tour Golf. I spent a little time in Qatar and witnessed the odd spectacle of guys like Valentino Rossi, Andy Murray and Ernie Els performing in front of paltry crowds. Thing is, these series are global brands and get those countries "on the map" and good PR for what are effectively dictator regimes. Speedway cannot do this, it doesn't have the reach. The latter might involve getting the SGP into places like Spain, Ireland, Netherlands using stadiums that are quality, oval and (relatively) convertable. And all within an EasyJet/Ryan Air Flight from the UK, Sweden, Poland and Denmark. Admittedly, it would be a difficult sell to the locals. But what European speedway fans wouldn't fancy a weekend in Dublin, Majorca or Amsterdam? So there might also be interest from hosting tourist boards/local Govt for a Speedway GP too? Of course, this only works in a back to normal post-COVID context. One I can't understand is talk of Argentina. It's a tiny market for speedway and miles away from the majority of speedway fans. It all smacks of "a bloke Armando knows". I wish EE well, but it'll be no easy sell, that's for sure.

I’ve just read chris Louis talking about the restrictions they have to put in place to get fans back in stadiums, this is no way a slur on Chris or British speedway and what they are doing but I simply will not attend any speedway meetings while any restrictions of any kind are in place, I’m not going into the rights and wrongs of the covid stuff in this post but I go to speedway to socialise and enjoy the sport, I’m not go to be treated like a naughty little child, sorry I know it’s harsh on speedway and it’s 100% not their fault but it’s how I feel, I’m missing the social aspect of speedway as I am with other things I do but I can’t enjoy live speedway from the naughty step

I'd question it. I'm not suggesting that keeping the old World Final format was the way forward, but the latter World Finals that were held in decent stadia had pretty decent audiences compared with most GPs today. After about 1993 though, these events all seemed to be held in small and often remote venues with few other attractions, and the results were there to see. But I'd have thought even Coventry managed to pull crowds that some GPs would be happy to have today, and of course the Millennium Stadium (or the other indoor venues) wasn't built yet with its stakeholders needing to fill an expensive loss-making venue. BSI - unlike the BSPA and other speedway promoters - did understand how to leverage money out of local municipalities and tourist boards, and how to court the relatively new cable/satellite channels desperate for cheap content. And I suppose at one point their founder did harbour ambitions to be a sort of Bernie Ecclestone, taking the SGP to better venues and new markets around the world. But when it came to the crunch, there were really only a couple of prestige venues in any given year, with the rest of the series filled with the sort of tracks like Landshut and Linkoping plus the obligatory Polish ones just as in the old days. Other than the Millennium Stadium and perhaps Prague, few other venues proved sustainable in the long-term and the SGP never ended up going to 'new markets' except for the handful of GPs in Australia and NZ, and that was really only because some other mugs were found to throw away their money. Plus there were numerous fiascos with GPs being called off, moved at a day's notice to another venue, and indoor meetings being abandoned with fans in the stadium. In the end, IMG/BSI seemed to either realise the SGP wasn't really going anywhere or just lost interest, and seemed to settle on running the competition as cheaply as they could get away with. Although ironically, going to proper speedway tracks seemed to improve things in some respects. I'll say in fairness that I think speedway is a hard sell, with expensive set-up costs, vulnerability to the vagaries of the weather (seemingly even indoors ), the sport having no sort of high profile anywhere other than Poland (and even that's debatable), an unattractive spectator demographic which is somewhat reflected by the rather thin list of sponsors, and virtually no wealthy patrons or those that can open doors to sources of funding. But a change of promoter is long overdue and the rights should have been re-tendered years ago. It will be interesting to see what Discovery/Eurosport can do with speedway, although they did make Ski Jumping cult viewing so who knows?

NKI £200 more

Yes. But to be fair to BSI they have taken the Speedway GP series forward. I don't think any fair-minded person would question that. Cardiff, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Sydney, Stockholm and the like have been a big step forward from the model they inherited of Coventry, Landshut and Linkoping.etc. It's not all been a gold-plated success, granted. But the ambition and vision have put the World Championship in a better place than it was 20 years ago. That said, it has stalled in recent years - I never got any sense that IMG treated BSI anything other than a tennant in their offices - and the time is right for someone with a truly international reach to have a crack.

Cols bet £200 more Iversen with spread stretcher( more than 5)

Dont think you are correct on that one we shall see