racers and royals

So at the draw after qualifying a clever rider should have picked a draw number with outside gates in round 1(heats 1-4) and round 5 (17-20) and inside the other 3 rounds(5-8,9-12,13-16) easy

Some are smiling- others are saying " that was enjoyable while it lasted" We started with 33 and after 1 round it`s down to 22 Leaderboard after round 1 Warsaw GP Susans 1 £1800 - 1 spread stretcher used James Carter £1250 Teabody 279 £1000 Mark £1000 - 1 spread stretcher used Panthers 89 £900 Robbie B £800 proudtobeabrummie £800 June 01 £750 - 1 spread stretcher used Psycho 3a £750 Skippy £650 Phillipsr £600 Waiheke 1 £500 Terry £500 Pepsi £450 Iand £400 Mickthemuppet £375 Hilly £370 Matt K £350 Grand Central £200 Icescot £150 Col £100 Red Flag £100 - 1 spread stretcher used We Lose Shrewsbury Wolf Nil money Paddy the rebel Nil money come on the skipper - £50 Anzum - £70 Wiseguy - £100 CJ 69 - £150 Joe Beevers - £200 Racers and Royals - £200 False dawn - £300 Maverick 88 - £600 Gavan - £900 We move on to round 2 in Krsko Slovenia on Saturday June 1st 6pm UK time spread will be posted around spring bank holiday Monday May 27th

The Polish clubs pay so big money- i believe it would certainly have. The Extraleague believe that they can do almost anything they want to- they even fell out with the Polish federation(PZM) over fixture scheduling.

As i posted the other day , the new TV contract is for mega money and with all 4 matches each round shown live they couldn`t all be on Sunday without a clash between the 2 broadcasters, so Friday was chosen. Some posters who supported the Extraleague decision pointed out that is only 2 GP`s- however that could rise to 8 with re-arranged matches because of rain-offs(last Friday was one of those) so we are up to 3 and counting. i also said that i believe the FIM did not want to wage war with the Extraleague for fear of the riders pulling out of the GP en mass !!

Trouble is when they had the chance all 15 bottled it and wouldn`t stand as one- so no way will 6 do it.

Woffinden, Janowski, Lambert, Doyle, NKI and Zmarzlik.

How can he ? - he is amongst the 6 riders missing the next practice.

I had not realised it would be that easy

But it does show when the rider changes bikes.

New this year- presumably the riders have to have the bikes identified - additional information for the punters.

33 entries- 36 last year

Doyle £200 more with spread stretcher

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Sorry not guilty m`lud. Can`t remember seeing any figures at all covering that.

Late addition to the TV matches tomorrow- all UK times Czestochowa v Leszno N Sport programme starts 2pm 1st race 2.30pm Lodz v Gniezno Eleven Sport 2 programme starts 3.10pm 1st race 3.30pm Wroclaw v Torun N Sport programme starts 7pm 1st race 7.15pm Lodz v Gniezno teams https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/relacja/95266/orzel-odz-car-gwarant-start-gniezno Czestochowa v Leszno is on http://www.maniak.tv/kanal-7 and http://www.drhtv.com.pl/drhtv-2.html Lodz v Gniezno http://www.maniak.tv/kanal-2 Wroclaw v Torun http://www.maniak.tv/kanal-7 and http://www.drhtv.com.pl/drhtv-2.html

yes

With those bets you will be lucky to get to round 2 lol

Just noticed that Kubera has pulled out to concentrate on the World U21 comp and that has given the place to Smolinski

Krsko qualifying will be good on Friday May 31st- 6 riders missing !!!!! Woffinden Janowski Doyle NKI Zmarzlik Lambert

Yes, May 25th when the 3 qualifiers are being held is also the day of the SEC challenge final - a series he wants to qualify for. There are 3 FIM picks for the U21 finals and he will get one of them !!

Come on Punters !!!!! Saturday morning and only 23 entries- we need more than that before 6pm tonight !!!!!

Wait for it !!!! the riders missing practice and qualification are Woffinden Janowski Doyle NKI Zmarzlik Lambert

Well it is " speedway " after all No one knew how it would pan out and could be different in Krsko- however certainly the track had obviously been well prepped after free practice and i suspect most track records go in heat 1 so a reasonable guess could have been made. As TV was covering it live- and we always have to lead up to an exciting finish logically this is why they did it the way they did

Yes- Doyle seemed a lot more ok than i thought he would be