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Is it possible that Peter Oakes was one of those initially taken in by Frankitti and is using his access to the Star to get his revenge?

If you read the article, no he's not. Dario Franchitti (spelt differently) says he's never heard of Toni Frankitti

Just catching up on this. Shocking! Josh should be transported back to Aussie. A fine pair of trainers would be much more protection from any engine being dropped on his toes.....yeh right. Come to think of it, looking at page 9 of this week's Star, Natalie Quirk should have been pulled up for wearing girlie shoes in the pits. Proper steel toe capped boots should have been the minimum. How dare she? 😜

Your comment was they make "decent" money which is different to "a bit of money" The prize money is really poor and goes nowhere near covering costs, even for the top riders. There is simply no profit to come from GP prize money alone. But, being in the GP series allows them to get places in the European leagues and command higher pay rates than non-GP riders plus the media exposure helps with gaining sponsorship

The pay rates are not a secret - they are on the fim-live.com website. The winner gets US$12,000, 2nd US$8,800 all the way to 16th who gets US$3,400 and the riders have to pay all costs - hotels, travel etc other than for Melbourne. I doubt any make any profit from prize money alone

I'm probably missing something here, but what is there to exploit? Rules say only 2 d/u riders so it stands to reason that any team that already has two, would have to drop a rider if the EDR became a d/u. That would just be silly, so EDRs must stay as EDRs. Anyway, as Poole don't have any d/us, it would make no difference.

Too many zeros - 200,000PLN = £36k. Still a lot but not as bad as you thought

Just for the sake of accuracy, Kings Lynn doesn't have a stadium. They don't even try to call it a stadium. They have an arena.

How about a ground share with Glasgow? You can have the Sundays lol

Has this died the death? I've not seen any details of riders and promoters attending, nor any suggestion of "get your tickets while they last"

How could he win? According to SCB he's crap. And the forum's oracle is never wrong 😃