THE DEAN MACHINE

must be bad , didn't even roll round for garrenteed point

Bogdanovs gone from race winner to last place to looking like someone who has never rode a speedway bike before

Not great racing in first 4 but I've bet on bogdanovs each way so all is good Oh bogdanovs By far the worst performance is the cameraman You can clearly see in lindgrens body language on the bike alll is not well with his knee

ultimatly riders only care about themselves until something goes against them , so those out of work will cry it's wrong but those who have more than one ride will say it's fair until boot is on the other foot

Riders should be paid £10 a point maximum , too many career national league riders , don't come on here and tell me how expensive it is and how your son couldn't make it pay , your in the national league it's not supposed to pay , paying riders more has gone on for years but the national league can't afford it and for those who think I rode for more than £10 a point Jayne can tell you that's what I was paid at buxton and at sittingbourne and Carmarthen before that I was on £5 a point , yes I got more in higher leagues but I saw the conference /national league for what it was and not as an income

not the worst team on paper but one of the worst performing team ever for the quality of rider has to be the leszno team from last year , had a top 5 of sayfutinov , pedersen , zengota , kildermand and p pawlicki , and finish bottom of league and even struggled at home

i can't get into this sponsor pairs meeting but I'm happy for the company's that back speedway to have their meetings to get their brands seen and seen associated with our sport , so it's all good

Gerhard says in the star today Freddie's engine is exactly same as the one you get off bspa , he says they only make 1 cam and he uses the same set up st wolves as he does in GP , well if that statement is true then this engine is a game changer , watching pedersen on Sunday , he was flying out of the starts and after his first ride where he looked a couple of teeth off the set up he looked a lot more competitive than he has done in a while

Nicki out for Saturday

firstly if you scrap stupid doubling up no rider is unemployable and before you say there are not enough riders , it has been proved many times on here and elsewhere there is more than enough riders to fill British speedway with some to spare and it will mean that for 95% of riders average manipulation would be pointless unlike now where it's 90% will be thinking about it

Why dont we just have race averages instead of match average , so basically scrap the x4 , then we will only have 0-1, 1-2 and 2-3 point average riders , less scope for manipulating a riders average because realistically once your an 1-2 average rider unless you have a totally exceptional season either good or bad your average won't change ,teams are made up of a total of say 11 points for top 5 and 2 reserves like they use in Poland, under 21 Brits with no average until they 22 , 0-1 will be 1 point rider , 1-2 will be 2 point rider , seems simple enough to me 😀

when you look at their top 5 and zengota can't get a ride and then throw in smektala you think how will they ever get beat but just like last year they just can't all fire together , with that quality they must go down in history as one of the worst performing teams ever

not a great deal really , split between 3 riders and a team manager , less than they get riding in Poland

lots of hard first corners but not a lot after thatObviously the mechanics were aware of pawlicki engine failure The two mascots dancing the macorana behind the studio must go down as the biggest WTF speedway moment since the dancing ants at the the first cardiff GP Good job leszno have a decent reserve in smektala

back on a jawa for his last race

Smolinski riding a GTR instead of his jawa

Martin smolinski using a GTR in sec qualifiers tonight , he also mentioned something about it in his interview at the meeting

Track is way to dry , dust in heat 1

its exactly this what is missing in British speedway , it's a connection/bond between a team and it's fans , doubling up and riders becoming these "jet set athletes " has all but destroyed the bond and fans are struggling to identify themselves with the riders and their team

The polish commenters on Swedish league tonight saying a couple of GP stars are not happy with their PJR GM engines (doesn't take a big stretch to figure out who ) could the tide be beginning to turn ?

Love the chanting in Poland ,but they get the idea of a team sport not the gloryfied swingers club that we trot out

I'm just saying what I've been told, I am the sort of person that needs to know how everything works ,I am very aware of the internals of speedway engines and have spoken to the relevant people about the GTRs as I am am interested in them and there workings , I have yet to look inside one but I will at some point i wouldn't go that far

i didn't say they were different cams I said maybe or maybe not Freddie is using one , on this engine it's a twin cam so you will be able adjust either cam to suit bigger/ smaller tracks rather than Change a single one on which is fixed ,as far as I'm told (by someone very close to these engines )these engines are as you buy them but obviously you need to adjust to suit

they get checked just like they do in Britain , not saying it hasn't gone on but you will get caught if you do

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