oldtimewolf

According the 'Daily Mail' columnist 'Skezza', riders in the Grand Prix Series do not earn as much as we thought they did for competing or even winning. Nicki Pedersen, even though he won the World Championship in 2008, is said to have only collected £45,990. For the full run-down take a look at website:- http://skezza.dailymail.co.uk/ So do riders enter the GP's for the money or do they really believe they are good enough to win the World title?

So Sweden's Elite League is down to 9 teams for 2009 with Valsarna having turned down the opportunity to join the top boys meaning that 1 team will not ride at home each week due to the odd number of teams. This will be interesting as they only race their top league on one night per week (on Tuesdays) and with each team having to miss a weekly meeting, how will the supporters react? The once per week racenight was suggested by many for the UK's EL but with many problems having to be taken into account, it was ruled out as infeasilble but Sweden are now having to do it - so will it work or will it not?