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It turns out this meeting is tomorrow, although I believe the orginal date was for 30 April 2011. Anyway, not to worry, teams announced: http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/2011/04/16/kto-rywalem-polakow-przed-rk-dps-w-lonigo/ The winners of this round progress to the King's Lynn event.

Hey, don't blame me for your lack of will.

Ah, it's enough to warm the cockles of your heart. A contributor to the Speedway Star coming to the rescue of the Managing Editor.

They were false? The GP was staged in Germany? I must've missed it. By the way, I have the thick end of twenty years in the supply of contruction materials and I'd have got the material into shape easily enough. Where there's a will there's a way. Ever get the feeling you've been had? It seems lots of people did.

Where have I stated that I don't like the SGP? I think you'll struggle, although I suspect that if I trawled through back issues of your magazine I'd find plenty of examples of your opposition to the GPs. Who'd have thought the FIM were based in Damascus? As for yourself, well, you consistently fail to answer pertinent questions. Didn't the authorities at the Veltins Arena offer to re-stage the GP a week later at no extra cost to BSI Speedway? What were ticket sales like for the event? Was there ever an investigation into the affair and the Polish rumours? I stand up for what I believe in. Anyway, famous last words from the Speedway Star: "Incidentally, BSI Speedway are bemused by rumours circulating in Poland that the German Grand Prix would not go ahead. It will!"

Was there ever an investigation into the events at Gelsenkirchen? I recall that at the time it "wasn't the time for investigations and recriminations" (that might even have been a Rising phrase), but did the time ever come? How many heads rolled at BSI and the FIM as a result? Why were BSI happy to tear up the Gelsenkirchen agreement after the supposed success of the first staging? From what Mr Rising has said I get the impression that, apart from the track problems, the second staging was going to be another success. Or were ticket sales really terrible for 2008? Mr Rising, of course, dances to the tune played by whoever calls the shots. BSI when it comes to the GPs and Sandhu domestically, regardless of the anarchy and chaos they cause. Alas, he probably can't even see the anarchy bowing to the will of Sandhu has caused speedway in this country.

Around 39% of BSkyB is owned by News Corporation, which has a wholly owned subsidiary called The News of the World. I always believed Gelsenkirchen was down to gross incompetence and stupidity, but the Polish rumours, publicised and ridiculed in your magazine, nagged a little and your protests on this thread haven't helped matters.

Would anyone seriously believe that a company of the stature of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group would overstate reserves?

I'm sure any proposal would be favourably viewed by BSI and the FIM. It is getting a trifle tedious alternating between Vojens and a Polish venue (the last time it was staged outside of Vojens or Poland was 2006). Interestingly, since the WTC was reconstituted as the SWC the final has never been staged in Sweden. Other suitable venues, although not strong teams, would be Germany, the Czech Republic and Russia (who have a good team currently and could have an outstanding one in a few years).

Britain hasn't seemed interested since Peter Oakes made a bit of a fool of himself - and the BSPA - by insisting the 2009 race-off and final would be at Brandon in spite of BSI's pre-existing contract with Leszno.

Not always. At the minute the Poles alternate with the Danes. Why? Well, because they want to stage the event and Polish cities and clubs are willing to cough over the readies to BSI Speedway for the privilege of hosting the race-off and final.

One, actually.

And the second one? How bad were ticket sales? How did certain Poles know so far in advance that it wasn't going to happen? However, now you talk about a five year deal for Auckland, but isn't it the case that a three year deal was signed with Gelsenkirchen and that only one GP was staged?

What's the latest situation with the top Poles in Sweden?

It seems there is no money in the Bydgoszcz kitty for renovating the existing Polonia Stadium in Bydgoszcz, according to the mayor of the city it would be better to just build a new stadium: http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dsportowefakty%2Bzuzel%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1G1TSEA_ENUK335%26prmd%3Divns&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=pl&u=http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/2011/04/15/polonia-bydgoszcz-bedzie-miec-nowy-stadion/&usg=ALkJrhgPBLRIaqGwzWoP3QQbFgkQzkGmwg

If you happen to be knocking around the Green Mountain town tomorrow and feel doing a good deed, well, it seems that you'll be rewarded with a free ticket to a Falubaz Zielona Gora meeting. Yes, if you pop in to the blood transfusion centre and give a pint of claret a free ticket to a Falubaz meeting awaits: http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dsportowefakty%2Bzuzel%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1G1TSEA_ENUK335%26prmd%3Divns&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=pl&u=http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/2011/04/14/oddaj-krew-odbierz-darmowy-bilet-na-mecz-falubazu/&usg=ALkJrhhaOVXTqiVhadEiv5yPSRouB7T-bQ And at the meeting, if you happen to mention you're a Gorzow fan to the people around you, well, you might just be getting your donated blood back.

I should have thought that was obvious. I've a vague remembrance that the deal with Gelsenkirchen was three years and it lasted just one year. I realise Gelsenkirchen holds bad memories for you. After all, didn't your magazine dismiss Polish rumours that the 2008 German GP wouldn't take place? Incidentally, it looks like Sparta Wroclaw have doubts about the business sense of hosting GPs: http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dsportowefakty%2Bzuzel%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1G1TSEA_ENUK335%26prmd%3Divns&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=pl&u=http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/2011/04/14/krystyna-kloc-o-organizacji-grand-prix-zastanawiam-sie-czy-t/&usg=ALkJrhijx7t3LODbzw7Kg98q97Ida1p-0A

Remind me of how long the deal was for Gelsenkirchen and whether that was kept.

Thing is, where is the FIM going to find fifteen million dollars each and every year? Don't forget it's the FIM that coughs over the cash to the riders and they already sold the commercial rights under a long-term contract. If The Know is to be believed, BSI Speedway made around a million and a half profit last season and that's while the riders are getting peanuts. What is it? Five grand for a win? They probably cough over less than a million a year for the riders. Where are they going to find fifteen million? From asking BSI Speedway for more? That's their profits gone. While we're talking of the GPs expanding, the Ekstraliga in Poland is scheduled to expand to ten teams next season, so they'll need more dates to run the league. They are also proposing a limit of one GPer per team, leaving five GP riders out in the Ekstraliga cold.

The 2011 SWC gets underway in a couple of weeks with the Lonigo qualifier, but the Czechs will be without Josef Franc and Hynek Stichauer, both of whom prefer for Berwick in the PL: http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dsportowefakty%2Bzuzel%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1G1TSEA_ENUK335%26prmd%3Divns&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=pl&u=http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/2011/04/14/stichauer-zrezygnowal-z-reprezentacji-wielki-talent-rezerwow/&usg=ALkJrhhOJc9iRqyxUE7aAoUKGWogUIKGmw

We'll see. Realistically, as things stand, you can make an awful lot more dosh racing in the domestic leagues. The FIM will have to start coughing over serious cash to the riders if they expect them to undertake an extended tour of the Asia-Pacific region, before or after the European season. The GPs flourish, to a degree, at the moment because they get the riders for next to nothing and they aren't a real threat to the Polish league.

How often does Jason Crump willingly ride in Australia during the European winter?

The merely semi-weird Walasek bows to the master in Ht 20 as His Holiness books his place in the Polish Golden Helmet final: http://live.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel3.htm

Looks like 2010 was a good year for Poland's Mickey Mouse club as ZKZ report profits of circa 99,000 zloty: http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&sl=pl&u=http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/2011/04/13/stowarzyszenie-zkz-podsumowalo-miniony-sezon/&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dsportowefakty%2Bzuzel%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1G1TSEA_ENUK335%26prmd%3Divns&rurl=translate.google.com&usg=ALkJrhhT4knagUzWrUyA338A5JC9RYr_hQ Looks like a big increase in merchandise sales for Falubaz.

Not likely, in my opinion.