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Just watched the GP, a day late as usual, but what a fantastic meeting-again. This really has been by and large a vintage year for GPs. One thing though, had it on series record on Virgin and the recording stopped on lap 3 of the final! D'oh.

Hugely impressed with Tai this year. He's obviously got the right people around him and is totally focussed. His race craft has come on a ton too. TBH I'd love to see him win it this year, but if he's beaten by Emil then I wouldn't be too disappointed. He has time on his side, in fact they both do. They could both dominate GPs for years to come.

Arthur Browning a thug?

Thought it was a very entertaining meeting and Steve Day and Scott "Like I say" Nicholls made a good fist of the commentary. Day has featured more in Eurosport's MotoGP and WSB presentations this year and his done well IMO. Good to see some of the headcam stuff (Go-Pros are ace pieces of kit), very interesting especially when it was stuck to Laguta's noggin!

Be careful what you admit to on here, remember what happened to the last pot smoker on the BSF!

Headline news: Worldwide Full Stop Shortage Hits Speedway Forum.

When English cricket was getting stuffed by the Aussies et al, it looked at how thorough the Australian prepared for the Ashes, benchmarked it, improved it and even nicked a coach off them. Result, we started stuffing them. If the GB lads can't gate, then get someone to coach them so they bloody well can. It's not rocket science, it's speedway science, so surely someone can sort them out!

I actually prefer the horses now.

STOP PRESS Kennett out, replaced by 9 year old Emily Jenkinson-Smythe on her "Lemon Skewbald Tobiano" horse, Toby.

I bet the British Skewbald and Piebald Association have never had so many speedway fans logging onto their website!

He'd have to be seriously bonkers to try that for the first time at his age.

Well we want the sport to appeal to a younger audience and all we get is "Tai looks a twit".

Just watched the GP, what a cracker!! Tai was just superb and from the pit shots you could tell he was in real pain. BTW, anyone got a compilation vid of the "blue" grid girl? Phwoar.

I always thought that the reason speedway was described as a "family sport" was to somehow make it more appealing to families than football, when it suffered from what was commonly known back in the day as "aggro". Now times have changed, football is more of a family sport than speedway is, with many clubs providing family areas, kids' clubs, mascots etc in a trouble free atmosphere. Add the fact that the game is bloody everywhere and any kid who's into it can relate and "be cool" with most of the other kids around. How would the little chap fare if he wore a Brummies Wulf jacket to school? Long gone on the days when speedway could boast that it was the country's second sport, I dread to think where it appears in the pecking order now.

Can't we just discuss your avatar?

I can remember a Birmingham rider at PB (Chris Kerr?) dropping his bike when the rider in front suddenly slowed up off turn 4, then got going again. Although he took action to avoid a possible collision, the ref excluded him. I thought Vaculik should probably have gone too.

Oh dear, time for...............

Watched the meeting this morning. First thought is how awful the track was, Nitro Circus would have struggled with that, so fairplay to the riders last night. Thought the ref got the decison right regarding Tai's crash. I hear that Nicki is blaming Woffy for the incident, can't really understand that at all.

I suppose Hearn would drop the TR rule, then Pearson could say "Belle Vue now need snookers to win!" No offence to the Aces............

Nice piece in the B'ham Mail today http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/birmingham-speedways-golden-age-perry-4013254

Just to redress the balance, I'm Russian and I really, really want Tai to win.

Just watched the GP, all I can say is how the hell does EmSayf do it? Bloody awesome stuff.

Lots of plugs for the Swedish GP on Eurosport's WSBK coverage yesterday. And Tony Carter "big-upped" Woffy too.

Not necessarily at a speedway meeting either!!

Last night's meeting was a fine advert for speedway in its purest form. No daft rules, no silliness, just the world's top riders (and Krzysztof Kasprzak ) battling wheel to wheel and elbow to elbow. Utterly compelling entertainment.