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Cal Crutchlow hasn't won a world title since 2009 (?) when he was World Supersport champion and Tom Sykes is leading World Superbikes with one round to go, so not the champion yet, that may explain why they're not in the betting. Is Sam Lowes in there? If not he should be.

Really enjoyed the GPs this year and thought that Eurosport did a great job. Look forward to next year's coverage. One thing I like about then is that they publicised speedway during their BSB and WSB coverage, which hopefully helped increase their viewing figures. I've spent the season trying to convert various Bike race fans to our sport and some have stuck with it (when they remembered to watch!! Series record FTW guys!). One thing though, in many (if not most) cases, if you're "turned on" to speedway after watching a GP, a visit to your local track may prove a bit of culture shock! I suppose like watching Moto GP then visiting a low level club meeting.

I'll admit that the GPs are a better/fairer way of deciding the championships, but there was still something magical about the one off finals and indeed the qualifiers too. Especially when the British Final actually meant something.

Talking of World Champions, we could have 4 on 2 wheels this year, so have you heard of any of the others? Before today's racing Tom Sykes-leading World Superbike Championship Sam Lowes-leading World Supersport Championship Scott Redding-leading MotoGP Moto 2 World Championship Don't know any of today's results so don't spoil it people!!

Wouldn't rule out Hampel being in the mix either.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/speedway/24412504

Big congrats to young Mr Woffinden, what a boy!! A great example of how taking the correct, professional approach to a sport and adding it to massive natural talent brings rewards. Fantastic.

I think Danny was chosen because of his lovely ears.

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.