iris123

Some people have a confederate flag tattoo.Doesn't make them American

http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=64311

Hardly a gap between Hans going and Nicki P

One of those rare occurences when I agree with trees

No hard feelings towards Poland,just because some plank is pretending to be one to gain attention.They have though failed miserably at this level which is a surprise.And it will be a pity really when Hampel comes back as Lindgren is looking good and Hampel is normally boooooring!

Same here

Doesn't matter if you recognise Tai or not.He wears a British jacket and his titles go down officially as British.Like it or lump it,because carrying on only makes you look a bigger fool with each post

Ha ha.Your answer came as slow as your riders Even Wales have as many world titles as Poland!!!!

Turned out to be a cracking GP after a bit of a slow start.Great turnaround after last year.Let's hope for more of the same in years to come Need to get one if you want to win anything.The Norwegian didn't win much for you

Swiet as a nutski

85cc one?

Not brilliant,but been a couple of great races

That Polish rider obviously panicked under pressure.

Just out of interest,what is the capacity for speedway? See it never seems to have reached capacity for football.If wikepedia is correct it had a crowd of 57,500 for Poland v Ireland

I think it is an omen.....it has a certain ring about it,Narodowy Holder

If I have posted something that doesn't matter to you,why reply,fool Course it doesn't matter,it was just a tongue in cheek post If we go right back what about Sprout Elder?Did he reach his full potential or was maybe, his peak before speedway championships got going?

The way it is going it might have been easier to just list those riders who fulfilled their potential

9. Adam Ellis (2,2,3,1,1) - 9 from last nights meeting in Germany,where Adam is I guess holidaying!!! No,i suppose this meeting was booked before the NL

You have a short memory Sid.Wasn't it only last week that you misread a post by the Doc and lost your rag???

I am pretty sure that someone once posted an article from a 1930s speedway mag that was alarmed that the sport wasn't what it once was,less than a decade after it was introduced into the country

Think,as Bwitcher has already pointed out that the actual standard of racing is still very good,it is just the whole feeling around the sport that it isn't very important any more because of the medias lack of enthusiasm and the lack of crowd enthusiasm....

I'd say Bwitcher has it pretty much in a nutshell A couple of other things that maybe haven't helped 1.I remember Terry Betts saying that the sport started to go downhill during the 70s as sponsors became important and It changed the mindset of the riders according to him.They went from being team riders to being individuals in a team.Their own performance was of utmost importance because they needed to attract or retain sponsors 2.The drop in rider numbers.Riders,instead of representing 1 or maybe 2 teams slowly started to represent 3,4 or 5 teams.This had the effect of taking team spots away from other riders,making it harder for youngsters to make the breakthrough and also as Tai recentlysaid(the latest of many) it led to burn out of the top riders.When riders like Hefenbrock are ,or in his case were, doing 80 or more meetings a season form has to suffer and there is less a feeling that any rider is really part of your team.He is just passing through on his way to another country and another team

Think Mark Courtney was helping out the Aussie U21 team when they rode a couple of seasons back at Teterow.Andy Smith was also there.

It is always the sad story if they don't make the grade.Remember Bjerre's father moaning to me about him only getting 1 ride in a meeting or two,saying they never had a chance to get the set-up right.......and Hauzinger telling me there was no way he was missing a meeting on Saturday to go to Poland for training and maybe not get in the team for sunday.......with speedway riders there is always an excuse and mostly someone else to blame

Most apparently are doing it for my/our entertainment i'll have you know