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But apparently if you ride a Japanese bike you might be able to ride for japan.I hope I have got that right.You will have a real job of trying to sing their national anthem though

If you look at this Polish report on corruption under Sport,you will find speedway mentioned.Maybe that answers your question http://www.batory.org.pl/doc/Jak_walczyc_zkor_EN.pdf

Tbh he seems one of the candidates that has needed someone to take him to one side and set him straight on a number of things.Saying that,i take my hat off to him for giving something back t the sport and helping these guys out.Fingers crossed it turns out better than the Finnish "godfather" scheme

Like I said,it really doesn't interest me.I was very surprised the Phillips thing came up on my FB as I have never seen anything from him before.Just seen Kylmä's announcement though Yup.Mustonen announced his over an hour ago on FB

Glenn Phillips himself seems to have announced his place.Mustonen might have done the same as I did see some activity on FB,but couldn't be bothered to look.Maybe the French guy has also done so,but I don't have any sort of connections on FB to him I think,so wouldn't have noticed if he announced anything

I only went to the old ground once when Tooting & Mitcham played on a Boxing day derby.Went to the new ground when Millwall resrves had their home games there.Funnily enough a local Hamburg club now have a friendship with Dulwich and played there pre-season..........all off topic though

Yes,i see that.That was what I was trying to point out.The Stenner ratings were very much based on UK performances by UK based riders. Glad to see Keef has edited his post.Thught something was wrong that he hadn't mentioned Sarf London

Was it me looking too early in the morning or did it say 1000cc Sidecars for Poland and Güstrow this morning????? I was trying to get my head around that all day

It is interesting how UK based the Stenner rating are and more international the Speedway Star ratings are.Don't suppose there would be much debate about the top riders apart from a place or two,but I was a little surprised that some of these relatively unknown(to me) riders were placed so high.Josef Kamper for instance and some of the Poles.Bet they wouldn't have been so high in the Stenner ratings.But this happens all the time.Get a British journalist rating the best footballers of all time and you would probably get more British players than when a German or Italian done the ratings.......

How the heck we get onto which country a motorbike was made has something to do with which country you represent I will never know,but if that is the case then it almost means we will never ever have another world champ........weird,even for the BSF this!!!!

Josef Hofmeister consistently just outside the top 10 for a number of years.We don't read much about him and even less have I read about the Austrian rider Kamper.

I do agree.It shouldn't be necessary,but I guess BSI should state clearly when the riders sign their contracts that this must be the case

I have a couple of copies of Peter Whites mag.The ones where my contributions were published in it

I remember him

The way I read it is the stand was going to be rebuilt.For a speedway track to be put in place the stand would have been rebuilt in a new area,rather than on the spot of the old stand.Obviously the new area would be quite near the spot of the old stand,but not exactly on that spot.So no moving an old stand to a new area

Exactly.But they don't normally have a meeting the evening before on the track.And that is all with the weather being perfect....... Denmark used to rent King's Lynn at the start of the season,not a week or so before the SWC,i think.

There are though exceptions to all rules.Top sports people for instance?If Australia need an Olympic champ or world champ.......

Certainly good that Manchester get a couple of big meetings in their 1st season at the new track,but I wonder how wise it is to hold 2 meetings on consecutive days,plus I guess training as well?Or when do Team GB ride the track if they are seeded to the final?

Nice work.Much as I thought really.That the end of the 80s saw a rise in abandonments and cancellations up until today.Riders less likely to ride in dodgy weather/conditions nowadays and it is one of the reasons I am less likely to travel when the forecast is iffy

No,i am just saying at least Tai was born in the country,speaks the lingo and probably Richard the Lionheart nor George sang it.Tai has probably spent more time in the country than Richard did as well

And come to think of it amongst the Royals........Richard the Lionheart wasn't too keen on England and hardly spoke tha language but is a national hero.Think a few other kings along the way were of a similar ilk.George I for instance I don't think spoke English....

When I was a kid my dad and I guess almost everyone used to do an oil change for the car and tip the old..... stuff down the drains.Brake fluid and everything went down there.Didn't do us any harm

I mentioned this a few years back,but it seems apt on this thread.But some years back we had a joint indoor speedway/mx jumps meeting.The speedway used the local Brokstedt dinosaur of a presenter and the jumps had a young lively presenter/announcer.The way the 2 sports came over was like chalk and cheese even to speedway fans/riders.In fact Smolinski made a statement that he thought the announcer made speedway look bad in contrast to the young guys upbeat style.Not long after the old bloke got pensioned off and the young guy has had a few speedway meetings.Normally the annual Whitsun holiday meeting at Güstrow where they attract a 6-8,000 crowd

This all makes for very interesting reading(well I did get a little bored!!!) concerning Gerhard and a complaint from ex rider Richard Speiser that he nicked his idea.The lawyers are rubbing their hands at least http://www.speedweek.com//sandbahn/news/84022/Richard-Speiser-wurde-um-den-eigenen-Motor-betrogen.html

I take it to be "what you see is not what you get"