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Probably right....was it in the super Zlata Prilba proggie?But he did compete in the 125cc Gold Trophy this year,so i can't see him having much 500cc experience

As it is one of the riders told me we are now down to about rider no.24 from the quali meetings and then you are asking riders even further down the list to go to Argentina for meetings that they probably have no chance of doing well in and make a big loss.So you can understand why the places are taken by locals.Maybe one or two will be tempted over for a European season.Hopefully they won't just decide to become Italian But it is one thing to ask European qualifiers to go over to Argentina for a long-short trip.But if an Argentinian came to Europe for a qualifier and actually got through he would have to leave school/work for around 5 or 6 months rather than a couple of weeks.

They only have so many riders because all but one of the Poles have pulled out......

Er.........none qualified There was always going to be a meeting wc,just like at the other meetings.And he was always going to be an Argentinian.That is as far as it goes.You can't fine people for not entering a competition,just for pulling out after entering and qualifying.Which is the main problem and one which caused trouble last year in Balakovo for instance.Why one or two of the teams entered knowing that the final was in Balakovo is a good question.Why do riders eneter competitions knowing the next round of the final is in some far flung part of Europe and now South America.....been an ongoing subject here for years.Had a conversation on here with HenryW maybe 5 or more years ago about riders dropping out of UEM competitions and just last yeari was at a meeting where a rider didn't bother to go out for a run-off for a reserve place in the next round because he knew it was too far away for him even if he did make it.That is the problem along with obviously underfunding.Not fining riders because they didn't enter

As quite often Phil,what are we supposed to make of it?Just a couple of miles from me is one of the biggest freight docks in Europe.Crates and containers are going up,down,left,right and centre all hours of the day.Are we supposed to be thrilled to bits that the FIM have managed to organise what 15 crates on their way to Argentina?Sure it will be a great experience.An expensive one though both in terms of money and time away from school,work and family.Promises made,promises broken......let's hope many things are learnt from this experience on all sides And at the end a dane is standing on top of the podium

Nah,keep away from porn stars if he want a clean cut image

Robert Barth was sponsored by Coca Cola and McDonalds sponsor Tobi Kroner,surely someone like Jepsen Jensen would want better than those riders????

I did notice that,but gearhead had already quoted the post.......and it probably ain't far from the truth any more

You should have seen f-s-p last week in Czecho......almost every conversation started with "Do you know how much this would cost in Finland??????"

That is a good post and something missing quite a bit on here.Thanks.One thing that we do have here in Germany is a group of promoters getting together to buy equipment(at the moment of course airfence)that would be hard for every single promoter to buy themselves.This might of course be easier in Germany as there tends to be only the one meeting ona saturday and one on a sunday(major meetings at least)in north Germany or south.As to the racing surface i do wonder if anyone has even looked at anything else.But you are right in that riders do tend to ride in bad conditions for a GP but not for a league meeting

Yes it is a worrying trend there that cannot be explained by a one year clash with football.I haven't looked at the crowd figures for a couple of years,but just thought Parken was one of the main GPs where crowds were pretty steady.I thought as i said apart from the running battles and fights that i witnessed outside the stadium that it was a well run GP in a great(if bit expensive City) and the atmosphere was terrific.Add to that the good state of danish speedway with some very good young riders and it should be doing well.On the other hand you have the fairly sparse Vojens doing well and is now off the calendar.I wonder if this is a bit of pressure from Ole on the local authorities?Him saying without funding they won't be hosting any more big meetings in the future!!!!The GPs need to be held in front of big crowds imo.Hosting GPs in front of 4-7,000 people looks bad for tv and sponsors

sadly i would say at the moment even in GB Tai is still behind Bomber and Scott.Both of them failed in the GPs,so i see no reason why Tai will fair any better.Time will tell,but i don't look good,because if Tai fails who do we choose then?????

If you think it is rubbish to ask what developments have been made to speedway tracks/stadium against bad weather in the last 40 years then that is your view.But if you think this is unimportant then shows your mentality.It is very important and it does seem to me and a lot of others that meetings are called off far earlier and with less bad weather than previous decades. And another of your sidetracking tactics calling me a stalker!!! How many posts of yours have i replied to in the past year?Give us a rough idea......in a year i doubt i have replied to 10 of your posts.If that makes me a stalker then i think there must be thousands of stalkers.Posts like that do make you seem a bit strange.Doubt there have been more than a handful of your posts worth replying to in a year ......try to stick to the topic and answer questions if you really can rather than come out with glib soundbites like 4 blokes doing 4 laps or calling people names eh?

well it will have to have about 10,000 more than Malilla,so a big "might" .Maybe if Jepsen Jensen had been given the wildcard it "might" have been more likely

Ok didn't realise about this years Parken fixture,but the trend isn't good and next year we have Vojens (20,000) replaced with Daugavpils(about 7,000) so the attendances will probably have another fall?

Well i was talking to one rider involved in an important rain off and he regreted not being more voiciferous in trying to get the meeting raced,which seems to back up your view of things

Some worrying stats there.I didn't actually realise the crowds at Parken had dropped at all,but so far that Vojens had a better attendance!!!!! Must admit i thought Parken was great the coupleof times i attended.......apart from the drunken hooligans .The Polish crowds are also a worry i would say and this has actually been a very exciting GP season and still the crowds are not good

Typical post from you.We have had weather since time began,sometimes it might have been better or worse than now,but we have never had better technology than now.So what has been done to make tracks raceable in poor weather or protect tracks since say the 1960s when meetings used to be run in pretty poor weather and Briggo was saying developments need to be made to make tracks "all weather" ?????

Woffinden might have been injured for the GP qualifiers,but he wasn't injured for the Cardiff GP qualifier ,which just happened to be at his home track ......and he failed to get through!!!!

Like i said i think the real success must be judged by those that follow these three.Actually in the interview this week with Liglad he does give Erik credit,but of course huge credit is given to his father and some credit to ErikI did actually see the kids as they were then riding and can say that they were obvious stars of the future before Erik took control and Liglad even at that stage had a little international following.

Erik is great no doubt about that,but at the moment i think his role is being overstated in the development of Michael Jepsen Jensen,Mikkel Bech and Michelsen for instance.All of them were well on the way to the top before Erik took over.I think Liglad might have been at that time 80cc European Champion.I think it will be the riders that come after these guys and so far with the likes of Kenni Nissen they haven't made much of a mark.......

Exactly.Think there are a number of high quality Danish footballers,cyclists and handballers for example.It isn't as if the only opportunity to participate in sport is 80cc speedway.They also have a fair number of MotoX tracks and produce decent riders i think.One track is actually right next to Esbjergs 80cc track and i think i am right in saying that Nicklas Porsings brother gave up speedway to do MotoX

If his parents came from England then i don't see a problem.In fact this use of English/England is quite endemic abroad.Lost count of the times i have seen the british speedway final talked about as the English Final or Team GB as England.You look at old news reel film from the second world war and Hitler and his cronies were talking about defeating England not Britain........

ha ha...if you believe many on here then every rider gives 100% so they are all triers.........Just imo Jepsen Jensen is a far better trier

Wasn't called back after an unsatisfactory start then?