PHILIPRISING

GOOD practice today, track in great shape. Should be a cracker tomorrow. GH could be World Champion after Heat 5 ... unlikely but it could happen. Great atmosphere around the stadium today. Like end of term at school. Weather forecast is excellent for Saturday, actually quite warm so won't need the thermals this year. Great to see Mark Loram here. How he would have loved this place...

And nothing to do with the Polish and Swedish leagues paying more money?

go to speedwaystar.net and the link to Xtra ... free online every week. But, no, it's not about busty ladies

YOU'RE entitled to your opinion but why resort to comments like that? What's Greg or Nigel done to rock your boat so much?

THINK Torun will be in ...

GOOD point. Something we should look into... and will.

DOES that make you a smart arse?

CARE to point out where I have ever said that? With regard to Tai, the answer is probably yes. He uses Peter Johns tuned engines everywhere. Some engines, while identical mechanically to others, sometimes perform differently. Chris Holder used only one engine throughout the 2012 SGP campaign and it carried him to victory. But do you not think that he wanted every engine to be the same? My point is that riders don't set out to have some bikes that are better than others. It just happens.

THANKS for the vote of confidence CARE to elaborate. Seriously, I would like to know why Xtra puts you off (and the few others you have spoken to) subscribing to Speedway Star.

Xtra, to which you are referring, isn't the online edition of Speedway Star.

YES but Buckley hasn't locked the door

SCB statement came after we had gone to press this week. As a weekly magazine we are always in danger of being overtaken by events. Sorry you were disappointed but anyone who thinks we toe the BSPA line should ask a few of their members what they think of us!

STILL 12

ETIHAD stadium not available in April... LOT more speedway in Oz than US though and Melbourne is Australia's sporting capital. Know a few people there who wouldn't normally cross the road fro watch speedway but attend just about everything that is on at the Etihad. IF anyone turns down a trip to Australia to ride in one of the world's greatest stadiums in a great city they shouldn't be riding anyway.

No one ever denied that had the drainage been MUCH better there would have been more chance of the meeting going ahead but as we have seen in the UK recently heavy persistent rain can always cause a meeting to be called off. PROBABLY have a choice of three ... and Bydgoszcz isn't one of them!

I VERY much doubt that any GP riders racing in the EL use their GP equipment here. Iversen, for example, as nine bikes. It always amuses me when people talk about "best equipment" which infers that they also have bad equipment. Why would they do that? Assuming that the time scale for flying equipment to Melbourne is the same as it has been for NZ, bikes etc will go out in the middle of the month.

THE track in Riga is being completely relaid with more drainage and new material. The facility there has huge potential and not just for speedway. The promoters are still determined to have a SGP in their capital city. Expect more 2015 venues to be named over the weekend

NO NZ GP next year

YOU might just as well argue that the stadiums in Gorzow and Torun are no match for Old Trafford and the Etihad. Cannot compare the standing of speedway in any British city with speedway in towns like Gorzow and Torun where it is the major sporting attraction and more akin to soccer as we know it.

NOTHING to disagree about Tim and, in fact, the weather forecast for Torun throughout the week looks dry...

LET'S hope there isn't a rain off on Saturday and a re-staging on Sunday.

NOTHING to do with a Latvian GP. If (not saying it will happen!) the FIM are found to have suspended a rider who is subsequently found not guilty of the charge are they open to litigation?

I appreciate what you mean about 'part-timers' but let's not forget that all the top speedway riders used to regularly race on the continent, and especially on the grass tracks and longtracks in Germany, every weekend. There was no Poliish league speedway to attract them in those days of course but the guarantees paid to the likes of Briggs, Mauger, Muller and et al were quite considerable. Their continental meetings were very lucrative and I think Simon Wigg always saw himself as a grass track/longtrack rider first and a speedway rider second. In later years Kelvin Tatum followed suit and like Simon had access to the best engines from the German tuners which carried them to their World titles.

PROBABLY more than you do and have been delighted to see him doing well as a fast track rider but to suggest that he could compete in the SGP is pure fiction

I'M with you on this one