PHILIPRISING

BEWLEY through

PLENTY in the town

BIT pie in the sky me thinks

YES to the first part. Riders were paid prize money, as ever, by the FIM. Polish media and others suggesting that the name of the competition didn't suggest it was a World Championship ... have sympathy for that.

NEGOTIATIONS currently taking place

THE two meetings in Wroclaw

SURE they did and initially tried but too few on here are giving due credit to the Russian pair.

LAMBERT should get one ... maybe a tad too soon for him to be the in the SGP but racent performances suggest he is

ONCE a month? The material used at temporary tracks like Cardiff is stored and reused the following year. The cost of transportng is massive. I believe the original cost for new material for a track like Cardiff is around £250,000.

IT wasn't 'taken from him.' He had to include his passport with his visa application and couldn't retrieve it while that process was taking place.

I DIDN'T say he did ... just pointing our who the promoers were

WROCLAW was not a BSI promoted event. It was the Rusko family who were the organisers.

HOW many times ... had Lambert got ahead of Sayfutduniv we would have seen a very different race

GREAT racing at BV by the way

WHY is that strange. Not too many riders on here.

OF course I have. But not when it is Emil.

YOU have already said that it would have taken an Emil ef and if that had happened it wouldn't have mattered where Tai was

THIS is where we differ and I have spoken to riders about this. Slowing Emil down on a track like Wroclaw, so wide with many racing lines, is a huge ask and throughout Saturday it didn't look as though Robert was as fast as he was on Friday. Russia had a rehearsal in Heat 19 (think that was it) and would have been buoyed by that. The consensus I have got is that if Tai had slowed down Emil would have passed him.

YES I do. We will never know but had Lambert held off Sayfutdinov's early thrust Woffinden would most likely have held back to try and help him. But that is a very different scenario to what happened.

IT probably was but as well as Lambert had done, right now he isn't in Emil's class.

BECAUSE their two riders were better than ours ... taking the two together. Their tactic (as we know from Emil) was that he would secure third and once he passed Lambert that was effectively secured.

AGREE. GB didn't lose it, Russia won it.

TRUE but in all honesty the Poles have only themselves to blame. Dudek is a SGP rider and knows that referees at FIM events now hold the tapes a little longer. Personally, I would have rescinded any tape infringements, especially from the first day, prior to the semis. Janowski knows the Wroclaw track as well as Woffinden. They had an Under 21 reserve probably on a par, at least, to Lambert on that track. Had they not brainwashed the fans they could have had plenty of support too.,

WAS talking specifically about Poland. The Polish speedway authorities want things they own way and are prone to throw their toys out of the pram. They have the best group of riders, the best stadiums, the biggest crowds, biggest sponsors, pay the big bucks, etc, etc. They believe that puts them in a position where everyone else falls into line. If they don't get their own way they can prove difficult and they were opposed to the SON from the word go. Perhaps with good reason from their perspective but they are becoming the Donald Trump of speedway. Poland first, second and third.

FIRSTLY, as I have said many, many times, I do not contribute here as Managing Editor of Speedway Star but as a speedway fan. Have no agenda. Don't think I have mentioned Rosco. And my opinion (which is all jt is) remains the same regarding the final. In fact, has been endorsed this morning by some who were there, including a rider whose option I value highly. I have no problem with you seeing it differently. You should simply do the same.