PHILIPRISING

JETTISONING Cook at this stage is extraordinary but sadly symptomatic of the appalling state that British speedway now finds itself in.

AN Olympic final...

HAD a couple courtesy of BSI last year. Very odd that they served the food not before the meeting but during it! Didn't bother, too much going on outside.

Equipment... rostrum, sponsors backboards, advertising banners and (trust me) lots, lots more. Following day: what if the first one is rained off?

PROBABLY because all the personal and officials, plus equipment, who attend both meetings need time to get to one from the other

WOULD the SGPs on TV on Saturdays affect this? Fans tempted to stay at home perhaps.

WHAT British speedway needs is for the government to make every Monday a Bank Holiday.

BUT Sky wanted to make it easier to tell one team from another. It's a team sport. Just imagine if footballers all wore different outfits.

BUT a 20/20 match lasts three hours

QUITE right

I VERY much doubt that longer races would provide the panacea we are all desperate to find

LAST time I looked he wasn't riding. And very much doubt that he will return to Leicester this season.

AND you agree with that?

MOTORSPORT in general, with the exception of F1, gets very little press.

THE one minute race is a strong point. If speedway races were over eight laps (for example) it would rapidly become a turn off.

YOU guess wrong. You and I seem to be struggling to understand each other of late. Huge sponsorship in RX. Difficult to judge size of crowd (it was also over two days) in such a large arena. Think Silverstone will be happy. £5 for a small can of lager.

BIG day for IMG and Paul at Silverstone. Chalk and cheese from speedway with cars from manufacturers like Audi, Ford, Peugeot, VW, etc along with many major component manufacturers. Personally find RX quite boring to watch, each race seems very much like any other but each to his own. For me no comparison between Silverstone and Warsaw this year. But RX is a big money spinner for IMG and it was good to catch up with some of the guys who previously worked on speedway and the delightful Nicola Sands (ex BSI) was there too. Come to think of it, Saturday evening in the hotel bar was the highlight!

WITH NKI injured, there are only two (Cook and Doyle) GP riders here now.

TRUE but not every rider who competes in Poland gets the big numbers.

NOT riding for King's Lynn tonight

FIXED race nights was primarily to stop riders who double up being wanted by two teams on the same night. Where are the GP riders "gracing us with their presence" as a result of FRNs?

THINK you are right and probably won't be alone

AT least there was more passing in Prague than Monaco or the Rallycross at Silverstone which I attended for the first time.

SORRY, been to the pub for lunch so a bit behind the eight ball

APPARENTLY Holder has arrived in Prague ...