Marmite

Based on his last two GP appearances, he was the best rider bar Hancock, so I am glad he gets another chance, but he needs to show that GP after GP now.

Thing is, at the end of 2010 and 2011 Harris as shown he is just as good as the opposition, the only rider to beat the World Champion last night. It would be hard to keep giving him a wild card, but based off the lack of other real British contenders and based off his superb form in the last two GPs I would offer him one final wildcard for 2012. When he is competitive, Chris Harris is as spectacular as Gollob used to be.

When will the wildcards be offered to riders, and announced?

Felt sorry for Harris tonight, he was unlucky in two races. Wish he had shown that form all season long, hope its not too little too late now

Will Darcy Ward be World Champ? Dunno, but Pratson jinxed him tonight by making it clear he will be biased towards him in the future, and the last few riders he 'bigs up' have flopped, Chris, then Tai and then Emil, now Ward'.. Sorry Darcy, think that means you will not have a good GP season ahead.

Why is it in NZ rather than Australia with Australia having such a big speedway community? Or, is it that the NZ speedway have made it happen, rather than Australian speedway making it happen?

Especially for a poxy early season Spanish football game.

I don't think he has done enough yet, but if he reaches the final in the next and final GP, then maybe he is worth one final wildcard shot.

I love it, Pearson is so stupid, he is so busy sucking up and waffling on about Greg, he failed to do his job and recognise that Greg was World Champion until he saw Greg's pit crew celebrating with Greg after the race. I really truly hope Pearson gets the F1 gig and we can get rid of this man from our speedway commentating.

Listening to Pearson talk about Hancock every single race, might as well rename it the 'Pearson loves Hancock' show... I better mute the moment Hancock does win the title, or Pearson's love for Greg will get so loud it will bust my speakers.

Think I must have been watching the wrong GP... Because in the first 20 heats I thought it was a fairly processional GP.

I agree, Greg is not a rider that excites me. Nothing against him, he is consistent which is why he will win the title, but he just does not excite me when I watch him race.

The problem is, some people think 'close scorelines' or 'close points scoring as in GP's' constitutes good speedway. For me speedway will ALWAYS be about the quality of racing and tonight's what's processional for the most part. Like you, only one, maybe two good GPs this season.

That's my point, if he qualifies then he will be worthy of his place in the GP's for 2013.

I am a huge Harris fan for his racing style, and on his day (given the right track) he can match anyone, but last night showed that in general he is not consistent enough and therefore I think it would be hard to give him a wildcard. I would love to see him take a season out of the GP and then qualify on his own merit for 2013 and come back refreshed.

Biggest cheer of the night across the speedway community watching TV was when Pearson and Tatum lost their mikes and we just watch blissfully with the noise of the bikes and the crowd, love it. Because he repeated them so often I lost count of how many mentions by Pearson it was Darcy's debut, and how many 'it's all very tight' during the racing, I counted at least two in once race.

This man is really doing my head in. What's the point Pearson waffling on and on and on about how many points in front Hancock now is in front of others with still th4 5th ride, semi and final to go so it will all change in the next hour anyway.

You're right, he just did not look himself at all. In the first race Harris had more or less blown it with that huge locker he pulled, and for a lap Harris was just sort of following, and then he seemed to realise if he pulled his finger out he could have Gollob such was the pace or lack of pace from Gollob. Not the Gollob I know and love.

It really was a fantastic racing meeting, speedway racing at its best.. rather than just 'speedway riding' where the close scoreline is all that kept it interesting. I was disappointed in both Nicki and Gollob's performances, two men who usually love to mix it and race, but were just not at the part at all last night.

Fantastic GP, couple of questionable referring decisions, great racing only slightly ruined by Pearson who again showed he can't see beyond his three favourites of Crump, Hancock and Holder.. how many times did he tell us 'three times world champion Jason Crump'?

The point is, the race was not rerun and in that race Holder messed it up... that is the point.

Yep I said the same earlier in the thread. Holder messed his start up, Harris who we know is the worlds worst gater was greater disadvantaged but still gated better than Holder. Holder messed it up, simple.

I have always pretty much considered a rider, rather than a racer. By that I mean when he is leading, he looks fantastic, nice,smooth and positive, but once he hits third or fourth he just does not seem the same positive rider.

Please no, save us from having Pearson screaming like a fool if he wins.

Yeah but at first most of us never saw it, we only saw it with the replay. The point is that Pearson who clearly has a love-in for Hancock, Crump and Holder was so blinded by his Holder love-in he failed to point out that the tapes rose unevenly with Harris being the most hampered yet Harris still out-gated Holder. The fact is Holder made a hash of the gate, and decided to use the uneven tape rising as an excuse to push for re-run.