Chris Brown

Won today by Ales Dryml after topping the score charts with 48 points from the 4 rounds Congratulations to Ales Results from the excellent www.speedwayfakta.cz First Aleš Dryml 48 2. Second Robert Miśkowiak 44 3. Third Andrej Karpov 44 4. 4th KjastasPuodžuks 41 5. 5th Tomasz Gapiński 40 6. 6th Andzejs Lebeděvs 40 7. 7th Kenni A. Larsen 33 8. 8th Tobias Busch 27 9. 9th Michal Szcepaniak 26 10. 10th Tomáš Suchánek 23 11. 11th Martin Málek 23 12. 12th Grigorij Laguta 13 13. 13th Matič Voldrih 12 14. 14th Max Dilger 12 15. 15th Vjačelsav Gierusckis 9 16. 16th Szymon Kielbasa 9 17. 17th Grzegorz Zengota 8 18. 18th Maks Gregorič 7 19. 19th Viktor Golubovskij 7 20. 20th Aleksander Čonda 4 21. 21st Fritz Wallner 3 22. 22nd Norbert Magosi 2 23. 23rd József Tabaka 2 24. 24th Daniel Gappamier 1 25. 25th Lukas Simon 1 26. 26th Wojciech Lisiecki 1 27. 27th Johannes Fiala 0 Zdroj: http://www.speedwayfakta.cz/mezinarodni/mistrovstvi-evropy/mistrovstvi-evropy-senioru/ales-dryml-se-stal-mistrem-evropy/#ixzz27yyQHGXy

My opinion and you don't have to agree with it is that every rider should be entitled to fulfill an ambition to ride in the GP series, therefore qualifiers is the only way to do that. You can argue that we should have the top 16 riders but it won't happen, the polictics will decides that there needs to be 4 Poles, 3 Danes and blimey even a token Brit. IMO the politics and the fact that its all about money will determine that its the best ruiders as long as it fits the commercial model of which countries are presented that will prevail. So you will never get the top 16 riders So for me, give every single riders the chance to qualify, use Ales as an example, he has qualfied once for the GP series and didn't qualify, Chris Harris has done what 8 or 9 seasons in the GP's and qualified...........................yep once !!! Are you telling me that Politics of having to have a Brit has not ensured Harris' participation. Its frankly absurd that one rider should get so many wildcard nominations. Your logic is that if you consistently show you are good enough you will get picked, surely failing to qualify over and over again shosw you are NOT consistent enough to get chance after chance and therefore the pick process simply must have other drivers

And you called me a baffoon Never read such rubbish, but as Neil says its your opinion and you are erntitled to it without any hurling abuse at you Its called debate, have a look in the dictionary The qualifying process is there for a reason and for me the only thing that keeps the GP's from being a complete circus. You have to keeop a qualifying process open and if someone enters and gets through a whole series of rounds then they deserve to be in the GP. The day the GP is just a series of picks with no qualifying will be a sad day And for what its worth I do believe that riders should try to qualify and laregly I would say that if they do not even attempt to qualify then they should NOT be eliglble for a wildcard. Surely if you want to be in the GP's you should try to qualify ? Just my view

So did he turn it down or not ? Just interested to know and why, if it wasn't' money Accept that totally, my point was that it was no-one else's fault but his that he could not ride in Oz. he was acquitted yes, but allow himself to be in a position that a case was brought. Surely no-one is to blame for that, he was clearly a little naive On the other point, if he was offered it and didn't turn it down, why was he not in the series ? Surely he did turn it down, mr Rising said he turned it down not only for money so I was not told anything of the sort

Somebody who doesn't want to ride is definitely no loss. If riding for your country means so little then good riddance

Fair enough on the Aussie qualifiers but possibly only has himself to blame for that one So why he turn it down then ? Surely it was because he would have missed on Poland and was that not down to money ??? Or does he just love travelling round Poland

I wouldn't offer Ward a chance to be honest, on talent yes but after tuning it down for money last year they should tell him to qualify if he wants in Just my view

But would deserve to be there

Looking like a 4 man run off for the last place !! 4 on 10 Dryml, Batchelor, Zagar and Leon Madsen, be interesting is NKI only gets a point in this one

Win for Ales in Heat 19 and he's in. Go on !!! 11 points gets you through

At the end of the day he has gone through the qualifiers from the very start whereas other prima donnas skip the qualifiers thinking they have a devine right to be iven a wildcard If its Ales, in fact its true for any of the guys who qualify from tonight then they will have MORE right to be in the GP series than ANY wildcard. God only why he wants to do it given the cost but there are other riders who are so arrogant that they just sit at home waiting to be asked, in some cases even when asked they cant be arsed to do it until it suits them better Go on Ales, stick it up 'em mate and spoil their plans

No Bryn not over the PA. you said I was looking more like your chauffeur when we were chatting before the meeting. As for the shorts,well it was sunny all day

Waco, I have known Bryn for years and that was in jest (hence the smiley!) Mind you he took the mickey out of me last night for wearing shorts and called me fat ...............................he deserved some bleedin stick for that

Not long back from this one and have to say what a fine effort it was by all concerned to get the meeting on. The weather on the Island was fine all day and at 6.45pm the heavens opened and it rained very hard for 25 minutes. Given the track was alredy wet the efforts of the track staff to get it on anbd then the riders to give it a real go was very impressive OK so the racing in these circumstances was never going to be the best but all 12 riders gave it their best and both clubs should be proud of their efforts My 2nd visit to the Island in a month and have to say I thoroughly enjoy it................................even if I have to listen to old Bryn

Going over for this one. Let's hope the rain stays away

I was assured today that the last batch of tickets were printed over the weekend and were being despatched today for delivery by 1pm on Tuesday

Just back in Oxford after my trip to the Island. Dudley miles too good out the gate and that was pretty much where every race was decided bar two I think One question though, what is Adam Roynon gaining from riding in the National League. I am all for developing youngsters (and boy he deserves some luck in the sport) but not sure he is learning anything from winning races by the length of the straght. Been out of touch with the youngsters around at the moment, Tom Perry looks a great prospect, not sure about Ashley Morris, seemed to be more concerned about looking round at those chasing him and got the hump after Kyle Hughes picked him off twice. Dudley are clearly a very good side and don't really need to be using Roynon which is frankly silly 1st trip to Smallbrook, a very nice stadium and well drilled organisation for those going back on the ferry

All reminded me why I haven't been to a speedway meeting in the UK for 5 years, the dumb rules turned it into a farce and the sport has totally lost the plot with stupid rules. You can criticise the Danes but the rules should be done to avoid it happening. To some degree I understand why they done it Come on Steve, the cameraman may have asked him to ?? Never read such tosh !! In fairness spitting is a digusting thing anyway but to do it when you know a camera is pointing at you whether you are asked or not is wring and should not be defended. Its time that people who know they are on camera behave themselves and didn't act like animals

8000 according to spin merchants on SKY Even Alistair Campbell couldn't have made anyone believe that

Well said. he gets more knocks and mickey taking on here but as far as I am concened he is very professional, doesn't let his club down and has been through more than most in terms of the bad times of speedway and still has come back with a sniff of the GP's Good on yer mate

I would like to see a rule which says that unless you actually try to qualify yourself you should not even be in contention for a free pass into the series

Some riders get into the GP in the first place by being chosen though, some then actually carry on and qualify. Chris Harris is of course an exception, he got a free pass in and with one exception has had a free pass every year

And i bet the speedway press quite enjoy these jaunts around Europe in these hotels every couple of weeks as well No wonder they like it to SO its just the riders and the fans who are being ripped off then. OK, as long as we understand who the important are in all this

I suspect Reading Speedway are one that didn't benefit from this professionalism. He left them high and dry. Fuelled my view at the time that he and his organisation had no care for the sport

My team is dead and buried so it didn't help us very much