Roger Jacobs

Thanks. I didn't realise that the riding order for the Final had already been determined.

Good candidates who didn't complete the season ...

https://speedwayupdates.proboards.com/thread/22948/sgp-challenge-pardubice-10-24?

Don't understand what you mean about Mauger? In the World Championship, you had to qualify, and your performance in one round didn't impact the next - the draw wasn't seeded. Finishing top of the League is meaningless, but the teams still have to finish in the top 4 - Leicester proved in 2023 that it's possible to get that badly wrong.

How many riders finish in the top 4 in each GP? Interestingly, I've worked out that World Runner-Up Lambert won 101,500 Euros (roughly £84,500 at current exchange rates). That might help him and his team earn a reasonable living, but it's not going to generate much of a profit. 1st

I'm not convinced that the GPs are a financial benefit to the riders - the prize money isn't life changing. The "risks his life for entertainment" trope is tired and meaningless.

Well, you need a heat winner to get a heat advantage! BV had 13, so were unlikely to lose. You could see Leicester settling for 3-3s in at least a couple of races, e.g. when Hagon got into second place - now the trick for BV at Leicester is to do similar, i.e. avoid last places.

When interviewed before that last heat, Dickson said that Douglas and Lawson wanted to ride in heat 15, which implied that none of the others did.

Port Aventura! Haven't been for a few years, so still haven't seen the enormous rollercoaster ... Dragon Khan is amazing anyway

They'd be better off riding it over two wheels 😉

At 10:30 still no mention on speedwaygb - have they forgotten it’s on?!

There's no hope of moving the shale with just a couple of rakers on each bend and an ancient tractor with a simple grading contraption on the back. That hasn't changed in years, so doesn't reflect the change in the track or the machines. Surely someone could put some thought into a grader fitted to a tractor that actually shift the shale back towards the centre/inside of the track - it needs some sort of blade at an angle, at a fixed height. Get a decent tractor (or two), with a good width of grader attached, and it/they could get around the track fairly promptly.

KL delighted again this season with another top 7 finish.

It was rather a statement of the bleeding' obvious 🤪

You don't say ... 😉