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Hi New Yorker I too googled Owego speedway and was very suprised to find it actually was speedway as I love. i imagined it was going to be small car racing, but no! it was motorcycle speedway as we have in the UK. You drag yourself to Europe this summer, and bring some of those riders with you. Joe

Thanks for that video

Thats sad, such a good rider.

I remember it was said the new BV track would incorporate some Hyde Road features, but Chris Morton and the BV boss have looked closelyat Torun as well. They obviously want the new BV to be a racers track.

Re Nicki - since the Hancock flying tackle I have noticed a change in Nicki, hard but not as dirty as he was before.

Hi New Yorker, and welcome to the forum. During the 2015 GP year there have been many very good races but that one with Zagar, Woffinden, Hancock and Zmarzlik is really good. Re your visit, I would imagine doing all four events is feasible, don't know if many do it. Go to Denmark for the Sunday qualifier, then to Sweden for the Tuesday qualifier to see the US team. If Greg Hancock is on form they should qualify for the final qualifier at Belle Vue Manchester on the Friday night, and stay in Manchester for the final Saturday. The Belle Vue track is brand new - not been raced on yet and is looking good. This link should show you the old Belle Vue track (last season was 2015) in the foreground. The new track is just a few hundred yards above it, and top of the picture and slightly to the right is a large vehicle auction site where the famous Hyde Road stadium was. On that page is a link to other (better) photos of the new track. Enjoy Sorry, I tried to post a link but it wont show. Do a search for....... New Belle Vue National Speedway Stadium ..... should throw up something of interest. Joe

Could it? Fantastic race, close racing for 4 laps from all four riders. Just wish Matei Zagar could consistently race at this level all through the year. He's a clean rider that deserves a world championship and he aint going to get a team of pairs medal so its got to be the individual. www.speedwaygp.com/news/article/4696/sgp-gold-matejs-gorzow-magic if the link doesn't work go to speedwaygp.com, its todays highlight.

Am sure a few thousand fans would probably chip in a fiver each to get a Russian team over.

So glad this thread has been updated today, if it hadnt I would probably have missed it altogether.

If that is so then it puts the cat amongst the pigeons - Poland, Sweden, Denmark and Russia going for 3 places. Hope it is true.

If you have a spark (and you can check that easy enough) and the timing is set right, it should fire up if the fuel is ok. I would drain the carb of old fuel, replenish with what you have in the gallon tank and see how it goes.

Be interesting to know why you ask??????????

I understand Phil Risings answer, but I don't understand yours

I am in agreement with what you say, but as long as people will pay the rice it will continue to happen. The hotels are "full" on the Saturday GP night in Cardiff, just as they will be for any event be it sporting, pop concert or whatever in any major city. Its not just a Cardiff speedway thing. No doubt if "everyone" shunned the Cardiff city centre hotels and lodged in areas around Cardiff where it is cheaper "today" - they will catch on and raise their prices. You either pay the prices for city centre, move out to quieter areas, or stay at home - we all have the same choices. Having said that, this year I don't have a choice.... wife says we staying at home...... we going to Belle Vue world cup end of July instead. I only live about 30 mile from Belle Vue but looked at staying in a hotel for the Friday night.... no surprise to find the room prices have shot up if you want to be near the stadium...... so we travelling by car both Fri and Sat meetings.

Very poor service from a country such as Poland.

Hotels EVERYWHERE increae prices when there is an event in the locality, the closer you get to the event the dearer it becomes. If you want to stay Cardiff centre then you will pay. Its the same at the end of July for the world team championshop at Belle Vue, hotel rates in the locality go up. Its called supply and demand. Think about moving out of Cardiff. First two years for the Sat night we stayed in Tonypandy, about 30 min north of Cardiff, then on the Sunday night when the event was over we dropped down into Cardiff and stayed at the Quay, very reasonable prices Sunday night.

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That's correct. That whole are is now a Sports Village of which the new speedway stadium is just a part. Man City football club, the National Velodrome and other sports are only about 1.5 miles away. Manchester City Council have invested in a large and varied sports area to generate interest/income in Manchester. 3 miles away in the city itself you have the Manchester Arena holding about 20,000, loads of hotels and shops, then on the other side of the city you have Old Trafford for cricket and that other football club...eer United, plus more shopping areas and hotels.

Thanks for that Grachan. Re the 2nd photo, bottom right was the entrance to the pits off Redgate Lane Pits was behind the stand on the 3rd/4th bend. Also bottom right, the other side of Redgate Lane to the pits entrance, that land became a large car park. In the summer of 1965 I rode Cycle Speedway fpr Belle Vue Gladiatirs on that car park. Every meeting day, a Sunday, we had to work on the cycle speedway track cause the night before there were cars parked all over it. Of course most of the speedway track and funfair is now a hugh British Car Auction site, with new houses where the zoo was and on the large car park referred to in previous paragraph.

Whole complex looking very good.

Yes my mistake, two of those four it probably will be on the Friday. Makes Friday even better then I thought. All for a fiver.

With GB seeded through to the final means the other 3 places are between Poland, Denmark, Sweden and Australia. So the qualifier on the Friday night will contain one of those four, plus who...... USA, Russia, Czech, Latvia, Germany - choice of. Should be good if Emil and Lagutas decide to race for Russia, in fact with those three they could be one of the 3 in the final. Mmm.

Just ordered 2 tickets for wife and I in the East grandstand - thats between turns 3 & 4 (will be the temporary stand). Thats where we have sat at Cardiff for the last 3 years. £42 each or the Friday qualifier and the Saturday final, which is more then twice what I pay for Cardiff - difference being there is no OAP price for the stands, obviously smaller crowd so have to pay more, and we get to see 2 meetings (though it says only a £5 for the Friday event which is a bargain). Will be my first Belle Vue meeting for over 35 years so looking forward to it.

The youngsters "likeing crashes".... could that possibly stem from the violence we see on tv, films, computer games etc. wew surely dont want "stage managed" crashes in speedway......... we have enough with the likes of Kildemand dropping down when he sees fit. On Boxing Day I was watching downhill soap box racing from Holland (you know....the flat country) which was sponsored by Red Bull. A very good crowd lining the route down, lots of families. The crowd was probably as big as some speedway meetings. What attracted them to a soap box race? Then there was top quality cyclo cross from Zolder (is that Belgium or Holland), anyway, a really big crowd which would probably put most GP crowds to shame. Whats the attraction there?

Nearly missed it myself but today, 25th, the knockout round at Vojens was on this afternoon. Tomorrow, Sat 26th, the SWC 2015 final is on Eurosport 2 at 5pm - 6pm then on Eurosport 1 at 6:30 is highlights of the 2015 Gran Prix season.