OveFundinFan

You must not have watched any Olympics either. That’s where the ban started from a good few years ago, the cheating, the denial, but it was proven to be carrying on. So rife in Russian sport the whole nation had to be shamed. Surely you knew that.

Phil Morris has made a mess of too many GP tracks this year. Was he in charge in 2016 for the world team at BV in 2016 - Friday night was a mess, too heavy, Saturday night someone else must have been in charge as the racing was good.

After tonight’s showing I think Robert has nailed a wild card, equally, Thomson has lost his chance IMO.

A worthy champ this year, certainly rode different in 2021 then previous years. I wonder if pressure to be the first Russian world champ is now gone off Emil it may see him next year as a champ contender. We will see.

Thought he was back. I don’t follow Polish speedway closely.

Laguta is not going to get caught up in a battle. Knows what he needs to do. Problem is he could get an engine failure unexpectedly.

I won’t disagree with you, Kubera did well riding on his own track - twice. For sure they proved a youngster can do it once, maybe twice, but for a whole season, Lamvbert has shown it is a tough year. I repeat, where is Drabik and Smektala, these were the top under 21’s for a few years, they got Wild cards, but conspicuous by there absence. We’re they in the GPChallenge, it’s either GPChallenge or Euro Champ for them to qualify by right.

Re should under 21 world champ get into the following year GP series……..Absolutely not. They are too young, not mature racers. A GP year needs more the a youngster doing well in one meeting. Look at Lambert, he has been ok this year, but he had a dabble partly full time and didn’t make the cut IMO. Where is Drabik, where is Smektala…. Really promising youngsters. Yes, they could well make the GP in couple years time, but it takes time to mature, get the stamina for a season long fight, plus sponsors etc. Recall Vaculik went missing for a couple or three years. That was his choice, he did well in his first GP appearance, but nothing spectacular afterward. He retired from GP, as he said, to mature as a rider, and that’s what he did. Emil left the GP scene because he was having sponsorship problems, it costs a lot to do a season of GPs, I understand prize money is not all that great. Must ensure under 21 world champ gets a wold card for a GP and in the list as series reserve. Just my thoughts.

The incident was in heat 8 when Thomson (last) put Vaculik (third) into a heavy wobbler which temporary put Vaculik shoulder out of socket and he had to pull up. Vaculik is recovering from broken shoulder and collar bones and fighting to stay in the series next year. Vaculik was out the rest of last night and not riding tonight, finishing his 2021 GP season. After the race, correctly the ref excluded Thomson putting Vaculik into third.

Logically it’s got to be Madsen, Doyle, Vaculik plus Lambert and Thomson. That pick will upset those who want to see “new” faces. The new faces come in from Euro champ and top 2 of the 3 from GP Challenge (Fricke was one of those 3 for next year). I wouldn’t want to see 37 year old Kolodzeij, nor 35 year old Smolinski in the series, they had there chances.

Sayfutdinov has been a brilliant gater in the past. And a brilliant rider. Have you forgot he was up with Tai when Tai won his first world champ medal. Emil had that very serious injury when Medinski fenced him - could have been career ending. Then of course Emil went AWOL from world GPs for 3 years. He come back not the racer as he was.

When Zmarzlik squashed Emil up the straight it reminded me about 6 years ago whe Emil was squashed by Medinski and ended up very seriously injured.

I watching the recording and am a few heats behind you BUT just heard “the track is coming to the riders” ……… that was at the end of heat 14… well over 60% of meeting gone!

I cannot remember races at Torun where all 4 are spread out. This is not the Torun I seen fantastic races for much of a GP.

The gPs are being spoilt this year by track preparation. Shocking.

I don’t think living in social housing means the occupiers have fallen on hard times. They are for families who cannot afford, from their income, to pay the high price houses that some areas have. This would include low pay workers like nurses, care workers, transport workers etc. Those workers have been classed as “key” workers and no doubt they work in those sectors because they like the job, even though it’s not high pay. I think they may be upset if some class them as they have fallen on hard times. I think the not often used now term of council houses would have been similar in the past. I was brought up in a council house, and though we didn’t have bags of money we certainly was not on hard times.

Only if the riders can actually race. Round 1 of this years final was not spectacular, Round 2, yesterday, was a big wide track and riders were very strung out too much, some bikes gave up after a lap. Pardubice is a massive track, 6 riders wide for the starts on the Golden Helmet (Saturdays annual championship), and it’s long. I reckon actual racing will be very poor overall.

What does “better” mean?

Next weeks final round in Pardubice. Another long and wide track, can’t see the racing getting any better. Maybe when covid settled down the final round may come to NSS Manchester.

It was a very poor meeting. Quality of riders varied massively. Too many race interruptions ie falls, false starts. Tapes held too long most races. Too much tractor work. Complete disaster. Another poor advert for speedway. I turned off after about 14 races, bored stiff.

It is on the Asia mix sport 13. MNOW

Obviously you don’t watch much racing from the NSS then. Not every race is going to be a thriller, but when 2 or more are more of an even match the heat turns up.

If someone like Jack Holder cannot get through a GP Challenge qualifier he doesn’t deserve to be in a GP, and someone suggest Jack replaces Fricke who did qualify for the GP Challenge and indeed qualify for next years GPs.

Where was Jack Holder in the 2021 GP Challenge, was he entered, certainly not in the final.

Will there be a link R&R