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Re Sczakiel, I think it was in one of Ivan Maugers books where he was praising JS as a top rider that was underrated by the many. Yes, Ivan spoke highly of him. Maybe he would have done well in a GP series. Muller was a fantastic long track rider, and a very good speedway rider, capable of being a spoiler.. I would expect him to finish about 10th-12th in a GP series though.
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Sad to hear. I remember him starting off at Belle Vue, a steady rider, and outstanding with his machine preparation.
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Sorry to hear this, was only reading a Backtrack mag about him remember the other week, I remember him in his early years at Belle Vue, steady rider, and his machine were always immaculate.
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Grass track racing on a speedway track is a good way to introduce grass track riders to speedway, with the hope they will take it up. Crewe used to do Saturday mornings where grass trackers could roll up with their bikes and have a go…….. one of my regrets was I didn’t go along when I was grass tracking.
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My opinion is Tai should be in the team, no doubt about it. He is currently 6th in the world championship, that’s a big qualification factor, on top of all his experience. Its a toss up between Dan and Robert. Dan has more experience on the track, but Robert more experience at the top level. Think I would go with Dan. pis it stil an under 21 for the reserve? Who is in consideration?
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Polish and other Speedway videos 2025
OveFundinFan replied to racers and royals's topic in International World of Speedway
Thanks for the posting R&R but life is too short to watch it all again, must move on. Might be some cricket on tv today…whoops, I can’t believe I just said that. -
Worse track I seen a meeting on for years. They got the space there to redesign that track, shorter, but some gradient into, but assume it met FIM criteria. Hardly any passing, just rubbish. If I was a rider I would be a bit miffed having to travel lots of miles to ride that rubbish. Glasgow should have had the final instaed, that track was a lot better then what the riders got. I was sweating there…… thought Smolinski and Kolodziez would be in next years GP, still, that would have sorted 14th and 15fh. Still, they were the oldest in the field at 36 and 37 respectively.
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He did, but that is what I meant by you didn’t know which Kolodzeiz turned up. Too many meetings he only scored a few points. Just like KK and Lindback, fantastic to watch when they are riding well, really fantastic, but so often they just not turned on. Throw statistics all day, but in speedway go you got to nail it meeting after meeting. They is where the GP series is different to the days of one off finals (and I loved them too). The machine and the man has to be on top to last a multi GP season, and that takes some doing.
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I like Kolodziez as a rider, but no, not after his last effort, he was like Lindback and KK, you didn’t know which Kolodziez was going to turn up. Erm, tell me what position in this years GP are last years Challenge top 3. The SEC is better producing worthy GP contestants at the moment and that competition only has the winner going through. Putting the Challenge top 5 through would be ridiculous IMO.
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When I said would Adam "sustain a very high standard in all the rounds" I was including in that statement his riding ability, his sponsorship package, his fitness, his machinery, his mental fitness, mechanics.......the whole package. In the line up for tomorrow, there is a few that I could see giving it a good go and ruffle a few feathers in the gp's, whether they would sustain it for a full year. If 3 good ones get the GP next year, thats fine, but its not always the case and a full GP season (hopefully 2022) is a long time.