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Forgot about that, love to have been in the pits to hear what went on.

I wouldn’t dismiss your claim, but he has to prove it by winning the top trophy. Of the three, the one that stands out clearly to me is Madsen. He is carrying an injury that affected him badly for a couple meetings, sadly the results in those meetings robbed him of being champion. He has proved, to me at least, he not just a hater, he can race. He has a great personality too.

Equally interesting is the 4 series reserves. Say that because this year Lambert really got used, and Fricke didn’t do too bad for meetings. So who are the 4 for 2020. If Lambert not in the full 15, does he have another pick for 4 reserves. Smektala, Michelson, Thomson, Woryna possible.

Other sports may not be numbers..... Snooker it’s names.... “Hurricane “, “Rocket”, “Whirlwind”. Other sports, apart from numbers, it is colours to a massive extent...... in MotoGP Yellow is synonymous with Valentino Rossi, Red with Marq Marquez. Combine the yellow colour with 46, the orange with 93, and at the GP’s you see a sea of yellow46 flags, hats, jackets, banners, and orange93 similar products ..... all in the tens of thousands. Jorge Lorenzo is 99, Andrea Dovitsiozo is 04..... the list goes on....... they are all big money spinners, massive. The new popular number to watch in Moto GP is 20 - Fabio Quartararro - just see how that number goes massive in the next few years. Back to speedway, those who watched the under 21 world championship from Pardubice last Friday.... did you not notice sections of the crowd were wearing clothing in the same colours as their idol - Bartosz Smektala, - and they stood out. Smektala will be in the senior world championship sometime soon, The money machine is already working hard.

My mum and dad used to go on about how good Jack Parker was, often referring to how long he was match race champion.

A better track for 6 riders per race. Most races were a bit strung out tonight. Jaimon did really well. If he keeps progression up he should be in the top 5 next year. Kuberra bottled it a bit but being in it next year he should be in the running for top 3. Chiganov will be there next year, could have been champion this year, so I expect him to be up near the top next year.

The light show at the current World Championship Athletics from Doha is what is needed at Cardiff, spectacular but on a “quieter” level then Pittsburgh as shown above.

Well, all that in the books etc about PC is news to me BUT if that’s what was going on, then that’s what was going on.

Gather you not a favourite of gardening and adjusting chains etc. Don’t think many fans are, but what fans think don’t seem to matter too much these days.

Love to be there, I’m jealous (in a good way).

What a feast on TV this weekend, starting tonight, but with Toruń being the highlight on Saturday. Thursday.... Wolves v Swindon Friday... under 21 World Championship final round Pardubice Ffiday .... qualifying for Torun Saturday ... final GP of the season Torun Sunday.... MotoGP, Moto 2, Moto 3 from Thailand (plus practice and qualifying Friday and Saturday) Monday ... Swindon v Wolves all on BT and Eurosport How much would it cost to go and see that lot...if it was practicable to do so.

I was a keen BV supporter before (and beyond) 1963, and BV rider, ob Duckworth, was a close friend of our family. Never heard anything about these rumours at all. PC was a favourite wherever he went, always a gentleman, always ready to talk to fans. I can well imagine fans of other teams wishing he was with them, but I reckon he was a BV man. Sadly it all ended too soon. Peter was patron of Wilmslow Hammers cycle speedway team (Manchester League). I joined Wilmslow in 1965 and proudly won the Peter Craven Memorial Trophy that year.

Cant recall that rumour at all. I would be interested to know if any other supporter had heard about PC going to Oxford. He was a Liverpudlian, not that would stop him moving in itself. Nor did I hear he was wanting to do continental meetings, which in those days was not too common.

I never got to Norwich speedway, but if anything like the duals at Belle Vue then certainly worth watching. Do I remember right that Firs Road was 425 yards and BV Hyde Road was 418 yards, similar size and I would imagine pretty similar shape, so like home from home for each of them. Fantastic riding together as they had completely different styles as much as they were completely different heights.

So SKY is not free for Eurosprt, neither is BT, neither is Eurosport Player. Is there a free way of viewing Eurosport??? I with BT and get access to the Speedway GP's and MotoGP and World Superbikes. Plus I can watch World Rally Cross so I am happy with that. I can lose British `Premiership without shedding any tears.

Who does choose a GP wildcard.?

So, does. BT have two different contracts ending at different times. One with BSI ending end 2021 and one with BSPromotors ending soon.?.

Plusnet is also part of the BT/EE group, couple years ago now I took advantage of Plusnet good value for telephone/broadband package and got BT Sport package for £10 per month. Was a monthly contract, so just did the GP season. £10 per month to watch, usually, 2 GP’s was good value. However bband in my area then was a max of 1.2 mbps, dreadfully slow, and that was no matter who the provider was (Virgin cable non existent in the area). Then Openreach started putting in, to my shock but delight, fast fibre and to the door. When I enquired how fast, I was asked how fast do you want. Keeping cost reasonable I selected 52mbps, but since then it’s been bumped up to 72mbps, and I do get that figure (I done the bband speed test). I get the BT Sport app, so got access on my iPad and iPhone, but have a BTTv box so I can record the GP’s for winter watching. Just had a week away in a lovely apartment on Anglesey, 50” tv in the lounge (40” in the kitchen), but just access to Freeview. No problem, just connected to wi-fi, got BT Sport app on iPad, took my Chrome Cast with me, cast to the TV through HDMI and saw Cardiff GP on the Sat, all of MotoGP, 2, 3 on the Sunday, Poole v Ipswich on the Thursday. Brilliant. I just hope BT cart on with the speedway contract, Eurosport don’t seem committed to showing complete speedway marches, which is very annoying.

Before the 4th and final round late this afternoon on Eurosport there is a replay of the Vojens 3rd round. Then of course this evening on BT sport is the 2nd round Ipswich v Poole. A feast of speedway.

First half of the meeting was pretty good when Poolle was getting thrashed at home.......... second half was a bit off though.

I just googled First Group Travel and found them easily. They were there on the first page, maybe not top but thats how search engines work. If speedwaygp website had just referred you to First Group then the bus company would have been at the top of the list, so that probably misled you by adding the word Travel

I just finished reading Tai’s book, I got it as a download from Apple. I prefer to read the electronic versions then a paper book. To me it is an average read, not as exciting as I hoped, nor a compelling read as in “I can’t put it down”. It was interesting to read about his younger years in Aus, how he had difficulty accepting he was British, though raised in Aus. He explains how he felt watching the Aus riders putting on their Aus speedway attire, but clearly says he is proud to put on the GB attire and wants to win team gold for GB. Interesting to read of a fallout between him and Micheal Lee, his engine tuner, his thoughts on Team GB selection and how hw would run the team. I not a Tai fan, but certainly this year he is coming over very well on TV during interviews and his go at commentating. I was warming to him, a lot. But the book needlessly has f words a plenty, and this added nothing to the book at all, in fact, for me, took a lot away from it and Tai. my view is, writing a book was on his to do bucket list, and he did it, but I think too soon. Maybe if he left it for another few years until he retired then done it, well it may well have been better. For £7 it was ok. I got my next read in front of me. Few months ago I read “ The Tatooist of Auschwitz” a true story of the Jew man who tattooed the arm of every Jew that went into Auschwitz. That was compelling read. Am finding the recent book I bought, and it is paperback, is “The BoyWho Followed His Father Into Auschwitz” is also very compelling. The bond between father and son, the son insisting he sticks with his father, even when he didn’t have to go to Auschwitz, but did even though it meant certain death. All seems morbid, but I visited Auschwitz in 1976 when wife and I went on organised coach trip to Katowice to see Peter Collins win his world championship, then carry on to Marianske Lazne, Czechoslovakia, to see Ivan Mauger win the world long track. Auschwitz and what went on there has stuck in my mind since. So sad.

More pointed then that Tai Woffinden, motor cycle speedway rider who has won the world championship 3 times and is the current world champion (for another 8 days).

Gregory has to qualify IMO, and he doesn’t seem to want to enter the Challenge.

It’s rare in speedway to get top racing all the way through a meeting. Hyde Road racing was top notch at times, but there were boring races as well. The only GP this season that really excelled was the one in Poland - Wroclaw. That was full of excitement from pretty much race 1. By comparison Cardiff was pretty poor, but compare Cardiff to most of the other meetings this year and it’s probably in the mix. I have seen better at Cardiff, this year going round someone seemed a difficult thing to do, attention needs to be put into sorting that. Thing with Cardiff I now fed up with is the rider introduction being held in the dark..... so much so you can’t see what’s going on and it didn’t come across well on TV. I know where the “darkness” comes from. Speedway racing in the evening under track lights is more spectacular then racing in the afternoon. It was the same call back in the 70’s when continental finals were held at White City in the afternoon. I have no problem with speedway racing under track lights, it does look spectacular... but let’s see the introduction of riders. Of course, venues will try to put on something different for the fans, but too extreme is too much sometimes.