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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.

Excellent. What could be better then Mums and Dads taking kids to the GP, or even kids mythering mums and dads to take them. Isn’t that what speedway needs, more youngsters. Well the opportunity is on a plate. The speedway nation should be embracing it, not whinging about it. I’m convinced a lot of this forums members are happy to be moaners.

If you meet the criteria there is no reason to pay more then £19 plus booking fee. You know the date for 2020 so no excuse. As for staying over before journey home - stay outside of Cardiff and prices are cheaper. 2013/14 we stayed in TonyPandy and 2015 in Bridgend. Small b&b’s, about £60 for 2, good breakfast included, and both within 1.5 mile of railway station, the digs in TonyPandy was about 100yards from railway station, and another plus point was AndyPandy lived next door. So get yourselves sorted now for 2020.

£6.47 inc vat

That is the £64,000 question.

Yes Fricke earned his place already, he is in 2020 because of 3rd in the Challenge. i really do think Tai is in as well, just not been announced yet.

I wonder if Dudek wants to be in the series next year. According to the captions when at the start Dudek stuck to the same bike all 5 races, even though that one did not perform well at any time. A rider serious about his raving would have changed somewhere in the meeting, other riders did. Too much of a hater and if he doesn’t gate then he is so good at racing from the back. So I hope he and Kolodzeij are out of it next year.

I understand what you saying, but can you imagine the moans and groans on here if he does do the gp’s next year and he fayres badly.

Emil done it again. Given first choice of gate in semi final and he picks blue. At that point he had 4 wins and a 3rd, blue was third. More than that picking blue let Madsen choose red, Emil drops a point. More then that Emil only has third pick for the final and comes 2nd behind..... Madsen. So he dropped two points, if he chose the right gates and beat Madsen in semi and final he would now be 5 points behind Zmarzlik and two more points ahead of Madsen, AND he would have won Cardiff, which he hasn’t done since 2013. Bad choice. Charles Wright did well, rode very well.

Well worth another look. https://www.speedwaygp.com/news/article/7813/sgp-throwback-|-harris-cardiff Who was there, what was the atmosphere like?

Oooops! However, it does show that there were, and probably still, is ways how watching Eurosport other then Sky and BT

Polish sponsors for British speedway..... that would be interesting to see how it develops.

Maybe or maybe not from next year

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/latest-news/how-to-watch-eurosport-without-a-sky-tv-subscription-309277

No pint doing xenophobia camera transmission. Wherever you position that one camera it will be too far away from over 50% of the action. I would not be paying £10 for a one camera viewing. They got to get it right or not bother at all.

Probably the only ones worth watching anyway.

Doing what you suggest would make the strength of the meetings weaker, and some are already saying the racing wasnt that good anyway, me included.

But all riders have gone through qualifiers haven’t they ? So go there by right. The argument with the senior GPs is “we want to see the best in the world racing”, but there seems to be an unwritten rule only so many from one country can be represented. So, when the under 21’s work differently, seem to allow as many from a country as qualify, the call from some is to stifle that. Particularly with the younger ones, I think there has to be a free reign, if you good enough and qualify then you can ride in it.

Gust row is live at 5:30 today, but just starting is hightlights from round 1 at Lublin. That is starting nowc4:30 on Eurosport..

I agree. Wembley didn’t always produce the best racing on world final night, but the atmosphere was amazing.

By erection of temporary stands on the 3rd/4th bends (as 2016 for the World Cup) NSS will hold 9000, as much as some of the current GP stadia. The stadium bookings would be full within weeks of ticket release, so TV rights would bring in the extra income. Manchester city centre is short journey away, bus route passes by, train station, hotels in abundance. Nothing else needed.

Ridiculous statement. You got to be in a race to win it. You can’t do that if you dead, and at that point you just a memory to the fans, and memories fade. The “trick” is to win as many races as possible by putting in as much effort as possible but staying on the bike.

The case for a GP at NSS Belle Vue Manchester England must be getting stronger.

Done it, I deleted the recording. Usually I record the full meeting, then record the shorter highlighted meeting (usually 2 hours) and save for the winter months. Not this one, apart from the first lap passing just wasn’t going to happen. Give the riders a race track. seeing how successful Ole Olsen was as a rider, I cannot see how he come up with a track like this.