Shockster

I can't disagree about Hampel being poor the 2nd half of this season, but enough riders have been given wildcards with nothing like his record. If he's poor again next season, then that's it of course. There's an argument of course not to put any of the riders from 9th in as 7th and 8th will have got in by luck anyway. If Iversen and Ward had not had their Injuries/Issues then 7th/8th would have needed wildcards. I know it's if and buts but 2 are already in by the back door IMO.

If Politics had nothing to do with the wild cards, my 4 would be Niels Kristian Iversen, Emil Sayfutdinov, Grigory Laguta and Martin Vaculik. However, not likely to happen so I would go with NKI, Martin Vaculik, Jarek Hampel and Peter Kildemand. I definitely think they should announce it before the last GP and the riders below 8th would know what they have to do, unless of course they intend to wildcard them.

Smederna vs Vergarna. This the TV match tonight. Any Team news available. Thanks in advance.