customhouseregular

I was at that Internationale meeting and remember the Ivor Brown crash well.

Always the Internationale for me...never missed it as apart from the World Final it was the best meeting of the year.

The only thing that really surprises me about this thread is the fact the question was asked in the first place.

Well done SCB

I'm not sure where I have been not to have known about this site, but having found it I see it is a mine of information. Very informative and useful for when the memory plays tricks.

Hard to beat Yorkshire at any time of year

On a purely personal level, speedway stopped being as good as it could be following Lokeren. Then once West Ham closed it's doors for good speedway became a 4 or 5 meetings a year treat instead of the sometimes 3 times a week must do. Sentiment aside, the Warsaw GP was as good a speedway meeting as could be.

There is cheating and gamesmanship, then there's anticipation and lightning reflexes. If a rider is sharp enough to anticipate and get a flyer...all credit to him. It was the constant messing about at the tapes to unsettle others that got me.

By what criteria is Bartosz Szmarzlik judged to be the fastest rider in the world?. The track record holder at Plymouth did not go particularly fast. The track record holder at sheffield did. How fast was BS going and where did he set this World's fastest speedway rider record?.

And me. Emil not missed!

The records show that throughout the history of the World Championship, riders have profited from the misfortune of others. Tai may not have won 2 titles had Emil and Jarek not had their injury problems, but the fact is he is a double World champion which, statistically speaking, puts him on par with Peter Craven. p.s. I thought this thread was about Poland v Rest Of The World, not Gollob v Woffinden .

Grandpa Hancock...is this the same "past it" old duffer who scored a 21 point maximum in Melbourne?.

Many thanks but I did not get a chance to try again. Hopefully youtube will have it next week . Yippee...just found it on youtube. Oh Happy day

Point 1...absolutely Point 2...absolutely Point 3...great idea and I fully agree but I doubt Bomber will.

No doubt it will turn up on youtube...Mrs. chr won;t let me have the tv remote .

I am an ancient technophobe who does not understand all this stuff. We only have one tv and my wife was watching Dale Winton and Eurovision

I have to watch BT Sport on my pc. PC would not switch on but got there eventually. Once running I could not get BT Sport to play but got there eventually. Once BT Sport was connected it kept freezing so I had no live action. After a while my pc switched itself off. By the time I got it working again the GP was over. I did not see any of the GP tonight...thank the Lord for Speedway Updates. Well done Woffy.

Hard to fault your views my friend.

I think your last point is very true. Back in the day I would turn up at Custom House for every meeting, if we were bottom of the league, if it was a meaningless challenge or a pointless open meeting to fill a fixture gap. I would stay for the "second half", the reserves races and after meeting pracices. Are many of today's fans that committed?.

I have to include the great Igor Plechanov. Had he been allowed to ride full time in the BL he surely would have improved on his 2 world final second places.

If you have not read Norman Jacobs' book on Tom Farndon you really should. Loving your trio of great names but make it a quartet with Bluey Wilkinson. The war and an early death cut short what surely would have been an illustrious career.

Spot on. Spot on again.

Ah but...would he have needed to ride better than he did in 1981 to win more titles?. Maybe he did reach his full potential but failed to capitalise on it. I was privileged to be at Wembley in 1981 and sorely missed watching him following his, to me premature retirement.

I agree fully re Lambert. Sadly both semis are on the continent...a UK based semi would likely see Lambert get a wild card. He still might though not holding my breath.

This may seem an odd choice but how about Bruce Penhall?. Yes, he won back to back World titles but what if he had not retired. Had he continued riding throughout the 1980's would he be up there with Mauger, Rickardsson, Fundin, Briggs and Nielsen?. I think quite possibly yes which is I say Bruce Penhall did not realise his full potential.