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It's a big leap for a still new venture. Is the fan base there to make it viable?.

It's a harsh road to the GP's with only 3 to go through from the Challenge. At the moment Chris Harris has a 3 in 32 chance of making it, against some top class opposition. I like and admire Chris but I do get the feeling he will not be in the GP's next year.

Surely it's in Tai's long term interest to regain his World Title. If he feels cutting down his racing and travelling commitments will enhance his chances, who are we to criticise. We shall all be singing his praises if he is world champion come October.

Germany 4-England 1 I suspect Tai will be ploughing a lone furrow in 2016.

Seriously though, I hope you enjoy Laurels Mk.2 as much as I used to enjoy Mk.1. The Internationale early season and The Laurels late season...great stuff.

Upminster station please.

It was me at Cardiff last year (hangs head in shame). A 30-year gap, declining memory and all those coloured boxes threw me. That's my excuse anyway

I wish I knew too. It took me 6 months to learn how to log on to the Interweb

One thing for sure, it will not stand comparison with the old Laurels meetings held at Wimbledon, back in the day when CHR was young.

Talk about leaving it late!.

And in his second...needs to get a spurt on if he wants to make the cut. Same goes for Kildermand.

The 4 Nickis would take each other out. The 4 Gregs would all gate together and finish in a 4-way dead-heat. Difficult to say which would be the most entertaining

I used to find Ivan Mauger boring to watch and some people have compared him to Greg. I can't see the similarity personally. Nicki is a character and Lord knows the sport needs characters. He may be more exciting than Greg but is he a better rider?. Greg's GP record would suggest not.

I'm probably being somewhat thick here (it's called growing old), but I keep seeing posts for meetings involving teams that don't exist. Have Halifax and Exeter been resurrected?.

Strangely, in my opinion, I am still reading anti-Hancock posts on the forum. The man is 45 years old!, still racing at the top level of World speedway and is a 3-time World Champion. What more do people want?. The only man currently riding who matches Greg, again in my opinion is Nicki Pedersen. I don't know if Nicki will still be racing GP's at the age of 45, and if so how many world titles he will have won. However, Greg seems to be a really nice person and a real gentleman. A credit to speedway in other words. Nicki?.

Why save your second-best rider for the race-off and risk all in a winner-takes-all meeting?. Surely it makes sense to try and win the main event and go straight through to the Final. I firmly believe a full-strength Russia would win the SWC, as would a fully fit Emil become World Champion. Russian logic?.

Spot on WK...I find some of the negative views about Tai and Greg very odd indeed. Well said.

Early days yet and of course he is still at NL level, but Bradley Wilson-Dean looks set to be the best rider to come from New Zealand in a long while.

The top 3 from the GP Challenge get full-time GP places for 2016, along with the top 8 from this year's GP series, Arguably, the top 2 riders outside the GP...Sayfutdinov and Grigorij Laguta, are absent from the Challenge. Should Sayfutdinov retain his European title and Laguta come second, is there not an unanswerable case for both getting GP places next year. There will be 4 places up for grabs and it is likely the riders finishing the series in 9th. and 10th. places will get 2 of them. I would love to see Emil and Grigorij getting the other 2, politics and funding notwithstanding.

That's more like it/ Well done Tai.

Who said Prague is boring?

Having just finished watching the complete 2014 box set, I'd say that was an excellent suggestion.

A very valid point ktl. I can't remember how much it cost to visit West Ham 50 years ago. or what proportion of my weekly income that represented. I do know that with all the associated costs I could not afford to attend meetings today. The subsequent post re heroes and villains is a good one. I would look forward for weeks to the visits of Briggs, Boocock, Broadbank and many others. It strikes me that the riders I would really want to see, if I could afford to go are not here. Think Woffinden, Hancock, Hampel etc.

I have advocated a British League Mark 2 before on this forum. It was a shot in the arm for British speedway in 1965 and the time is right to try again