Rob B

No you won't find anywhere in Cardiff now, Newport probably your best bet, last year we ended up staying just the other side of the bridge outside Bristol.

You can only buy family tickets for the cheapest price band, thats why only upper tier is coming up. A long as your not afraid of heights then its a great view up there, you should be able to get quite a low row too at the moment, try each block to see which has the lowest row available. Seating plan here : http://www.speedwayworld.tv/cardiff2007/seatingplan.gif But like everyone is saying there isn't a bad seat anywhere, just down to prsonal preference.

This is the third time you've asked this mate. Its up to you, tickets don't sell out so you can get them there if you want, but we always buy them online and print them out, saves having to queue up there.

We are in D2 front row too. Looks like it should be decent view as it is raised about 10 foot or so, not like Cardiff which goes down to pitch level.

Apparently Lyons came 2nd, must of beat Crump!

Apparently Leigh Adams won the meeting, not much else known at the moment.

Last few races didn't happen in his testmonial at Belle Vue, it was called off after about 10 heats off the top of my head, was a mud bath. Rained pretty much all day, badly affected the crowd, hope he got a good crowd in Mildura.

Sorry to sound negative all the time but you are living in cloud cuckoo land. The only places that have got 20,000 or more the last few years are Cardiff, Copenhagen and Wroclaw. Even Bydgoszcz only got 17,000 last year, Prague doesn't even get 10,000 anymore and thats full of Poles and lots of Brits. I was at the last German GP at Berlin, the weather might not have helped as it poured down but there was only a couple of thousand there. Gelsenkirchen is going to look so empty, but we will be there.

You are talking about hundreds in a 62,000 capactiy stadium, I don't think there will be even 10,000 there. But we'll see.

But with the high ticket prices you won't get many Poles there, just a handfull of die hards.

My only fear with all this promotion of the richest minute etc, is that the stadium will probably be less then a quarter full. Ticket prices are quite hnigh can't see your average German with not much interest in Speedway attending.

OK guess will wait till they release a seating diagram.

Just booked our flights, £1 each way with Air Berlin to Dusseldorf, so with taxes and fuel surcharge it's £40 each, bargain! Question for maybe someone local, they are selling standing tickets for £20, where is the standing? Thought being a modern stadium it would be all seating.

Can't beleive it's took them so long to realise the need for a reserve, thankfully a rider has not been injured in the World Cup so far and had to pull out as it would of been diabolical that they couldn't bring anyone in before.

To be honest I never saw the problem with the first GP system where they had the 20 heats Then split into D, C, B and A finals. Or why not use the system they are using in the Australian Championship, 20 heats then B and A finals and then points get allocated down as per position, at least then the lowest a rider could come from to winning the GP would be 4th rather then 8th.

Yep good racing, track shape looks similar to Peterborough.

Actually Stead finished above Nicholls, Stead got 11 points in round 1.

Apparently it doesn't like the Mildura track, which is very strange as its the most similar track to most UK tracks.

Crump is Australian Champion. Won the A final.

Qualifying scores : Jason Crump 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 = 15 Leigh Adams 3, 3, 2, 3, 3 = 14 Chris Holder 3, 3, 1, 3, 3 = 13 Simon Stead 2, 2, 3, 2, 2 = 11 Scott Nicholls 1, 3, 3, 1, 1 = 9 Rory Schlein 2, 2, 0, 3, 2 = 9 Steve Johnston 2, 1, 2, 2, 2 = 9 Troy Batchelor 1, 2, 1, 2, 2 = 8 Cam Woodward 0, 1, 2, 1, 3 = 7 Jason Doyle 1, 1, 3, 1, 1 = 7 Travis McGowan 2, 1, 2, 0, 1 = 6 Trevor Harding 3, 0, 0, 1, 0 = 4 Tom Hedley 0, 2, 0, 2, 0 = 4 Mark Lemon 1, 0, 1, R, 1 = 3 Cory Gathercole 0, 0, 1, 0, 0 = 1 Ty Proctor 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 = 0

I make it so far : Jason Crump 3, 3, 3, 3, Leigh Adams 3, 3, 2, 3, Chris Holder 3, 3, 1, 3, Simon Stead 2, 2, 3, 2, Scott Nicholls 1, 3, 3, 1, Rory Schlein 2, 2, 0, 3, Steve Johnston 2, 1, 2, 2, Jason Doyle 1, 1, 3, 1, Troy Batchelor 1, 2, 1, 2, Travis McGowan 2, 1, 2, 0, Trevor Harding 3, 0, 0, 1, Tom Hedley 0, 2, 0, 2, Cam Woodward 0, 1, 2, 1, Mark Lemon 1, 0, 1, R, Cory Gathercole 0, 0, 1, 0, Troy Proctor 0, 0, 0, 0,

Sounds like another balls up by Ole Olsen to me.

Quite a long time I'd guess, quite a lot further then Gdansk or Poznan.

There is so much choice, all depends how much you want to spend, if you don't want to spend much some of the pensions are ok, basic but they have a clean bed and bathrooms not much else. Last year we stayed in Hotel City Center, probably about 3* rating. Was ok, decent breakfast buffet, just off the old town square.

Round 3 from Mildura : Leigh Adams 2, 3, 3, 3, 3 = 14 Travis McGowan 3, 3, 2, 2, 2 = 12 Jason Crump 0, 3, 2, 3, 3 = 11 Simon Stead 3, 2, 3, 3, R = 11 Steve Johnston 2, 1, 3, 1, 3 = 10 Jason Doyle 3, 1, 2, 0, 3 = 9 Scott Nicholls 1, 2, 2, 3, 0 = 8 Mark Lemon 1, 2, 3, 2, 0 = 8 Rory Schlein 0, 2, 1, 2, 2 = 7 Cory Gathercole 2, 3, 1, F, - = 6 Troy Batchelor 1, 1, 1, 1, 2 = 6 Cam Woodward 2, 0, 1, 2, 1 = 6 Troy Proctor 3, 0, R, R, 1 = 4 Tom Hedley 0, 0, R, 1, 2 = 3 Trevor Harding 1, 0, 0, 1, 1 = 3 Chris Holder 0, 1, 0, X, - = 1 Aaron Summers 1 = 1 Ryan Sedgeman 0 = 0 B Final : Doyle, Johnston, Lemon, Nicholls A Final : Adams, Crump, McGowan, Stead