Rob B

Half an hour to go and with the lack of lineups none of the bookies are doing any rider matchups, heat betting etc.

Think it will be Poland and Australia. But part of me thinks don't rule the Swedes out. Remember in 2003 I think when Rickardsson got injured and they replaced him with Ljung and they still got through and won the final. But don't think it will happen again. Think the Russians will do better then Monday on a big track but not good enough to qualify. Should be good meeting, normally one of the best of the year.

Georgie Thompson from Sky Sports News hosts the race off and final on Thursday & Saturday, should be interesting to see what she knows about speedway. http://www.cameroncole.com/cgi-bin/imageFo...eorgie_Thompson http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtm...28/cmfame28.xml

Yes they did, Sky announced twice that the start had been delayed due to crowd trying to get in and they showed the queues outside, racing didn't start until just before 8pm.

No you can't, best alternative was on Skybet, hosts to win event 1, 2 & raceoff at 5/2. The first two have happened, just need Poland to win on Thursday now.

Won quite a lot of Russia to beat USA at 23/20. Did a lot of heat betting, won quite a few but two riders cost me quite a bit of money, Jonas Davidsson and Peter Karlsson! Davidsson was unbelieveable and Karlsson was very inconsistent.

Whats the delay? Now 19.35 and only just started doing the parade. Suppose to be finished at 22:00 on Sky, definatly going to run over.

Good grief don't you read? Been answered several times on several topics. Max for AJ. Hamill has never been in the USA squad this year.

Definatly, I've said a few times the Russians will surprise quite a lot of people.

I don't know officially but think it would probably be run Tuesday.

I know Jan comes on here occasionally, but he has posted this on the speedway list : Hi everyone, I may be biased, but I’m also honest: We had no say in how the track was prepared. Actually all the guys in the team prefer some dirt. The difference is that we seem to be able to do well on the slick also. What you probably don’t know is that practice was cancelled due to the immense amount of rain we have had in southern Denmark in the last few days, and the forecast for race day was thunder storms late afternoon/early evening. There was a decent wind all day, but the threat of rain never materialized – thankfully – and the only bit we got was a light drizzle around 6pm. That is why the track was as slick as it was. It was even watered every 5 races, and at least it wasn’t as bad as Reading at the race off last year… Great to see well over 10.500 spectators again in Vojens. Best wishes Jan

No they are not, I've been to Vojens lots of times and seen some cracking meetings. I think tonight was a mixture of due to the heavy rain yesterday and the danes liking it a bit slick but they went well over the top.

The first two meetings are always crap in the world cup because there is always a team who never scores any points and all there is to race for for the other three teams is the chance not to go to the race off even though the race off seems to be an advantage! It only heats up when we get to the race off. Few months ago I suggested maybe it should just be 6 teams in the world cup, top 2 from previous year seeded to the final and the other 4 then battle it out in the race off.

For those questioning why Simon Stead had been picked, tonight at Coventry guesting for Peterborough he has won his first three rides beating Nicholls once and Harris twice!

USA won't qualify, I think the russians will be a lot stronger then some people think.

Also why no Ryan Fisher for USA, has he fallen out with AMA too?

Well it's obvious which two teams won't be making the race off, Finland and USA. It's just about who goes straight through to the final now, I think it will be Denmark and Sweden. Poland will then win the race off and probably the final too. Will be interesting to see Charlie 'The Edge' Venegas riding over here again but wouldn't expect him to do much.

This weekend? Riders haven't got long to sort out flights and getting bikes out there etc!

Stead rides well round Coventry. Has beat Nicholls last couple of times there.

I'd say crowd was similar size to last couple of years, it's hard to guage depending on where you are sitting because from where we were sat lower tier back straight looking up, the top tier on home straight and third/fourth bend were a lot more empty than last two years but seeing it on sky the back straight upper tier looked nearly full.

Because gate 4 was one of the best gates on the night, but I don't think he looked to see what riders he would have on the inside of him and think about it,

Track is always worst for practise because firstly if you count the number of riders and the amount of times they go out and time it is the equivant of about 40-50 heats. Secondly they don't race on different lines trying to pass each other, the majority of the time they are all riding round the inside trying to get their bikes setup on the fastest line. Thats why more ruts appear etc.

Was right in front of us on the back straight, he clambered over the green netting and did go right down to the track fence, bit stupid really with all the security about he was always going to get dragged out, saw him outside when we walked out so missed the presentation which was stupid.

Yep the security guy said food is fine, you are allowed to take snacks etc in. Obviously there not going to check everyone of the 41,000 people bags there else it would be chaos outside the stadium.

Just put in the other thread at the entrance we went in near the third bend by the river, the bags checking by security was stricter then ever but they were doing it before you got to the turnstiles not inside, must of been at least 30+ of them with big bins to put bottles in. I still managed to get two bottles of coke in my back pockets under my coat though. Overheard one of the security guys telling someone that it had nothing to do with the risk of bottles being thrown it is because plastic bottles get left on the floor and if there was a mass evacuation people, especially kids can fall if they stand on the plastic bottles and be crushed in stampede. He said they allow cartons of Ribena etc to be taken in as they just squash when stood on.