Rob B

Lonigo is closest to Verona but Venice is not too far away either. Ryanair fly to both. We have just booked to go from Stansted to Venice Treviso for £55 each. We hire a car spend Friday in Venice then drive over to Verona which is our base for a couple of days.

Spoke to people who drove from Riga to Daugavpils and they said it was a terrible road. Getting the train is probably easier. We always fly to Ljubijana for Slovenia then drive to Krsko.

Looks like Verona will be packed with Juventus fans then.

Why start a new topic? Seeing as all the dates apart from Germany say confirmed. All of them are accessible apart from Latvia which is quite hard to get to apparently.

Looks like a nice stadium to finish up at but can't see them getting many people there.

No surprise really. Has Gollob definatly confirmed he is carrying on?

Anyone got details from tonights first leg of the Swedish play off final?

Previous GP's in Germany have been poor attendances.

Looks like we will have bad seats then, train doesn't get into Bydgoszcz from Gdansk till 14:55. Anyone got a map how to get to the stadium easily from the old square?

What time do the gates open on Saturday?

We are staying at Hotel Ratuszowy on Dluga, is that walking distance from the station? Also how do we get to the track, is there a tram/bus or do we have to get a taxi?

Can someone give me detailed instructions how to get from Gdansk Airport to Bydgoszcz by train and back again please. What we need to ask for and look out for etc.

Lindback was fed the dummy, and fell for it. Hancock rode round the outside for 3 laps, Lindback then went wide to cover it and Hancock dived up the inside, great move. Lindback should of never moved off the white line and should of been an easy win with the big advantage gate 1 gave.

Apart from not getting off the track when he fell!

Is there a water drought in Latvia at the moment? That track looked like it hadn't been watered all day! Can't understand how it could be so deep for practise and then like concrete on race day. Good job the base rutted up else it would of been follow the leader.

Will be interesting GP. I guess that most of the top riders will not have ridden here before so practise on Friday will be important.

What time does this meeting start at Gdansk?

No chance of finding a hotel in Bydgoszcz now unless you wait till last minute and see if there are any cancellations. Otherwise will have to look outside of Bydgoszcz.

Hope people aren't going from Stansted, baggage handlers are going on strike next weekend, along with the added security it's going to be chaos. We always fly from Stansted normally but this time we are flying from Gatwick as we are coming back Monday and going straight to Reading.

Never been in the middle tier, can't justify the stupid price, been in the top tier a few times and thats a great view, but last three years have been in the bottom tier as my wife doesn't like heights. Its a good view but I prefer the top teir more personally.

Not sure if I've missed it somewhere, have they said how much tickets are going up after 31st December?

Me + 4

One thing I've not seen anywhere is that Tony Steele obviously doesn't know the FIM rules (Although he should as he has done enough of them!) The heat when the Italian nearly took Gollob off, at that point Gollob was 2nd, the Italian 3rd and Hampel 4th. The Italian fell and nearly took Gollob with him, Gollob just managed to stay on the bike, that let Hampel through to second, the red lights didn't come on and Gollob carried on slowly to the finish line waving his arms at the referee. Now Steele excluded the Italian which was fine but then awarded Gollob second place. You can't do that in an FIM meeting, either Hampel should of been given second or the race should of been rerun. The red lights should of come on straight away when Gollob was impeded.

How many years have we been complaining about blunders Middlo has made over the years, either with team choice before hand or with tactics during the meeting. He messes it up every year.

One of the most sporting things tonight had to be Jonsson letting Pedersen past after their big clash, don't think I've ever seen a rider move his head telling him to go back past after something like that before.