HenryW

Passing up the chance to watch the Zielona Gora/Gorzow derby? I don't think I'd be missing that one if I was over that weekend.

The senior team are not racing on those dates but on the 25th there is scheduled to be a round of the Under 21 league in Gdansk featuring Gdansk, Grudziadz, Gniezno, Bydgoszcz, Lodz and Torun. Also, if you are interested in mini speedway (85/125cc), there is a meeting scheduled for the 23rd.

When Google Translate started changing his name when going from Polish to English He's definitely still Loktaev (or Loktajev or Loktajew, however you want to do the cyrillic conversion)

According to issue 8 of the averages on the BSPA site, Davies has an average of 2.59. Interestingly, that same issue has Palin, Rathbone and Bailey all currently on 2.00 for Belle Vue, but has a note that the redecleration is effective on the 10th June when Palin & Rathbone get new averages

It all goes back to the cancellation of their national qualifying meeting that had been due to be held in Piła. The authorities made some strange selections, seemingly based on the semi final results, but that meant that the current GP riders who were due to race in the final weren't included as they were seeded through, and others who maybe just took it easy to get safe qualification to the final missed out. The selections were Hampel, Buczkowski, Smektała, Wozniak, Przedpelski and Niedzwiedz. Others that had been due to race in the final but weren't picked included Dudek, Janowski, Kołodziej, Pawlicki, Kasprzak, Drabik and Kubera.

To be fair to chunky, I'm sure we've all seen crashes look a lot worse where the riders just walk away. The fences also aren't as hard as they used to be. They now have to have more give in them. It would have been worse the a few years ago. It seemed to me like Laguta expected his team mate to let the bike run rather than continuing to turn to keep a low line off the corner, scrubbing a bit of speed in the process. A minor misjudgment and misunderstanding that obviously had terrible consequences, but Laguta wasn't doing anything that doesn't happen regularly in top level speedway.

Oh well, there's always next year for Holder to try again.

I hadn't read anything about this before now, bit if what you say is true I also find it a little surprising and disappointing. You would think that they would be looking to get the most money possible and limiting the potential buyers would seem to go against that aim. I guess it's possible they have done their research and believe that doing it this way will bring the most but I'm not convinced!

Mentioned because he won the first ever bike race at the Donnington track in 1931.

T3 vertebrae in his neck as well as the shoulder blade. As you say, it could be a while before we see him back on a bike.

You sure you turned over at 8 and not 6?? Heat 1 was won by the rider off gate 4

Not sure if anyone else noticed, but the new timing system or graphics didn't work well in heat 19. I was interested to see how close it was recorded between Emil and Leon. The results given were: Bartosz Smektala 56.829 Leon Madsen +0.192 Emil Sayfutdinov +0.337 Max Fricke +0.397 I'm guessing that the actual gap between Leon and Emil was the one shown as between Emil amd Max, given the fact Max was sitting in the pits...So where did the time for Leon come from???

Yeah, that's the inconsistency that I mentioned. I couldn't work out why that was happening...

All of the ones that are not run by BSI will be paying a hefty fee to BSI, though! Not that I am against BSI...I am 100% confident we would never have had Cardiff if the series stayed in the hands of the local federations. The British GP would probably currently be getting held at Kings Lynn if that had happened.

Each rider has 3 bikes available to them during the night. Each one of those has a transponder on it. The graphic is just telling you which of their bikes they have been using so you know if they switched bike. For example, Emil started on one bike, switched to another for his second ride but then went back to the first one. There did seem to be some inconsistency in the graphics with some riders not having all their races shown.

This is the thing that amazes me. This surely can't be something that has just happened before this meeting. That means the guys in league matches must have been racing under similar dangerous conditions. It's shocking that nothing has been done before now.

Sorry for dragging things back a few pages, but I'm really intrigued to know how you think things work with Monster sponsored riders... Do you think that in 2016 Tai was told, "Sorry, mate, I know you're the World Champion, but it's Greg's turn this year." Then maybe last year Greg and Tai were both told, "Sorry lads, I know you have shared it around for the last 4 years, but we've signed up Patryk and we'd like a Polish winner, so just sit back and let him go for it." Is that kinda how you imagine it?

From what tarkens said earlier, it sounds like they have their under 21 riders sorted with Wiktor Lampart and Wiktor Trofimov. I'm sure they'll be looking for big things from Lampart at least. As for Pedersen, all reports seem to be suggesting that he is headed back to Zielona Gora.

As you probably already know, Erik is for me what Sam is for you, but you are spot on with your comments here. There was lots of talk around the 84 World Final about how it was very weak as a lot of the big names had been lost to the sport or were out injured...Penhall, Lee, Olsen, Carter and Sigalos are the ones that spring to mind but I'm sure there were others. Erik and Hans made that era their own, but it certainly wasn't the strongest period in speedway history.

Unless they pull out a surprise signing, it's hard to see them getting too many points from reserve, though. They really need a big top 5 to be competitive.

15.2.6 was modified early in the season by supplementary regulation SR 1805. The revised wording was as below. 15.2.6 Only if a rider is at the Starting Gate with sufficient time remaining of the 2- minute allowance, be permitted to prepare their Start Area, provided they remain in full, personal control of their motorcycle, have their Cut – Out Lanyard attached, and with their motorcycle facing the direction of racing.

You could say that the Scottish Monarchs was an example where it did work. It kept speedway running in Scotland for that year and made both sides realise they still wanted their own club...

Don't they have to put the top 2 scorers in heat 15, meaning Bjerre couldn't have been used in heat 14?

Thanks. You said exactly what I meant and saved me saying it

As I've said many times in the past, I don't like a one off qualifying meeting to get into the series... luck of gates, or just a track a rider likes can make a big difference. Still, that's what we have and the top 3 deserve their places based on these rules.