HenryW

Emil Sayfutdinov hasn't raced in the Russian league for a couple of seasons...I've no idea if he plans to this year.

Yeah, the meeting on the Friday in Holstebro was supposed to be against Munkebo.

I don't know the rules of the Polish league so was confused by the Kasprzak incident. Sportowefakty's live updates seemed to suggest that it was all 4 back if Kasprzak was fit to race. I'm not sure why a reserve wasn't allowed if that was the case.

Looks like Cookie has sealed his place in the next round. 11 from his first 4 races in Lonigo.

Doesn't he already have a Polish team this season? I thought he was signed with Polonia Piła.

The Riss brothers are racing in the German league on Sunday. Ben Morley replaces Erik and Danny Ayres is in for Mark.

Has the Russian rider been announced? I know Roman Povazhny is there spannering for Nikolaj Busk... maybe they could convince him to pull on his kevlars again

The best list I have seen is the following. 1. Zdenek Holub Czech Republic 2. Piotr Protasiewicz Poland 3. Hynek Stichauer Czech Republic 4. Nicolas Vincetin Italy 5. Arslan Fajzulin Russia 6. Ondrej Smetana Czech Republic 7. Nicolai Klindt Denmark 8. Tobias Kroner Germany 9. Dimitri Berge France 10. Mateusz Szczepaniak Poland 11. ? Russia 12. Thomas Jonasson Sweden 13. Nikolaj Busk Jakobsen Denmark 14. Kim Nilsson Sweden 15. Tobias Busch Germany 16. David Bellego France

Yeah, from the earlier article it seems that Porsing got a late call to race as Berge wasn't going to be able to make it. He flew to Riga but his bikes coming over from Poland didn't make it so he headed home again as he wasn't willing to race on borrowed machinery.

Sounds likely then. She said she was going to be working at 5 GPs and the World Cup. She currently works on MotoGP and used to do the MotoX coverage on tv.I believe she did some live presentation work in the stadium at Cardiff a few years ago.

I saw that Amy Dargan had tweeted that she was joining the sgp team. Will she be doing the pits interviews or does she have another role?

If I'm remembering right, Kovacic had to retire through injury. I think it was a wrist injury which wouldn't heal properly. He was looking a decent prospect until that happened.

I've seen this comment made by a few people recently and am genuinely curious...Do Australian riders not currently have to get a visa for Poland to race there if they are racing in the UK? Certainly in other fields of work a visa for the UK would not allow the person to work in Poland, and similarly a visa to work in Poland would not allow them to work in the UK.

Only just noticed this reply. This was the article that I was thinking of: http://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/642125/oficjalnie-maksymalnie-trzy-ligi-dla-zawodnikow-pge-ekstraligi My Polish doesn't go much beyond saying hello and ordering beer, so I am trusting Google's translation skills and may have misinterpreted what this article was saying. To me it seemed to suggest that riders who had a home nation league which they competed in should list this as number 1 on the list of up to 3 leagues that they race in. It then goes on to say that riders need to get a statement that Polish league takes priority from any foreign leagues at number 2 or 3 on the list, implying that their home nation league would still be allowed to take priority.

I don't think his Danish team will have had to sign anything. I think I read that a rider's home nation league still takes priority over the Extraliga. His Swedish team will have to have signed though...Having said that, they are fairly safe in signing as Poland are unlikely to reschedule any matches for a Swedish league Tuesday.

There was an FIM backed agreement in place until this year. The Polish Extraliga authorities have decided they no longer like that agreement and so have decided to bin it. It's hard to criticise them for asking riders to put their matches first when they are paying the most.

The results for the first meeting can be found here http://m.sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/667316/ligue-national-de-speedway-mc-marmande-ponownie-na-kolanach-show-braci-tresarrie It doesn't really explain what they did with the 250cc guys. They appeared in the same races as others, with Leon Flint winning one of them!

Claremont was 586m according to Wikipedia

Have you seen how things get organised in British speedway?I think you might be giving them more credit for forward planning than they deserve

Just a little bit different track wise to the good old days when this meeting was held at Claremont

Only 2 riders can double up with the same teams and Wolves/Monarchs already have Masters and Clegg.

Or pay the extra 10 or 15 quid, whatever it is, for a seat at the front of the ryanair flight. As you just walk into the terminal building from the plane and there are very few flights into the airport, if you are first off you are straight through passport control. Last time I flew into Bydgoszcz I was in my hotel in the City Centre about 20 minutes after we landed...which was a pleasant surprise

Indeed...that was definitely not a supermarket car park, it was a small, bumpy track in the grounds of the Circuit of the Americas where the flat track boys played their part as a little side show to the MotoGP weekend. Quite an appropriate choice of video today after the US hope was made to look silly in his own sport by the road racing stars Marc Marquez and Toni Elias

Surely has to be a 3 based on what has been said. Averages between 2 and 3 are for riders who have never achieved a 3 point average. Mitchell has, although a good few years ago now.

As mentioned above it was the Queensland State title. 1 Dave Watt 2 Jake Allen 3 Zaine Kennedy 4 Josh Pickering The final race can be seen here