HenryW

One early year we ended up with tickets for the bottom tier on the home straight (no idea how) and that was terrible, so not sure I would say "nowhere is bad" We didn't even wait for the first race, just wandered upstairs and got ourselves a great view from the top tier instead.

He certainly seemed to have lots of pace in his engines tonight...even in the final he looked the fastest but Nicki was too smart for him... Has there been a split between Emil and Ash? Or maybe going forward the World Championship will become an event that loses value and Emil's efforts in the European Championship will become more valuable than we might think just now...

Imagine it's the World Cup Final in Poland, the biggest speedway Nation around. After 7 races the Danes are 6 points behind, play the joker and Nicki Pedersen scores 6 points. Come the end of the meeting and Denmark win by 1 point. Denmark have an unfair advantage because they are allowed to ride for 3 extra points. Poland are at a disadvantage because they are winning. In "Normal Play" Poland outscore Denmark, but Denmark are rewarded for being behind. You could have seen it all happen in Bydgoszcz last year and the joker remained....

Did the twitter aftermath of the bust up between Greg and Nicki in Sweden yesterday give a little hint as to who really wanted the meeting off in Warsaw? Nicki Pedersen ‏@nickipedersenDK @GregHancock45 Stop cry it didnt hurt when running after me 😂 Thank yourself for this crash. Dont ask my help again like you did in Warsaw

There were plenty of people on this forum who stated just how pointless this rule was as soon as it was announced. Tatum had a regular whinge on TV about riders going back to the pits so they wrote a stupid rule to stop them going back to the pits but didn't do anything about speeding things up which was the real requirement. What it needed was a rule to say that after an unsatisfactory start a new time limit would start immediately...ideally something less than the standard 2 minutes...make it 1 minute or 30 seconds and let the riders do what they want in that time.

Ref not having a good meeting...has he got any decisions right so far?

But who will tell you when teams are almost far enough behind to play a joker

Yeah. Good luck with that.Eurosport 2 hour "highlights" normally involve showing the first half hour "as live" then jumping to the last hour and a half "as live" and just missing out everything in between. Maybe they will make more effort today but I wouldn't count on it.

The stadium location was just North of where the Excel Arena is now. Several of the residential streets that were built on the site were named after speedway riders, such as Young Road and Wilkinson Road. If you have the desktop version of Google Earth you can view aerial imagery from 1945, showing the stadium, with the current streets overlayed on it.

I guess this means all the Polish fixtures will be cancelled and so the Russians no longer have any punishment! Edit - Looks like june01 beat me to it with that point :-)

FIM quick to act on this one...still waiting to hear what they are doing about the 16 riders that refused to race in Warsaw!

Not sure about the relevance of that last line. There would be very little point in organising test matches in the UK. It is on foreign shale that the riders need to get more experience. It would also be good to get international experience early. Under 18 and Under 21 test matches abroad would be particularly useful...and maybe actually getting some coaching for young lads. The number of young Brits that have bizarre racing styles that are only hampering them is unbelievable.

I have to say that from the 3rd turn it looked quite clear that Sam simply dived in and wiped out Rohan...and everyone around me was just as surprised as I was when Rohan was excluded. If Cameron Heeps is back for the cup matches we could be in some trouble. The 2 points that R/R delivered last night are nothing like what he would surely score at the Dale and I am not sure that Danny King would score as low again....

What's more amazing is that every fan agreed on it back in 2006 as well, but then after the 2007 final they decided to get rid of the reserves again. That was all part of the slow destruction of the best tournament that speedway had seen for many years. When BSI first took over the SWC they created a great tournament and for me it was the high point of the speedway season for a good few years, but it has slowly been turned into a complete waste of time. The change to 4 man teams and 20 heat matches was bad....the seeding of the hosts to the final was even worse... A once great week of speedway was quickly turned into a week of relatively predictable results and TV boredom.

Would they not have to come from the 10 man squad? I don't think Jedrzejak was included in that but the other 3 were along with KK, Piotr Pawlicki and Gollob.

Another poor decision if you ask me. I hope Jarek isn't too badly hurt.

British refs are even worse than the British team.

I'm already looking forward to seeing the great PePe racing in the final series.

It's a top quality stream despite the one sided scoreline. Hopefully we'll see lots more of these from DK during the season.

It was suggested that Zengota isn't able to make this meeting so the Fjelsted side might be a bit weak for the streaming experiment. It seems odd that Peter Kildemand is scheduled to race in the challenge match in Poland rather than racing for his Danish league club tonight.

I was just about to ask the same thing.If it's as fast out the box as a tuned GM, surely a good tuner could get even more out of it

Adam still qualifies as an under 21 rider this year and so can race at reserve...it's purely about age for being a reserve. Experience and average don't come into it.

I guess that if 15 of the riders aren't interested in racing then the chances of anything happening are pretty slim.

Looks like they are not running at full strength. They have announced a team without Greg Laguta. Emil, Artem, Vadim Tarasenko and Vitaly Belousov will represent them in Gniezno.

What a lot of people seem to miss is the fact that the BSPA is simply made up of each of the individual track promotions....when a promoter complains about the BSPA they are generally complaining about themselves.