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MFR announced today that Emil will enter the SGP qualifiers - he will take part in the Gorican meeting

Now confirmed. And indeed a good choice

BSI released another statement: http://speedwaygp.com/news/article/4063/update-from-bsi-speedway

Nice find. So apperently all the GP's have different ticket TOC's

This is probably also why only the Cardiff and Malilla TC's are listed on the SGP website? As they are BSI promoted events?

Press release just came in: "SBPC in Esbjerg – Germans with the wild card, Great Britain at the start! The national team of Germany as a prize for great start in Guestrow during the second round of Speedway Best Pairs Cup has received the wild card for the Great Final of the series, which takes place on May 9th in Esbjerg. Riders from Great Britain will start for the first time in the meeting. Germans presented themselves really well to their fans during the second round of SBPC in Guestrow and they took the fourth place. Thanks to this they will have another opportunity to present their skills. The squad of German team will be announced in the next few days. Americans, who due to starts in British league are not able to complete their squad, won’t start in Esbjerg. – We are very sorry but unfortunately we have to withdraw from the last round of Speedway Best Pairs Cup. All my teammates, who are in Europe, so Gino Manzares, Ryan Fisher and Ricky Wells are supposed to start in British league matches from which they can’t be released. Simply we have no riders to ride on the track and I am forced to withdraw USA from the last round. We really regret it, I hope we will START again next year – said the captain of American team, Greg Hancock. In Esbjerg Americans will be replaced by… Brits! The riders from Great Britain will receive permission for the start in Speedway Best Pairs Cup tournament from their federation. The manager of the team, Alun Rossiter has delegated Tai Woffinden, whose partner will be Craig Cook, to start in Denmark. The name of the reserved rider will be confirmed in the next few days. - It’s a breakthrough which we hope, will have positive influence on our relations with the authorities of British speedway. Big bows for ACU and Alun Rossiter and also the riders who all have done really much to make it possible for representatives of Great Britain to present in front of Danish fans. For British fans this is the first opportunity to watch their riders in action since the very beginning of Speedway Best Pairs series existence. That’s great information for all of us. We warmly invite all Brits already on May 9th to Esbjerg where we will finish Speedway Best Pairs Cup series and we will emerge the best speedway pair in the world. It will be great sports event which we are looking forward to. So far the sale of the tickets has been going really well and we are convinced that the stadium will be full of fans – commented the organizers of SBPC series from One Sport. All the info concerning the tournament and the possibility of buying the TICKETS for the final round (09.05.2015, 8 p. m., Esbjerg) are available on the site: www.speedwaypairs.com"

Good news for the UK fans: Great Britain will ride in Esbjerg (round 3)

From the spectators view it was more like the meeting was called of because of the tapes instead of a possible bad track.... they kept trying and trying to fix the tapes. Then at some point they stopped that and the monster girls walked off the track. At this point they (my friends) knew it was over and out.

The Czechs have nominated their riders for the SGP in Prague (23.05): Wildcard: Vaclav Milik Reseves: Matej Kus and Josef Franc Subject to confirmation by the FIM/BSI

Yes just spotted that, always thought it was 16..

Sorry I was to early with my conclusion it seems...

Ah yes - got your point. Interesting case.... It's also interesting that they can change the rulebook during an event.... I think all points should be set to zero and start over in Tampere. This is not right as 12 heats are enough.... (I did not highlight it by the way, got it from Facebook, but doesn't matter haha)

For Malilla they also state after 16 heats (http://speedwaygp.com/ticket_terms).

Not sure what you mean by 'para 3'... but I see the rules mention the millenium stadium so they might not be valid for Warsaw.

About the tickets: There will be no refund if they have staged 16 heats..... So people can get there money back. Check out the rules here: https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/11054444_375845049268957_3313450270145764640_n.png?oh=8a3bd7642a36c05da6dacb3b62ef8d56&oe=55DCBDE5

Well returned from Warsaw this morning. My friends who were on the second bend were not too amused with it all, but overall we had a great weekend. Plus it was a great experience to be with so many crazy speedway fans in one place. My photo's can be found here if anyone's interested http://www.baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/677/schandalig-begin-speedway-grand-prix-seizoen-in-warschau.html

Few pics from practice earlier: http://www.baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/676/speedway-gp-training-warschau-afgelast-.html

Latest photo's courtesy of Sportowefakty: http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/zdjecia/galeria/7386/stadion-narodowy-gotowy-na-lotto-fim-warsaw-speedway-grand-prix-polski/3-331048#photo-start Looks fantastic! Can't wait to fly out to Warsaw, including 4 of my mates, tomorrow :)

Janek from One Sport is hinting on positively shocking information about the last round in Esbjerg, maybe GB will enter? https://twitter.com/JKonikiewicz/status/588647429618163712

Who cares? It's a LIVE broadcasted event to many many countries across de world... no better promotion for the sport I think. I can't believe the ACU/BSPA (whatever) is not allowing the Brits in... People now only get more the impression that speedway in the UK hardly exists because they are by the looks of it not even in the top 7 of the world (not all know the politics) ...

Check out this photo: http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/zdjecia/galeria/7367/upadek-taia-woffindena/9-330119#photo-start The diamond is snapped on a very wierd place imo.

What a great night again at the Best Pairs Despite the crazy weather it was once again a very cool visit to Güstrow. To say we were lucky is a big understatement because I have never seen such threatening clouds in the sky just before the meeting. My photo's here: http://www.baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/672/rusland-sterkste-in-de-storm-van-gustrow.html

I believe only in NZ the riders did not have to pay for accomodations and travels.... the other GP's they have to pay themselves. This is something that Smoli was complaining about a while ago when he was reflecting his GP season.

This years price money is as follows: Winning team = 11.250 euro Second team = 9.000 Third team = 7.500 Fourth team = 6.000 All teams traveling from a foreign country will receive 10.000 euro.

I'm not seeing Covatti on the sub list? It's Peter Kildemand first, then Piotr Pawlicki and Linus Sundstrom.