Bavarian

Pollestad should get a wildcard

Yes, because in a speedway GP it is not only one race, it is five heats, two semis, and a final, and points are there to be scored in each and any of these 23 events.

sparse crowd at Rybnik today

Celina Liebman rides at number 4 in the German team ! Is this the first time ever that a girl has been nominated for an official national speedway team ?

Australian sidecar speedway legend Warren Monson was killed during a drag bike test and tune event near the town of Bendigo in Victoria on April 23, 2023 https://7news.com.au/sport/motorsport/victoria-s-motor-racing-community-rocked-by-tragedy-as-rider-killed-near-bendigo-during-event-c-10436448

Speedway isn't road racign or motox, we dont have ONE race, we have 23 ! And in every heat the winner gets the most points anyway, 3-2-1-0, just like it should be, so what's wrong with that? With the new point system top riders like Zmarzlik simply don't have to fight for every point during the heats anymore. It shows in the racing, which is not as intensive as used to be when every single point counted.

No way ! It will be Teterow !

It used to be a minium length of 450m and up to 1000m long. But to get Poland involved the FIM dropped the minimum length a few years ago, and it is now open for any kind of track, sand, shale or grass and regardless how long or short, which is just ridiculous. They have reduced the number of riders in the world long track championship to only five in a race, which was neccessary because of the smaller tracks such as the Polish venues.

not quite, Rzeszow track is 395m anyway, it is a farce that they race on Polish speedway tracks instead of proper long-tracks.

or this one http://video.ucoz.lv/index/live_stream/0-5

Yeah, and here in Germany we don't get to see any live speedway on Eurosport at all, it seems. DISCOVERY+ is the only option. In fact, no German TV station is covering any speedway at all. That indicates the status of the sport over here.

it is EUROSPORT so we will probably miss the first round of four heats and be live for the first track preparation break

Will Tom Brennan get there in time? He wanted to ride for Glasgow at Berwick tonight, but I guess that won't be possible now.

Yes, and the British lads will propably have commitments in the UK as well. Really difficult for the organisers. They must hope to push it through on Sunday. If the rule is country before club, then Wroclaw has to go without Bewley tomorrow. They will stil be able to beat Leszno.

I doubt that they would want to postpone the grand final. More likely that they will run the Pardubice round mid-week, on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday.

Wroclaw v Leszno is now also on Sunday. Where would Bewley ride ?

Three days of rain and cold weather is forcast for the Landshut region from today, Friday until Sunday. Good to call it off early, and restage it on a Friday night in May!

Good to have Nicki Pedersen back. He is just great !

absolutely so, and it wasn't his fault at all.

Pedersen's brillant so far, unbeaten after two rides, but Fricke's bike failure in Heat 7 may prove costly for the GKM team.

Yes, I know the reasoning behind it, but I am not so sure about it. Would not the World Cup final draw a big crowd anyway, regardless of the home team taking part or not? It's the other events and the race-off that suffers from the non-participation of the home team. WIth the SWC only ever being held in one of the big speedway nations, there would be a good chance, that they would reach the final anyway. The home team would have to ride in at least two out of four SWC meetings, possibly even three if they had to enter in one of the events and go via the race-off, instead of as it is now when they are seeded straight into the final and will only have that one meeting. Realistically in the foreseeable future this SWC will only ever be held in Poland, GB, or Denmark, but even if it would come to Germany or the Czech Republic, which is unlikely anyway, this would be no reason to grant the home team free entry into the final. They should be seeded to participate in the tournament, of course, as the home team helps to draw a crowd for any of the meetings, but they should not go straight into the final. I'd go for 8 Teams in the SWC tournament, contesting the two events with four teams each. The Event's winners go to the final, the 2nd and 3rd palced teams go to the Race-Off, and the fourth placed teams are eliminated. If the home team is so weak that they finish last in one of the Events, they deserve no better and are certainly not woth to be seed to the final.

Martin Smolinski now back in the Landshut team on Sunday to replace Erik Riss !

Laura Manciet ? Totally unknown to me! Who is she ?