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Funny But in truth, there are now so many non-Bavarain folk living in our beautiful Freestate, that we "real" Bavarians won't ever get a majority to break away from the rest of Germany. Our position is quite similar to Scotland wanting to break away from England but unable to get a majority vote for that because there are already too many non-Scots living there and unwilling to vote for Independance. Not sure why Bavarians would come across as arrogant in any way? Never heard that before! Mostly it's the Prussians that are arrogant towards the Bavarians. We are much closer related with the Austrians, who speak the same language as we do.

Yes, Landshut is definitly better than Teterow. There already was a German SGP at Landshut about twenty years ago ! The organizeres were a bit unlucky with that one, as it was the first SGP that ever got rained off, and they had to re-stage it on the following day on Sunday afternoon.

You are all a bit too negative. It is an achievement already for the Young Lion to have reached the top four nations final in this Junior Team Championship. Except for the Poles, who are really miles ahead at the moment, I don't think that the Aussies are so superior (once You remove Holder, Fricke and Kurtz), and Denmark seems to struggle very much to find new stars. Britain is very nearly on the same level as these two nations, and probably already ahead of Sweden with their junior riders. The situation is not at all bad for GB.

German girl Celina Liebmann rode in the FIM 250cc Youth Speedway World Final this week in Prague,and she had a couple of heat wins !

Some unbelievably negative comments on here, and mostly unjustified. I really enjoy watching the Monday Night Premiership Speedway on BT Sport. It's a great Sport and very entertaining to watch !

http://www.speedwaygp.com/news/article/6021/gorzow-%7C-rider-reaction

GB takes part in the World U21 Team Championship each year, which is pretty much the same competition as this European U21 Team Championship (without GB and Australia).

Ist not just Joonas Kylmäkorpi, but Freddie Lindgren lives in Andorra, too.

ah, yes, I have just seen it. Sorry

Surprised to see Jack Holder riding ! Shouldn't he be at Peterborough today???

Artem Laguta is in, and I'm confident he'll finish in the top three

That's 30 points required from the 20 heats for the runners-up at the Abensberg meeting to reach the final.

Torún have sacked their team manager Gajewski

Not so, they get along well with each other. Money was the only reason that prevented the Russians to track both Lagutas along with Emil in the SWC. None of their three stars rides for peanuts, and the budget of the Russian SWC Team was hardly enough to finace two of them, along with three inexpensive young guns. TM Andrey Savin decided to go for Emil and Grigorij, and left Artem out, who then spent the World Cup week on holidays in Abu Dhabi.

Not neccessarily each year, but instead of only having test matches, Speedway should have a proper International Team tournament. Something similar to the Rugby Six Nations Tournament, with teams meeting each other in a round-robin-tournament once either at home or away. With possible tv coverage, a Speedway Five Nations with the "Big Five" of Great Britain, Poland, Sweden, Australia, and Denmark, could be a big thing. Australia's home meetings could be staged at UK tracks.

can we agree that the referee was brilliant last night? he did not stop the heats, when the riders that obviously moved did not gain an advantage. He gave them their deserved warnings after the race had finshed. This saved us all a tremendous amount of time and the meeting ran smoothly and finished in less than 2 hours. Perfect!

Andrei Kudriashov to replace the suspended Grigorij Laguta and Mikkel Bech comes in for Nicki Pedersen

If Laguta is banned for some time, it will be a tough season for his club Rybnik, who are fighting to stay in the Ekstarliga. Very fortunate this for Torún who are currently below Rybnik in the league standings.

Tonight, Saturday, July 8, 2017, four (plus one reserve) British Sidecars compete for the European 500cc title at Tayac in the South West of France 1 - Kevin HÜBSCH (& Michael Burger) - GERMANY 2 - William MATTHIJSEN (& Sandra Mollema) - NETHERLANDS 3 - Mitch GODDEN (& Paul Smith) - GREAT BRITAIN 4 - David CHAMINADE (& Stephanie Vedelago) - FRANCE 5 - Martin BRANDL (& Hermann Brandl) - GERMANY 6 - Christophe GRENIER (& Vincent Bertoneche) - FRANCE 7 - Dave CARVILL (& Cameron Gooden) - GREAT BRITAIN 8 - Markus VENUS (& Markus Heiß) - GERMANY 9 - Shaun HARVEY (& Danny Hogg) - GREAT BRITAIN 10- Guillaume COMBLON (& Chloe Agez) - FRANCE 11- Josh GOODWIN (& Liam Brown) - GREAT BRITAIN 12- Markus BRANDHOFER (& Tim Scheunemann) - GERMANY 13- Barrie BENNETT (& Eifion Hughes) - GREAT BRITAIN 14- Joel SUDNIKEVITS (& Johan Paabstel) - ESTONIA

I wonder if this meloduium can actually do him any good to perfom better in a motor sports disciplin. And I wonder if it is appropriate for this sport to promote performance enhancing substances in form of energy drinks such as Red Bull and Monster Energy, which the riders drink at every given opportunity during live TV interviews.

Very true. Of the current Latvian SWC team, only Puodzuks is an ethnic Latvian. The other three - Lebedevs, Bogdanovs, and Kostygovs - all have Russian forefathers, as has their Team Manager Rybnikovs. But of course the riders are all Latvian citizens, born and raised in Latvia. Nothing wrong here.

The Polish PZM has reported Laguta for having failed a drugs test at a Polish league meeting. Great ! The timing to have him suspended just hours before todays' SWC race-off is perfect. The Russians have no time to react, can't call-up one of their other riders, and have to use Gleb Chugunov. Congratulations to the PZM, for eliminating one of the Polish team's biggest rivals for Gold, and spoiling the excitment of the SWC race-off and final.

this was (technically) a long-tack event

... and then there was Fay Taylour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fay_Taylour ... and another great rider of the pioneer years of 1928/29, Larry Coffey, from Belfast in Northern Ireland, who lost his life at the London White City Stadium.

There was a Long-track speedway meeting in Sweden last week, at the Axevalla trotting track at Skara, with riders from Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark. This revival for motorcycle racing at this venue attracted nearly 3,000 spectators. The last time a long-track motorcycle race meeting was held at Skara was more than 30 years ago in the year 1983. Here is a short video to give an impression of the venue and the racing https://hallpressen-tv.solidtango.com/video/syntolkad-longtrack-speedway-pa-axevalla?html5=0