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I must say that I hate these air horns. If anything, they spoil the atmosphere. Why oh why can't You see that it is much more fun for everyone involved to sing and chant for Your favorite riders. Air horns are just for the lazy bones, just push the button and be louder than anyone around You. I am sure the atmosphere would be even better if those fans would open their mouth instead of just playing that little gas bottle. Here in Germany we had those airhorns as well, but a few years ago the selling of those with the gas was banned. They were found to cause damage to the ozon layer and were banned for that reason. I am happy , nobody misses them. If You want bring musical instruments instead, I often go to ice hockey in the winter and the fans have drums, even trumpets, and they sing and shout all through the the game. THAT creates an atmosphere, I can tell You, not those stupid air horns that only get on Your nerves.

Who replaces Dobrucki at Terenzano? I guess the first reserev (No.17 Carpanese), pity it can't be No.18 Saifutdinov?

Does anybody know why there is no round at Sydney Showgrounds? This seems to be the reason why Tapp left, so something must have happened ?

Why the hell no Sydney??? And still no return to the Ekka??? Or Wayville??? What kind of a track/Stadium ist that Towoomba?

Is it true that George Glen was an amateur boxer in South Africa before he took up speedway ?

I such unlikely case, he might be given the No.18 race jacket for the meeting, that's the second reserve. That would save one extra rider to travel.

Can't see why it has to be a Danish rider anyway when there are already 4 of them thats one quarter of the GP riders. I'd much rather have someone like Holder or Sajfutdinov been given a chance. They don't have the opportunity of a home GP, so Denmark would be an ideal place, since the Danes are already well represented.

Yes, but on the other hand Tihanyi is 45 years old. Other than Tabaka, there is very little emerging talent in Hungary at the moment, hard as they may try to find some. Their match winner was without a doubt Ferjan, who after a long long wait has now got his Hungarian passport.

This is so funny! Very good idea Nicki vs Hans on the pushbikes! I like it! They had a record crowd at Parken last year, I honestly believe the record will be broken again this time. Not only because of that advertisement though!

How do You know? You assume that. I feel Gollob was indeed angry that the race was stopped, not seeing that another rider was laying on the track. He thought it was just Dryml not getting up to get the race stopped. My assumption, as good as yours.

Thanks Romualds, that it explains it. Seems to me a little bit like what happened with Emil Sajfutdinov, having problems with his Russian club and going to Poland. Loktaev tries the Ukraine. Let's wait and see if he is another Emil Sajfutdinov !

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Here's the link to the Gothenburg meeting report on worldspeedway.com: http://www.worldspeedway.com/artman/publis...icle_6225.shtml

This reminds me of the Los Angeles 1982 Penhall vs Carter debate. But seriously, Jonsson should just have shut off when Gollob turned to the inside. Gollob was in front, so he choses the line, and the rider behind him has to react to that. It can't be the other way round. No one to blame but Jonsson himself. The referee made the right decision by excluding AJ.

meeting has not even started yet. It begins at 16.00h

But where was Loktaev, that 14 y/o wonderkid?

No, I don't want to see someone seriously injured. But crashes are part of the game and they spice up the product. Tonight it was very exciting watching this GP. You never knew what would happen next. I can't say that this was always the case with GPs when the tracks were oh so very smooth. Some of them were simply boring. And don't forget that not all of the crashes tonight were caused by the track conditions. Andersen's was, and Gollob's too. But Jonsson's not, and Nicholls' not, and those two by that crash pilot Dryml not necessarily. Dryml is a danger in itself. My opinion.

I find it amusing that Your British Sky reporter did not even know who won ? How stupid is he ? Didn't You guys get to see the top three on the podium ? Everybody knows that the winner of the final is the winner of the GP. The GPs are not decided on points totals, a reporter should have this little bit of basic knowledge. But even some people on this forum did not seem to know this. Sure that You are speedway fans?

Contrary to what most of You wrote, I think it was a great GP. Very entertaining, with lots of incidents (and accidents, non too seriously). Ullevi is a wonderful stadium and Göteborg a beautiful and traditional place for a speedway GP. Forget those little racetrack out in the woods. This was a very entertaining GP, it did not feel like 4 hours.

Now Mark deKok was/is definitely a New Zealander, not a South African.

Hasn't his son Mike Thackwell been a Formula 1 driver in the 1980's ? Anyone remember him ?

Why was Karpov missing?

Does anybody know the nationality of ex-Edinburgh junior James Hayhow? He came from Durban to Edinburgh, but was he South African, Rhodesian or Zambian? I know he was born in Northern Rhodesia, which after independance in 1964 became Zambia. Don't know if he ever held a Zambian passport? And another rider from SA of the 1980's, Wally Hill, was he English or South African? (I believe he was born in England?)

The big international meetings that Prof. Renisch promoted all took place in Vienna's premier sports stadium, then known as the "Prater Stadion" or simply as the "Wiener Stadion". The Stadium is still there, but has been modernised and been given a new name, the "Ernst Happel Stadion" named after one of Austria's most prominent football coaches. It hosts the big International football games, but does not have a club team play there on a regular basis (except for big derby clashes or UEFA Cup etc). Much like Wembley in England. In the 1970's when Bubi Bossner led the revival of speedway in Austria, there was racing in another (much smaller) football stadion in Vienna, the "Stadion Hohe Warte" (home of Vienna Football Club) and for a short period at a place called ASKO-X. In the mid-1970's speedway lost its tracks in Vienna and re-settled in the surrounding areas, such as Wiener Neustadt, some 40km south of the city. There may have been occasional speedway meetings at Wiener Neustadt in earlier times, but I am not aware of this. Certainly if so, those were rather low key events not to be compared with the big shows in Vienna that attracted crowds of 30 or 40,000.

Wiener Neustadt isn't one of those old times venues, speedyguy. Those old stars did race in Vienna, and those capital tracks are long gone.