Grachan

I seem to have vague recollection of them doing the voting thing a few years back. I can't remember how it worked exactly, but it was another of those "try it for this season and the scrap it" things.

Anyone else think Lambert should let Lebedevs win this heat?

I have no interest in buying a stream. I've no idea what is going on any more so why would I? When there were matches on TV, and I knew the teams, I might occasionally have enough interest to buy one - but even that has gone now. No speedway on TV has killed it off to me. It's hard for me to believe now that I was once obsessed with this sport.

I can only speak for myself, obviously, but Speedway is pretty much off my radar now apart from the Grand Prix - and my interest in that is nowhere near the level it once was. The two main reasons with me are pretty basic. 1 - I'm a Swindon fan. I don't have a team any more. This probably applies to fans of many of the once great sides like Coventry, Wolves, Reading, Cradley, Eastbourne, Hackney, Exeter, Arena-Essex blah blah blah. 2 - League racing is no longer on TNT/BT/Discovery or whatever you want to call it this week - so I have absolutely no idea whatsover what is happening any more. I don't even know who is doing well the league any more.

Fascinating video. Interesting that they kept the shape of the track with the road layout.

What a disaster this meeting is turning out to be all round.

I would say that he's a rider of similar ability to those riders, against a group of riders who aren't.

I don't follow all things Speedway as closely as I used to. Interesting that they are new. There is a definite downgrade in race coverage. It seems harder to follow how the meeting placings are going this year too, although that might be down to TNT going to adverts every 4 races.

Not sure who they are, but they could do with some coverage training.

Who is responsible for this coverage? Zmarzlik stalking Holder and they are showing the 2 riders at the back!

Yeah. That was the point of saying they'd get a bonus point for winning all their races. Although, thinking about it, there are no points for the LCQs and if you scored 15 you wouldn't be in one so you'd only get 18. I think leave the points scoring as it is. It's fine.

I actually don't have too much of a problem with the scoring as you need to look beyond Program Board nerds to attract a wider audience. If they did do that, though, I would go for 20 points for the winner, with a bonus point awarded for going the whole meeting unbeaten,

A good meeting. So, why was Madsen put through to the final instead of Holder? As someone who has become something of a casual follower of the sport, I don't know. But how on earth can you have 2 commentators, neither of whom know the rules on qualification for the final. that is seriously shocking. They really need to be doing their homework, or get someone in who has. Too often, situations arise and they quite happily admit to having no idea what is going on. Not good enough. With Bewley out, I'm struggling to retain interest this year. I really thought he was in with a shout this year, and with Zmarzlik still not 100% I think he may have gone into the lead last night. Zmarzlik, however. What can you say? The guy is well below his best so far, yet still top of the score chart. At least Kurtz looked more on the case yesterday, so could still challenge.

I've never heard of her either, but all you have to do is look on Youtube and there is plenty of stuff on there. It looks like she has done mainly football coverage before, and she looks like a good presenter - a proper professional with a very natural delivery style. Abi did well, but this does look like a bit of an upgrade for a change.

Thanks Rob.