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So was Tom Brennan.

Does anyone know if this officially counts as another World title for Tai Woffinden? If Tom Brennan is now a World Champion (as they were saying on BT Sport) then Tai must surely now be a four times champion.

What losing one of the best riders in the world has to do with the final race is that GB still managed to get there, beating Denmark in the semis and then repeating their earlier defeat of Poland in the final. That in itself was quite an achievement. Luck didn't come into it. Magic messed up the corner after trying to copy Bewley's line from a previous race. That's a part of racing. Dan would probably have still beaten him anyway. He would have been the one rider in that race who saw what happened with Janowski so obviously made the decision to safely hold his place while the other two carved lumps out of each other.

Second and third place wins the final surely. Isn't that the whole point of the scoring system? Where are people getting the idea from that a heat win will win the final?

I make it 11.

If you are just watching speedway it's cheaper to do the monthly subscription for 6.99 a month. If you subscribe each time on the day of the Grand Prix and then cancel you can get 6 monthly subscriptions for 41.94.

I think you can get Discovery Plus on a Roku USB stick. Roku Streaming Stick+ | HD/4K/HDR Streaming Media Player, Black: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics & Photo According to this you can get Discovery Plus on it. How to get Discovery Plus on Roku (nerdschalk.com) I would make sure first though. I have a similar device for NOW TV on a couple of TVs but they don't have Discovery Plus - so Roku looks a better bet.

That would work too. Not sure about the fastest time thing though. I never take much notice of race times.

Spot on. It's so simple. All points count. Winner of the final gets 20 points regardless. It is a simple solution and solves everything by making winning the meeting the ultimate goal without undermining the heats.

If the top league stops running, then the Championship becomes the top league and thus becomes the Premiership by default.

I wasn't there either, but Updates say that Bewley came off on turn 4 after the red lights came on.

If someone goes down on the first bend it's nearly always all four back. Can someone explain how that is controversial?

How daft is that under-21 rule?

Looking at my TV I have it there already on the recommended apps.. Still annoying though. I rarely watch a GP live from the beginning. I hope it has a "From the start" option. There may be some good ideas being put forward, but this is another downgrade for speedway in my opinion in terms of profile. Sky Sports to BT was slightly lower profile. Then the league went BT to Eurosport. Another downgrade. Now we have Discovery plus. What the hell is Discovery Plus? At least I've heard of the other 3 chanels! Looking forward to the move to DMAX in a few years so I can record it again!

If you don't have Sky is there any way of getting this God forsaken channel other than watching online on a pc?

I saw that. He was riding sidecar in a Grasstrack meeting.

Probably being paid by the hour to do the job. Get some Japanese builders on it. It'll be done next week.

If it does get built I wouldn't be surprised if we end up a bit like Smallmead, with temporary buildings that never get replaced. The main thing is that we get the racing back. The fact that people are there has to be a good sign on that front.

The replay is on Eurosport at the moment. Just shown a replay of Hans' going down in Heat 14. Quite funny to see the replay and see him give a little look to the left to see the Wolves pair leading before going down.

Really? They also had Palin in one race and another with Palm Toft struggling because he was injured.

I know we've had this headline before, but the Adver is now reporting that work has started on the new stadium. Work starts on Swindon Speedway's new Abbey Stadium | Swindon Advertiser

Oh Rory Schlein no no no. Bloody Covid made him touch the tapes.

I agree. Maybe not a season ticket, but certainly free entry to meetings. Get the neighbours on board then you not only stop complaints but get bigger crowds and a better atmosphere. Photo id and proof of address. Let them in. And put ads through all the letterboxes so that they know about it.

From what I can gather, they are keeping the track as it is, putting a few modular buildings around it and knocking the rest down. I think the plan was to do one side as a time and keep the other open, then do the other side once the first is finished.

As I recall, the problem at Mildenhall wasn't with race meetings themselves but with noise from the stadium at 2 or 3 in the morning from Banger racing people.