Boothers

Two years ago we stopped in Newport and trained in and out of Cardiff on the Saturday. Getting back to Newport on the train after the GP was highly organised as each departing train had a separate queue organised OUTSIDE the station and you were only allowed onto the platforms when the trains were ready. However if you remember two years ago it was hoying it down with rain and there was no cover for the queues which were in effect in the station car-park. As we were already soaked to the skin walking to the station the 45 minutes spent in the queue didn't really make things all that worse although we had already by that point vowed never to do it again and hence have paid the exorbitant Cardiff hotel prices since then (we'd book a taxi if staying in Newport in future). I'm not sure about last year - I think I read that some of the last trains out of Cardiff may have been cancelled but can't comment for certain (although we had problems returning to the North East on the Sunday after the GP as there was 'maintenance' being carried out between Cardiff/Manchester which meant a long bus journey, missed connections and an unwanted detour via Darlington).

Is one of the 'tunes' HeathenBaggie looking for "Oh Fortuna" from "Carmina Burana" by Carl Orff?

Main winner this weekend will be J D Wetherspoon

Five friendly Redcar Bears fans doing our second British GP. Last year was all a bit last minute and we bussed down on Saturday morning to Newport, dumped our bags in the smallest hotel bedrooms I have ever been in, grabbed a bite to eat at a Wetherspoons and trained into Cardiff. Visited just a couple of the local hostelries before the GP and then stood 45 minutes in the pouring rain in a queue OUTSIDE the railway station for the last train back to Newport. This year we've got it right - going Friday and stopping at the Holiday Inn. So if anyone sees 'Team Sooty Racing' please feel free to say hello! Oh, I'll be the old, grey, deaf one doing a very passable Rowley Birkin impression

Really don't understand how Hans Andersen qualified for the Semis in this GP. Surely the fact that in heat 2 where three of the riders who finished on 6 points met both Hampel and Holta finished in front of Andersen should mean that one of these two riders should have qualified as per 77.9.2. - other than the fact that in one of their other rides Hampel and Holta didn't finish the race for whatever reason. Bit of a mockery as far as I'm concerned.

Today's Middlesbrough Evening Gazette 'confirms' that Joe will sign for CVS's Redcar Bears Junior squad the Cleveland Bays when he turns 15 next month.