IainB

Normal service has been resumed after a week of wet racing in Manchester

They rolled the dice somewhat, with the signings of Milik, Pawlicki & Lampart a bit like Worky with Vuolas, Zischke & Liebmann. The difference is riders at Worky's level are a lot easier to take off the conveyor belt if any of them didn't perform.

And to think a few years ago when Cardiff drew crowds of around 40,000 people were talking about Wembley!

It seems to me that Belle Vue speedway hasn't really realised its own worth in this whole deal. It's possible that WBD/FIM need Belle Vue more than Belle Vue needs them. If this year is to be the last Cardiff and if ticket sales are as bad as the last 2 years I highly suspect it will be then where else do you hold a British GP? King's Lynn? Sheffield? Bradford? Can you have a Speedway World Championship credibly without a British round? If I were Belle Vue I would have told WBD to go do one. If they wanted to see if BV could stage an SoN I would have told them that they already had in 2021 and an SWC in 2016.

Maybe it was not shown on Eurosport to encourage ticket sales? Just guessing

What a week! Most of it has been said already, I did it about as cheap as I could, £123 for a 4 day South Stand ticket, around £85 on fuel for 4 Leicester to Belle Vue return car trips, £0 for on street parking, £0 for a programme, I used the SGP app and around £10 for food (Aldi Salads ). The South Stand may have been Health & Safety full and a sell out, but it certainly wasn't full full. It may have been sardines in some areas but in the area I was standing it certainly wasn't sardine full. The Speedway, can't fault it, even when the track was less than perfect (for Belle Vue) it still produced some breathtaking action and the cherry on the icing on top of the cake a Team GB win, absolutely fantastic and great to be part of it live. The temporary stand though, we can only hope that this hasn't jeopardised the future of Belle Vue Speedway. Sadly we'll probably only ever know if it was a success or not by the survival of the promotion or whether any events like this ever return to the NSS. You'd think that the promotion should have had some leverage over WBD/FIM by "agreeing" to stage it as if they hadn't then basically every SoN/SWC will be held in Poland in the future which doesn't really make the competitions credible. There is probably a reason why Sweden haven't hosted these competitions since 2012! Well done GB CHAMPIONS!

Germany crushing Poland (again) Wunderbar! Lambert been immense tonight!

The Poles were robbed... but nobody cares

Is Nicki Pedersen smashing up his programme board in the pits yet?

Was that your upgrade!

Don't let facts get in the way of my banter please

Caution Shovlar is reversing! Caution Shovlar is reversing! Caution Shovlar is reversing! Caution Shovlar is reversing!

If you take the Polish contingent away the crowd is probably similar the the PCMT or British Final. Also don't forget the Poole fans are a gullible lot, they must be to torn up and watch what they do every week

Some team managers trying to be too clever by arf in the opening heats

They may as well have hired the stand that Worky bought from Wolverhampton than rent that bloody great thing!

1 Aussie 2 GB 3 Poland

I hope you're holding a sign like those beggars do at football... Dan, please can I have your race jacket Watering the track! Thank goodness!

The health and safety brigade must have been doing their nut!

I saw him filling up with petrol near to the NSS talking to the service station attendant, more likely to see him in the team

You have to question whether they are "fans" then if that is the case... or freebie comps

Speedway not the only sport with attendance issues. https://www.instagram.com/p/C9VTImzsKmy/?igsh=MWQxd3dvYjM1YmZoaQ== At least they'll have paid for a ticket though and the whole event will have been underwritten by TV money and sponsorship.

Banbor went down like Bambi

He was so masterful though

Is Dan injured?

Brave stuff from Henriksson... despite a Telford style start!