IainB

You don't know that as nobody has tried. You do tend to show a bit of a defeatist attitude, as shown with your posts on the SoN thread. It's a good job everybody doesn't take the same attitude of not even trying to do things or we'd all still be living in the dark ages.

How do you know this? a world championship event hasn't been tried in the US since the 80's has it? The WTC's at long beach? If you're not even prepared to try, at a less costly venue, you're never going to break into the market. It's been proved the only countries that can sustain large stadium venues are Poland, UK and Denmark. Sweden, Germany, Australia all had large stadium events that ultimately failed before moving back to more modest stadia in the Swedish and German cases. The risk should have been taken years ago in the States to cash in on Hancock's "star" appeal and capture the imagination of the next generation of US riders, it maybe too late now, a missed opportunity while the organisers were messing around in Finland, Italy, Germany and Latvia

You're right, let's forget all about it and have them all in Poland

Have a look on Google earth there's an American football/atheletcs stadium a couple of hundred yards up the road

Anyway... Doesn't have to be Costa Mesa speedway track, they can lay a track anywhere, maybe an atheletcs track that has grandstand a or something in the Costa Mesa area, it's just that speedway at Costa Mesa has been proven to work. My point is more that I think it would be better to hold a GP at proven venues/areas in non speedway countries where you know you'll draw a core crowd in and then heavily promote it to bring in floaters. The mistake in Australia particularly was hiring out huge stadiums

I think Leicester is an FIM standard track... Who'd want to watch a GP there

No I've not... Just trying to come up with ideas of why it can happen rather than shutting people down all the time on why it can't. Was Krsko suitable for a GP? Terenzano? Etc. Etc. God forbid that Speedway should be fun. These are the best riders in the world, it's a world championship, they should be able to ride all tracks. Where was the monster energy thing run the other year?

After some of the crap that has been served up track wise over the years and also recently, shouldn't be an issue. They make the rules up as they go along as regards qualification and reserves, so they could do the same with the track

Probably Costa Mesa, that's the place that has the history and heritage

Doyley was giving it out in this match too, he forced Berge out on the first turn I one race and effectively ended his race

Agreed, as a stand alone race I think it was better, but when you add in what was riding on the 2 races, play off place or KOC Final appearance, maybe the first was better. Just goes to show there are many ingredient that go to make a fantastic race. All I know is I'm privileged to be able to go to the NSS every week at the moment

Yes... But last night's great 13 may be even better!

What is HD?

Australia and NZ not financially viable at those venues. USA, perhaps BSI/IMG should run the first few and take the risk to prove it could be financially viable at the right venue. I don't believe Vojens can't make it pay if the likes of Prague, Germany and Slovenia can. Anyway, well done to Leon Madsen! It'll be great to see him in the GP series next year

A bold prediction Aces will either do it or they won't I hope they do, to keep the season alive so I can watch more great speedway while I'm up here, I fear the track may be too fair to pull back such a deficit though, BV never tend to win big at the NSS

Seems like you've convinced yourself

BV, Vojens, Australia, NZ, USA 5

It seems they make the rules up as they go along to suit themselves, it's like NKI being "first reserve" this year, shouldn't that be "wild card first reserve". We've also still got the daft situation of GP wild cards, who was the Slovenian guy in the last round, completely out of his depth, the GP series is well enough established now to do away with these nation wild cards, if they can't support a GP without one, they shouldn't be staging one, there's loads of places that would/could

Eurosport are a joke, always have been always will be, the clue is in their name "Euro". Watching anything on that channel is like playing roulette as to whether you'll see the end or not, let alone the beginning!

Was it? I thought it was the other way around... It was many many GP's ago though. I do remember it being very controversial at the time

Didn't Trick get done when the clocks were first introduced, I'll grant you it's not happened since then though

Or maybe a clock counting down to zero... Oh, hang on a minute!

I don't know that you can point to one single incident over a whole GP season, that's the whole point of a GP series, the old one day World Final yes, but not the GP... You could point to him forgetting to turn his fuel on at Cardiff or not getting exqualified for both wheels over the white line in Sweden. Over the course of a season these things equal themselves out and generally the best rider wins (unless you're Jason Doyle)

Ah, is that what it is... Thanks for the info

GP at Leicester would have been more entertaining than this! It was interesting to compare the reactions of Woffy and Serena Williams over 2 "unjust" decisions at the weekend, perhaps Woffy should have called the ref anti Aussie Was this the same Start Marshall that was dicking about so much at the recent Wroclaw matches? Some of the marshalling I've seen at Polish matches this year has been beyond stupid with the Marshall trying to move riders laterally even when they're bang in the middle of their start gate! Championship is far from over, did BZ prove himself to be a bit of a choker at the weekend? He could have had the lead down to 4 points but failed to capitalise