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I asked this question once in the forums and received the following (from more than one Polish poster) D = Engine failure(Retirement) T = Tapes Exclusion U = Fell W = Excluded(Disqualified) W/U = Excluded Fell You can always double check next time Polish speedway is on or look for videos and tally it up with the on screen graphics or contents of match reports and heat results. Alternatively check the abbreviations listed in the Sportowefakty heat results against a recent SGP or similar meeting where you have an English version of what happened. The live updates on Sportowefakty would be a good way to check, as they give a summary of each heat. In addition to the Polish racing you can watch online they obviously cover overseas meetings such as the SGP, SEC and the Swedish and UK Elite Leagues. But the above definitions should certainly be correct anyway.

Do we have any idea if the team likely to be promoted will meet all the required demands such as financial or stadium/track facilities to take their place in the Elit Serien, or will the last placed team possibly get a reprieve? Was waiting to see which meeting was to be televised. Makes sense on a sporting entertainment aspect to delay until after tonight's match.

Indeed, technically to get a perfect representation of who scores the most points over a season would be the basic 20 heats where every rider meets every other rider once. Sometimes perfection shouldn't be meddled with. Can you get any fairer than each rider meeting each other once? However, i think that the reasons for the 'dramatic' semi-finals and final are as i touched upon earlier in the thread Incidentally, when you say "For me I would liven up the GP finals by making the winner the highest scorer" you surely don't mean to have a final heat and the winner of that gets the most points awarded? Or do you mean the highest over 20 heats is the highest scorer?

I would imagine there is with so many people around "Tampere is a city in southern Finland. It is the most populous inland city in any of the Nordic countries. The city has a population of 217,767, growing to 313 058 people in the urban area and over 340,000 in the metropolitan area.Tampere is the second-largest urban area and third most-populous municipality in Finland," Wiki has some good basic info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampere

Hey don't diss Google Translate lol. Most people have the brain power to grasp the gist and main points of a Google Translated article. It's a superb free service, and if using a Google Chrome browser it will translate a page instantly and automatically. Their translations are obviously improving in accuracy year on year. It's not so long ago that to get a Polish translation on the web you had to pay.

SECONDED and much appreciated. Incidentally, my post was simply to point out that it was now being confirmed as the case.

I often come to these forums to try and ascertain if official press releases by the SGP site and the FIM are correct. Certainly the FIM site can be slow to publish (or not publish at all) changes to a meeting. The SGP site has on several occasions got things wrong. They also are not averse to going back and re-writing a paragraph instead of adding an update at the bottom of the story or simply publishing an update as a new article.

The same questions that 'Grand Central' posed that went to 'barrow boy' (and so far unanswered) go to you. The bold font is mine. Why on earth take away from the basic fairness of what you earn in every race over the whole season determines the champion. The sport has always run races on a 3-2-1-0 basis which is a great example of something being simple, very easy to remember and wouldn't befuddle a potential newcomer to the sport.

Eeeek! that's about as low as you can get lol. Ok hang on you're quoting the averages in the awful style starting to be used by some sources.of points per race instead of per meeting. I think the Swedish league started doing that last year? I personally find the traditional for decades (4 rides) 12 points maximum averages far more comprehensible. If you see a display of all riders in a league on points per race it's hard to discern differences when you have to go into the hundredths etc. Plus it's easier to grasp that a rider averages seven and a half points a meeting than 1.875 per race. Oh yeah 0.782 and 1.055 equate to a more friendly 3.13 and 4.22. Which method do you prefer Ghostwalker the one we are all used to or this new per race display? (ok or couldn't care less is a third option lol).

Good timing i was about to post for a reminder of upcoming matches.

It does give you a little tingle to see the sport where it should be. Packed stadium with live TV coverage and a happy, happy crowd indeed. I think a Russian win tonight and especially for their true superstar was essential to give a feel good glow for the sport in Russia (and here in the UK or any part of the speedway world). Ok wish you a Good Night all (and rest of the afternoon for some on here) thanks for the mostly pleasant company and views be they differing or in agreement.

Congrats Emil and joined by a fellow Russian on the podium! I enjoyed the meeting overall, and maybe riders will now be able to have a good set-up from the start next year ensuring better racing from the get-go.

Interesting choice of gate by Gregski

Once again it's been a nice prelude to set one up for a night out (or in) and two more tasty races to go?. It's not kicking off with me i can assure you, i've got a life to live and a night out ahead, so will avoid engaging and just bat off attacks as above. Audi R8 very nice but i still wanna 2014 Monster Girls calendar lol. Cool great final ahead by the looks of it.

Noooo lol too funny my 'stalker' is here, can't restrain himself from making personal attacks. The one who frequently claims he only makes important posts and nothing is rarely worth commentating on on these forums. Most of his posts are personal off-topic attacks on me or on racecards!!! yawnnn #1..... Ok enough! yawnnn #2....again not got the time or inclination to respond to you other than issue my little statement for such occasions.... Please take note i'm not getting engaged in 'off-topic attacking the poster and not the post' conversations. There is way too much of it across the forums. It's a very inconsiderate waste of the forum owner's bandwidth, which presumably is not free, to use the forums for abuse, insults or creating and carrying out personal vendetta's and off-topic feuding when it's purpose of being a forum is for discussion of speedway and related matters.

i thought Ales Dryml DIDN'T get hit in the head there. At first glance i thought he got hit lower down from the initial angle and took most of it on his lowered arms?

Could we be getting that (non)rare thing since the time speedway began of the racing getting better or finally appearing as the meeting goes on. Admittedly more than a little belated tonight mind. Please can we not set up a permanent sticky thread for tv commentators, every meeting thread gets filled with commentator comments lol lol. Ok whilst we still discussing them Steve Day (and Scott) are super quick in working out the multiple permutations ahead of a heat, very impressive once again ahead of this last heat. In stark contrast to the other duo who often haven't got a clue who has quaified AFTER a race lol.

Another racy win by Tai. Can't wait to see him and Emil battle for both the World and European crowns in 2014.....ummmm 2013 too?

Lol

Can hear that the crowd is making quite some noise just not the greatest audio mix on the tv. A better mix would enhance the atmosphere somewhat.

Good one Tai it's nice to see riders concerned with the amount of passing available for the fans. Hmmm i see Nicki not got that bloke employed for his fan he's got a (hot) woman instead. I wonder if he running scared of falling foul of the new anti-gay laws in Russia this week where it's illegal to show expression or something lol. Awww i only joking Nicki and the bloke who usually holds his cooling fan.

Awww that reminds me i wanna Monster girls calendar in 2014. Too be honest i did see a few pre-meeting reports that there were likely problems with the 'shape' of the track amongst other niggles.

Bear in mind at the start of the season we thought we might not even get to see the SGP series, this is heaven.

But without the aggro and bias as it's not written by fans. Although i'm sure i detect a little Polish favouritism at times lol. And yeah duhhhh i forgot about the updates board i think it's because i was already on the Sportowefakty site looking at the news.

Second big duel for Tai......second big win for Tai.