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Yes Sir!

SO So happy this is back on the Calendar. Huge Bucket List item for me finally went this year & it didn't disappoint. (After a slow start) some great racing a real lovely little stadium and a beautiful city. Great news!!

Anyway, was a good GP once they sorted the track out wasnt it...

About as spot on a post as Ive ever read on here

On a much lighter note, went to Moore Park when I was in Christchurch 2016. Very basic but lovely set up. Very happy I got to see it.

Western Springs would always get a crowd. NZ is an 'outdoor' nation and has a rich speedway history. They were always going to attract a decent crowd.

I think that is why the Clocks were introduced Stranger things have happened. maybe a year or two out may put some fire in the belly

I hear you. Very Odd with Emil. I thought he was going to walk it as soon as he was back in the GPs.

Open question - I genuinely dont know the answer. Forget box office etc, on ability/scoring potential alone,should Nicki be in next year? Was very unlucky with that early injury, he'd started the season like a steam train in Poland. Not my favorite rider but cant help but think the series is better with him in it.

Unfortunately not but I appreciate the effort bud!

Link?

Simple fact is that outside of a top few, the previous seasons form does not indicate the where or whereabouts they will be the next season. Doyle & Lebedevs this season. Antonio & Vaculik after 2012, Kasprzak after coming 2nd in 2014, Holder after finishing 4th in 2016 there are many examples that you just dont know how someone will do the next season. Tai getting the 2013 Wild Card being the ultimate example of course,. And with the WildCard picks will always be somewhat controversial. But 9/10 if common sense prevails most people will be happy...

I did not Sir but seen a few good meetings there in the past.

To be fair Togliatti is a great stadium and a good track. They will have a full house there. Cant begrudge Russia holding one FIM event!

If Round one was in Manchester I see no reason why it would remotely affect Cardiff. Great City, Great track, Stadium that although is not a patch on Cardiff, is more than worthy of a GP. Madness if they dont have a GP there IMO.

Buggar! With Cardiff being announced for September there are a lot of us that put 2 and 2 together and made 5!

Having just watched Belle Vue v Somerset we live in hope that there is a GP in Manchester next year.

We live in hope!

That is some Race Track PLEASE PLEASE get a GP there

Is there any update on the new Stadium?!!

And if the final is a tied heat then the team that accumulated the most points wins... Although it would probably work against GB next year.

Shall we give it a chance before writing it off?

NBC originally had 3 year deal, after 2 months of the inaugural season they went back and asked to make it a 10 year deal. The first season EVERY game was available for free. Now you have to buy a pass to stream all those that aren’t on tv. Why is this? Because it is now popular enough that they can get away with it. now I’m now suggesting that for one second speedway is anywhere near as popular as soccer however this is an example of how something can come out of relative obscurity to being popular. there are now so many dedicated sports channels in the states that need to fill time slots 24/7 that it amazes me the conversation about showing the GPs hasn’t even been had. Believe me they show some absolute dross on these channels. as for USA being hard market to crack, Greg being an unknown champion etc yes I get that. However it is such a big country and there are so many multi purpose stadiums crying out for events to be staged believe me it could be done. Simply they won’t take the chance which is a great shame. Might not work but could pay off big time. By the way Humphrey I’m suprised you have time to type on here as you seem to have researched everything about everything!

Yes but my point is we need to look forward. I love the GPs & I’m a big fan for the most part of BSI however it infuriates me the way in which the running of GPs are put into the hands of the local promoter & therefore meaning we loose, or even worse, don’t get the big stadiums and nice cities. yes Finald, Berlin, Gothenburg were not great tracks and therefore not sustainable. however having heard first hand about Friends arena & Riga, they coulda been kept on the calendar and made profitable if the BSI (especially now they are part of IMG) resources were used properly regarding pricing, advertising etc. I was also told how close they came to having a GP at the Stub Hub center in LA & again it was left to others to pick up all the costs. Shocking when you think it’s the biggest global market and there’s been an American world champion 3 times in last 7 years. I went to Melbourne in 2016, there was zero advertising. We lost NZ, a GP every rider loved because the Promoter was fed up with the costs. surely a company that’s part of IMG with all their resources knows to make money you gotta spend money. The series can’t move forward with some of the venues we have now. It’ll simply get stale

Just Bin the smaller 1 horse town venues and get it back to some worthy citys/stadiums!