Robbie B

So the teams can't use a joker in the last four heats of a meeting. This still doesn't prevent any team from using the same deplorable tactics of slowing down in the earlier races. Last year final was embarrassing to watch, so please can the FIM scrap the joker completely, for the good of the sport.

Im with BT and link is working fine Stream 1 http://www.pl-sport.tv/

Chris Holder Nicki Pedersen Emil Sayfutdinov Tomasz Gollob 1 Chris Holder 2 Nicki Pedersen 3 Geg Hancock 4 Emil Sayfutdinov 5 Tomasz Gollob 6 Jason Crump 7 Fredrik Lindgen 8 Antonio Lindback

Good call, I can't see why Grigorij Laguta won't get a mention for a wild card. He deserve one as much as they do. I rather see a GP series where all riders qualify on merit like in the old days, but I'm afraid I personally can't see this ever happening again.

Easy solution as to whether MJJ or Woffinden (or another Brit in the SGP) gets a 2013 SGP pick. You could simply get rid of the Wild Card and then you could fit in MJJ and a Brit into the 2013 SGP if you wanted too.

Hopefully Holder or Hancock wins. But Nicki was riding really well in Vojens plus his Polish league form has been superb this season. Should make for a fitting climax. But I just hope that no-one loses the World title because, of an engine failure.

Well done Iversen, KK and Zagar all 2012 members of Stal Gorzow my Polish team

Good job there's only four of them otherwise we would be waiting all night for them to sort all those extra races out.

Should be a four man run off for one place tasty Soz we posted at the same time

Totally agree with you. It's a World Championship all riders no matter who they are should have to qualify. Wild Cards spoil it for me, if your face fits you get picked it should never happen for a World Championship. Come on Ales, Madsen and Zagar. Iversen deserves his pace if he makes it.

I noticed that also, it maybe the best on the night, so far of course. Make that four wins in a row now Andersen and Jepsen Jensen still have two gate two's in the meeting yet to come. Nice too see a different gate wining at last. Jepsen Jensen blew the best gate and it's goodnight to him

Both Vaculik and Jepsen Jensen off gate 4 so maybe this starting gate is no good, only time will tell.

And Jepsen Jensen

Thanks to the wonders of the Internet. Here is the BBC London website address where you can listen to the programme live anywhere in the world. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbclondon

8 Jason Crump 7 Fredrik Lindgren 7 Michael Jepsen Jensen 6 Jarek Hampel

Thanks for that.

My memories go back to Marcg 1976 and my very first live meeting at Plough Lane. I think it cost me 50p (childs price) which include a programme to into the main grandstand at Wimbledon. I'm sure that it was 35p for the back straight. I watched the first two or races inside, so it wasn't until I went outside that the full impact of live speedway hit me, the noise and smells (I'm sure that get us hooked on the sport). Sadly no Tommy Jansson riding in this meeting as he was still recovering from a broken shoulder from an accident in Australia. No Christer Lofqvist either as he and the Wimbledon management couldn't agree on pay terms. Sad too say that he never for Wimbledon during this season, or even in the British League Division One, in the future, for any team. And against a very strong team like Reading the Dons didn't stand a chance and lost the Challenge Match 32-46, but it made no difference to me, as I was a Dons supporter from that moment on. Mind you we did get our revenge on them in September when we beat 40-38 in the league. Roger Johns became the very Wimbledon I saw win a race, at Plough Lane, and strangely he was the member of the Dons that I saw win an away heat, at White City the following Tuesday night. The moments of what happened in May that year no Dons supporter will ever forget. Extremely emotional times for our team, supporters and of course Tommy's family. All credit must go to the riders who carried on riding for the rest of the season. The 1976 season did end on a high though, as the Dons won the London Cup with a fantastic 49-29 away win over Hackney. A double header meeting in November, after the original staging was cancelled due to rain. Hackney beat White City 42-36 in the other fixture. The London Cup was decided on race points,this season. And as Hackney rode in two meetings their match points were halved to give them an overall total. Best meeting I saw I would to say in 1980 England Vs USA (1st ever official test) between the two nations.54-54 was a just result in the end. Just wished I had a real Tardis to do it all over again. Also like to add Peter Collins new track record in 1976 of 58.5secs this was in a time when sub 60secs at Plough Lane only happened now and again. Plus Scott Autrey's 58.2secs in 78 or 79 that broke this record. As I recall Scott was so far in front that he was entering the 3rd bend before the other riders were out of the 2nd. Brilliant rides by both of them.

Maybe, I have to check the Speedway Star match report. The heats details are from I file that I made several years ago listing all of Tommy Jansson's UK race heats details (not second halves) that I had on a website of mine. The website is No longer on the web.

Here are Tommy's heat details from this meeting. Heat 2 Plech, T.Jansson, Stangeland, Lomas 66.2 Heat 6 T.Jansson, Louis, Gooderham, Stangeland 66.6 Heat 9 T.Jansson, Lee, Betts, Stangeland 67.2 Heat 14 T.Jansson, Wilson, Teromaa, Stangeland 66.8 Heat 18 Thomas, Morton, Stangeland, T.Jansson 75.4 Heat 21 Davis, Stangeland, T.Jansson (f), B.Jansson (ret) 74.6

This is just a formula for 12 riders that I found on the web. I'm sure a better formula could be used. This no perfect formula that you can use. 16 riders over 20 heats all riders have a particular gate more than once. They only perfect formula is to have 4 riders racing over 16 heats using all the available gates permutations, but no-one would pay to watch that. But the idea was of showing a way that more top class riders could ride in a GP. After all everyone wants there favourite rider to be in the GPs..

People on the forum what to see the best riders contest the GP series, but with only 15 places available there will always be riders missing out. So maybe a shake-up in the GP series is needed to allow more riders to compete. This is not like the old style KO formula. And would have only requires four extra races on the night. Using 24 riders including one wild card (the SGP series seems to like them and I doubt if they will ever be disposed off). The riders would be split into two different groups depending on their GP points standings. (I’m using the standing after the Scandinavian GP). Groups are split into odd and even GP standing numbers. The top four from each group would then contest the semi finals. In the first Semi Final the first and third highest points scorers from Group A would met the second and fourth highest point scorers from Group B. In the second Semi Final the second and fourth highest point scorers from Group A would met the first and third highest points scorers from Group B. Rider who came first and second in both of the semi finals to contest the Grand Final. The points scoring for both the semis finals and grand final would be 4-3-2-1. Each group would consist of 12 heats with all riders having each gate, once only. At the end of the GP season the bottom seven riders would met the top nine from the GP qualifying final in a GP Challenge, where the top seven riders from this meeting would qualify for the following seasons GP series. As there would be no need for any current GP rider from this series to contest the qualifiers this would allow more new riders to have a chance of qualifying for the GP series. The heats could be raced one heat from Group A then from Group B etc, etc Let me know what you think of the idea. Group A 1 Chris Holder 2 Nicki Pedersen 3 Jason Crump 4 Fredrik Lindgren 5 Andreas Jonsson 6 Chris Harris 7 Bjarne Pedersen 8 Kenneth Bjerre 9 Niels-Kristian Iversen 10 Darcy Ward 11 Grigory Laguta 12 Kryzstof Kasprazak Group A Heats 1 1-2-3-4 2 6-5-7-8 3 9-10-11-12 4 5-9-1-11 5 8-3-10-6 6 2-4-12-7 7 11-1-6-3 8 10-8-5-2 9 7-12-4-9 10 4-11-8-1 11 12-6-2-10 12 3-7-9-5 Group B 13 Greg Hancock 14 Tomasz Gollob 15 Emil Sayfutdinov 16 Antonio Lindback 17 Hans Andersen 18 Jaroslaw Hampel 19 Peter Ljung 20 Martin Vaculik 21 Tai Woffinden 22 Michael Jepsen Jensen 23 Matej Zagar 24 Wild Card or Jurica Pavlic or Ryan Sullivan Group B Heats 1 13-14-15-16 2 18-17-19-20 3 21-22-23-24 4 17-21-13-23 5 20-15-22-18 6 14-16-24-19 7 23-13-18-15 8 22-20-17-14 9 19-24-16-21 10 16-23-20-13 11 24-18-14-22 12 15-19-21-17 Please note that heat formula is something that I found on the Internet it's not perfect and for that reason it just showcases the idea. Depending on the riders point scores they would be paced into Group A for odd numbers placings in the points scoring chart or Group B for all the even numbers placings in the points scoring chart for the next GP. This way both groups will change riders regularly and could add some extra excitement during the season.

King's Lynn Vs Birmingham tonight Lakeside Vs Coventry on Monday

10 Greg Hancock 9 Emil Sayfutdinov 9 Andreas Jonsson 9 Antonio Lindback

Does anyone know if Premier Sport will be showing highlights of the other Play-Off Quarter Final 1st Leg being raced tonight between Västervik vs Dackarna as Canal + will have footage of it.

Cheers I've Added Crump instead of Bomber now.