Shockster Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 As Neutral a track as you can get. Good choice. Have a Semi in Scandinavia & one in the UK and should get decent crowds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee Eck Posted January 24 Report Share Posted January 24 On 1/18/2025 at 10:00 PM, Shockster said: As Neutral a track as you can get. Good choice. Have a Semi in Scandinavia & one in the UK and should get decent crowds. The qualifiers have often been poorly attended - there were almost more people in the pits in Wrocław than the stands for the qualifiers. So it makes sense to stage the qualifiers each with a home team, so that would be GB and Denmark. But, for logistical reasons, not in the week of the final. GB should be either NSS (though there might be a GP there in 2026) or Glasgow 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozzie Posted January 24 Author Report Share Posted January 24 2 minutes ago, Wee Eck said: The qualifiers have often been poorly attended - there were almost more people in the pits in Wrocław than the stands for the qualifiers. So it makes sense to stage the qualifiers each with a home team, so that would be GB and Denmark. But, for logistical reasons, not in the week of the final. GB should be either NSS (though there might be a GP there in 2026) or Glasgow Don't think the money nor effort nor ability to do this, but just my thought. They will also want qualifying close to the final night. Think smaller city track or tracks during the week or at best the weekend prior. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee Eck Posted January 24 Report Share Posted January 24 1 minute ago, ozzie said: Don't think the money nor effort nor ability to do this, but just my thought. They will also want qualifying close to the final night. Think smaller city track or tracks during the week or at best the weekend prior. I reckon Gladgoe would get a crowd of 2000 if GB involved. Nowhere in Poland would attract that sort of number if Poland not involved. Wrocław didn’t make 2000 in total for the three qualifiers. Nothing like it. Similarly, the NSS for the SoN had maybe a thousand in total for the qualifiers and maybe 1200 for the under 21 SoN final - when GB was involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racers and royals Posted 5 hours ago Report Share Posted 5 hours ago (edited) SWC Semi’s are in Germany and Latvia in 2026. All change as well for SWC in 2026 SON winners in Torun into SWC final( if Poland win it then it’s the runners-up that take the place. no race-off- only the winners of the 2 Semi’s qualify for the Warsaw final. Edited 4 hours ago by racers and royals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fromafar Posted 4 hours ago Report Share Posted 4 hours ago On 1/16/2025 at 3:11 PM, RPNY said: Annoying its in Poland and catering to a Polish win again BUT if they are gonna stage it that's a great place to have it! Majority of the Worlds best ride in Poland anyway,so better too have it where it will be well attended.Poland could win it anywhere so it doesn’t really matter IMO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therefused Posted 4 hours ago Report Share Posted 4 hours ago will the seats be arranged so the nations are sort of near each other? very interested in going, enjoyed the GP a couple of years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racers and royals Posted 4 hours ago Report Share Posted 4 hours ago What strikes me is that this is a dumbing down of the prestige competition in World Speedway that is held every 3 years. Now we have the situation where a country with 2 good riders can qualify for the final of the top 4 rider team competition. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arnieg Posted 2 hours ago Report Share Posted 2 hours ago 1 hour ago, racers and royals said: What strikes me is that this is a dumbing down of the prestige competition in World Speedway that is held every 3 years. Now we have the situation where a country with 2 good riders can qualify for the final of the top 4 rider team competition. It also looks remarkably similar (although much truncated) to the pre 2001 competition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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