GP line-up and venues and news for 2026

[eric i]

4 minutes ago, IainB said:

Could have been Luke Becker if America hadn't started an illegal war with Iran 😂

I guess the FIM will turn a blind eye when its America starting the illegal war.

[arnieg]

29 minutes ago, eric i said:

I guess the FIM will turn a blind eye when its America starting the illegal war.

Armando is writing the citation for the FIM Peace Prize as we speak. 🥇

[mikebv]

1 hour ago, IainB said:

Could have been Luke Becker as the replacement if America hadn't started an illegal war with Iran 😂

... I presume the FIM will be banning all American and Israeli riders from all of their events 🤔

I believe that Benjamin "Sprouts" Netanyahu won't be included this season...

[Lefty]

6 hours ago, mikebv said:

I believe that Benjamin "Sprouts" Netanyahu won't be included this season...

Thankfullly "Sprouts" has an excellent singing voice, so he can be in the Eurovision Song Contest...

[OveFundinFan]

I not a Tai Woffinden fan but acknowledge his racing achievements, and certainly respect his decision to drop out of this years GPs before the season started.

[Phannan]

To up the excitement level why not give michelsen or thomsen etc a go . They’d up the viewing figures. There’s always bomber. He’d probably turn up if asked. 

[eric i]

Michelsen is probably the best rider outside the GPs apart from the Russians, unlucky not to get a wc.

Will Parnitskyi do the World under 21s the day before the GPs?

[TheReturn]

3 hours ago, OveFundinFan said:

I not a Tai Woffinden fan but acknowledge his racing achievements, and certainly respect his decision to drop out of this years GPs before the season started.

Perhaps, but by leaving it so late he has robbed someone the opportunity to plan ahead to ride the GP season and get sponsors ready for the campaign.   Actually I blame whoever thought it was a good idea to offer him a wildcard, his GP form for two seasons was average (at best) and that was before the injury.  He really should not have been offered a place. 

[Neila]

7 hours ago, TheReturn said:

Perhaps, but by leaving it so late he has robbed someone the opportunity to plan ahead to ride the GP season and get sponsors ready for the campaign.   Actually I blame whoever thought it was a good idea to offer him a wildcard, his GP form for two seasons was average (at best) and that was before the injury.  He really should not have been offered a place. 

Probably a publicity stunt with assistance from monster 🤔

[False dawn]

A more generous interpretation of what little we know is that Tai was badly injured. Then against the odds he's offered a WC for this year's GP series. He accepts in the hope that working very hard he can be fit in time. Unfortunately his body didn't quite co-operate enough to make the fairy tale come about.

Just saying.

Edited 23 hours ago by False dawn

[IainB]

2025 SGP2 World Champion Nazar Parnitsyki replaces DJ Woffy.

[Wee Eck]

21 minutes ago, IainB said:

2025 SGP2 World Champion Nazar Parnitsyki replaces DJ Woffy.

The correct move. Otherwise, what’s the point of having a reserves list in order?

[racers and royals]

4 minutes ago, Wee Eck said:

The correct move. Otherwise, what’s the point of having a reserves list in order?

Will Woffy want to do GP qualifying or SEC qualifying i wonder ?

[Wee Eck]

15 minutes ago, racers and royals said:

Will Woffy want to do GP qualifying or SEC qualifying i wonder ?

Very good question. My opinion, probably valueless, is he’d struggle to qualify for either. He’s opted out of the top two leagues in Poland and, unless there are changes, looks unlikely to race in England so he’s unlikely to be as competitive as he once was. 

Places for the qualifiers will be limited - is it SCB that makes the nominations? - so I’d guess that nominations will be based on future prospects rather than past endeavours

[racers and royals]

17 minutes ago, Wee Eck said:

Very good question. My opinion, probably valueless, is he’d struggle to qualify for either. He’s opted out of the top two leagues in Poland and, unless there are changes, looks unlikely to race in England so he’s unlikely to be as competitive as he once was. 

Places for the qualifiers will be limited - is it SCB that makes the nominations? - so I’d guess that nominations will be based on future prospects rather than past endeavours

He’s certainly not opted out of the top 2 leagues in Poland as he is riding in Extraleague 2 for Ostrow.

[Wee Eck]

1 hour ago, racers and royals said:

He’s certainly not opted out of the top 2 leagues in Poland as he is riding in Extraleague 2 for Ostrow.

My bad remembering!

[TheReturn]

15 hours ago, False dawn said:

A more generous interpretation of what little we know is that Tai was badly injured. Then against the odds he's offered a WC for this year's GP series. He accepts in the hope that working very hard he can be fit in time. Unfortunately his body didn't quite co-operate enough to make the fairy tale come about.

Just saying.

This is probably the case, and whilst I salute his efforts, from a sporting perspective I am just not sure he deserved to be offered a wildcard based off GP form for some time now even before the injury.

[False dawn]

38 minutes ago, TheReturn said:

This is probably the case, and whilst I salute his efforts, from a sporting perspective I am just not sure he deserved to be offered a wildcard based off GP form for some time now even before the injury.

Generally I agree. But the authorities, for whatever reason, decided to give Tai a WC. Would you turn it down if you were him? The fact that he is not going to be fit enough came later and from what we hear, it wasn't for the want of trying.

[topaz325]

Maybe the financial side came into also, competing in the GPs requires a big budget , yes maybe he has some financial backing but weighing up where he might come in the rankings it did not make sense.