GP line-up for 2026

[ShanoXtra]

Whether it happens or not for me, MJJ (now confirmed) Dudek, Emil, Łaguta would make it considerably stronger, drop Kai, Kvech, Vaculik and Anders, I would also as an actual wildcard (not just the merry go round of riders classed as wildcard) add in Drabik. Just try something slightly different. 
My line up:

Zmarzlik

Kurtz

Bewley

Lindgren

Holder

Lebedevs

Lambert

Madsen

Woryna

Kubera

MJJ

Dudek (qualified or wildcard)

Emil (Wildcard)

Łaguta (Wildcard)

Doyle or Drabik (Wildcard) - Doyle may well believe it’s beginning to slow down in his career as he has signed for M.2 Krosno team so maybe he can re qualify officially for SGP 2027.

Edited 6 hours ago by ShanoXtra
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[THE DEAN MACHINE]

Wildcards Doyle Kvech, vaculik and parnicki, I’m basing this on purely financial not abilty decision 

Edited 6 hours ago by THE DEAN MACHINE

[TTT]

Imo Vaculik will certainly get a WC due to the Prague GP as well as Martin only having one bad year, Apart from this season, He's actually been a decent addition to the GP series with multiple GP victories.

[TheSmiler]

Doyle has had many wild cards now and is always missing injured, and there are 3 Aussies ahead of him so I think his time is up IMO.

Max Fricke is a given and only missed out on the points system (the old format he would have been 7th over Lambert)

Then there’s the conversation around Martin Vaculik who had a massive fall off this year but has been a consistent rider for the last 6+ years so I think he deeerves one also. 

I’d give one to Laguta if the powers that be finally have some sense. I’d love to give one to Emil but I believe we are starting to see him past his best. 

then I believe the SGP2 champion should be an automatic qualification.

So if there is four (dependant on SEC), I would like to see: 

Max Fricke
Martin Vaculik
Artem Laguta
Nazar Parnitskyi

[THE DEAN MACHINE]

Only rider who deserves a wild card is laguta who was robbed of defending his title by the woke tossers that are the FIM 

[PersonalResponsibility]

It's interesting this year (or should be) because you'd expect Fricke, Vaculik, Doyle, or Thomsen/Michelsen to get them, but I'm not sure they will.

Fricke is nailed on obviously, but will Doyle be when there are 3 other Aussies. Same as Thomsen/Michelsen when you already have Madsen/MJJ. I think Vaculik just about deserves one more season. That then leaves a nice Emil/Artem shaped gap...alas...

Edited 3 hours ago by PersonalResponsibility

[THE DEAN MACHINE]

One thing that seems to be very quiet is discovery over next year, venues, dates, have they announced anything regarding next year ?

[topaz325]

In the ideal world nationality should not come into it  when qualifying for the GP series, if you are good enough then the rider lines up but then it would mean having to qualify every year without the need for Wildcards.  

[PersonalResponsibility]

1 hour ago, THE DEAN MACHINE said:

One thing that seems to be very quiet is discovery over next year, venues, dates, have they announced anything regarding next year ?

They did say they were having the SWC in May at Warsaw, which sounds like the biggest 'I'll believe it when I see it' yet.