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Post by admin on Aug 12, 2022 11:01:28 GMT
2022 FIM SPEEDWAY GP OF GREAT BRITAIN – CARDIFF (5pm) LINE-UP (in FIM ranking order with rider numbers):
95. Bartosz Zmarzlik (Poland), 71. Maciej Janowski (Poland), 66. Fredrik Lindgren (Sweden), 108. Tai Woffinden (Great Britain), 30. Leon Madsen (Denmark), 46. Max Fricke (Australia), 69. Jason Doyle (Australia), 505. Robert Lambert (Great Britain), 105. Anders Thomsen (Denmark), 29. Andzejs Lebedevs (Latvia – substitute for 54. Martin Vaculik), 323. Pawel Przedpelski (Poland), 155. Mikkel Michelsen (Denmark), 692. Patryk Dudek (Poland), 25. Jack Holder (Australia), 99. Dan Bewley (Great Britain), 16. Adam Ellis (Great Britain – wild card), 17. Tom Brennan (Great Britain – first track reserve), 18. Leon Flint (Great Britain – second track reserve).
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS:
1 Bartosz Zmarzlik 78, 2 Leon Madsen 60, 3 Martin Vaculik 53,
4 Maciej Janowski 53, 5 Fredrik Lindgren 51, 6 Tai Woffinden 50,
7 Anders Thomsen 49, 8 Patryk Dudek 49, 9 Robert Lambert 47, 10 Jason Doyle 44, 11 Dan Bewley 44, 12 Mikkel Michelsen 42, 13 Max Fricke 33, 14 Jack Holder 32, 15 Pawel Przedpelski 19
The FIM Speedway GP of Great Britain celebrates its 20th anniversary in style as Britain’s biggest indoor motorsport event roars back into Principality Stadium, Cardiff, on Saturday and Sunday.
After a three-year absence, 500cc Speedway GP machines are set to raise the roof once again to thrill fans travelling from across the UK, Europe and beyond.
For the first time since the event launched in 2001, Cardiff stages two days of World-Championship motorsport, starting with the FIM British Speedway GP at 5pm BST on Saturday night as home heroes Tai Woffinden, Robert Lambert, Dan Bewley and wild card Adam Ellis take on the world’s best riders.
The sport’s brightest under-21 stars then take centre stage for the FIM SGP2 of Great Britain at 1pm on Sunday, as FIM Speedway global promoter Discovery Sports Events shines a spotlight on the next generation of stars in the biggest FIM Speedway Under-21 World Championship event ever staged.
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Post by Hodgy on Aug 12, 2022 12:12:01 GMT
Hodgy’s £1 is going on dirty Freddy.
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Post by admin on Aug 12, 2022 20:34:58 GMT
Heat 01: Janowski, Dudek, Przedpelski, Woffinden Heat 02: Holder, Ellis, Madsen, Lambert Heat 03: Zmarzlik, Thomsen, Lebedevs, Doyle Heat 04: Lindgren, Michelsen, Fricke, Bewley Heat 05: Bewley, Janowski, Holder, Lebedevs Heat 06: Michelsen, Zmarzlik, Dudek, Madsen Heat 07: Thomsen, Lindgren, Ellis, Przedpelski Heat 08: Woffinden, Lambert, Doyle, Fricke Heat 09: Madsen, Fricke, Janowski, Thomsen Heat 10: Doyle, Holder, Lindgren, Dudek Heat 11: Lambert, Lebedevs, Przedpelski, Michelsen Heat 12: Bewley, Woffinden, Zmarzlik, Ellis Heat 13: Ellis, Doyle, Michelsen, Janowski Heat 14: Dudek, Bewley, Lambert, Thomsen Heat 15: Fricke, Przedpelski, Zmarzlik, Holder Heat 16: Lebedevs, Madsen, Woffinden, Lindgren Heat 17: Janowski, Lambert, Lindgren, Zmarzlik Heat 18: Lebedevs, Dudek, Ellis, Fricke Heat 19: Przedpelski, Doyle, Bewley, Madsen Heat 20: Holder, Michelsen, Thomsen, Woffinden Bet365:  |
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Post by admin on Aug 13, 2022 11:42:48 GMT
Hodgy’s £1 is going on dirty Freddy. Think I'll play today. Going for £1 e/w on Jack Holder to replicate another ex Panther, Ryan Sullivan, who took the 2002 Gold & was also the last time that I went to Cardiff before it got expensive & overcrowded. Holder's not pulling up any trees but has been looking more at home in the GP recently & the Principality Stadium track is a mini EoES after all. If Holder can up his game & consistency then we know how good he can be. He can just as easily have a mare & finish with half a dozen points. Also made the effort to go to my local BetFred shop (2nd time since lockdown) who couldn't find a price but when they did on the inshop betting machine the bloke said that it was win only & no e/w - pathetic, so out I walked! Back to Boylesports, a decent bookmaker:  |
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Post by chrise on Aug 13, 2022 18:55:46 GMT
What a joke of a meeting. Poor crowd. Awful track. No real racing. British speedway already on its knees and this is another nail in the sports coffin in this country. Eurosport will be looking to dump this garbage asap.
Update. Absolutely delighted for Dan Bewley. Remember him ripping up the Showground for Workington several years ago as raw young teenager. But having said that the meeting was an opportunity for speedway to promote itself which was wasted. Interestingly Ole Olsen was in charge of track preparation ! I thought he got the push from GP speedway a while back.
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Post by admin on Aug 13, 2022 22:01:39 GMT
Hodgy’s £1 is going on dirty Freddy. Think I'll play today. Going for £1 e/w on Jack Holder to replicate another ex Panther, Ryan Sullivan, who took the 2002 Gold & was also the last time that I went to Cardiff before it got expensive & overcrowded. Holder's not pulling up any trees but has been looking more at home in the GP recently & the Principality Stadium track is a mini EoES after all. If Holder can up his game & consistency then we know how good he can be. He can just as easily have a mare & finish with half a dozen points. Also made the effort to go to my local BetFred shop (2nd time since lockdown) who couldn't find a price but when they did on the inshop betting machine the bloke said that it was win only & no e/w - pathetic, so out I walked! Back to Boylesports, a decent bookmaker:  No Jack, gate 2 was not the right option. You didn't make the final because you gave Zmarzlik gate one. He was always likely to at least match you into turn one & give you the elbow, as he did, game over! |
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Post by admin on Aug 13, 2022 22:23:20 GMT
What a joke of a meeting. Poor crowd. Awful track. No real racing. British speedway already on its knees and this is another nail in the sports coffin in this country. Eurosport will be looking to dump this garbage asap. Update. Absolutely delighted for Dan Bewley. Remember him ripping up the Showground for Workington several years ago as raw young teenager. But having said that the meeting was an opportunity for speedway to promote itself which was wasted. Interestingly Ole Olsen was in charge of track preparation ! I thought he got the push from GP speedway a while back. Certainly glad that I didn't make the effort or fork out to watch that dross. Crowd did look a shocker. Will be interesting to see attendance figures at some point. In the early SGP days I thought that there was no way that the series could survive without British Speedway as it provided most of the field. For the first time I sat there wondering what relevance is that to the sport in this country? The three permanent Brits can't even be bothered to ride over here so there is little connection to them or the majority of the field now. 11/1 Bewley, wish I'd have had some of that. He's the EoES track record holder you know. Not that you'd know it from the club website: (Track Record: 57.4 seconds, Danny King (Ipswich) - Heat 3 Peterborough v Ipswich 13.05.19  ) Funniest bit was Nicholls trying to get Crump and Hancock to rubbish the track but both just said that they'd ridden on worse  That's code for get on with it you tarts |
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Post by admin on Aug 14, 2022 9:20:22 GMT
And from the BSF (mikebv, someone who was there) to counteract any negativity from those who were not - the balanced view: It was interesting to read the comments on here (BSF not here, here  ) when I got back to the hotel re the racing...
In the stadium itself, when Lebedevs won a race by half a straight the racing was "crap"...
When Dan won his first two races by the same margin it brought "the house down"...
If Lambert and Woffy had been in consideration for a semi then most races would have had something riding on them from the majority of the fans' perspective, and I can guarantee that less focus would have been on the racing,, (if), they had crossed the line in front. (Robert's last race a case in point)..
If the racing is great then that is an added bonus to Cardiff..
As we always say on here, the atmosphere will live longer in the memory than any particular level of racing, hence so many "great meetings" of the past, when rewatched, were more about the night itself than what got produced, and all those "many great races" we remembered were actually usually only "one or two", at most...
Good admission prices, decent crowd (excellent crowd for UK Speedway), great fan zone, excellent presentation that kept the momentum going through the lulls in between races, excellent facilities, and a home favourite winner...
What's not to like..?
If you could deliver all that most evenings domestically then I would suggest the sport in the UK would be a lot more successful as that ticks a lot of boxes.. |
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Post by admin on Aug 14, 2022 10:06:42 GMT
FIM SPEEDWAY GP OF GREAT BRITAIN – CARDIFF SCORES: 1 Dan Bewley 20, 2 Bartosz Zmarzlik 18, 3 Patryk Dudek 16, 4 Leon Madsen 14, 5 Jack Holder 12, 6 Fredrik Lindgren 11, 7 Mikkel Michelsen 10, 8 Jason Doyle 9, 9 Max Fricke 8, 10 Maciej Janowski 7, 11 Andzejs Lebedevs 6, 12 Robert Lambert 5, 13 Tai Woffinden 4, 14 Pawel Przedpelski 3, 15 Anders Thomsen 2, 16 Tom Brennan 1, 17 Leon Flint 0, 18 Adam Ellis 0.
SPEEDWAY GP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS:
1 Bartosz Zmarzlik 96
2 Leon Madsen 74
3 Patryk Dudek 65
4 Dan Bewley 64
5 Fredrik Lindgren 62
6 Maciej Janowski 60
7 Tai Woffinden 54, 8 Martin Vaculik 53, 9 Jason Doyle 53, 10 Mikkel Michelsen 52, 11 Robert Lambert 52, 12 Anders Thomsen 51, 13 Jack Holder 44, 14 Max Fricke 41, 15 Pawel Przedpelski 22
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Post by rodders on Aug 14, 2022 11:10:54 GMT
Well done Dan Bewley!! The final was the only race I saw a I was Watching Brentford v Man Utd.
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Post by Hodgy on Aug 14, 2022 11:19:42 GMT
Absolutely dreadful meeting, pleased I didn’t go. Only positive was a young British winner. Would have been even better if I’d actually seen him win. Bloody BT TV box stopped recording before the final, even though I recorded the programme after.
I cancelled the contract last week and moving back to Sky this Weds. BT tried to charge me a £450 cancellation fee. To which I seriously challenged as was totally mis-sold. They advised it does everything Sky Q does, which was a complete lie. You can only record 2 programmes at a time. The main box does not talk to the upstairs box so you have to record on both. The remote looks like it was designed by a 5 year old. They did agree I was mis-sold and are cancelling with no charge. Sky welcomed me back with open arms with all channels, including Sky Sports and Netflix. Except no BT Sports, which I don’t watch anyway. 2 boxes - all for £49 per month.
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Post by admin on Aug 14, 2022 16:29:23 GMT
Think I'll play today. Going for £1 e/w on Jack Holder to replicate another ex Panther, Ryan Sullivan, who took the 2002 Gold
& was also the last time that I went to Cardiff before it got expensive & overcrowded. A like mind on the BSF "Just back from Cardiff. I have done every Cardiff GP but this will be my last. Cardiff has become too difficult, too expensive"& surpassed itself for crapness last night. Compared to previous GP fields I thought last night's field was poor. Two of the better riders, the winner & Holder, shouldn't even be in the field which says a lot. What would happen if Russia/Ukraine was settled & Sayfutdinov & Laguta became available? Unlikely but could happen? I took the dog out after heat 20 as was sick of waffle & delay but just set to record British Superbikes due to the over run & that nicely recorded the semis & final  Why didn't Morris tell Madsen to stop p****** about? It's white or yellow mate, not bloody difficult. And why does Morris ask the 4th rider to select his gate position? There is a single option, as in "so Joe Bloggs is left with?  )  |
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Post by admin on Aug 14, 2022 16:50:35 GMT
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Post by Hodgy on Aug 14, 2022 17:07:02 GMT
Think I'll play today. Going for £1 e/w on Jack Holder to replicate another ex Panther, Ryan Sullivan, who took the 2002 Gold
& was also the last time that I went to Cardiff before it got expensive & overcrowded. A like mind on the BSF "Just back from Cardiff. I have done every Cardiff GP but this will be my last. Cardiff has become too difficult, too expensive" Depends on your preferred sport. F1 GP at Silverstone minimum £250 pp for lots of follow the leader laps, that you only see briefly from wherever you sit / stand. Cardiff Speedway GP, I’ve been many times and never paid much more than £30. Sometimes it’s poor racing other times more exciting. Where do you ever get so much City and Stadium excitement at a UK Speedway event? 2007 was one of my best memories watching Speedway. Okay we have 4 crap laps but we then go again. Last night was awful and as said I’m pleased i didn’t go this time. Offer me £30 for Cardiff or Silverstone it would be Cardiff every time. You think Cardiff is expensive - get real. Think we have been here a few times |
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Post by Hodgy on Aug 14, 2022 17:21:35 GMT
Thanks for that. This young man was never heard of only a few years ago. What a rapid rise to the Elite b0252 |
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Post by admin on Aug 14, 2022 17:32:52 GMT
A like mind on the BSF "Just back from Cardiff. I have done every Cardiff GP but this will be my last. Cardiff has become too difficult, too expensive" Depends on your preferred sport. F1 GP at Silverstone minimum £250 pp for lots of follow the leader laps, that you only see briefly from wherever you sit / stand. Cardiff Speedway GP, I’ve been many times and never paid much more than £30. Sometimes it’s poor racing other times more exciting. Where do you ever get so much City and Stadium excitement at a UK Speedway event? 2007 was one of my best memories watching Speedway. Okay we have 4 crap laps but we then go again. Last night was awful and as said I’m pleased i didn’t go this time. Offer me £30 for Cardiff or Silverstone it would be Cardiff every time. You think Cardiff is expensive - get real. Think we have been here a few times True, you're F1 appreciation is the equal of the first out of the gate always wins at speedway crew. We do have a Grand Canyon sized divide here that I cant ever see being breached At least the SGP hasn't fallen for the climate change scam & gone Net Zero by 2030. That's hilarious stuff from F1. |
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Post by admin on Aug 14, 2022 23:12:19 GMT
Thanks for that. This young man was never heard of only a few years ago. What a rapid rise to the Elite b0252 Rapid rise indeed. Clearly very talented & a quick learner who progresses very quickly. Dan Bewley WikipediaHopefully he does what Harris didn't in 2007 and kicks on from here to more SGP success elsewhere. If he does then he's got a good shout for a 2022 medal & Gold in future. Todd Kurtz@TKR10 14/8/22Can’t help but see glimpses of @d_Dublu_racing (ie Darcy Ward) in @danbewley style, talent, speed, relaxed attitude and probably still doesn’t realise how good he can get. Good to watch 👌🏼 |
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Post by Bigcatdiary on Aug 15, 2022 9:50:48 GMT
It was a poor GP in front of a poor crowd, best estimates are between 25 & 30 thousand.
The track was rubbish and they had problems both ends, basically having Ole Olsen do the track is flawed, good rider in his day but prepares crap tracks like the one he owns in Vojens.
The heat wasn’t helpful it was too hot inside the stadium, we laughed when we heard they kept the roof closed to help the air con work, I can assure everyone it didn’t work.
Nice to see and chat with Ryan Sullivan at the fan zone, he told us he was coming to our match v Sheffield today until it was postponed but he didn’t look any different to the last time we saw him.
A mixed day as the heat made it difficult but Bewley winning got it over the line, although trying to get out of Cardiff after the event was a bloody nightmare, if we go next year it will be a decent hotel within walking distance of the Principality with air con.
We stayed this year at the Premier Inn at Ross on Wye, nice room and a good beefeater next door but like sleeping in a greenhouse.
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