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SGP Supremo Steve Gould – most successful EVER BSI Speedway CEO – suddenly departs without ceremony & traditional speedway airhorn salute
06/07/2020
SO “farewell” to yet another pathologically dull BSI Chief Executive we barely got to know or notice. Without fanfare or a ceremonial speedway airhorn farewell salute, Steve Gould has suddenly left his job leading the Speedway Grand Prix series barely nine or so months after he joined to replace Torben Olsen. For a long time […]
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Speedway Grand Prix strategy questioned by Monster Energy ahead of sponsorship negotiations
24/04/2016
Ahead of the likely renewal (on very favourable terms they completely dictate) of their headline sponsorship of the Speedway World Championship, Monster Energy’s Joe Parsons opened his contract renewal negotiations over the contract that expires during 2016 with pointed criticism of rights holder BSI/IMG’s SGP stadium venue strategy. With only compromised or embedded media outlets […]
Top 40 Total Speedway Grand Prix rider earnings 2005-2015
23/01/2016
Top 40 Speedway Grand Prix riders from 2005 to 2015, judged by $ prize money earnings (with thanks to Charles McKay)
Paul Bellamy – the excitement & impact of his years at the helm of the Speedway Grand Prix recalled
16/08/2015
Not known for their philanthropy or diffident approach to business, the venture capital owners of global sports, events and talent management company IMG probably remain completely unaware of the Speedway Grand Prix, let alone BSI Speedway managing director Paul Bellamy. That said, a debacle on the scale of the recent Warsaw Speedway Grand Prix – […]
Speedway Grand Prix Attendances 2014
01/01/2015
Fans who wish to savour the statistics of the Speedway World Championship continue to be very badly served by both the F.I.M and the Speedway Grand Prix series current commercial rights holders and organisers BSI Speedway (an IMG company). Both continue to choose not to publish official attendance figures for SGP series events. The F.I.M. […]
Speedway Grand Prix rider earnings 2014 (& Top 10 SGP earners 2005-2014)
22/11/2014
The Speedway Grand Prix rider earnings table for 2014 makes interesting reading as Greg Hancock sneaks ahead of Nicki Pedersen in the overall 2005-2014 total earnings table by just $4,350. The Top 10 Speedway Grand Prix Riders judged by their earnings from 2005 to 2014 are as follows: Greg Hancock $657,150 Nicki Pedersen $652,800 […]
Speedway Grand Prix series average attendances: fall continues in 2012 & 2013
08/12/2013
Latest figures reveal that the FIM Speedway Grand Prix series average attendances continued to fall in 2012 and 2013, despite the ‘blip’ poor results of 2011. Worse still, SGP series continues to decline in popularity at most series event venues and overall. This isn’t really a great surprise – since 2002 the trend remains one […]
Speedway Grand Prix Wildcards: Qualification versus Selection debate
22/10/2010
Unusually, the permanent wildcards selected for the 2011 Speedway Grand Prix actually look surprisingly sensible choices. This hasn’t always been the case and the performance record of those permanent wildcards selected by the powers that be has often been spotty. Much more significantly, their performances have been historically worse than those riders who qualified for […]