Riders
Edward Kennett was nominated as a wild card after he finished 2nd at the 2008 British Speedway Championship. Tai Woffinden and Simon Stead were the next highest finishing non-Grand Prix riders and both will be track reserves at Cardiff. The starting positions draw was made on 18 June, at the FIM Headquarters in Mies, Switzerland.
Read more about this topic: 2008 Speedway Grand Prix Of Great Britain
Famous quotes containing the word riders:
“To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night—brothers who see now they are truly brothers.”
—Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)
“Good swimmers drown and good riders get thrown.”
—Chinese proverb.
“There where the course is,
Delight makes all of the one mind,
The riders upon the galloping horses,
The crowd that closes in behind....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)