Post by admin on Sept 26, 2009 10:29:48 GMT
Yes, it's true, Chris "Bomber" Harris has his begging bowl out:
British No.1 Chris Harris admits he still has aspirations of being World Champion, as his hopes of being in the Grand Prix series next year hang in the balance.
The 26-year-old failed to qualify for the World Championship via the GP Challenge at Coventry, after finishing the meeting with 10 points and missing out on a podium place.
He is currently 32 points adrift of the top-eight automatic qualification places and knows he will need a wild card from the series organisers if he is to return in 2010.
Harris, who won the British Championship at Poole in May, is comfortably his country’s No.1 rider. He leads Scott Nicholls by 13 points in the SGP standings. The Coventry captain was also the only Brit to win a place in the GP Challenge.
So he hopes all this will be taken into account when the seeded spots for 2010 are handed out.
The Truro-born rider said: “All I can hope for is a wild card now, so hopefully I can go and finish the next two Grand Prix meetings on a high.
“I’m the only Brit who got into the GP Challenge, so hopefully that will stand me in good stead. I’m still the British champion and it would be great if I could get back in.
“I want to be in the series as long as I can and hopefully, I can be world champion one day. It’s going to be tough and there are only a few riders who achieve that. But I’ll have to be in it if I am going to do that.”
Harris was left to rue a nightmare start to last Friday’s qualification fight, when he finished at the back in heat one.
Given that he bagged two wins and two second places in his remaining rides, two or three points in his opener could have helped him secure his SGP status.
The Brandon Bomber added: “When you start off as I did, it was never very good. The track was a little bit over-watered early on, to be fair.
“It was always going to be tough off gate one in the first race. You were never going to pass anyone around the outside – it was too wet. But that’s life. I finished well and we’ll just have to wait and see now.”
Taken from:
www.speedwaygp.com
Harris has NEVER qualified for the GPs and is currently lying second bottom of the permanent fifteen, so a nomination for him would shatter the credibility of the GPs as a means of determining the world champion. Or should I say what's left of the credibility of the GPs.
British No.1 Chris Harris admits he still has aspirations of being World Champion, as his hopes of being in the Grand Prix series next year hang in the balance.
The 26-year-old failed to qualify for the World Championship via the GP Challenge at Coventry, after finishing the meeting with 10 points and missing out on a podium place.
He is currently 32 points adrift of the top-eight automatic qualification places and knows he will need a wild card from the series organisers if he is to return in 2010.
Harris, who won the British Championship at Poole in May, is comfortably his country’s No.1 rider. He leads Scott Nicholls by 13 points in the SGP standings. The Coventry captain was also the only Brit to win a place in the GP Challenge.
So he hopes all this will be taken into account when the seeded spots for 2010 are handed out.
The Truro-born rider said: “All I can hope for is a wild card now, so hopefully I can go and finish the next two Grand Prix meetings on a high.
“I’m the only Brit who got into the GP Challenge, so hopefully that will stand me in good stead. I’m still the British champion and it would be great if I could get back in.
“I want to be in the series as long as I can and hopefully, I can be world champion one day. It’s going to be tough and there are only a few riders who achieve that. But I’ll have to be in it if I am going to do that.”
Harris was left to rue a nightmare start to last Friday’s qualification fight, when he finished at the back in heat one.
Given that he bagged two wins and two second places in his remaining rides, two or three points in his opener could have helped him secure his SGP status.
The Brandon Bomber added: “When you start off as I did, it was never very good. The track was a little bit over-watered early on, to be fair.
“It was always going to be tough off gate one in the first race. You were never going to pass anyone around the outside – it was too wet. But that’s life. I finished well and we’ll just have to wait and see now.”
Taken from:
www.speedwaygp.com
Harris has NEVER qualified for the GPs and is currently lying second bottom of the permanent fifteen, so a nomination for him would shatter the credibility of the GPs as a means of determining the world champion. Or should I say what's left of the credibility of the GPs.
? I think you are all being rather harsh on Bomber quite frankly, Scott obviously had the wild card GB slot as his own for a number of years, so it's Bomber's turn now. 
, and I think the "wonder boy" Ward needs to play with the big boys in the EL before his already over inflated ego is let loose on the World stage quite frankly.