 Well hello and welcome along to yet another Q&A. You join us for the first round of the season here in Warsaw and who else will we be speaking to other than our world champion Ty Whiffenden. So how are you doing Ty? Yeah good looking forward to the evening you know sold out stadium 60,000 one-off man-made track so these are always the fun ones. Sold out stadium is going to make it exciting. Well talking of fans we have some of your questions so Annie says if you could change one thing in your life what would it be and why? Probably wouldn't change anything well I'm pretty happy with how everything's gone I guess if I could bring my dad back to witness like what I've achieved then that would be probably the thing that I'd do but I'm no magician so that ain't happening. Okay all right well it's good that you are very happy with all of your world championship titles they've been pretty special but we've had a question in which is your favorite? Favorite was 2013 obviously like the first one you know you don't really know what it's going to be like or what it's going to feel like and then when you do it it's like such a shock and then all the other stuff that happened after that and then I knew what to expect in 2015 and and moving forward so yeah 2013 was for sure the best one. Okay all right well are you likely to do a season in the UK? I know someone asked you this every single time we speak to you but are you likely to do a season in the UK before you retire? Probably before I retire like I don't I take each year at a time and for sure there's going to be a time where I want to spend more time at home and not go to Sweden on a Tuesday or you know try and reduce my calendar and I know rush has opened up for foreign riders to race now so there's probably six meetings I could do there and I don't know if I could if every if it was a set race night and we didn't go home in a way twice I don't know if this they still even do that but the problem I've got is every rider that I talk to that rides in England says how much they're not enjoying riding the tracks so that kind of puts me off a lot. Okay but never say never. Never say never. Okay all right that question was from Kev. Mike wants to know what's your favorite speedway track and why there's lots of what's and why's? That's a tough one like I enjoy riding Torren it's such a cool shape nice banking you know beautiful stadium Cardiff Warsaw the indoor ones that are man-made really technical tricky tracks. Yeah I don't really know like there's there's so many that I enjoy racing at it's kind of hard to say like I enjoy riding in Zelina Gora because the fans they're absolutely insane and you know nothing really matches the atmosphere there so yeah it's there's there's too many tracks that I enjoy and there's not really any that I don't enjoy. Okay good all right favorite drink? Favorite drink monster energy the red one the red can. Good choice. All right favorite food? Favorite food anything I'm a bit of a chocoholic and like my candy and all my sweet stuff I've got the worst sweet tooth like I'll look at the dessert menu before I look at the main menu so you know that's why I'm not as anorexic as any of the other boys that race the bikes so. Okay favorite country? Favorite country hands down Australia like I compare everything to Perth where I grew up I shouldn't compare because every country has its own like beautiful things but you know when you grow up in such a beautiful country it kind of like sets the standard and I haven't been anywhere yet that's matched the the weather the way of life the beaches so um yeah that's that's it. Okay worst creepy crawly then? Uh I'm not really worried about any of that sort of stuff. Okay all right Robert wants to know how many engines that you used during a whole GP season? A whole GP season uh last year probably five during a GP season four or five but um during a whole season you're probably looking at like eight but you rotate them around like you find stuff that works better on one track and one doesn't work as good on another so you're kind of like you know chopping and changing a little bit um but it's key to have you know at least four that you can jump on and you know you can win races on them all. Okay now Roy this is more of a statement of intent he's saying I hope you can do it again this year but do you think you can? Yeah for sure like over the years I've learned what my mistakes are trying to go back to back um I know the added pressure and all that sort of stuff already people are saying that I'm going to win it and um I believe that I can but so do the other 16 guys in the championship um but you know uh I know what I can bring to the table like I've finished in the top three since 2013 um I missed a round in 2014 and ended up having to run off with Nikki so that shows that my level is is at the top and um you know when when I'm firing on all cylinders I win the world title so I'm excited for this year we've got a lot of tools in the bag and um we're not using all of them yet so that's it's only a positive. Okay more to come all right Frederick wants to know now like you said the field is very strong Freddy and Bartos in particular are quite strong contenders is there anyone that you've got your eye on or is everybody just a contender? It's a world championship so it's the best 16 riders in the world and Speedway is the only sport where a junior can beat a world champion or a world-class rider you look at MotoGP someone that's just come into Moto2 on not a good ride can doesn't have any chance of being at the top um same with F1 like all these other sports and then you rock up to Poland and you've got a 16 year old that's on a rocket ship and he goes out and like scores 15 points so um you have to keep that in mind like you know everyone's any human and you can only do the best of your like what you can do but sometimes you know when you're in a position on the track or how you start goes there's just so many variables in our sport um you know you just got to watch everybody so for me you know everyone can beat me but I'll do my best to beat them all. Okay and looking ahead to tonight it's going to be an epic night an epic way to start 2019 we're sold out it's a massive stadium so are you ready? Oh 100% this is one that I look forward to um and you know the the target is to just go out enjoy my bike enjoy riding my bike um and score some points hopefully reach the semis forget to the semis then we'll focus on the final and um you know just uh one race at a time one day at a time we just cruise. All right we'll see you a bit later on thanks Ty.