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Hi Timbo Yes, the practice session is open to public. It takes place at 3 pm on Friday. If my memory serves me right, there was an entrance fee of around 4 Euros for sectors D and E last year, while those with tickets for sectors A, B and C were allowed to watch the practice for free. I'm sure sunnygirl will correct me, if I'm wrong.

Official polish speedway season traditionally starts with Aces Criterion meeting at the end of the march in Bydgoszcz. This year the meeting will be staged on March 28th. First league meetings then start the following weekend, on April 3rd. Swedish season usually starts at the end of April or at the beginning of May. This year first round of swedish elite league will be staged on April 26th.

Calendars for polish leagues (including 2nd division where Davgapils will participate) can be found here : http://www.pzm.pl/pdf/(zmiany%20do%20regul...2005%20rok).pdf (scroll down for the calendars).

Well, that explains it then. Just kidding, of course.

Check here : http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/ind...showtopic=13889

Hey mate, why don't you check New Zealand speedway forum ??? Chopper34 is posting all the results there. Here is the link : http://www.speedwaybikes.co.nz/forum/

DutschGrasstrack - this results are from New Zealand solo championship from Gisborne 8.1. I might be wrong, but I think that the round in Wellington on 7.1. was NOT staged, according to Wellington speedway homepage - http://www.wellingtonspeedway.co.nz

Taken from www.przegladzuzlowy.pl : 1. Adams 60 2. Lyons 51 3. Watson 48 4. Gjedde 46 5. Johnston 46 6. Lemon 42 7. McGowan 40 8. Shields 38 9. Doolan 33 10. Schlein 33

Hi Martin. I'm not quite sure which hotel you have in your mind, but the only hotel that is near the stadium and across the road is "Pacific" hotel. The other hotel in Krsko is Hotel Sremic - it's the biggest one and probably worth checking, although it is usually fully booked well in advance. I think most of the riders and officials stay in Terme Catez area which is approximately 14 km outside Krsko. There are 3 hotels and a campsite in the area. http://www.terme-catez.si/en/ For contact information for all these hotels and also other accomodation possibilities in the area, please visit Posavje tourism information website : http://www.posavje-turizem.com/en/index.htm

Here is the link to the site with line-ups and other useful info : http://www.speedway.org/renntermine/2004/exloo/index.html

The best way to find out more about speedway in Costa Mesa is to visit their website : http://www.cmspeedway.com/

Yep, freak is my middle name. No, seriously. If you're used to internet and all the mechanism it offers, it's basically pretty easy to find information such as this. GOOGLE is the mysterious word. Just write Matija Gubec peasant revolt in the search bar and you get a lot of info on Gubec and the revolt. It's as easy as that. Tomaz

Hi BilaHora I'm not sunnygirl, but here are some infos about Matija Gubec. He was a leader of a great croatian-slovenian peasant revolt in 1573. Here are some more details about Gubec : The leader of the Peasants’ Revolt is generally known in literature as Matija Gubec. He was probably aged 35 at the time of the revolt. Gubec was in charge of preparations for the revolt and was at the head of a part of the peasants’ army in Zagorje (Croatia). Some participants in the revolt claimed he had been proclaimed peasants’ king. When the revolt was put down, he was captured and taken to Zagreb where he was, according to some sources, tortured with incandescent pincers, crowned with an incandescent iron crown, and quartered at the end. And some details on the revolt : With the frequent inroads and depredations of the Turks the Croatian peasantry was reduced to extreme poverty. At the same time the Croatian nobility oppressed them all the more with taxes and corvées in order to fortify their towns for the defense against the Turks. When Maximilian II issued an edict for the collection of the new royal tax in the Slavonian regions the Croatian peasantry revolted. The brutality and greed of a certain feudal lord Franjs Tahy was the immediate cause of this uprising. "Back to the old justice" soon became the insurgents’ rallying cry and an evergreen sprig in their hat was their symbol. They demanded freedom and equality with the other Croats for all peasants in accordance with the old Croatian law, the abolishment of the corvées, the redistribution of the tax burden among the estates equally, the equal participation of all classes in the military service and the election by the peasants of their own representatives in each village and of their own district chiefs. The uprising began in Susjedgrad and Stubica in the Croatian hinterland at the end of 1573 and quickly spread throughout the other Croatian regions and in neighbouring Slovenia. Its leaders were Matija Gubec, Ivan Pasanca and Ilija Gregoric. With the aid of Austrian troops sent by Maximilian the Croatian nobility crushed the poorly equipped and untrained peasant army. The ringleaders of the uprising were executed and one of them, Matija Gubec had a red-hot iron crown placed on his head. (34)

Hi Timbo Unfortunately I can't find Krsko stadium plan at the moment. AMD Krsko has a new website (http://www.speedwaykrsko.com) but it's still under construction. I'll try to contact one of the Krsko officials and see if I can get stadium plan. I'll post the link to the stadium layout when I get it.

Eugene Smith is 2004 South African champion.

Here's the lineup : Leigh Adams (Vic) Charlie Gjedde (Denmark) Jason Lyons (Vic) Rory Schlein (SA) Craig Watson (NSW) Adam Shields (NSW) Steve Johnston (WA) Travis McGowan (Vic) Kevin Doolan (Vic) John Jorgensen (Qld) Mark Lemon (Vic) Adam Allott (England) Ashley Jones (NSW) Matthew Wethers (SA) Cameron Woodward (Vic) Troy Batchelor (Qld)

I'm suprised noone has mentioned Slovenia. I highly recommend Krsko GP as it's always a great meeting, very entertaining and .... the beer is still very cheap . But as a lot of you are planning to go to Lonigo, I hope I could meet some of you there. I'm going there definitely.

1. Niklas Klingberg (3,3,3,2,3) 14 2. Sebastian Alden (2,3,3,3,2) 13 3. Morten Risager (3,1,3,2,3) 12 4. Rickard Sedelius (2,2,2,3,3) 12 5. Jesper B Jensen (3,3,1,3,1) 11 6. Kenny Olsson (3,2,2,1,2) 10 7. Freddie Eriksson (0,1,3,3,2) 9 8. Mattias Nilsson (1,3,2,2,1) 9 9. Anders Ljung (2,2,1,2,1) 8 10. Benny Johansson (1,0,0,1,3) 5 11. Patrick Hougaard (1,1,0,1,2) 5 12. Viktor Bergstroem (2,2,0,0,0) 4 13. Robert Pettersson (w,0,2,1,d) 3 14. Ricky Kling (w,1,1,0,1) 3 15. Jimmy Jansson (1,d,1,d,d) 2 16. Anders Kling (0,ns,ns,ns,ns) 0 Finale : Alden, Klingberg, Risager, Sedelius

The official lineup (confirmed by FIM) for Abensberg is : Great Britain Germany USA Sweden

This meeting in Terenzano should be a cracker. I really hope Slovenia can produce a good match and progress to SWC final tournament. But the main problem will be how to make a competitive lineup. Zagar, Kolenko, Santej, Stojs and Kraljic are the only riders we have that are capable of racing at this level.

CM you can follow the latest signings in polish Ekstra league here : http://www.sportowefakty.pl/index.php?dysc...5&news_id=48669 and for First League here : http://www.sportowefakty.pl/index.php?dysc...5&news_id=48824 For the latest news, visit both excellent websites covering polish speedway : http://www.sportowefakty.pl/index.php?dysc_id=4 http://www.przegladzuzlowy.pl/

Yes there is. Check here : http://www.speedway.co.nz/ - go to Championships dates 2005.

Tickets for Gp of Slovenia can normally be booked a couple of months before the meeting. I'll post full details when the tickets will go on sale.

Togliatti is russian team champion. MC Lonigo is italian team champion.

Here are some info : http://www.ushra.com/resultDetail?id=Result.2004-10-23.1904 And here is event's homepage : http://www.monsterjam.se/web/default.htm