racers and royals

With the problems over the last few years of riders having to pull out of championship events in Russia due to visa and entry permit problems i wonder if the FIM have learnt anything !!. In 2012 Balakovo host 2 meetings of note-firstly on June 2nd they host one of the 2 semi-finals of the u21 championship-only 14 days after 4 of the 5 qualifiers. Secondly on june 30th Balakovo stages one of the 3 semi-finals of the GP challenge,once again only 14 days after 4 of the 5 qualifiers. So how are the riders going to get everything sorted in 14 days ? or are these meetings going to be for "eastern european riders only" ? Maybe Phil Rising could ask the FIM a few questions ?

Sportowefakty are reporting that TVP will once again show the extraleague in 2012-however things might change in 2013. http://translate.google.co.uk/?hl=en&tab=wT#

But that was tnt !!!

Sportowefakty are saying 6.50 http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/2011/12/11/sklady-druzyn-ekstraliga-2012/

That personality transplant must have worked.

Grudziaz and Gniezno are in div 1

Not strictly 2012 but Tarnow have now paid what they owed Ulamek and Kasprzak

Holta joins Zielona Gora top 3 of him,AJ and Pepe

Could be something to do with patreality(not spelt right) where he might be able to come in on a 3

Is there anywhere left for Ryan Sullivan to go ? I am really surprised he`s not fixed up with a place

Gollob back with Hammerby

However will there be anyone at the race-off ? recently i believe the host country have been been in it

Surely they will have to put in place a contingency for riders getting injured during meetings.

20 heats instead of 25 naturally the admission price will be adjusted accordingly.

Poznan or Wroclaw are the airports generally used for Leszno-Wizzair or Ryanair fly from various airports.Are you releying on public transport in poland ? Try www.booking.com for hotels.

Tickets bought roll on April 2012 !!

Belle Vue a round of the u21 championship and Scunthorpe a semi-final of the team u21 championship.

What a stupid suggestion-great if you want to end world championship speedway.What about supporters attending on a weekday as against a weekend-would halve the crowd at a stroke.

Tickets go on sale on the 19th November http://www.e-ticket.pl/

Tickets have gone on sale today on http://www.e-ticket.pl/

Tickets for the Prague GP on sat 12th May go on sale on the 5th November http://www.e-ticket.pl/

Piraterna have signed Chris Holder.Dackarna have signed Darcy Ward and Jonas Davidsson,and Freddie Lindgren is staying at Dackarna. http://speedwaygp.com/news/article/871/holder-joins-swedish-pirates

Thanks to Ghostwalker`s excellent Swedish 2012 thread i can answer my own question as regards Sweden. 1 u21 rider per line-up can ride anywhere in team minimum 3 rides per meeting.

I agree we should have one u21 british rider in each team-obviously Poland have the 2 reserves as u21 Poles but i`m not so sure that the Swedish u21 is always at reserve.

Should the Elite league here introduce a compulsary u21 British rider next season ?-I was wondering if someone could post how the rules work with the u21 riders in the top flight Polish and Swedish leagues.