Ghostwalker

Quarter finals Team 1 chooses between teams 4,5,6 Team 2 will chooses between the teams not choses by team 1 Team 3 will meet the remaining team. teams 4-6 starts at home. When quarter finals are done a new table is created with the teams scores from QF (no bounus point) just like after the regular league. Team finishing 1-4 will go to semi final Semi finals: Team 1 from QF table will meet team 4 from QF table. Team 2 meets team 3. teams 4-6 starts at home. A new table is created to decide teams for finals. Teams finishing 1-2 will meet in the final. Winner in final are Swedish champions. A much easier and logical system would have been 1-4 after regular season to semi finals. Winner of semi finals to final, but teams want extra meetings as it means more income.

Västervik had their sponsor meeting last week. Perdonally I think Smederna's attendences are a bit too low in relation to the size of the city and the results so far.

I saw this facebook post by US Speedway Team: Euro style main track Inner US size track Close up grandstands Air fence Academies and practices Bigger and better events International riders The base for the next golden age of American Speedway There is also a logo withe the name Speedway center of America labelled Coming soon. Anyone know anything more about this? https://www.facebook.com/UsaNationalSpeedwayTeam/posts/pfbid0Cp2R9Adomy6K8MD3byyZhLTBaJHhrUGDZMfeKVTJseDGMfg9JPhsmxVB5FyMZhqTl

Vargarna have really aweful crowd levels.

They secured financing for the rest of the season at the end of June. However, they have many (5 IIRC) riders on the injury list so they have a heard time just fielding 7 riders.

Lejonen team manager more or less said that he thinks it's better to finish 4th then to win the league so I don't expect Lejonen to bother.

Dackarna will use R/R for Rasmus Jensen.

Indianerna-Dackarna will start at 20.00 at the earliest.

Revised line up for Piraterna. 1) Oskar Paluch, 2) Erik Persson (Gäst), 3) Jevgenjis Kostigovs, 4) Daniil Kolodinski, 5) Przemyslaw Pawlicki R/R, 6) Mathias Thörnblom, 7) Ludvig Selvin.

Piraterna have signed Latvian rider Jevgenjis Kostigovs . He replaces Milik in the squad.

and no Chugonov for Smederna so perhaps teams for this week were picked due to risk of meeting getting postponed.

According to Smederna it will be the same teams on Wednesday.

Smederna - Vargarna has been moved to Wednesday due to the expected rain on Tuesday. https://eskilstunasmederna.se/nyhet/morgondagens-match-framflyttad-till-pa-onsdag/

Wiktor Przyjemski signed with Lejonen and Lejonen have decided to put Hampel outside the squad.

Small update for Tuesday. An intense low pressure system with lots of rain is expected to make it's way into southern Sweden late Monday evening and a large part of Tuesday. Hard to know yet exactly where it will hit and how much rain, but all venues for Tuesday are affected. Eskilstuna is expected to receive 21-41 mm of rain on Tuesday. For the televised meeting in Västervik less rain is expected and to stop earlier So given the current forecasts it should be able to go ahead as planned.

dont know Dave, but it's a good question.

Will start raining any minute now.

Track walk in progress.

Wont be starting at 19.30, but perhaps another 15 -20 minutes.

rain radar https://www.smhi.se/vader/radar-och-satellit/radar-med-blixt/q/sverige/plats/Sannahed/Kumla/2680001

Not surprised, but still very stupid that RR can be used for everything nowadays.

At Sannahed/Kumla, the sun is shining but still raining.

Dackarna will use RR for Jacobsen today too. Speculations whether Zmarzlik will appear at Norrköping or not tonight. Vargarna's track is usually not well liked by Polish riders, particular not by those who are lesding SGP.

Smederna vs Dackarna was very one sidled, not sure what was going with Dackarna. Smederna were really hot from the gate and Dackarna were usually beaten already the first few meters. In a few heats Dackarna had 5-1 from the the tapes but after 1 lap (or less) Smederna had taken to front. Not much racing tonight so the only overtaking that happened was when Smederna sligthly missed the gating and had to work a little to win. The most celebratory that happened is that Anton Jansson scored his first heat win in Elitserien/Bauhausligan. I had to do some research and now that I have checked it tonight's 3p in heat 2 were indeed Anton's first ever in 500cc league racing for Smederna. For those of you who doesnt know who Anton is here is a brief summary. Anton's father is Jimmy Jansson former rider and team manager for Smederna. Jimmy's father (Anton's grandfather / farfar) is Bo Jansson (former speedway rider). Bo's brother was Tommy Jansson (speedway rider, rode for Wimbledon and died in 1976). Tommy's and Bo's father was Joel Jansson (speedway rider). Anton is thereby the 4th generation speedway rider in the Jansson family. Very impressive if I may say so.

Smederna is 20p up already with only 7 heats completed.