Ghostwalker

Oliver Berntzon suffered a minor fracture in his arm in the SEC qualifications in Debrecen. Track reserve Roland Banko crashed and was taken to hospital. http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/2015/05/01/sec-kval-blytung-eftermiddag-for-vispen/

I mentioned those track names for a reason. However I disagree that there are enough permanent tracks with a 15-20K capacity to replace all temporary tracks because I don't know of any at all except a few in Poland. So can you name at least one track/arena per GP host country that have 15-20K capacity.

weatherwatcher, can you tell me about the tracks in Gothenburg, Uddevalla, Visby & Huddinge? Like recent pics and etc? The truth is that very very few tracks/arenas in Sweden can accommodate a Grand Prix. Eskilstuna have the grand stand capacity but not the car park capacity anymore. I also doubt that Smederna would be interested in trying again since the last time they had a GP, the club went bankrupt a few years later.They also had very poor attendance at last year's Speedway best pairs cup . Vetlanda have the facilties but the track is not particularly good and it is also way to close to Målilla. Possibly Kumla but let's see first how well their EuroCh. round goes before giving them a GP. A GP also requires more then a good track, grand stand capacity, car parking capacity, generally good facilities... Any old track won't do. It have to be of fairly good standard.

Interview with Peter "PK" Karlsson: http://ekuriren.se/sport/speedway/1.3142776-pk-tror-pa-guldchans

Interview with Smederna's Kenni Larsen http://ekuriren.se/sport/speedway/1.3141174--vi-kan-vinna-serien-

RR i agree with you regarding Tommy Rander. He is also very anti-FIM and very anti-Svemo. Something that stems from what happened to Kaparna for which he blame/d/s Svemo. He is currently the "boss" at the Swedish speedway magazine Speedway. Imo he has a very good knowledge about the sport but he obviously not suitable to be involved in the management of a team.

No Emil though, he will ride in the SWC-qualifier: http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/2015/04/30/sayfutdinov-nobbar-sbp-kor-swc-kval/

Results from Percy Lundkvist cup. http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/2015/04/29/zorro-vann-percy-lundkvist-cup/

I have the first rounds listed here: http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=67537&p=2602441

Startlists for St Johann, Gorican and Lonigo; http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/2015/04/29/gp-kval-startlistorna-till-helgen-offeciella/ Abensberg start list have not been published yet.

Gollob is the first permanent wild card for 2015: https://twitter.com/SpeedwayEuro/status/593391939631882240

Start list for Debrecen qualifying round: 1. Aleksander Conda (Slovenia) 2. Tomasz Jedrzejak (Poland) 3. Vaclav Milik (Czech Rep.) 4. Magosi Norbert (Hungary) 5. Jurica Pavlic (Croatio) 6. Mathias Schultz (Germany) 7. Leon Madsen (Denmark) 8. Piotr Protasiewicz (Poland) 9. Tabaka József (Hungary) 10. Ziga Kovacic (Slovenia) 11. Kenneth Bjerre (Denmark) 12. Oliver Berntzon (Sweden) 13. Vitali Belousov (Russia) 14. Tobias Busch (Germany) 15. Mikke Bjerk (Norway) 16. Kauko Nieminen (Finland) 17. Benkő Roland (Hungary) 18. Tabaka Róbert (Hungary) http://www.speedwaylive.org/2015/04/teljes-debreceni-eb-elodonto-startlista.html

Emil made his comeback earlier tonight at Målilla challenge. He rode three heats and won them all. http://www.dackarna.nu/sv/nyheter/nyheter/e/5183/resultat-malilla-challenge/ http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/2015/04/28/malilla-vann-malilla-challenge/

I was thinking that as well, either hire one or perhaps even loan from someone you (Paragon) know?

Ok. I don't know either more then what it says at the link I posted. I guess you could always send a question to Trafikverket, they should know. https://webapp.trafikverket.se/e-tjanster/kundtjanst/?ref=road However I have seen info that there is a new EU-wide standard that all children under the age of 15 months will have to have rearward facing seats. http://www.britax.co.uk/safety-for-your-child/i-size-ece-label http://bilbarnztolar.se/i-size/ Current standard apparently only demands rearward facing seats for children aged 9 months or younger. But I don't know if the new law/standard is already in effect and if not when it will be introduced. However if your child is 15 months now, you should probably be allright at the time of the Grand Prix.

Final results can be found in this link: https://www.facebook.com/ikarossmederna/posts/828636117229878 Meeting was aborted after heat 14 due broken airfence sections. They had spare sections but I think that the team managers and meeting director thought that it better to call it off then to let everybody wait for 15 minutes while they change the broken sections and then just run one heat. Best two heats were heat 10 and heat 14. Heat 10; Zorro and Antonio Lindbäck had an awesome fight, passing and repassing each other for 4 laps with Zorro eventually being the first across the line. Heat 14: A tight first bend with all 4 being close, Eventually Nicholls emerged with the lead, closely followed by Grigorij Laguta, Kenni had held onto his wide line and managed to pass Freddie Lindgren going out of the first bend. Then Laguta chased Nicholls for 3½ laps until Laguta managed to squeeze himself past Nicholls coming out of the final bend. Track was ok, but could have been better. Freddie Lindgren had two F/X but it was very un-dramatic and he got up and cleared the track immediately so the heats didn't have to be stopped.

Doesn't matter, Grigorij is here. Won by a mile ( or two ) in heat 7.Smederna is in the lead with 26-16. Freddie Lindgren seems to be in the need of support wheels though. He has had two F/x from 3 heats so far. Smederna's Linus Eklöf the only rider with a max so far. (5+1). Hey Alan, a pic for you. http://imgur.com/eZDWSv6

No show for Artem Laguta, he claims that his VISA application hadn't been approved yet.

There are three meetings tonight, live results at http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/

Andreas Jonsson will not be able to ride in next weeks premiere. http://norrteljetidning.se/sport/1.2950860-extra-rospiggsstjarnan-missar-premiaren

The law says that all children that have a height that is less then 135cm have to sit in a special protective seat such as baby seat, child seat and etc. However as far as I can see there are no demands for the seats to be rear-facing, only recommendations. In Sweden it is very common though since it is much safer then a forward facing seat. http://www.trafikverket.se/Privat/Trafiksakerhet/Din-sakerhet-pa-vagen/Sakerhet-i-bil/Barn-i-bil/#bakatvantarbast

Lineups for tomorrws pre-season testing between Smederna and Indianerna: Smederna Grigorij Laguta, Mikkel Michelsen, Peter Karlsson, Przemyslaw Pawlicki, Kenni Larsen, Linus Eklöf, Magnus Zetterström Indianerna Fredrik Lindgren, Scott Nicholls, Artem Laguta, Rory Schlein, Antonio Lindbäck, Anders Mellgren, Joel Andersson. http://ekuriren.se/sport/speedway/1.3135979-stjarnglans-pa-motorstadion

I guess it depends on the definition of popular. Swedish Elitserien is the 3rd most popular sports league in Sweden by attendance but when it comes to number of "athletes" it is a much smaller sport and no way near top 3 in popularity.

Results from Eskilstuna Team cup finals: http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/2015/04/26/eskilstuna-lagcup-finland-segrade-i-a-finalen/ http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/2015/04/26/eskilstuna-lagcup-smedvinst-i-b-finalen/

Yes I can, most staff at a GP are non-paid volunteers.