Ghostwalker

As I have mentioned before, the speedway in Borås have awoken from over a half a century long sleep. The idea of re-starting the team called Saxarna have been met with great interest from people in the Borås area to that extent that it has been decided that a start-it-up meeting will be held at April 28th where the idea is that the team officially will be started up again. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Saxarna-Speedway-Bor%C3%A5s/1635878236635114?fref=nf

About the same size as Cardiff, Stockholm, Horsen and previously Copenhagen. I don't know exactly but around 275m maybe.

Official rule book for 2015 have been published: http://multi.mediapaper.nu/?PubId=DD68E34B36A2C71B3560BAEA4565AD03 http://multi.mediapaper.nu/Pdf/?PubId=DD68E34B36A2C71B3560BAEA4565AD03 (PDF).

Actually (according to Swedish ESP) Güstrow is one of few tracks that still uses cinder as a shale material.

Not sure if he is completely inside since the backwheel seems to be on the line but it's difficult to make a judging based on those pictures alone even if I agree that it looked like he was over when I saw the heat on tv. Greg also had a close call in the heat between USA and SWE.

Meeting off according to Swedish ESP.

Rain is picking up.

You can find heat schedules/score charts here: http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/best-pairs-ladda-ned-heatschema/

Actually there is and I did link the English version, so that is strange and also why I didnt get why you mentioned that that there weren't an english version. http://www.ticnet.se/event/speedway-european-championship-tickets/372899?language=en-us&languageSwitch=on . try this link and if it still doesnt work, just click språk and you should be able to switch to English.

IIRC, the there are 2 or 3 official reserves and if BSI needs more reserves they can pick anyone they choose.

The tickets for Kumla have also been released, they are available for purchase via ticnet; http://www.ticnet.se/event/speedway-european-championship-tickets/372899 Have in mind that it is a long track but the capacity is still quite small (maybe 5500-6000) so if you plan on going, don't wait to long to get your tickets. Ståplats (standing) barn 0-12 is for children, ståplats ungdom is for teens aged 13-17, stålats vuxen is for adults and sittplats is if you want to have a numbered/reserved seat.

The Danes will have their national qualifications for SGP/SEC qualifications on April 17th. https://mobile.twitter.com/speedwaysport/status/584667158757711872

I don't read the speedway star but all fixtures are listed here: http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Tavling/Tavlingskalender/ As RR says, the Elitserien semi finals are on Tuesdays and the final is Tuesday/Wednesday. Allsvenskan is Thursdays with the final on Thursday/Friday.

A new old (nygammal) Swedish speedway club might (and that's a big might) make a return to the speedway scene. It is the clubs known as Saxarna which ceased their activities in 1949 since they no longer were allowed to use the football arena to host their tracks. Anyway the past couple a weeks their have been some very informal proposals to bring this old club back to life. There will be a meeting at the end of April where anyone who interested can show up and discuss the future. They have no track but apparently when the closed in 1949 the city signed a contract in which they obliged to fund a new track if Saxarna ever would re-start their club. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Saxarna-Speedway-Bor%C3%A5s/1635878236635114 http://www.bt.se/insandare/lat-oss-starta-upp-speedwayen-i-boras/ http://www.aktuellspeedway.se/nyheter/5550/

Bot all injuries are due to "safety issues". Freddie Lindgren had a rib injury during the pre-season since he had crashed with his MX-bike during a practice session in Andorra with Joonas Kylmäkorpi. Probably not that unusual that riders injure themselves outside the speedway track while doing mountain biking or jogging in the forest. Since the Uk-season starts so early it hard for some riders to get some practice before the start of the season, the "stars" obviously have the resources to go to a track in southern Europe to practice while the most of the riders does not have that possibility.

This might sound crazy but you know the commentators team could have checked the rules themselves...

It works like I wrote above. The team bonus point for third place is the decisive factor for semi and final. "If, in the semi-finals and the grand final race finished with a score 3: 3, this couple wins who won a "bonus"." http://www.speedwaypairs.com/en/formula.html

I think it would have been the bonus point that would have decided it; 3,2,1+1,0 -> 3+0 vs. 2+1+1.

Perhaps they wanted to minimize scheduling conflicts by putting the events during the time of the season when there aren't that many other events going on?

I think it has been pretty good so far, at least for a meeting this early in the season.

Gentlemen start your engines.

Masarna have been confirmed as Smederna's opponent for the April 20th pre-season fixture at Smederna's track. http://www1.idrottonline.se/SmedernaSpeedwayforening-MotorcykelochSnoskoter/Nyheter/Nyhetsarkiv/Traningsmatchen20april/

Not on June 4th, the nearest on that day is Vargarna – Örnarna in Norrköping but that is over 100km away. The only fixture that week in Eskilstuna is on June 7th when there is a Elit-B meeting at Eskilstuna speedway track. The track is located some 12km outside the city though so you'll need a car to get there.

Due to Cameron Woodwards injury and subsequent surgeries, Cameron will miss a large part of the season and he has been replaces with Scott Nicholls. http://na.se/sporten/speedway/1.2897492-sen-andring-i-indian-truppen

As Bavarian say, a EU-country passport would mean easier travelling, such as no need for Visa applications for journeys to other EU-countries and etc. Especially for Laguta who already seems to have problems getting a visa to the UK. Anyway Sweden have named Peter Ljung as the new reserve.