Ghostwalker

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.

That's great news. A really good track, definitely top 10 in the world, possibly even top 5.

At the press conference yday it was said that Antonio is seeing a psychologist at a centre for people with this kind of addictions (beroendecentrum), at the university hospital in Örebro. This is a part of his contract with Indianerna. It was also said that Indianerna won't take any further actions against him and that he likely will be riding as usual. However he is very likely to get a trial for this and a prison sentence is a probability. For severe drunk driving (grovt rattfylleri, above 1.0 promille) the he maximum sentence is two years. http://www.sydnarkenytt.se/sydnarke/artikel/speedway-antonio-far-stoed#.VQqA-cq3MpF

Yeah I posted info in a thread in the Speedway news & discussion section. http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=73945

Lindbäck won't be riding, I don't know who the replacement will be.

Perhaps it could have been the other way? Date was changed to 25th when Poole no longer was interested?

Antonio Lindbäck have once again been caught drunk driving. He was far over the legal limit. Just like with Darcy there is no excuse for his action. Like Darcy he have once again let his teams and fans down. I don't know what will happen now and how his teams will react but perhaps it would be for the best if would take a time out from racing to sort his problems out, you know getting professional help and all that. Just like Darcy he is a huge talent wasting his career because of alcohol. He says on his Facebook that he made a mistake but d&d for a third time is not a mistake, it is a symptom of much deeper problems. http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/masarna/lindback-fast-for-rattfylleri-igen/ https://m.facebook.com/LindbackRacing?refsrc=https%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2Ffbrdr%2F274%2F135941126482208%2F&_rdr

Gorzow is interested in signing Darcy Ward. https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=sv&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.se&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/508180/stal-gorzow-chce-darcyego-warda&usg=ALkJrhgA3XBGMDfEsDHZA4oiBjqgjAEWuA

A whole bunch of Swedish riders were on a training camp in Gorican the past weekend. They were invited by the Svemo and the new team manager for the national team, who also was present. Some photos can be found on the Croatian speedway federations facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Speedway.Club.UNIA I have also added some pre-season fixtures to reply 5. http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=67537&page=1&do=findComment&comment=2028602

Isn't caffeine a doping substance (in large quantities) or have it been removed?

I am pretty sure that "i'm" = Darcy Ward.

I have claimed before that Darcy's league scores during the period between the Latvian GP and the day he was provisionally suspended, should be removed. In an article, Tony Olsson who is the director of the track racing section of Svemo (Swedish motorcycle sports federation), says that if FIM's ruling will stand, Svemo have no other option then to remove Darcy's score for that period. However, Svemo obviously can't do anything until the ruling is definitive. http://www.mvt.se/sport/speedway/wards-dom-kan-stoppa-piraternas-superlag-10804811.aspx?fb_action_ids=937257289631780&fb_action_types=og.shares

Grigorij suffered an injury a while before the start of last season so he missed the first rounds of best pairs. I don't know about Emil though.

Nope Eurosport signed a three year deal in 2013 for 2013-2015 SGP and SWC so they will cover it this year as well. http://www.speedwaygp.com/news/article/2300/british-eurosport-to-broadcast-sgp

Oh him! Nicki P's favourite referee.

All suspensions comes with a "conditional" sentence. That is, the disciplinary committee will take into account any previous offences of FIM's anti-doping rules. A second offence, regardless of when it happened, will usually be considered more severe then a first offence and offender should then expect a harder sentence then after the first offence.

USA national jr team's planned Europeans tour have been cancelled due to visa issues. So is it likely that the same reason/rules that forced lots of EL-riders to re-apply for a visa now also prevents the USA national jr team from coming here and doing friendly meetings?

Unfortunately the tour have been cancelled due to VISA issues so all scheduled appearances have been cancelled or have been changed from a USA team to a world team. https://www.facebook.com/Ikaros.Smederna/posts/795839277176229

Pawel Przedpelski uses number #323, perhaps he is a Mazda fan?

It will also be interesting to see how the Swedish federation Svemo interprets the FIM decision about erasing Darcy's results between the Latvian GP and the day that he was suspended. He rode in one meeting scoring 6p from 4 heats. His current average is 2,100 (126p from 60 heats) if his points from this meeting are removed the new average should be 2.143 (120p from 56 heats).

Well in that case Ljung gets it on seniority. ...and besides how do you know that Peter Ljung didn't pick his number before Dudek? Then there's nothing that suggests that two riders cant have the same number?

Oliver Berntzon have chosen #93, Ludde Lindgren have #77, Peter Ljung have #69, Anton Rosén have 157, Mikkel Michelsen have #155.

But they did. By printing the lies and bs coming from Middlo/the Darcy camp, they indirectly blamed FIM and I also think they could have blamed Darcy for the incredibly stupid idea of going out drinking (which he admitted on tv) the night before a GP since that has nothing to do with the subsequent ruling by FIM.

How can they make up their own judgement if you (and the only other newspaper covering the story) only print one sided articles? By doing so you have already "decided" what opinion they should have.

See this post: http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=77486&page=296&do=findComment&comment=2579720 As most of us already new there were no errors with testing or b-sample or anything like that. It was just lies from the Darcy camp. Just like they lied about expecting a ruling the week after the hearing when they actually knew and had been informed that the ruling could take up to 45 days.