Ghostwalker

Actually I don't see what the problems is with testing all riders? BTCC have decided to introduce mandatory pre-race alcohol breath-tests for all drivers and officials so why can't speedway follow suite? http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/05/28/uk-motor-racing-alcohol-idUKKBN0E80X320140528

Legally the Polish restriction wouldn't hold up in court if challenged. No EU-country can put that kind of restrictions in place. Svemo tried to create this type of rule for a few years ago but they had to remove it because it was against EU-rule. It was replaced by a "gentlemen agreement" which have worked fine for a few seasons but now two teams have brought it foreign riders on Swedish licenses.

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That is a good questions, I don't know and I haven't seen anything more specific about it.

According to the article linked below, FIM considers to create a new rule which would limit the amount of leagues a rider can ride in. The article claims that FIM wants to have a limit on two leagues for each rider in order to "protect" the newly created Speedway champions league. FIM also claims that this would be good because it would give opportunities to younger rider who are now being "blocked" by more experienced riders, they also claim that it is a safety matter since many riders are getting exhausted by all the travelling, Personally I think this is a very poor idea. With less meetings riders would likely ask/demand for higher pay rates since they have to fund their riding from fewer teams. It would also means that many riders would be unavailable for many of the leagues. There are also not enough riders to fill the available spaces. https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.espeedway.pl%2Fnews%2Cjeden_zawodnik_dwie_ligi_od_sezonu_2016%2C74856%2C12.html&edit-text= http://www.espeedway.pl/news,jeden_zawodnik_dwie_ligi_od_sezonu_2016,74856,12.html

I am not sure but maybe you are confusing it with Gubbängen where they hosted an open meeting before the 2013 GP? The tracks are located at the opposite end of the city: https://www.google.se/maps/dir/59.4063444,17.8496126/Gubb%C3%A4ngens+IP,+122+45+Enskede/@59.3357801,17.9493992,18915m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m9!4m8!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x465f79db6a7294e3:0x649d67777160ba58!2m2!1d18.068934!2d59.261868!3e0

I don't know but I don't think so. The track is managed by Västra MK which have been around for 60 years. They are focusing on youth speedway and speedway sliding activities. Here is a pic of the track: http://speedway.ifokus.se/discussions/4f449e40d4ebea376a0020ba-veddestavallen

He didn't make a mistake, he deliberately got himself drunk (which made him still being under the influence of alcohol the next day) . An action he very well would known the consequences of since it wasn't the first time he was in this situation. If you drink allot of alcohol you know that it will stay in your system for more the a couple of hours.

Of course it can since the rules says that breath test is an approved method for measuring of a riders alcohol level, two tests are being made to establish that the rider is below or above the allowed limit. You do understand that a breath test is not possible to save for later use?

Some news regarding Swedish speedway. Swedish individual championship: Main final will likely be moved from Friday to Saturday. Qualification events have also been decided about: Main final qualifier: Mariestad July 1st, July 3rd is back-up day, U21 qualifier; Norrköping July 4th, back-up day is July 5th Youth (85cc) qualifier is held in Avesta and Vetlanda on July 11th . Back-up day is July 12th. Two other competitions: Gunnar Lundberg cup in Nyköping on August 15th at Veddestavallen-Stockholm. Then onto the good news. Svemo and the clubs have reached an agreement regarding the sharing of tv-rights money. The clubs rights to sell news rights for Elitserien The clubs have the right to sell the name for Elitserien Other local market rights. Svemo also have decided to give the track racing section more independence and a new organisation of the track racing section will be presented sometime during the spring this year. The result of this is that the clubs have cancelled their plans to start a whole new federation. You can read more about at this link: http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Nyheter/FrediSpeedway-Sverige/

You just did and FIM are free to take the time they feel necessary to get an accurate as possible handling of the matter. Better for it to take long time and get a good result then to rush it and get it wrong. Also we don't know the reason to why it took five months, perhaps there are some very good reason(s) to that.

No like SCB writes, both tweets are written by NM. The first one is NM writing a tweet to philipsr8, the second tweet is written by NM to @phillipsr8 @shawncbrown @SpeedwayGB @Sudden_sam33.

No you haven't missed anything.

Yeah that is correct Henry, public urination on a statue of Torun's great son Kopernicus. He and Chris Holder also created a stir up at a private party in a restaurant in Torun.

Daniel Henderson, Nicklas Kallin Svensson and Ove Ledström are Team Sweden's riders in the team world cup in Berlin. http://www1.idrottonline.se/SmedernaSpeedwayforening-MotorcykelochSnoskoter/Nyheter/Nyhetsarkiv/Hendersonuttagentilllag-VM/

I think this is very important. If you intends to keep your physique at a top notch condition, there is no time for late night pub rounds with plenty of alcohol. A good physique is needed to keep you focused an entire night. Alcohol will affect your senses, reaction times will be slower, your sense of judgemement will be negatively effected.Your confidence will improve but in a negative way. Darcy's answer indicates that he 1. still haven't learned anything & 2. Doesn't take his career seriously. He doesn't want to sacrifice his partying life styles to win the title. Oh here we go again "boo hoo" :cry: poor little Darcy again. Matt ford wants to Darcy to get off the hook. http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/sport/speedway/piratesnews/11767902.Speedway__Darcy_Ward_decision_due_this_week_____Ford_calls_for_no_ban/ https://twitter.com/nedpayne_echo/status/562610467567583232

UK martin, I agree with your point but Football is much bigger then Speedway and football doesn't have the problem with players playing for several teams and etc. My point is that if the SCL wants to be taken seriously, the rules need to be sharpened a bit. No borrowing riders from other, no joker or ts. Full strength 7-rider teams. That is the only way to find out which teams who really is the strongest. The problem with that is that the Swedish and Polish teams are so much stronger then the Danish and British teams. In football, in the past 10 years, there have been several CL-winners from all of the 4 biggest leagues. in SCL the Swedish or Polish team would win every year and how many countries in Europe have their own speedway leagues?

he was originally, then i moved him to D because I remembered that he wasn't top 3 in 2013 but I had forgotten his bronze from a few years earlier, so I moved him back to C then. I found it quite difficult to find riders for both b and c list. Most riders who have won medals also have won the title.

list A Holder Gollob Hamill Woffinden list B Adams A. Jonsson Hampel Kasprzak list C Iversen Sajfutdinov ???? list D Ward A: LIndbäck Vaculik Zmarzlik Top scorers; Hamil, Adams, Sajfutdinov, Zmrzlik, Team A to win.,

Actually it has because there is a common factor (or red thread as we say in Sweden) in all of his cases. That factor is alcohol and/or other drugs.

500cc, I don't think FIM have the authority to decide what Darcy does or eat/drink outside of competition (except for banned substances obviously) especially since alcohol is only banned "in competition", Neither do I think that it's for FIM's to set Darcy straight, that is Darcy's own responsibility.

It depends on who you ask. Imo ice racing is the correct name since Ice speedway is regular speedway bikes on an ice track. Ice racing is not speedway on ice, its an own sport just like MX and Enduro are different sports despite being very similar. Also in Sweden it is known as ice racing (isracing) . http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Isracing/ Also ice hockey is played indoors on hockey rinks which occasionally is used for ice speedway while ice racing is held on speedway tracks or Bandy fields.

Imo they are doing the right thing to support him and they should definitely not just "abandon" him. However they are doing it in the wrong way and for the wrong reasons. They should support him so that he can solve his problem/issues, they should not support him by a constant stream of excuses. I guess that they think that if they wouldn't, Darcy would walk away and then they would be without their "golden boy", they are thinking of their team's best rather then Darcy's best. It was similar in his Swedish team after the Latvian GP. His Swedish team manager (Stefan Andersson) said before the season that he wouldn't tolerate any misbehaviour from Darcy this season but when being faced with the "ultimatum" of leaving Darcy outside the line-up or include him, he chose to include him. Obviously he did it to make his team stronger and his pre-season statement was just empty words. Stefan have kept a much lower profile though but with some "whining" in the media that it takes too long and etc. The thing is thought that he brought it upon himself by renewing Darcy's contract (we don't have the assets system that you have) despite that he knew that Darcy could be unavailable for the upcoming season.

You can still view his tweets if you use another browser,

If you think about it again, you will come to the same conlusion as Racers & Royals which is that next week is within 45 days from today,