Ghostwalker

It seems you caught the underlined decease again. Rene Bach tactical substitute in heat 11. Kildemand out? But apparently that is not the case.

Some great racing in this heat.

Yeah I really wonder what Mikkel was thinking?

Mikkel B, what are you doing? Screw up.

Laguta is said to be away for 6-8 weeks (counting from the surgery I guess) which would be early to mid August sometime. Re Kulakow no more transfers allowed this season. And speaking of Laguta, that was a superb pass by Artem.

I don't know. First It looked like Rene Bach pushed him off but the re-runs don't give us a good view.

Yellow to be X'd.

Esbjerg team manager says that they have not lost any of the 7 times last season and the 3 times this year that they have used Artem Laguta instead if NKI.

as I have said before Grogorij and Artem have not been approved before butI don't know why they are not approved, See these posts/articles: http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=64549 http://speedwaygp.com/news/article/459/czechmate-for-russians

If you look at someone like Jarek Hampel or Niels-Kristian Iversen for many seasons they were just struggling in the SGP but then both were out of the GP for a few years and then came back stronger then ever. I also think we will see the same for Emil. It's no rush he still has around 20 years or so of his career in front of him (if you use Greg H as measure).

Grigorij Laguta is injured but neither he or his brother would have been approved for a UK visa anyway for KL semi.final.

I have read that the Danish league have almost doubled their attendance the past 5 years. From about 950 in -09 to about 1650 this season. Also it seems that the system with A,B,C and D riders categories are a bit unpopular by some teams.

a short news story about Varg-Olle Nygren and his speedway school for adults: http://www.svtplay.se/klipp/2129680/85-arige-varg-olle-nygrens-kurser-i-speedway-for-nyborjare-pa-sista-varvet

No they have lost twice. although it was in the beginning of the series, http://ta.svemo.se/Public/Pages/Competition/DrivingSchedule/CompetitionHeatSchema.aspx?Branch=Speedway&Season=2014&Serie=Elitserien&Resultfilter=APPROVED&Columns=FromDateShort%2cName%2cHeatSchema%2cHeatResult&pagesize=20&CompetitionId=3321 http://ta.svemo.se/Public/Pages/Competition/DrivingSchedule/CompetitionHeatSchema.aspx?Branch=Speedway&Season=2014&Serie=Elitserien&Resultfilter=APPROVED&Columns=FromDateShort%2cName%2cHeatSchema%2cHeatResult&pagesize=20&CompetitionId=3338 However Smederna only lost by 12p tonight and you have to have in mind that they didn't have Grigorij Laguta who is injured but who also is almost unbeatable at Smedstadion., If you would have had Grisha as nr5 instead of Zengota, Smederna would have won tonight's meeting.

We'll see when Grisha is back. He was expected to be away 6-8 weeks according to Smedernas match programme magazine.

Bb, i dont have an ipad only my trusted HTC Desire. Also Jansson and Jarl should have used MikMik instead of Zorro in heat 10. Superb move by MikMik on Emil in heat 9.

Only 2003 spectators but i think the rain scared away maybe 1000 people.

Track is rubbish as usual needs more grip on the outside if we are going to get the most out of Pawel P.

Update, 18.30. Weather at track is ok, no rain at the moment and haven't as much here as it has downtown.

It's currently raining downtown pretty much unfortunately. Don't know what it looks at the track but I'll give you an update once I get to the track which will be around 40 minutes from now.

Swedish Elitserien tonight at 18.00 UK time on Eurosport 1. Preview thread: http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=76970 Then tomorrow at 17.30 UK time there is live streaming from the Danish league at http://kanalsport.dk/ http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=76173

Like I wrote above the rumour is that it will be another an arena called Casa Arena in Horsens just south of Århus. According to the article, there have already been talk between arena officials and representatives from SGP organisation.

In the latest issue of the Swedish speedway magazine, Speedway racing, there was a full page article about Dutch Speedway. Interesting read. Among other things they mentioned the meeting at Veenoord and the specator size at 1500 at it and that the match programmes had sold out.

Due to problems with their track, Hammarby have decided to move their home meeting on Thursday to Eskilstuna (Smederna's track). http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/hammarby/hammarby-flyttar-match-till-eskilstuna/

Preview Elitserien round 9 Ikaros Smederna - Elit Vetlanda #tv meeting# Live Eurosport 1 18.00 BST / 19.00 CEST / 20.00 EEST race card: http://www.mediafire.com/view/tr0dziuno4nlgg0/ES.2014.R9.IkarosSmederna-ElitVetlanda.pdf Ikaros Smederna (43) Kenni Larsen Oliver Berntzon Peter Karlsson Pawel Przedpelski Grzegorz Zengota Mikkel Michelsen Magnus Zetterström Elit Vetlanda (47) Tai Woffinden Emil Sayfutdinov Jarek Hampel (K) Tomas H Jonasson Janusz Kolodziej Magnus Karlsson Jacob Thorssell This weeks tv-meeting. This will be a very hard challenge for Smederna especially without Laguta. I don't know if Oliver Berntzon will ride tomorrow (he have a light hand injury) or if they will use R/R for him. I haven't seen any info regarding it so I assume that he rides. As #4 for Smederna we will see the Polish mega talent Pawel Przedpelski makes his debut for Smederna. Vetlanda chooses to ride with Janusz Kolodziej instead of Leon Madsen. Anyhow Vetlanda should win this without too much problem. Smederna are quite strong at home but the form in Zetterström is abysmal, Smederna also misses Laguta and Berntzon is injures. I would say that the score will be 40-50 at the least. Also don't expect any fancy racing like last week since there will not be as good racing as last week, Piraterna - Västervik Piraterna (46) Greg Hancock Rory Schlein Bjarne Pedersen Linus Sundström Darcy Ward Anton Rosén Fredrik Engman Västervik (44) Przemyslaw Pawlicki Peter Ljung Krzysztof Kasprzak Hans Andersen Troy Batchelor Ludvig Lindgren Mathias Thörnblom This will be very interesting interesting, Holder is still out for Piraterna and he is replaced by Schlein. Piraterna have been quite up and down this season and although they have had injuries on both Ward and Holder. The team have not performed as expected and Piraterna is currently in 7th position with 7p which is 5p more then Västervik who is in last place. Västervik have only won one meeting and are in desperate need of points. I think this will be a close meeting. Västervik sacked three riders in the transfer window and one of the riders brought in is the former Piraterna rider Przremyslaw Pawlicki and he should be very familiar with the track but will it be enough? Most likely it will depend on how well Kasprzak and the Swedes perform. Rospiggarna - Indianerna Rospiggarna (47) Andreas Jonsson Kim Nilsson Mads Korneliussen Timo Lahti Andzejs Lebedevs Chris Harris Jonas Davidsson Indianerna (42) Fredrik Lindgren Antonio Lindbäck Piotr Protasiewicz Kenneth Bjerre Niels-Kristian Iversen Joel Andersson Mikael Max Another very interesting meeting. Rospiggarna took a very solid win over Smederna last week, however Smederna only mustered a five man team with R/R for Laguta and an injury on Berntzon. Rospiggarna have only lost 1 meeting so far (at home against Dackarna) but Indianerna are a very strong team which has three straight (big) victories. They key to this meeting for Indianerna is how well Protasiewicz handles Orionparkens tight and technical track. For Rospiggarna Chris Harris gets a new chance at reserve. I think Indianerna will win the meeting with the aggregate bonus point going to Rospiggarna. Dackarna - Vargarna Dackarna (45) Nicki Pedersen Dennis Andersson Patryk Dudek Alexandr Loktaev Mikkel Bech Joonas Kylmäkorpi Michael Jepsen Jensen Robin Aspegren Vargarna (42) Martin Vaculik Pontus Aspgren Peter Kildemand Jason Doyle Adrian Miedzinski Ricky Kling Billy Forsberg Dackarna have not lived up to the expectations so far, partially because Michael Jepsen Jensen has dropped his average by about 72% (1.881 to 0.538) which means that he now is down to reserve. Loktaev have not recovered from his shoulder injury and is replaced by Mikkel Bech which is a big blow to Dackarna since Loktaev have been excellent in the meetings he have ridden. The rest of the riders have mostly lowered the averages except Robin Aspegren which have slightly increased his average, Vargarna have been quite good at home but have not won any away meeting after the win in round 1. I think that this will be a close meeting but that MJJ at reserve will make the difference, Live results at: http://www.svemo.se/Speedway