Ghostwalker

It depends how many spectators they loose from it in relation to how many sponsors who wouldn't be interesting in sponsoring without tv-coverage. Also IMO a sport without TV-coverage will struggle to get new fans since they might not find out about the sport without it. In Sweden we have a saying that goes like this "syns du inte så finns du inte", translated it means about "if you are not seen, you do not exist". Meaning that you need to have the sport exposed on tv and in media in general to make fans aware of the sport. A good tv-meeting can be a fantastic good advert for the sport, but obviously on days when it feels like the rain is about to start falling in any second, some people will stay at home and watch it on tv.

Nope, Vaculik striked Nicki's front wheel and Nicki fell. Vaculik excluded. very simple.

The only childish person is here was paul himself especially when it came to the constant complaining about moderators when they deleted his complaints. Then it was his constant nagging about his race card at every possible opportunity which got way too tiresome so it was not particular surprising that he got banned. Anyway it will be interesting to see tonight if Nicki, Janusz, Emil and Peter can continue to ride well and possible make a gap to the rest of the riders. Since it is only 4 rounds no rider can afford to trail too much after two rounds. Then since round 3 is at Holsted, Nicki and Kildemand have a great opportunity if they can make a good result tonight.

Do you have any source to verify this claim? I would think over a full season a rider won't earn that much less in England then in Sweden. Our Elitserien starts in May and ends in September, your season starts in March and ends in November. For a rider in Elitserien it is a maximum of 14 meetings +play off (if his team finishes top 6, which is at the most another 6 meetings (4 meetings for a team that finishes top 2). As for the squads, team are only allowed to have 7 riders with average that is greater then 0,500 + two guest riders that are permanent the entire season. A guestrider also have to be Swedish and cannot rider for another team in the same division. Riders with an average at 0,500 does not take up one of the seven places in the squad. Take a look at Smederna's squad: http://ta.svemo.se/Public/Pages/TeamSections.aspx?TeamId=234 There are 9 riders in the main squad, Oliver Berntzon and Johannes Stark does not count due their low season entry average. PK, Zorro, Berntzon, Eklöf and Henderson are rivals for the three mandatory Swedish positions in the lineup while Kenni Larsen, Davey Watt*, Mikkel Michelse, Grzegorz Zengota and Pawel Przedpelski are rivals for the remaining 4 positions for each meeting. Squads can only changed during the mid-season transfer window, except for injured riders who are expected to be away for 4 weeks or more, which can be temporarily replaced during their absence (with some restrictions regarding average for the replacing rider). *Davey Watt is a temporary replacement for Grigorij Laguta until Laguta returns from injury. For more info see this thread.

actually he still do it, although he have said that this year's edition was the last year. http://www.svt.se/nyheter/regionalt/ostnytt/varg-olles-speedwayskola-pa-sista-varvet Regarding the Danish league it's definitely on the rise but there is still allot of stuff that not works as good as desired. I.e.there seems to be allot of arguing before each season about which riders should be put in each category. All team managers obviously want to be able to field as strong team as possible and therefore want their riders to be in a lower category. Also all foreign riders are in the same category regardless of how good they are. Then there is the thing with the inconsistent rule regarding points in the Danish finals. In Denmark they have two individual finals each season and for the Event 1 final the points from the final heat is not counted towards the total score of both finals while the the opposite applies to the final heat of event 2. This also means that sometimes it is clear who is champion before the final heat of Event 2.

Lineups for the postponed meeting between Piraterna and Västervik which will be held on Monday. http://ta.svemo.se/Public/Pages/Competition/CompetitionTeamMembers.aspx?CompetitionId=3362

Grigorij injured himself in a Russian league meeting in June (maybe about a month ago or so). It was after he had won a heat, he put his foot down on the track but it got stuck between the ground and the foot rest so he broke it (again). He is expected to be away for another 3 weeks are so. You have an article in Swedish here: http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/smederna/smedstjarna-skadade-sig-i-ryssland/

yes, this Monday (July 21st). Lineups will be available at Saturday at 21.00 It seems that this will not be shown live on Eurosport UK. German and Dutch Eurosport have it live from 20.00 CEST on Eurosport 1 (ES 2 for Finland).

As for the best GP, I can only judge from what I've seen on tv but judging from that Torun is usually the best GP of the season. A very good arena with probably the best track of the SGP season.

In we Sweden we have these speedway school as well: http://www1.idrottonline.se/SmedernaSpeedwayforening-MotorcykelochSnoskoter/Ungdom/OKQ8Speedwayskola/ I think they are quite popular but the main problem is to get the riders to continue with speedway at a higher level. From the spedway school to 80cc and from 80cc to 500cc racing. Many quits because it becomes too expensive. I think this why DK is so successful. Hd The clubs & the federation are very supportive towards the riders, i.e. when it comes to finding sponsors and etc.

Weather is always a big factor. Two weeks ago Smederna had only 2000 in the attendances the weather had been grey with rain showers for several days. Yesterday the weather was pretty warm and sunny and the attendance was almost 4000.

Hammarby speedway still have huge problems with their track Gubbängen. The problem have been their the entire season and consists of large chunks of the track that comes loose during racing on the track. Today a referee made a an examination of the track and he noticed that the problem still exists and the track remains as not approved for racing. If the problems is not fixed at noon tomorrow then tomorrow's meeting between Hammarby and Griparna will be postponed, This meeting was originally held in May but was aborted due to the problems mentioned above. I very much doubt that a problem which have been there for a month and a half, suddenly will be fixed within 24 hours. So the most likely scenario is that Hammarby -Griparna tomorrow will be postponed again and that Hammarby either have to withdraw from Allsvenskan or use other tracks like Eskilstuna or Hallstavik for their remaining home meetings this season. http://www.sn.se/sport/1.2494692

Next weeks televised meeting is Piraterna - Elit Vetlanda.

RR, no Zagar is in for a minimum of 28 days after that Holder will re-take his place in the squad as soon as he returns from injury.

This why CL won't work since both Ward and Holder also rides for Piraterna. For Piraterna they only have Greg and Bjarne left as well as two lower string Swedish riders.

The attendance average for Allsvenskan is almost 780: http://ta.svemo.se/Public/Pages/Serie/Audience/AudienceStatistics.aspx?SerieId=591 Div 1 have low attendances: http://ta.svemo.se/Public/Pages/Serie/Audience/AudienceStatistics.aspx?SerieId=595 but the costs are also much smaller, most of the teams in Div1 are subsidiaries of Elitserien or Allsvenskan teams and those Div1 teams are used as both a sort of "development teams" for new 500cc riders and for those Swedish riders who rarely gets to ride in Elitserien.

1. Some clubs also own their own track, but those who don't usually pay rent. Also many teams have worked hard to improve the standard of their arenas. 2. Sponsors are not necessarily local, Smederna's main sponsor is located in Malmö some 600km from Eskilstuna. 3. It varies from round to round and from track to track; http://ta.svemo.se/Public/Pages/Serie/Audience/AudienceStatistics.aspx?SerieId=590 4. Tracks does not go bust, clubs do.

Yeah I know but this thread refers to the meeting against Vetlanda which was two weeks ago.

Kildemand should have been in when you look at his form.

Watt should not have been brought in in the first place, what is the point of replacing an injured rider with another injured rider? As for heat 12, Smederna did not have any choice since a rider only can be replaced once. All riders need to ride in at least 3 of their 4 scheduled heats. 6p from Kenni is not good enough however we lost the meeting because Michelsen got injured yesterday. Apperently this is not the case and then it is very weird the Watt got a third heat, the same goes for heat 13 where Oliver should have been replaced. Two errors from Jimmy Jansson and Stefan Jarl , quite possible that it decided the outcome. Smederna could probably have won if they had used the reserves in those heats. Also regarding Tai: https://twitter.com/TWoffinden/status/489134525252124672

Roughly, how many riders does this apply to?

If Stockholm GP was in the summer it would be a great trip but the last weekend in September means much colder weather and usually poorer weather, it does not do the city justice IMO.

Swedish Elitserien, tonight at 6pm BST / 19.00 CEST / 20.00 EEST on Eurosport 1.

No Michelsen tomorrow so I can't see how Smederna are going to win this.

The Swedish squad have been announced; 1. Andreas Jonsson 2. Oliver Berntzon 3. Thomas H Jonasson 4. Peter Ljung 5. Kim Nilsson (reserve) http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/speedway/berntzon-skrallen-i-truppen-till-lag-vm/ I disagree with the inclusion of Ljung. It might be his home track but there are other riders who have performed much better then him and IMO the 4th rider should have been Jonas Davidsson, Antonio Lindbäck or Kim Nilsson. Imo Ljung was only picked because Västervik is his home track in Elitserien. http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/speedway/berntzon-skrallen-i-truppen-till-lag-vm/