Ghostwalker

care to share some of the spring thing?

Yeah very happy. 56-34 is the final score. Unfortuantely no maximums for neither PK or Kenni. PK was 14 (3,3,2,3) and Kenni was 13 (3.3.3.3.1). Really nice riding by Kenni, PK and Laguta. Zengota was pretty good too with 6+2. The only rider in Smederna who wasn't hot was Michelsen. started well in his first ride and scored a 5-1 with Laguta.But then only managed 2p from his remaining three rides. Vispen was pretty good as well, he did a very nice move on Thörnblom which meant that Vispen passed Thörnblom in the final bend. Zorro was ok but screwed up in heart 9 when he was too late to the restart of the heat and got himself excluded for 2 min violation. Thörnblom also earned himself a big boo in heat 8 where he fell/laid the bike down when Smederna had a 5-1 position. Thörnblom then stayed down but looked several times if Smederna still had a 5-1. We did and he then decided to stay down. He was excluded and also received a 2500SEK (£250) fine for his actions or rather lack of actions.

After 14 heats Smederna 52, Västervik 32. Kenni 11+1 4 heats PK 11 4 heats. Laguta 10 4 heats.

Smederna-Västervik 39-21 after 10 heats. PK & Kenni Larsen are full scorers so far. PK is 9/9 and Kenni Larsen is 6/6. Laguta is 7/9.

Smederna- västervik 21-9 after 5 heats. 26-10 after 6 heats and 30-12 after 8 heats.

@MP, Dackarna track staff is pretty good but it doesn't matter how good they are if the rain does not stop. However I don't if it's raining there or not. There doesn't seems to be any official info regarding the matter although the radar images shows that there is a very light rain over Målilla. At the moment I think there will be racing on all tracks tonight. Also there seems to be some issues with Indianerna's team. the total average seems to be too high. According to Svemo's offical average list which was published after the previous season Freddie Lindgren's average is 1.855 but at the team listing page his average is 1.758 (which includes the play off, play off is not counted when calculating the official average.). A difference of almost 0,1 which would bring Indianerna over the limit by 0,017.

Info and discussions about round 1: http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=76346 and at http://speedwayupdates.proboards.com/thread/13298/dackarna-indianerna-sel-2014-6pm

We'll see if it's possible for the meeting to go ahead. It's currently raining in most parts of southern Sweden. The weather forecast says rain from the afternoon so perhaps the rain weather arrived earlier and it will pass in time for the meeting. http://www.smhi.se/vadret/nederbord-molnighet/radar-blixt-sverige-1.27021 http://www.smhi.se/vadret/nederbord-molnighet/radar-norden-1.27049 http://www.smhi.se/vadret/vadret-i-sverige/land/hourByHourTable.do;smhi_ppsessionid=-kh-VJ%2B%2BoslPWFS-Kpuv7%2BDG?starttime=2014-05-06%2007%3A41%3A55&endtime=2014-05-06%2022%3A00%3A00&geonameid=2693049 http://www.yr.no/sted/Sverige/Kalmar/M%C3%A5lilla/time_for_time.html

For 2015 there are three riders with a Swedish license that have entered the qualifications for 2015: Joonas Kylmäkorpi, Joel Nyström and Peter "PK" Karlsson. http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Nyheter/VMKvalLongTrack/

I would assume that Cmore will demand money back from Svemo if there won't be any tv-coverage. What will Svemo do then? They will probably demand the lost money from the teams. I can agree that the clubs should get a bigger piece of the cake but I don't understand what they think that they are going to gain from this?

Lindbäck won't be riding tomorrow. A broken scaphoid bone is said to be the cause.

Yes if there is anything to tomorrow. Clubs still threatens to block tv-broadcaster c-more so we will see tomorrow if there will be any live tv.

RR, MJJ didn't feel 100% fit after yesterday's meeting so Dackarna decided to use Buczek instead.

Västervik is a pretty good team this season so I don't expect them to be at the bottom end of the standings. Anyway, Dackarna announced that Michael Jepsen Jensen won't be able to ride and he is replaced by Krzysztof Buckowski

The first episode ever of Smed-Tv: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uHcfQQFl-s

The winter is almost gone and a new season is upon us. After about a week and half, from Easter and forward, with warm and sunny weather. The past week have been mostly cold rainy and unfortunately this weather will continue. A warm front with rain will reach the west coast tomorrow and will move up over Sweden on Monday and Tuesday, The televised meeting will be Dackarna-Indianerna at Dackarna's track G&B arena. Here are the lineups for round 1 of Elitserien 2014: Dackarna – Indianerna #televised meeting Dackarna Nicki Pedersen Dennis Andersson Patryk Dudek Joonas Kylmäkorpi Michael Jepsen Jensen (K) Krzysztof Buckowski Robin Aspegren Aleksandr Loktaev Indianerna Fredrik Lindgren (K) Piotr Swiderski Niels-Kristian Iversen Antonio Lindbäck Piotr Protasiewicz Joel Andersson Mikael Max This will be a very very interesting meeting. Dackarna and have made some big changes for this season. They lost Lindgren to Indianerna and Darcy Ward to Piraterna. Both team have a history of bottling it in the play offs the past couple of seasons. Imo Dackarna are a bit weaker then last season while Indianerna is a bit stronger. Indianerna are missing Kenneth Bjerre who is out with a broken collarbone for a few weeks. This will probably go all the way to a last heat decider and I think Indianerna have a good chance of winning this meeting. Dackarna have a slightly stronger nr 6 & 7.while Indianerna have a stronger top 5. Race card for this meeting: http://www.mediafire.com/view/qjn2xv12c6ewjqa/ES.2014.R1.Dackarna-Indianerna.pdf Ikaros Smederna – Västervik: Ikaros Smederna Grigorij Laguta Mikkel Michelsen Peter Karlsson Grzegorz Zengota Kenni Larsen Magnus Zetterström (K) Oliver Berntzon Västervik Troy Batchelor Daniel Nermark Krzysztof Kasprzak Rune Holta Peter Ljung (K) Mathias Thörnblom Davey Watt Last seasons positive surprise were Smederna who managed to go all the way the semi-final where they lost to Piraterna who eventually won the gold. Smederna were heavily affected by injuries during the second half of the season with first Kenni and AJ out then AJ returned but PK injured himself before the semi-finals. Västervik have replaced Chris Harris with Krzysztof Kasprzak. Sebastien Aldén were replaced with Thörnblom in the team a couple of weeks ago since Aldén decided to retire, Västervik is stronger this year compared to last year while Smederna is a little weaker since AJ moved back home to Rospiggarna. It's hard to know where both teams stand. Smederna probably needs to win this meeting to avoid relegation. Piraterna – Vargarna Piraterna Greg Hancock (K) Linus Sundström Chris Holder Anton Rosén Bjarne Pedersen Simon Gustafsson Fredrik Engman Vargarna Martin Vaculik Daniel Davidsson (K) Peter Kildemand Artem Laguta Adrian Miedzinski Ricky Kling Pontus Aspgren Piraterna won the gold last year but decided to do a complete re-build. They had been able to continue with the same teams as last season but Pawlicki brothers, Davidsson brothers and Janowski did not get new contracts because Piraterna needed to make room for Darcy Ward. Piraterna are missing Darcy Ward who have problem with a knee injury. There will be allot of pressure on the home riders and I think Vargarna will provide fierce opposition. I wouldn't be surprised if Vargarna wins this one. Rospiggarna – Elit Vetlanda: Rospiggarna Andreas Jonsson (K) Jonas Davidsson Chris Harris Mads Korneliussen Grzegorz Walasek Timo Lahti Kim Nilsson Elit Vetlanda Emil Sayfutdinov Leon Madsen Jarek Hampel (K) Thomas H Jonasson Tai Woffinden Magnus Karlsson Jacob Thorssell Vetlanda most likely have one of the strongest squads ever in the history of Swedish speedway. With the team that they have they are clear favourites to win the gold and Rospiggarna should normally not be able to defeat such a team. Slightly stronger reserves for Rospiggarna though, So ladies and gentlemen start your engines. Live scores will be available at http://www.svemo.se/speedway

Line ups aren't available yet. For Elitserien team declarations are due at 21.00 two days ahead of the scheduled and they will be published at http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Elitserien2014/ at 21.00.Swedish summertime (BST+1, UTC+2, EDT+6). There will also be a new thread for each round, I usually make it on Sunday evening or sometime during Monday. --- I've also updated the the first post with some new info as well as the Allsvenskan post with play off fixtures.

You already have the fixtures listed in this thread with info about which meeting in each round that is televised. http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=67537&p=2028596 Then there will be separate topics for each round just like previous years so do not use this topic for discussion.

Michelsen, Pawlicki, Loktaew, Berntzon, Porsing are,my favourites for top 5.

Results from Målilla open: https://www.facebook.com/Dackarna/photos/a.211067145634485.52019.196964253711441/641124832628712/?type=1&stream_ref=10

live results from Indianerna-Smederna: http://www1.idrottonline.se/SmedernaSpeedwayforening-MotorcykelochSnoskoter/Nyheter/Nyhetsarkiv/DirektuppdateringIndianerna-IkarosSmederna/

For Info about televised fixtures, see this post (scroll down a bit): http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=67537&p=2028596

Armadno said that Speedwayracing that they were squeezed from two directions, from BSI who thought that the FIM did not full fill their part of the contract if the FIM allows a second transcontinental championship series The other side was European labour laws. So there is no doubt IMO that BSI wanted FIM to act, otherwise Armando would not have said what he did. And to squeeze something you need to apply pressure. In the end I don't think it matters which phrasing they use, It would still be against EU-labour laws especially since the riders are not employed by FIM/BSI/One Sport I think the SGP needs a major overhaul, there haven't been much changes to it since it started. The only change is heat schedule and that all points count.

So you say that Armando Castagna is lying? Well Liam G have a valid point there, Philip R never ever seems to write anything negative about BSI and always seems to take BSI's side even when the BSI is to blame (like Cardiff last year). His posts sometimes looks more like a BSI press release then posts from an independent speedway writer.

You and your friends at BSI can keep telling yourself that, while most of us others can see that BSI are the ones that have been pulling the strings behind the scenes.