Ghostwalker

You have said this before but I find it very hard to believe (not your fault though as I assume that it is what they tell you) since it only seems to have arisen as a concern after last year's successful European Championship. The EC is not a new competition so why suddenly has the riders doing both SGP and EC become a problem for FIM? Look at Rally cross, they have a WC, a EC and national championships. Although to my knowledge no driver is doing both series (too much costs I would assume) if a couple drivers would want to do both, I don't think the FIA would have anything against it.

I can't see any other way out then that FIm and their actions will be taken to court where they most likely will loose. As far as Europe and the EU goes FIm cannot ban riders from participating in events of competing Federations. We have/had a similar situation in Sweden where Swedish federation SVEMO tried to block riders with a Svemo license from participating in events organized by Swedish Folk speedway/Swedish Motorsport alliance. This was taken to Swedish court were it was deemed to violate the rules of free movement of goods and services within the European Union. So I can't see how this could be anything different. And it will also be interesting to see what happens if the riders start to violate this, Are they really going to ban riders like Woffinden, Hampel, Pedersen, Iversen, Jonsson if they would ride in i,e. best pairs event?

Great. This is the best soap opera ever.

The GP was pretty good for a temporary track and the arena was very nice. I have been to Stockholm many times and it is a very nice city. Some say it's expensive but it's not more expensive then you make it. The weather is like in Britain, a bit unreliable and it's hard to know until a week or so in advance whether it will be good or bad. I really hope that the Stockholm Grand Prix will get a summer position for 2015 but I don't think it's likely as long as there is two GPs in Sweden.

Its a long story but basically clubs wanted more influence. Agreement was reached with Svemo an the clubs initiative to start the joint organization SSI and when it launched clubs backed out from their part of the financing, leaving Svemo with all the costs which was covered by parts of the tv-deal money. http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.svemo.se%2FForbundsinformation%2FNyheter%2FNyttTV-avtalforElitserieniSpeedway%2F http://www.svemo.se/Forbundsinformation/Nyheter/NyttTV-avtalforElitserieniSpeedway/ http://www.svemo.se/ImageVaultFiles/id_6502/cf_44/Styrelsen_protokoll_extra_insatt_m-te_2012-05-30.PDF

it is a correct assumption that the attendance is not enough to finance any of the teams. However Vetlanda have a big title sponsor which puts allot of money into Vetlanda. The latest TV-deal did not bring that much money to the teams but they only have themselves to blame for that.

I've emailed both Tony Olsson (Svemo) and Cmore. Tony replied that he didn't know and that the rights were owned by a different company. C-more haven't replied yet. I would guess that Svemo sold the rights to company X who then re-sells the rights for the international market to any company that is interested, So I think that we'll just have to wait and see.

I guess this also depends on how the rights agreement is set up, Perhaps some original rights holder might have it put into the contract that the buyer needs to broadcast a certain amount of meetings for the agreement to be valid.

Have any of you actually asked Eurosport about the matter?

It has been announced today that Hammarby will be allowed to stay in Allsvenskan, however this is not unconditional. Svemo have decided that Hammarby's future in the Swedish Speedway leagues system will be conditional of a control program which have been put together by Svemo. http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Nyheter/HammarbySpeedway2014/ Also all 2014 league fixtures are now available in Svemo's race calendar: http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Tavling/Tavlingskalender/

Swedish Individual Championship will be held at Svanstabanan in Nyköping at September 5th-6th. The big final will be on Friday evening with the USM (80cc) and JSM (U21) finals will be held on Saturday. http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/speedway/nykoping-vard-till-sm-helgen/ Also see this post: http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=67537&p=2028602

Do you know what riders that we could expect to see?

There will be a Finnish team called Team Finland in Swedish Div1 this season. They will have their home meetings at Svanstabanan in Nyköping. http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Nyheter/Ettfinsktlagisvenskaserien/ http://sverigesradio.se/sida/gruppsida.aspx?programid=179&grupp=7514&artikel=5764717

Daniel Henderson have been given a spot at the European Championship final: http://www.smederna.nu/?page=news&newsid=2861

Updated with the rest of the Allsvenskan squads, Allsvenskan fixtures and Div1 teams.

Uncertain. It's a long story, too long to write here and now but in general terms it's about that they have struggled financially from day 1.

An article about Smederna's supporter group: http://www.smederna.nu/?page=news&newsid=2857

Agreed. Anyway official information will be released on Thursday, https://twitter.com/JKonikiewicz/status/424527159894355968

Smederna have been asked but no decision have been taken yet. http://www.smederna.nu/?page=news&newsid=2855 (2nd half of the article).

Santa Cup in Gävle have been cancelled due to the warm weather that have melted the ice. http://www.racemagazine.se/gavle-staller-in-santa-cup/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Daniel Henderson takes the last remaining position among the Elitserien teams, as a guest rider for Smederna. This means that the young very talented rider Mattias Thörnblom will be without an Elitserien team position for next year.

How do you know that they tell you the truth? It's hardly something they would admit is it?

I know this is what they tell you but honestly I don't believe them because BSI are the promoter of the GP series and it lies within the interest which riders that are in "their" GP-series. Although it might be FIM that runs the qualification officially I am pretty sure that BSI have some influence on the matter.

I read that Jurica Pavlic and his girlfriend became parents again today when his girlfriend gave birth to their second daughter.

This have been reported before by Iris123: http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=72610&page=29&&do=findComment&comment=2336906