Ghostwalker

Start list for Saturday: http://www.ikarossmederna.nu/?page=news&newsid=2576

Daniel Henderson tries out the Swedish Championship venue:

The weather forecast for the Individual Swedish ice racing championship final looks promising. A few days of warmer weather will be followed by a change to back to colder weather. http://www.smhi.se/vadret/vadret-i-sverige/land?pp=http://www.smhi.se/produktportal-1.0//hourByHourTable.do?geonameid=2715953 The final will be held at Smederna's track about 12km north west of Eskilstuna.

C more have signed a new tv-deal with Svemo. The new deal is for 2014-2017 seasons. http://www.cmore.se/news/item/349/C-More-s%C3%A4nder-Elitserien-i-speedway-2014-2017

Don't worry, I had intended to do it anyway. ---------------------------------- Dates/hosts for the Swedish Individual Championship: Vetlanda, August 30th-31st http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Nyheter/SMFinalerochKval2013/

They replace Jason Crump and Mikael Max. http://www.dn.se/spo...-ersatter-crump Not sure why Max is "de-signed" and where will he go? Imo Vargarna would be a good place for him andthey need a good Swede in their lineup. Shields out, Max in would be my move.

Ok. done.

spreadsheet style Race card for Elitserien and Allsvenskan: http://www.mediafire...vgojoajl26ns3rb

sure, sometime soon.

apparently S:t Johann qualification have been moved to Norrköping. Will be held on January 19th. http://www.laget.se/VARGARNASPEEDWAY/News/2786036/Sensation-i-motorvarlden!

results from Falco's memorial in Norrköping: http://www.laget.se/VARGARNASPEEDWAY/Page/179978

I agree with you, I think Premier-sports renewed their broad cast rights for Sweden for another two years.

Yeah I would think so. Hypothetically Gollob is an option but I doubt that he would fit into Bosse Wirebrand's team build philosophy.

Round Robin is the first 20 heats, the all meet all part which is followed by the knock-out part. http://en.wikipedia....obin_tournament http://en.wikipedia....tion_tournament Also I definitely agree with your final line.

In an interview with Ole Olsen in the latest issue of the Swedish speedway magazine Speedway racing, Ole Olsen said that they have scrapped the semi final gate picks. Ole considered it unfair for the riders who did the best in the round robin stage to be able to pick their gates. Instead there will be a draw to decide which rider goes to which gate for the semi finals. Gate pick will still be in place for the finals though. I don't really like this. Ole was asked about the gate differences that there usually are and just said "they are working on it". I don't its particular fair if the best rider during the night ended up with one of those really "dead" gates and thus loosing out on a place in the final. Ole also mentioned the dirt problem or lack grip on the tracks and he claimed that they "are working on it" but that the riders already are having problems with it and the engines have become more sensitive.

more info: http://www.ikarossmederna.nu/?page=news&newsid=2552 tickets: http://www.ticnet.se/event/sm-isracing-biljetter/247883 Note that if you pre-book tickets there will be an additional fee of 20SEK (~£1.8) on top of the regular ticket price which is 160SEK (£15).

Individual Swedish championship; Smedstadion Eskilstuna, Saturday, February 16th. http://ekuriren.se/sport/1.1606557-eskilstuna-vard-for-sm-final-igen

if you select add and then continue to checkout the row/seat nr will be displayed. I agree though that it would be preferable if the row/seat nr would be displayed as soon as you select a section.

I agree it isn't especially central. There are bus and commuter trains going to Solna Station thought but it still will requires a 10-15min walk from Solna station to the arena. Possible there will be extra buses going all the way to the arena during the GP but it don't think it is anything that have been decided about yet.

actually I think it has been there since Svemo took over. At least since sometime last season.

Västervik have announced that Patrik Haag is their new team manager and that Anders Kling is the new assistant team manager. http://www.wmsk.se/speedway/lokala_nyheter.aspx?id=5071

Smederna have been trusted to arrange the ice racing final next year as well. But this time they're going for naturally frozen ice, a big mistake if you ask me. That means that they have not learned anything from last season. Its too risky to go with naturally frozen ice this far south. http://ekuriren.se/s...r-sm-final-igen

No, no action. there haven't been any junior leagues either, since most of the juniors have been occupied with their main team's fixture. There will be a new junior league in 2013 but I do not know what it will look like.

Sunny according to AccuWeather: http://www.accuweather.com/en/ar/bahia-blanca/2931/weather-forecast/2931

imo ice speedway is regular speedway bikes on ice. While ice racing is ice racing. ice speedway: ice racing: Why FIM call it ice speedway I don't know.