Ghostwalker

i dont know yet if its away meetings too or if its only home meetings but you have the fixture list in this post.

good news speedwaylovers. Ikaros Smederna have decided to broadcast all of their meetings live via web-tv. http://folket.se/sportfolket/speedway/1.671723

Niklas Klingberg have decided to end his career and he will not ride this seasons. That means that Örnarna will have to find a replacement for him within the nearest week and a half. This is because the only transfer windows this season will open on Monday and close on the following Sunday. http://www.racemcsport.com/nyhet_spec.aspx...;Sport=speedway

It is clear now that Getingarna won't participate in this years allsvenskan. They have filed an application for bankruptcy at Södertörns Tingsrätt.. Getingarna which is/was one of the old classic teams in Sweden was revived as a competitive team to last season after a few years away from league racing but have failed to regain any interest spectator wise. Only 292 people in average attended their meetings last season. From what i have heard they have mostly relied on incomes from iceracing events to fund their speedwayteam, i don't know if its true though. In general its very hard for speedway in Stockholm to attract spectators. This means that allsvenskan only will have five teams since new teams, like Eskilstuna Tigers, not are allowed to start in allsvenskan. Several riders will now stand without a team in Sweden this season some of Getingarnas riders belongs to Dackarna so i guess that they will be transferred to Dackarna's squad in the pre-season transfer window.

Gnistorna will have a female rider in their squad this season. Her name is Chatrine Friman and she is 19 years old. http://www.raceinfo.se/index.php?article=133

the distance from the track to the railway station is about 4km. regarding transport, the summer time tables won't be released for another 1-2 months so its a bit hard to say at the moment if there will be any transports later then 21.30 However when they are released use this search robot to find your trip: http://www.resrobot.se/pages/

from what i understand, it depends on if they can use Gubbängen (which is the same track as Bajen uses). There is/was some concern regarding Gubbängen and if they would have an airfence there or not. Getingarna is forced (by Svemo) to use Gubbängen if they can and are only allowed to race elsewhere if they for some reason can't use Gubbängen.

on seedwaygp.com it says "POL" for both Torun and Bydgoszcz and the wikipedia article says Poland II for Torun.

Getingarna had been away from league speedway a few seasons when they returned last season. Then a month/month and a half ago there were suddenly news about that Getingarna had pulled out and that they had offer their place in Allsvenskan to Eskilstuna Tigers. However Svemo rejected this because their rules didn't allow that new teams started in Allsvenskan (despite that both Hammarby and Getingarna have been allowed to do just that). Anyway as a result of this Getingarna changed their mind and have decided to participate in allsvenskan.

its the same in Sweden, the majority of the tracks are still covered with half a meter of snow.

Svemo have rejected Eskilstuna Speedway's plans on taking over Getingarna's place in Allsvenskan. Svemo says that they have to follow their paragraphs. This means that Allsvenskan will only have 5 teams next season and that Svemo might have to re-do the fixtures. Another problems is that Dackarna had a partner deal with Getingarna and several of Dackarna's riders were put in Getingarnas squad riders that now probably have to be transferred to Dackarna's squad and miss out on riding in allsvenskan. In 2003 or 2004 Hammarby (Bajen) speedway was allowed to take over team Bikab's place in Allsvenskan and Bajen were a new team that hadn't participated in the Swedish series system before.

Rospiggarna are now a total independent club. Rospiggarna have like Vargarna previously been a part of a larger "general" motorsport club with several types of motorsports in the same organisation. But now MK Orion have "sold" all their stocks in Rospiggarna Speedway AB (AB =~INC/LtD) to a new club named Rospiggarna Speedway. Both parts thought it was the best because of the difference between the speedway branch and the other forms of motorsport in MK Orion, especially the economic part. http://www.norrteljetidning.se/sport/artiklar/id/14748

http://www.jv.dk/artikel/828441

Göteborg City Airline also flies from Britain (Manchester & Birmingham) prices from £90

The national team manager gives his opinion on the teams in Elitserien. http://www.smp.se/sport/forbundskaptenen-o...281796809%29.gm

the same goes for Pelle Lundgren i think. He looks to be in his 50's as well. http://www.aktuellspeedway.se/grafik/forar...llelundgren.png http://www.eldarna.nu/forare/500cc/Senior_01.jpg

an article about Tomasz Gollob: http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/moto...ticle6657310.ab

Track wise it wont be any difference since Hammarby is using the same track, Gubbängen. i also added some info on the first page regarding Getingarna.

body { background: #FFFFFF; margin: 0px; padding: 4px; font-family: Verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; } What if a rider, who have entered the Qualification progress gets injured in a qualification semifinal? Because of the injury he misses out on advancing to GP challenge and also fails to reach top 8 in the GP standings. Another question is if there are room for all 15 riders in the qualification progress? As they all have to enter the qualis since they cant know , when the season starts, if they will be top 8 at the end of the GP season. Or should they have an extra end of season challenge for the 9-15th placed rider + the top 9 from the gp challenge? Perhaps for a start they should be more restrictive to who they hand out WCs? Maybe a rider should'nt be able to have one two years in a row unless he is a rider who meets the criteria above for being inside top 8+ enters the qualis but gets injured and misses out on both top8 + GPC? I Agree that riders (like Freddie and Harris and Nicholls in recent years) shouldn't be able to rely on WCs several years in a row but remember that Emil S was a Wild Card rider last season. So i thinks its nothing wrong with the system but rather the way the system is used?

found an article about Esbjerg Motorpsort who have started the worlds first all female speedway team. http://www.jv.dk/artikel/828441

Mikael Messing is the new Team Manager for Västervik. Magnus "Zorro" Zetterström will have his own radio show at a local radio station. Zorro's show will have be of a length of approx 20-40 minutes It will be possible to listen to it via webradio at the url below. http://www.radioeskilstuna.se/index.php http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/moto...ticle6612873.ab

just saw this picture:

this years first issue of the new Swedish speedway magazine, speedway racing, will be released at March 2nd. That particular edition will focus on polish speedway including an interview with Tomasz Gollob. They will also look at the Swedish league teams. The magazine will be available at arenas and at interpress partners.

there will be an iceracing event in th ABB Arena in Västerås. It will be a friendly meeting between Sweden, Russia, Germany and "Team Europe". The event will be held at Wednesday march 24th. The Arena is an indoor arena normally used for bandy and the estimated track length will be approximately 240m. The Spectator capacity of the arena is around 9000 people. http://www.racemcsport.com/nyhet_spec.aspx...;Sport=isracing

Andreas GF/Wife/fiancee also have a horse near where they live.