Ghostwalker

Vetlanda's Martin Vacilik have broken his thigh bone earlier tonight and will be away from speedway for at least 6 months.

status update regarding Jason Crump: http://www.elitvetlanda.se/index.php?page=...e=1&id=1463 Jason had a surgery during Tuesday (yesterday) during which new skin was transplanted to the inside of his left upperarm, from the armpit and downwards. There is no nervdamages and no damages to any bones in his shoulder or arm. When it comes to rahab and healing, its different for different people and this is nothing that can be rushed but Jason is going on daily checkups to see that it is healing as expected. According to some people Jason himself made a statement, to the newspaper in Vetlanda, where he is supposed to have said that he want to ride on Tuesday and Wednesday next week because he want a revenge from the previous meeting in Norrköping between these two teams where Jason and Vetlanda suffered a huge defaet, hope Anders can confirm this.

Canal+ will show Indianerna vs. Lejonen on Tuesday. Wenesday's schedule haven't been released yet but a good guess is that they will choose the Sf that seem to be the closest. If Lejonen would end up veru close with Indianerna and vargarna would have maybe 12p Margin over Vetlanda i think they will go to Vetlanda. Or the opposite if Vetlanda is very close to Vargarna after Tuesday's SF and Indianerna have a decent lead over Lejonen i think they will go to Gislaved. I will update y'days scores later this evening and also add lineups for Fridays 2nd Allsvenskan final.

very exciting now Indianerna and Västervik current both ´-8 behind whichmeans Västervik would go through, Västervik looses the 16th heat with 2-4 and they are out.

Indianerna is currently best looser with -4 points. Västervik is currently at -8 and Dackarna at -16. additional live result available here: Lej-Dack http://essupdate.elitspeedway.nu/stats.aspx?matchid=86 Västervik - Varg: http://essupdate.elitspeedway.nu/stats.aspx?matchid=87 ElitV - Ind http://essupdate.elitspeedway.nu/stats.aspx?matchid=88

I think then, that Saturday July 17th (week 28) might be a likely date for the first semifinal.

Jason will not ride for Elit Vetlanda because of his crash yesterday. Vetlanda will Peter Ljung instead of Crump.

tnx for the streams. please use the Play Off thread for discussions about the meeting(s).

Well there are scenarios that i think can justify a Wild Card system. There is allot of injuries in speedway and a rider can enter the qualifications but hwta happenes if they get injured while leading the Quali semi but because if the injury he cannot continue the semi and misses the chance to qualify for the Gp challenge. Or even worse a GP rider enters the qualifications but also gets injured while riding a the qualifications. For this rider too the injury prevents further advancement in the qualifications. The injury also causes this rider to finish outside the top 8 (he was with top 8 before injury) don't you think it would a good idea with a WC system so that this rider can be in the gp the next season? The qualifications also sometimes reward those who are familiar with the track so i don't know if it would be possible but i would like to have 2-3 CP challenge finals instead of one just to make sure that no rider gets too much advantage from the track. I think that the WC system is good if used in an appropriate way. However i do think that is totally wrong to give the same people the WCs year after year. Like Nicholls should not get another WC because he have already got his chances Also Isn't Emil S a WC rider this year?

TMC the track have been a disgrace at Ullevi every year. It was that this year, it was even worse last year, in 2004 it was the same kind of motocross track and in 2003 well they actually had to to postpone the GP a week after the riders striked.

there are already rumours that both Krsko and Dagauvpils will be replaced for next season. Croatia is mentioned as possible replacement for Krsko. Regarding BSI they are only seems interested in making a profit as large as possible. 15'000 people at Ullevi is more then 8000 in Eskilstuna and if the racing at Ullevi is more like motocross well they don't seem to care coz they got twice as many people.

hey have a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Speedway_World_Cup http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedway_World_Cup http://www.kalender.se/index.php?getdate=2...1&calId=new as far as i can see, the first semi was held on: the saturday in week 27 in 2008 and 2009 the saturday in week 28 in 2007, 2006 the Sunday in week 30 in 2005 the Monday in week 32 in 2004

Tomcat i agree on you that the tracks normally are very slick but the isse with Krsko yesterday was that the put some new shale on and it was very loose and heavy plus over watered meaning that most of the engines couldnt cope with it. Atleast that was what the swdish commentators said. But it doesn't matter really, because i agree with you on that it was a borefest because of crap track.

I heard/read somewhere that Holta is considering to drop out of the Gps. And I do think that Freddie Lindgren can manage a top 8 since Hans A who is currently 9th doesn't seem to be going nowhere in the GPs and Freddie have a 12p margin on him.

thread now updated with lineups and comments about Tuesdays quarter final return meetings.

found some streams listed at soccer-live.pl the meeting shown will be Lejonen vs. Dackarna http://www.soccer-live.pl/transmisje.php?id=motorsport sopcast link 1: sop://SOPCAST.SOCCER-LIVE.COM.PL:3912/56947 sopcast link 2: sop://SOPCAST.SOCCER-LIVE.COM.PL:3912/80259 sopcast link 3 (rquires sopcast web player) : http://www.soccer-live.pl/sopcast/player.h...lic%20Sport%202 myp2p: links: http://www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=...amp;part=sports

a run off? now don't be silly. Do you know what that would do to Ole's schedule?

great to hear beerceller. Gnistorna will probably win Div1 this season and their three best riders are Ricky Kling, Anton Göthberg and Christian Agö. i also would like to point out the the name of the club is mk tändstiftet (tändstift=sparkplug) and that Gnistorna is the nickname of the club.

about the track, Swedish commentators said that they put new dirt on the track about a month ago and that the new dirt is almost like pea gravel very loose and very heavy which means that the engines will struggle when the bike hits the dirt. They also said that there are rumours that Krsko might be replaced with a GP in Croatia and that the Latvian GP also was hanging loose.

Swedish tv decided to interup the broadcast to show 100m from the athletics world cup final.

http://www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=...amp;part=sports

tnx for telling. All should work now. I also added scores from yesterday's return meeting between Solkatterna and Örnarna. Allthough SVEMO have said earlier that both finalist will be offered a promotion to Elitserien. But now SVEMO seems to have changed their mindsa a bit isnce they have now said that they might only offer a promotion to one team if any of the current Elitserien teams would pull out. Valsarna and Solkatterna both said before the playoffs that they were intrested. However the question is if they can afford it? Valsarna made a statement to the press a few days ago that they want to drastically lower the average cap from 42.00 to 36.00 because they are a new team andwould have a hard time signing enough good riders . IMO this sounds like they have realized that Elitserien might cost them more then they expected and that they might have started to get cold feets about Elitserien. I dont know about Solkatterna they have been quite successful but their three best riders all belongs too Piraterna and without those they would only be a mid team in Allsvenskan.

I Asked Antonio LIndbäck at his websites guestbook if he knew whether he or Protasiewicz would be riding in Coventry next week but Anton hadn't heard anything about it yet.

The first of the two finalist have been decided. Valsarna advanced to the final with a total score of 103-89. With the advancement Valsarna have also qualified for next years Elitserien. The other semi final ended with a score of 53-43 in favour for Örnarna. Tonights meeting was the first meeting in that semi final and the seocnd meeting will be held tomorrow.

links to tonights Live scores between Valsarna-Hammarby and Örnarna-Solkatterna added into first post.