Ghostwalker

according to google earth the distance to Eldarnas track is 12km from Flemingsberg. and Örnarnas track is about the same distance from Mariestad.

http://www.espeedway.pl/live2_.php at the url above you can follow the 2nd semi-final from Daugavpils. The Event starts at 17.30 CET .

i would like to say well done Simon Gustafsson.

i agree on Buczek and Risager

there is also another factor and that is the reputation of a rider. If we have two situation where the circumstances are exactly the same in the same meeting can we trust the referee to take the same decision both times regardless who the riders are? Lets say we have two riders (x and Y) that are closing in on the corner. X is on the Inside and Y is on the outside slightly behind X. X slides the back of his bike out to prepare for the corner and hits Y and Y falls. The questions is would the referee(s) judge different depending on who the riders are? Lets say its X's fault. If Nick Pedersen is X and Leigh Adams is Y I'm quite sure that the referee would exclude and possible also warn Nicki. However if it was the opposite, if Leigh is X and Nicki is Y what would the referee judge? Exclude Nicki which is consider by many to be "mr bad guy" or exclude "Mr nice guy" Leigh Adams? Yeah definitely. the press has written quite quite much about Kenny's and Robin's accidents and the safety in speedway. Some columnists who normally never ever even mentioned speedway suddenly become experts and have demands that the sport should be forbidden and all the other bla bla bla. sometimes it feels this new rule is just for silencing the press. But we will find out in Tuesdays if the new rule is good or bad.

My personal opinion on this is both good and bad. Its good that they try to deal with the dangerous riding that occasionally occur but there's a big risk that the referees will take this a step too far. Where is the border between tough and rough? I also think that the referees wont be consequent and some ref's might allow fairly dangerous stuff while others might give warnings for things that are ok. What if a rider gets a good start from gate 4 and are in the lead when he closes in on the corner. What should he do try to take the inner line through the corner and risk getting a warning for dangerous riding or should he stay on the outside and try to keep the bike upright in the "dirt" which usually are to be find close to the fence? In yesterdays meeting between Indianerna and Kaparna, Rafal Dobrocki took the lead and when he got to the first bend he had a good lead and as every other rider would have done he decided to "cut" and head for the inside line through the corner. However the referee stop the heat and excluded RD for "dangerous riding". I did not see this meeting live but IMO that's sounds quite ridiculous shouldn't he be allowed to take the lead? If like half of the riders in a meeting gets warned for trying to overtake and try to claim the lead in a normal way I think we would be better without this rule. If they are to strict they will ruin the sport.

Swedish Motorcycle Racing Association, SVEMO has decided that a new system that is based on warnings of similar kind that we see in football will be implemented in Swedish league speedway. The new rules will be "activated" already on Monday. The new system means that referees can warn a rider if the ref considers him to have performed a dangerous maneuver (unsportsmanlike conduct) the referee can/should give that rider a warning. IF the rider gets another warning in the same meeting he will be excluded from the rest of the meeting and also the next meeting. If a rider from an earlier meeting has 1 warning and gets 1 or 2 in the next meeting he will be excluded from the next meeting as well. In the latter case the riders warnings will be removed after his excluded meetings. This new rule is put into action as a result of the recent accident of Robin Johansson and the tragic accident where Kenny Olsson lost his life.

150? hmm i thought all teams charged 120kr which is £8,64.

Yes and Eric Andersson will most likely be put in Smedernas Allsvenska team, Team Bikab since we can still use him in Smederna as long as his average is below 5.00. Rory will be the Team Captain. or actually i think he already is the new Captain.

Well i dont know where you got those averages from since they are not correct. if you want to know the attendances for each meeting then take a look at this: http://www.speedway.nu/2007/publik.asp?Elit Averages: Dackarna: 4516 Elit Vetlanda: 4129 Västervik : 3103 Hammarby: 2524 Smederna: 2519 Piraterna: 2464 Indianerna: 2463 Rospiggarna: 2262 Masarna: 1578 kaparna: 1362 the total average for the the Elitserien is 2567. some teams have had 4 home meetings so far while others only have had 3. The highest attendance so far during a league meeting from the 2001 season and onwards is 8353 which was at Smedernas home meeting against Masarna in the 2003 season. actually this is Elitserien (elitleague) and not allsvenskan.

i'm afraid i have very sad news. The headline for a new article in Aftonbladet says "min son är hjärndöd" which means "My son is braindead". "my son is brain dead, the doctors gave me the news at lunch time" says Kenny's father to aftonbladet. "kenny is only alive thanks to the respirator". http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/sport/story/...1089870,00.html

we can only hope that Kenny's case will develop in the same way as it did for Ales Dryml last year. He too was in deep coma but suddenly he opened his eyes

Swedish rider Kenny Olssson has been taken to hostpital after a very bad crash in tonight's meeting between vargarna and valsarna in the Swedish Allsvenskan league. First reports says deep unconsciousness and heavy head injuries but working respiratory and heart. links (all in swedish): http://www.svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=...096&lpos=lasMer http://www.nt.se/nyheter/artikel.aspx?articleid=609513 http://aftonbladet.se/vss/sport/story/0,2789,1089188,00.html

hey garf you spelled our name wrong its Smederna and not Smedarna.

http://www.speedway.nu/2007/Report.asp?elit.GJ Piraterna Motala 46 50 Västervik Piraterna: 1 Grzegorz Walasek 5 2 Micha³ Szczepaniak 2 3 Kenneth Bjerre 5 4 Mikael Max 6 5 Ryan Sullivan 16 6 Damian Baliñski 11 7 Tobias Ingesson 1 8 Christian Ingesson 0 Västervik: 1 Bjarne Pedersen 10 2 Chris Harris 3 3 Tomasz Gollob 12 4 Niels Kristian Iversen 5 5 Sebastian U³amek 5 6 Viktor Bergstroem 3 7 Tomasz Chrzanowski 12 8 John Larsson 0 ------------------------------------------------- http://www.speedway.nu/2007/Report.asp?elit.HB Rospiggarna Hallstavik 53 43 Elit Vetlanda Rospiggarna: 1 Greg Hancock 9 2 Adrian Miedziñski 5 3 Janusz Kolodziej 10 4 Travis McGowan 6 5 Jonas Davidsson 14 6 Krzysztof Slaboñ 1 7 Andreas Messing 7 8 Jonas Andersson 1 Elit Vetlanda: 1 Jason Crump R/R 2 Adam Skórnicki 11 3 Jaroslaw Hampel 5 4 Lee Richardson 11 5 Rune Holta 8 6 Tobias Johansson 2 7 Thomas H. Jonasson 6 8 Robin Aspegren 0

yes speedway.nu :http://www.speedway.nu/2007/resultat.asp?elit or http://207.218.233.253/ligaszwedzka.htm but ill post the results now. Dackarna Målilla 63 : 33 Kaparna Goeteborg Indianerna Kumla 48 : 48 Hammarby Stockholm Masarna Avesta 50 : 46 Smederna Eskilstuna Piraterna Motala 46 : 50 Västervik Rospiggarna Hallstavik 53 : 43 Elit Vetlanda ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.speedway.nu/2007/Report.asp?elit.AE Dackarna - Kaparna 63-33 1 Dackarna 1 Hans Andersen 11 2 Peter Karlsson 10 3 Fredrik Lindgren 13 4 Christian Hefenbrock 4 5 Andreas Jonsson 12 6 Robin Törnqvist 6 7 Ricky Kling 7 8 Joakim Engstrand 0 kaparna: 1 Pawel Hlib 8 2 Chris Louis 1 3 Rafal Dobrucki 6 4 Kim Jansson 6 5 Renat Gafurov 9 6 Tomas Karlsson 0 7 Stefan Dannö 2 8 Michael Berntsson 1 ---------------------------------------- http://www.speedway.nu/2007/Report.asp?elit.DC Indianerna Kumla 48 48 Hammarby Stockholm Indianerna Kumla: 1 Niklas Klingberg 0 2 Magnus Zetterstroem 11 3 Matej Ferjan 11 4 Rafal Okoniewski 5 5 Piotr Protasiewicz 6 6 Roman Povazhny 12 7 Simon Gustafsson 0 8 Ludvig Lindgren 3 Hammarby Stockholm 1 Jesper B. Jensen 11 2 Joonas Kylmäkorpi 7 3 Tomasz Gapiñski 5 4 Adam Shields 9 5 Scott Nicholls 10 6 Krzysztof Jabloñski 6 7 Robert Pettersson 0 8 Kim Nilsson 0 ------------------------------------------- http://www.speedway.nu/2007/Report.asp?elit.FI Masarna Avesta 50 46 Smederna Eskilstuna masarna: 1 Billy Hamill 4 2 Simon Stead 9 3 Antonio Lindbäck 11 4 Davey Watt 3 5 Leigh Adams 13 6 Daniel Davidsson 6 7 Linus Sundström 4 8 Robin Bergqvist 0 Smederna: 1 Rory Schlein 12 2 Erik Andersson 1 3 Krzysztof Kasprzak 14 4 Andre Compton 9 5 Wieslw Jagus R/R 0 6 Linus Eklöf 5 7 Morten Risager 5 8 Robert Hendersson 0

well it depends. if you can accept swedish commentary then yes, if you dont then no. http://www.mininova.org/tor/724926

this seems to be a good place to look: http://www.copenhagenet.dk/

i disagree about the the track being in a poor condition since it was a really great GP. Alot of good racing. There wasnt the typical 1 line Gp track we usually have on non-permanent tracks. we saw the riders using a lot of different lines especially in heat 8 its rare to see something like that in a GP race. Then how many crashes were there? It was Jason's in 14th and Nicki-Jagus-Bjarne in the 16th heat. And i think that 2 crashes on a whole evening is a pretty good result. This was the best Gp race in quite a while.

which is hometrack for Wieslaw Jagus and former hometrack for Nicki Pedersen and Scott Nicholls.

the latest forecast from tv and SMHI.SE says cloudy weather during morning but sunny weather during afternoon and evening. about 17 C and a weak wind during the evening.

its terrible that such a young rider gets his whole future ruined and that on the anniversary of the death of Tommy Jansson.

actually just remembered that you can find some news and results here as well: http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/sport/story/...1075999,00.html and here: http://www.aftonbladet.se/ettor/webb/2587_normal.html

Well no unfortunately not. There are websites but none of them are especially well updated. you can have a look at www.svenskspeedway.se and www.aktuellspeedway.se but if you want more up to date news the best way is to look at the the team websites and in the team guestbook/forums in some cases.

yes you can: Speedway.nu click on elitserien and then "Result". Yellow squares means upcoming meetings, green is ongoing meetings, blue is finished and red is postponed. click a green square fora list todays meetings. click on the scores in "heat" columns for teams core summary and click on "ställninG" for a more detailed heat info.