Ghostwalker

Swedish U21 rider Anton Jansson has signed a contract with Zielona Gora's U24 team and is set to make his debut tonight.

Andreas Lyager replaces injured Bergé in Rospiggarna.

Available on ESS play for 199 SEK (about £14-15).

HIghlights: Smederna-Västervik https://www.ess-play.com/video/s-2024-05-21-highlights-smederna-vastervik-hjiay9 Vargarna – Piraterna https://www.ess-play.com/video/s-2024-05-21-highlights-vargarna-piraterna-33lbom Rospiggarna - Dackarna https://www.ess-play.com/video/s-2024-05-21-highlights-rospiggarna-dackarna-ivq9ht Indianerna – Lejonen https://www.ess-play.com/video/s-2024-05-21-highlights-indianerna-lejonen-xu5q3m

Smederna won fairly comfortable in the end. Very enjoyable meeting with good close racing and lots of passing. Best meeting in a few years I'd say.

Vadim Tarasenko hardly scored a point two weeks ago. Tonight he is 3,3,3,3,3 both due to good gating and nice passes.

Nielsen retired from meeting (Smederna - Västervik) due to crash.

and R/R för Bewley as well.

Results from the qualifications to the Swedish final. 1. Sammy van Dyck 2. Ludvig Lindgren 3. Noel Wahlquist 4. Tomas Jonasson 5. Jonathan Grahn 6. Philip Hellström-Bängs --------------------------------------------------- 7. Joel Andersson 8. Peter Ljung 1-6 through to the final, 7-8 are track reserves. https://ta.svemo.se/Public/Pages/Competition/IndividualDrivingSchedule/CompetitionLiveResult.aspx?Branch=Speedway&Columns=CompetitionInfo,Branch,Name,Organizer,FromDateShort,LiveResult&DateFilter=TODAY&pagesize=10&IsArrangeable=true &ShowSearch=true&Style=SvemoWebsite&CompetitionId=15757&ShowAll=true&SortByResults=true

Live youth speedway from Sweden. Not sure if there a live stream on each occasion but their ambitions is to stream as much as possible. https://www.youtube.com/@svenskspeedway Preliminary broadcasts. Start time 13.00 CEST/12.00 BST 2024-06-08/09 at Gislaved / Västervik 2024-07-06/07 at Mariestad/Kumla 2024-07-20/21 at Avesta/Hallstavik 2024-08-03/04 at Hejdeby, Gotland 2024-08-24/25 at Eskilstuna / Avesta

A nice heat from yesterday's Allsvenskan meeting between Masarna and Solkatterna. Joel Andersson (Solkatterna) in yellow and Philip Hellström-Bängs (Masarna) in red. https://fb.watch/s73LopMKEa/

No Wojdylo for Smederna tonight. Missed his flight, rebooked but was an accident causing traffic delays.

R/R for Gusts

I agree with you and allot of fans have been saying the same thing "too many foreign riders" but the naysayers always have the same answer "look at Allsvenskan, they have many Swedish riders but not many spectators, so people don't want to see many Swedish riders". They had a good chance after Covid when they changed to 6 man teams. Allot of Swedish riders got the chance to prove their worth and took it. There was still very good racing despite lower quality riders. Then after for 2022, the rules were changed back how it was (7 men teams and 15 heats as well as change of tactical substitute back to only 6p behind. I also think track preparations has become much worse, atleast in Eskilstuna due to several seasons of complaint from opposing teams about track not being safe. Legitimate complains or not I don't know, but I do know that Smederna's hometrack advantage disappeared and racing quality dropped from pretty good to absolute snore fest and it was the same last week. I have season tickets (one for me and for my dad) this seasons too, but if the racing quality is the same for the rest of the seasons, note sure if I will bother next year. The racing is just so boring and tickets princes are quite high too in relation to how actual contents one gets. If I could decide I would set the following rules: 6 man teams with fixed pairs three 3 Swedish riders per lineup (minumim) Each pair does 4 heats each Back to 3 nominations heats Absolutely no tactical substitutes (better to make sure teams are at even strength then giving benefits to the loosing teams) No RR (sorry @racers and royals ) so teams will have to use a replacement rider in the lineup. No transfer windows Maximum 1 transfer per season and no transfer after halfway point in the series, but keep possibility to temporary replace injured riders but any replaced rider will receive a 5 week racing ban within all FIM-Europe jurisdiction. New riders has to do minimum 16 heats to be eligible for play offs. Lower ticket prices (Smederna charges 220 SEK for a regular non seating ticket and 250 SEK if you want a seated ticket along the straights). The league have their own play service (ESS play) but decided to increase the monthly subscription fee from 249 SEK to 349 SEK without any real improvements. No way I'm paying that much for 4 meetings/week Basically teams and some fans (on very high horses) say that fans should support their team and that all talk about increased cost for fans or upped prices for lay service is just whining. Some people just want to quell any negative opinions, full steam ahead everything is fine. The truth is that many people just don't want to acknowledge that there are problems. The Swedish Speedway Academy managed by Linus Sundström is definitely a step in the right direction but too little and too late and doesn't fix the core problems.

live youth speedway, starts 30 minutes from now. https://www.youtube.com/live/OV8F9hiwibw?si=zr2kWcCU6L38uWR6

Rospiggarna yes, but Vargarna might be this season's Rospiggarna and Smederna doesn't really look exciting.

I just read that Hans Andersen has become assistant team manager for the Danish national team.ä

correct. Same or lower average can take a ride.

The line ups at Svemo are not correct, at least not for Smederna. It's due to Polish federation not having sent in starting permits yet but they are expected do so tomorrow. The correct line up is listed here: https://www.eskilstunasmederna.se/artikel/kbosalvtv-21m61/derby-direkt-nar-smederna-inleder-sasongen

Swedish youth speedway intends to broadcast their meetings live on youtube, but they need 50 subscribers (followers) to be able to do that. So go subscribe (follow) them on youtube,. it doesn't cost anything. https://www.youtube.com/@svenskspeedway/featured

i dont think they know themselves yet.

Bysarna speedway have awarded 6 million SEK,* from the Swedish Inheritance Fund. They money is dedicated to the construction of a new 500 cc track. https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/pengaregn-over-bysarna-har-knappt-sovit-nagonting-i-natt *about 440 000 GBP/ €516 000

Smederna just announced that Tungate signed for 2024.

There isn't any tv-deal signed yet. There has been some talks with some interested parties but AFAIK Viaplay isn't interested though (not that they have any money anyway though).

The qualification event for the individual Swedish final will be held at Örebro on 19 May which is Pentecost Sunday.