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26-16 after 7 heats. Pepe won't ride more tonight. Great battle between Buczkowski and Woffinden where Woffinden was past Buczek but Buczek put the throttle beyond max and held on on the outside and reclaimed first for the remainder of the heat.

Protasiewicz crashed heavily in heat 5. He was leading and halfway through the final bend his bike just stopped abruptly throwing Pepe off. The riders behind him luckily managed to avoid him. Pepe is currently receiving treatment in the pit medical room. Smederna have 19-11 (70-50) after 5 heats.

Freddie is planned to ride which is why he was put at nr 1. It was talked about during Smederna's live broadcasts tow days ago that Freddie had given Smederna's team managers all clear after his Polish meeting the past Sunday. There have also been articles in the local newspaper about that Freddie is back in the team. Smederna may have a 12 p lead but that doesn't mean that we are in the semi final already. We still have 15 heat tonight and if you remember last year's play offs. Smederna had a big lead over Masarna but it was still close in the end.

It was called Diamond league back then if they are the same. http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?/search/&q=Diamond cup&type=forums_topic&nodes=9

First post is updated with lineups. Weather forecasts look ok. No rain expected.

Kildemand is confirmed for tomorrow. http://www.vt.se/sport/speedway/positiva-beskeden-infor-avgorandet-om5444199.aspx

He reached semi final in " Night of the Fights " yesterday so I think he will be riding.

Line-ups are official for Tuesday, http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Elitserien2018/ More info tomorrow.

Danish junior Martin Steen Hansen crashed heavily during practice at Grindstead. He was taken to hospital in Odense where he is being kept in an artificial coma. His injuries are smaller bleedings in his brain and four fractures in his back. https://www.bt.dk/oevrig-sport/juniorspeedwaykoereren-martin-steen-hansen-lagt-i-kunstig-koma

Lglad vs. Bjerre. https://www.instagram.com/p/BnGnzasl2h-/

It could be a great meeting. Ljungheden has become a very good track since Morgan Andersson took over as team manager. heat 12 from Indianerna-Smederna.

Kumla is normally a very good track but some reason it was only one rideable line yesterday.

Some interesting and unexpected results tonight. Smederna manage a 12 p away win and Västervik gets away with a 45-45 result. Second leg next Tuesday. I haven't seen any of the meetings but it was supposedly an unusual one line only track in Sannahed, Kumla. For the VV derby, Kildemand got injured in the first heat but Västervik still managed 45-45. Allsvenskan play-offs; http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Nyheter/SlutspeletiSpeedwayensAllsvenskan/

Name any other sport with a standing start where the athletes/drivers/Riders are allowed to anticipate the start? F1? No. WRC? No. Swimming? No Athletics? No MotoGP? No A standing start is about standing still and react to a start signal. It is not about chancing / anticipating the start. Transponders would solve this problem. You do allot of start testing and decide which reaction time should be the limit. This can the be monitored during the start and it would be easy to see if it is a good start or a chance start.

Swedish play-offs 2018 Quarter finals 1st leg. Vetlanda - Västervik Vetlanda Artem Laguta Brady Kurtz Leon Madsen Tomas H Jonasson Bartosz Zmarzlik Magnus Karlsson Ricky Kling Västervik Martin Vaculik Peter Kildemand Peter Ljung Bartosz Smektala Nicki Pedersen Anton Karlsson Mikkel Bech Kumla Indianerna - Eskilstuna Smederna Kumla Indianerna Tai Woffinden Kenneth Bjerre Piotr Protasiewicz Kacper Gomolski Anders Thomsen Ludvig Lindgren Simon Gustafsson Eskilstuna Smederna Michael Jepsen Jensen Fredrik Lindgren R/R Mikkel Michelsen Krzysztof Buczkowski Niels Kristian Iversen Linus Eklöf Pontus Aspgren Kumla Indianerna - Eskilstuna Smederna will be shown live on Premiersports at 6pm UK time. Quarter finals 2nd leg. Västervik (45) - Vetlanda (45) #Tv-meeting Västervik Peter Ljung Bartosz Smektala Martin Vaculik Peter Kildemand Nicki Pedersen Mikkel Bech Anton Karlsson Vetlanda Artem Laguta Brady Kurtz Leon Madsen Tomas H Jonasson Bartosz Zmarzlik Ricky Kling Magnus Karlsson Eskilstuna Smederna (51) - Kumla Indianerna (39) Eskilstuna Smederna Fredrik Lindgren Mikkel Michelsen Michael Jepsen Jensen Krzysztof Buczkowski Niels Kristian Iversen Linus Eklöf Pontus Aspgren Kumla Indianerna Tai Woffinden Ludvig Lindgren Anders Thomsen Piotr Protasiewicz Kenneth Bjerre Victor Palovaara Christoffer Selvin Semi finals 1st leg. Eskilstuna Smederna - Rospiggarna #televised meeting. Eskilstuna Smederna Fredrik Lindgren Mikkel Michelsen Michael Jepsen Jensen Krzysztof Buczkowski Niels Kristian Iversen Linus Eklöf Pontus Aspgren Rospiggarna Jason Doyle Max Fricke Andreas Jonsson Jacob Thorssell Robert Lambert Gleb Chugunov Tero Aarnio Dackarna - Väservik Dackarna Greg Hancock Pawel Przedpelski Oliver Berntzon Patryk Dudek Maciej Janowski Hans Andersen Joel Kling Västervik Martin Vaculik Peter Kildemand Peter Ljung Bartosz Smektala Nicki Pedersen Anton Karlsson Mikkel Bech Semi finals 2nd leg. Västervik (41) - Dackarna (49) #televised meeting Västervik Peter Ljung Bartosz Smektala Martin Vaculik Peter Kildemand Nicki Pedersen Mikkel Bech Anton Karlsson Dackarna Greg Hancock Pawel Przedpelski Maciej Janowski (K) Oliver Berntzon Krzysztof Kasprzak Joel Kling Hans Andersen With Dudek out I think Västervik can make a fuzzz against Dackarna depending on Kasper's motivation/effort. Dudek has now been officially replaced by KK in the squad. Rospiggarna Jason Doyle Max Fricke Andreas Jonsson Jacob Thorssell Robert Lambert Tero Aarnio Sam Masters Eskilstuna Smederna Fredrik Lindgren Krzysztof Buczkowski Niels Kristian Iversen Michael Jepsen Jensen Mikkel Michelsen Linus Eklöf Pontus Aspgren Rospiggarna should win this and thus I hope it the final meeting where Iversen and Eklöf represents Smederna. Iversen rearely wins heats (too many seconds and thirds) and Eklöf hasn't improved a bit in 12 years. -------------------------- The Final Dackarna- Smederna Tuesday 19.00 Swedish time. Dackarna Greg Hancock Pawel Przedpelski Oliver Berntzon Maciej Janowski Krzysztof Kasprzak Hans Andersen Joel Kling Smederna Fredrik Lindgren Krzysztof Buczkowski Michael Jepsen Jensen (K) Mikkel Michelsen Niels Kristian Iversen Linus Eklöf Pontus Aspgren Smederna - Dackarna Wednesday 19.00 Swedish time. Eskilstuna Smederna Fredrik Lindgren Krzysztof Buczkowski Michael Jepsen Jensen (K) Mikkel Michelsen Niels Kristian Iversen Pontus Aspgren Linus Eklöf Dackarna Greg Hancock Pawel Przedpelski Maciej Janowski (K) Oliver Berntzon Krzysztof Kasprzak Joel Kling Hans Andersen Live streaming (pay per view) at: https://www.speedwayplay.com/elitspeedway Live results as always at http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/ http://www.elitspeedway.com/liveresultat/ https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/elitserien/live https://www.svt.se/sport/malservice/ https://www.svt.se/svttext/tv/pages/376.html Elitserien can also be followed at https://sverigesradio.se/sida/gruppsida.aspx?programid=179&grupp=7514 (web radio in Swedish) Heat schedule: http://www.svemo.se/ImageVaultFiles/id_14025/cf_44/K-rschema_2-15.PDF

Conny Ohlsson has been named the new team manager and sports manager for Rospiggarna. http://se.aktuellspeedway.eu/2018/08/27/rospiggarnas-nya-lagledare-klar/

I think 4 or 5 years and the new thread will be up later I think.

Statistics for this year's Elitserien :http://se.aktuellspeedway.eu/2018/08/22/elitserien-statistiksammanfattning-av-grundserien-2018/ Attendance statistics: http://se.aktuellspeedway.eu/publik/elitserien/2018/ This year's attendance average is 2994.5 compared to last year's 2882. Smederna have the highest average 4841 and also the individual highest attendance figure with 6011 against Masarna.

Yeah I totally agree with you but it won't happen now that the clubs have too much power.

Next week Indianerna - Smederna and I would assume Västervik - Vetlanda. I think Indianerna and Vetlanda will go through with Dackarna-Vetlanda in the final.

Rospiggarna gains 37 points on Smederna and should take second place.

It's not really surprising but Lindgren intends on trying to ride on Friday and Saturday. https://www.svt.se/sport/speedway/trots-kraschen-lindgren-tanker-aka-vm-deltavling

Top 4 will only change internally and Vetlanda will likely not reach top 2. Indianerna will be 5th or 6th. Västervik likely finishes 5th or 6th too.

Round 14 Preliminary line-ups: All meetings are planned to start at 19.00 Swedish time. Dackarna (47) - Smederna (49) Dackarna Greg Hancock Pawel Przedpelski Oliver Berntzon Patryk Dudek Maciej Janowski Hans Andersen Joel Kling Eskilstuna Smederna Fredrik Lindgren Andzejs Lebedevs Mikkel Michelsen Michael Jepsen Jensen Krzysztof Buczkowski Niels Kristian Iversen Linus Eklöf Pontus Aspgren Masarna (37) - Vetlanda (53) Masarna Antonio Lindbäck Joel Andersson Kim Nilsson Artur Czaja Linus Sundström (K) Jepser Persson Emil Millberg Vetlanda Artem Laguta Szymon Wozniak Brady Kurtz Tomas H Jonasson Bartosz Zmarzlik Ricky Kling Magnus Karlsson Rospiggarna (51) - Lejonen (39) Rospiggarna Jason Doyle Max Fricke Robert Lambert Jacob Thorssell Andreas Jonsson Samuel Masters Tero Aarnio Lejonen Timo Lahti Rohan Tungate Piotr Pawlicki Kacper Woryna Maksym Drabik Kenny Wennerstam Mathias Thörnblom Kumla Indianerna (42) - Västervik (48) Kumla Indianerna Tai Woffinden Vaclav Milik Piotr Protasiewicz Kenneth Bjerre Anders Thomsen Christoffer Selvin Jonatan Grahn Västervik Martin Vaculik Peter Kildemand Nicki Pedersen Bartosz Smektala Peter Ljung Anton Karlsson Mikkel Bech Battle for second: 2. Smederna have 634 - 535 = 1.185046728971963 (won points divided by lost points) 3. Rospiggarna have 620 - 548 = 1.131386861313869 4. Vetlanda have 606 - 562 = 1.078291814946619 Dackarna needs one point to win the league. Smederna needs 3p to win the league and 1p to secure second. I think Smederna without Lindgren will have a hard time getting the 1p needed and I think Rospiggarna will win big at home against Lejonen which means that I think Rospiggarna will take second. Live streaming (pay per view) at: https://www.speedwayplay.com/elitspeedway Live results as always at http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/ http://www.elitspeedway.com/liveresultat/ https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel https://www.svt.se/sport/malservice/ https://www.svt.se/svttext/tv/pages/376.html Elitserien can also be followed at https://sverigesradio.se/sida/gruppsida.aspx?programid=179&grupp=7514 (web radio in Swedish) Heat schedule: http://www.svemo.se/ImageVaultFiles/id_14025/cf_44/K-rschema_2-15.PDF

The same as Göteborg/Ullevi being suggested as an arena in a dream season. No offence to you who suggested it but it's awful arena (for speedway) since it way too big and the track has always been a mess. Then we have the very small factor that it rains more often in Göteborg then it does at Målilla.