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For the first time ever or at least the first time in long time (I can't remember it happening before) there are scheduled back-to-back rounds in Elitserien. There have been postponed meetings before that have been held the day before/after (or even on the same day) as a scheduled meeting and there have obviously been post-season meetings two days in a row but not scheduled league meetings. Round 9 and 10 is the same teams meeting each other on both nights. R9: Dackarna – Vetlanda Lejonen – Västervik Eskilstuna Smederna – Rospiggarna Kumla Indianerna - Masarna R10: Vetlanda - Dackarna Västervik - Lejonen Rospiggarna - Eskilstuna Smederna Masarna – Kumla Indianerna Round 9 Preliminary line-ups: Dackarna – Vetlanda #Focus meting Dackarna 1. Greg Hancock 2. Pawel Przedpelski 3. Oliver Berntzon 4. Patryk Dudek 5. Maciej Janowski 6. Hans Andersen 7. Joel Kling Vetlanda 1. Artem Laguta 2. Tomas H Jonasson 3. Leon Madsen 4. Brady Kurtz 5. Bartosz Zmarzlik 6. Robert Miskowiak 7. Filip Hjelmland Lejonen – Västervik Lejonen 1. Chris Holder 2. Maksym Drabik 3. Jaroslaw Hampel 4. Rohan Tungate 5. Piotr Pawlicki 6. Timo Lahti 7. Viktor Bergström Västervik 1. Nicki Pedersen 2. Mikkel Bech 3. Peter Ljung 4. Bartosz Smektala 5. Peter Kildermand 6. Anton Karlsson 7. Grzegorz Zengota Eskilstuna Smederna – Rospiggarna Eskilstuna Smederna 1. Fredrik Lindgren 2. Pontus Aspgren 3. Michael Jepsen Jensen 4. Krzysztof Buczkowski 5. Niels Kristian Iversen 6. Mikkel Michelsen 7. Linus Eklöf Rospiggarna 1. Jason Doyle 2. Max Fricke 3. Robert Lambert 4. Jacob Thorssell 5. Andreas Jonsson 6. Kenneth Hansen 7. Samuel Masters Kumla Indianerna - Masarna Kumla Indianerna 1. Vaclav Milik 2. Victor Palovaara 3. Piotr Protasiewicz 4. Kenneth Bjerre 5. Anders Thomsen 6. Christoffer Selvin 7. Adrian Miedzinski Masarna 1. Linus Sundström 2. Kim Nilsson 3. Tai Woffinden 4. Artur Czaja 5. Antonio Lindbäck 6. Emil Millberg 7. Joel Andersson Live streaming 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/live/zuzel/elitserien 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 Weather forceasts Tuesday : Smw-Ros Hot (>30 degrees Celsius) and sunny/partially sunny-cloudy Dack - Vet overcast but warm Lej - VVK overcast but warm Ind-Mas Hot (>25 degrees C) and partially sunny-cloudy Wednesday: Ros-Sme cloudy but warm Vet-Dack thunder showers/rain/clody but warm Vvk-Lej overcast but warm (<25 C) Mas-Ind overcast but warm (>25 C) Smederna and Indianerna tracks might suffer quite allot from the very hot (>25-30 degrees C) the past week(s). Smederna's track was exposed to a very intense rainfall for about 1 hours on the past Saturday. Once the rain stopped the track was back to super dry after less then 30 minutes so.... For the focus meetings, both meetings should provide excellent racing if the outside factors (weather and etc) cooperates.

Ticket prices for the Swedish championship: http://www.speedwaysm.se/sv/biljetter/

Results qualification event for Swedish championship youth (85cc) final. 1. Sammy Van Dyck – 14 (3,3,3,3,2) 2. Edwin Pohjanthähti – 14 (3,3,2,3,3) 3. Ludvig Hamrin – 13 (2,3,3,2,3) 4. Ricky Woss – 12 (2,2,2,3,3) 5. Isak Lundquist – 9 (FX,3,1,3,2) 6. Sofia Zöges Löfberg – 9 (3,2,0,2,2) 7. Liam Olsson Andersson – 8 (1,0,3,1,3) 8. Anton Jansson – 7+3 (3,1,0,2,1) — 9. Alexandra Svensson – 7+2 (2,1,2,1,1) 10. Theo Bergkvist – 6 (2,0,3,0,1) — 11. Ella Pettersson – 5 (0,1,1,2,1) 12. Dante Johansson – 4 (0,2,1,1,0) 13. Eddie Bock – 4 (X,2,R,0,2) 14. Sebastian Öhman – 3 (TT,1,2,0,0) 15. Oskar Larsson – 2 (1,0,FX,1,0) 16. Sebastian Glimfjäll Johansson – 1 (X,F,1,0,0) http://eskilstunasmederna.se/usm-kval-tre-smeder-till-final/

For Sweden, Smederna's Alexander Woentin have pulled out and is replaced by William Björling. Woentin injured his collarbone during the Euro U19 pairs in Zarnovica. http://se.aktuellspeedway.eu/2018/07/13/u21-skada-stoppar-woentin-i-lag-vm/

Smederna released a press release today saying that Barncancerfonden (the Swedish Childhood Cancer Fund) have been given the arrangement partnership for the Swedish individual championship finals in August. BCF will be given exposure in the meeting program, on the big screen and in Smederna's social media. After the finals the rider vests will be up for auction and 50% of the earnings will be donated to BCF. Smederna will also launch a fundraiser on their Facebook page. http://eskilstunasmederna.se/barncancerfonden-tilldelas-partnerskap-under-sm-helgen/

Mikkel Michelsen have been awarded a wild card to the Danish final. http://dmusport.dk/dmu/nyheder/nyhed/dato/2018/07/11/spw-mikkel-michelsen-faar-plads-i-dm-finalen-1/

Masarna's team manager about why they chose to use 5 Swedish riders. https://www.aftonbladet.se/a/oRGrEB Dackarna- Vetlanda on Tuesday and Västervik - Lejonen on Wednesday, two really good tracks.

Smederna salvaged a draw in the last heat. Still a poor effort from Smederna and the gating was terrible.

Lejonen will win this. 2p up with 2 heats to go and Hampel and Holder have been solid tonight.

Two straight poor heats from Smederna makes 30-30 aftet 10 heats. Aspgren saved Smederna from 1-5 in heat 9 where Iversen finished last and in heat 10 Lindgren again made a bad start and were unable to pass Tungate.

Paddy, i don't know exactly who. Closest higher floating average + all with lower average.

Smederna's riders are struggling a bit with the gating. Track is rubbish so far with no overtaking. It's really dry and watering does not do much. 12-12 after 4 heats.

R/R for Drabik at Lejonen.

Practice continues (with a little track action, pit action and more interviews).

A short clip from Smederna's practice this morning. Mostly interviews (in Swedish).

Yeah that's right. It was in 2015.

Transponders is in my opinion a complement to tapes and a replacement. It should be used to detect if a rider moves to early, and also possibly to determine dead heats.

Also the news about Tai is that a sponsor have paid the money Tai was owed and that means that he will ride tomorrow. Przemyslaw Pawlicki likely suffered a concussion in last week's meeting and have decided to sit out this week's meeting.

Yeah Vetlanda should win easily and no the track is usually really poor. It's a very heavy track with lots of loose dirt/sand/gravel on top. Ask @racers and royals about it. He'll tell you that I always complain about the Vetlanda track.

If a rider rides in Britain he needs a second base/set up with bikes. it isn't possible to transport bikes from Poland to Britain in time for a meeting on Monday evening. One example is Częstochowa to Manchester which is a 21 hour journey + eat/sleep/bathroom breaks and etc. Hallstavik -Esbjerg is about half of that.

I don't think riders loves their clubs and I also doubt that riders earn 10x more in Sweden then in England.

Preliminary line-ups for Elitserien round 8 Weather looks ok for all tracks, possibly a few drops at Vetlanda and Målilla. Vetlanda - Indianerna will be the focus meeting. Vetlanda - Indianerna (46-44) Vetlanda Artem Laguta Tomas H Jonasson Leon Madsen Brady Kurtz Bartosz Zmarzlik Filip Hjelmland Robert Miskowiak Kumla Indianerna Bjarne Pedersen Vaclav Milik Kenneth Bjerre Piotr Protasiewicz Anders Thomsen Victor Palovaara Ludvig Lindgren Somehow Bjarne is still picked despite poor results. Rospiggarna - Masarna (51-39) Rospiggarna Jason Doyle Max Fricke Robert Lambert Jacob Thorssell Andreas Jonsson Tero Aarnio Samuel Masters Masarna Linus Sundström Kim Nilsson Tai Woffinden Artur Czaja Antonio Lindbäck Emil Millberg Joel Andersson Pawlicki is missing but Tai is listed, not sure if this is what they will show up with unless Tai has been paid. Pawlicki was awful yesterday at Hallstavik though so Masarna are probably better off without him. Smederna - Lejonen (44-46) Eskilstuna Smederna Fredrik Lindgren Krzysztof Buczkowski Michael Jepsen Jensen Mikkel Michelsen Niels Kristian Iversen Pontus Aspgren Linus Eklöf Lejonen Jarek Hampel Maksym Drabik Chris Holder Kasper Woryna Rohan Tungate Mathias Thörnblom Timo Lahti Lebedevs have struggled and is now replaced by Michelsen. Smederna also gives Eklöf a chance to prove himself. I am not sure why Piotr Pawlicki isn't riding. Dackarna - Västervik (45-45) Dackarna Greg Hancock Hans Andersen Pawel Przedpelski Patryk Dudek Maciej Janowski Oliver Bernstzon Joel Kling Västervik Nicki Pedersen Grzegorz Zengota Peter Ljung Bartosz Smektala Peter Kildemand Anton Karlsson Mikkel Bech Live streaming 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/live/zuzel/elitserien Elitserien can also be followed at https://sverigesradio.se/sida/gruppsida.aspx?programid=179&grupp=7514 (web radio) Heat schedule: http://www.svemo.se/ImageVaultFiles/id_14025/cf_44/K-rschema_2-15.PDF

There is a third brother named Daniel. According to BBC, Williams partner Janine is pregnant with their second child. https://www.bbc.com/sport/northern-ireland/44754057 https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/robert-dunlops-son-i-expected-to-lose-comrades-in-war-not-my-dad-back-home-28465427.html

He has had problems with his shoulder though and recently underwent surgery to fix it. He have been very good for Smederna this season and averaging on 2.000/heat.

Madesen is usually good in the leagues but very weak in SGP/SEC. MJJ was awful last year and wasn't worthy a pick then but he has been really good this season. One could have picked Lebedevs as a wc for this season judging by his form last season but he has been very mediocre this season. NKI/Kildemand maybe but I don't think they add anything more then Nicki. Unfortunately, Denmark (like Sweden) doesn't really have any good up-and-coming rider.