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Mads Hansen won with a maximum

A 15 year old won almost a million pounds by finishing 2nd in an e-sports tournament !!! As I posted a year or so ago, this is the future and maybe speedway should try and get in on the act, just as football clubs are... https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/british-teenager-wins-1million-fortnite-18790114

Not going to write it all out , but Kemp and Flint riding at Güstrow, guess the other line-ups been announced http://www.fim-europe.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/714-02-U19-SF-Gustrow-SL-1.pdf

Yes, the 20 quid tickets were for decent seats, as I only go now and again and it was more a treat for my daughter. We could have got standing tickets cheaper

Went to Hamburg v Anderlecht a couple of weeks back 2-2 in quite a good game for a friendly costing about 20 quid. But you can get into Dortmund Bundesliga games cheaper than that !!!

Rubbish. Plus in ice hockey and lots of other sports the time is stopped when the action stops

It makes sense from a regional point that the nearer the club the more fans they are likely to bring etc. From an attraction point of view the strength of one club will change, but the distance remains the same. I think that is always the case that near neighbours attract a bigger crowd. What happened this season I don’t know. Were those two dates then affected by bad weather or another attraction?

Seems they have had no problem breaking even with other opponents or going up against the GP on two nights, just against oppo from a distance

The worrying thing at least from Eastbourne is that they had poor attendances against the Scottish teams. So will one big league make it very difficult for those teams at each extreme of the UK while suiting those in the middle?

And speedway as well. They seem to hold training schools almost every weekend, weather allowing https://m.facebook.com/Rye-House-Speedway-Stadium-Whats-on-161299090883084/

An insult to the old competition

Bit unfair imo. I think the level of Danish speedway is fairly good, mainly because they do have some strength in depth, and then add in a few decent foreign riders. I’d say, although I preferred the previous 6 man teams and it is hard to compare 5 man teams to 7, but it is probably a better level than the British level

Kildemand the wildcard for Vojens

The final has now been moved from Holstebro to Holsted and will start at 20:30 Danish time, due to bad weather making the Holstebro track unrideable!!!

Apart from speedway, like boxing is a confidence thing to a large extent and that is why they don’t just throw a youngster in to get beat up by a champ. They take it step at a time. This time isn’t right for someone trying to get back to where he was last season

Just got in from football, so no idea Just seen that the times were changed and possibly postponed until tomorrow? Not sure just news from about 4 hours ago that the first semi will be at 10:45 !!! So that was very late for today to release news or the meetings will be run tomorrow Confused of Hamburg Now seen the results, so the meetings were held early today. Sadly the GB guys finished way down

Not sure I agree. It is a two day meeting and anything can happen.And then an out of form Bewley thrown in against the best in the world might only hamper his comeback to his best even more. Take him along as part of the team to gain experience by all means

There will be a livestream of the meetings https://www.prosonas.com/da/livestream-speedway-vm-2019-ungdomsfinalerne-holstebro-21-juli?fbclid=IwAR3gTKwheFHrNUAVfr4s1jvA6Ifv2k38xP8fueRHT0UO1ejlPS_KkgYJGXI

Yes the Estonians had/have a team in the Finnish league if I remember rightly?

Not sure, but quite likely two spots in the final are reserved for Danish riders

Really don't know, but quite possible

Ben Ernst is the grandson of former East German Champion Hartmut Ernst (1977) and his father (Martin) also rode. Sam Hagon is I am sure the son of Martin. Marlon Hegener's father Benjamin was also a Longtrack/Grasstrack rider. Not sure if he rode speedway at all

Starting List FIM Speedway Youth World Championship 20 July 2019 – Holstebro - Denmark Semi Final 1 1 Damian Ratajczak Poland 2 Gustav Grahn Sweden... 3 Mathias Pollestad Norway 4 Erik Bachhuber Germany 5 Kirill Leiman Russia 6 Viljam Lappi Finland 7 Sebastien Kössler Austria 8 Rasmus Pedersen Denmark 9 Francis Gusts Latvia 10 TBA Ukraine 11 Sam Hagon Great Britain 12 Casper Henriksson Sweden 13 Pavel Kuchař Czech Republic 14 Marlon Hegener Germany 15 Maurice Brown Australia 16 Michal Baštecký Czech Republic 17 Reserve Noah Moos Denmark 18 Reserve Nicklas Lind Larsen Denmark Semi Final 2 1 Milan Dobiáš Czech Republic 2 Pawel Trzesniewski Poland 3 Jesper Knudsen Denmark 4 James Pearson Australia 5 Ludvig Selvin Sweden 6 TBA USA 7 Patrick Skaarup Denmark 8 Mathias Karlsen Denmark 9 Noel Wahlqvist Sweden 10 Jonny Wynant Germany 11 TBA 12 Sam Mc Gurk Great Britain 13 Flynn Nicol Australia 14 Wiktor Przyjemski Poland 15 Ben Ernst Germany 16 Markus Maximus Lille Estonia 17 Reserve Valdemar Bonnelycke-Petterson Denmark 18 Reserve Jacob Virkelyst Johannsen Denmark Nice variety of countries entered. Good to see Austria and Estonia for instance

A short piece on a German Childrens channel where people introduce their hobbies. This one is a young 12 year old girl from North Germany who's hobby of course is speedway. She say's to the question about females in the sport that years ago there weren't many, but now the meetings are full of them!! A bit ott. The funny bit is when her father/mechanic describes a speedway bike as a paper clip on wheels, as it is a very simple machine. In german of course, but you can still enjoy the action, but will only be online for 4 days https://www.kika.de/kika-live/sendungen/sendung113638.html

Also have to hunt to find the truth For instance someone on this thread posted that they had no interest in the MSDL, even though they have posted a number of times on this thread. That post subsequently disappeared !!! Quite like the thread they started a number of weeks back asking if the MSDL was a development league, I think it was. Maybe it wasn't. But it also makes me wonder how on anther thread the poster say's it is the first time he has come here since February, obviously forgetting the thread that disappeared and his almost daily visits It's a strange world innit