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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

One Sport have now issued an official apology to Laguta for the wrong anthem being played and have offered Russian fans 50% off tickets for the Torun round

An episode of Your Hobby from the German childrens channel KIKA with 12 year old Heidi from Parchim. Only available for the next 5 days, so it say's https://www.kika.de/kika-live/sendungen/sendung113638.html

4,500 is an ok but not great crowd, considering they got 8,000 for the Whitsun Pfingstpokal meeting with a poorer quality field

Wasn't a lot of the problems dealt with in the previous thread? It was a case of a cheaper Star or no Star at all. And in that it seemed to be cheaper on the report side

Now watch it in your own time. Some good action footage, but sadly a bit of singing as well https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/das/DAS-mit-Rennfahrer-und-Saenger-Egon-Mueller,dasx18896.html

Weather looking perfik. Couple of days a bit wet, then a nice day Saturday. Big crowd and decent racing as usual, we hope

Egon will be on tv live at 17:45 today. Hopefully talking about speedway and not singing. Will of course be in German https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/livestream/index.html

Tickets for Inzell go on sale on the 15th August.Between then and the 30th of September there is a 10% reduction in price https://www.dmv-eisspeedway.de/vorverkauf15.08.2019 bis 30.09.2019

Sweden women’s football team on tv

As a follow up it was announced that Weber’s replacement in the team will be Celina Liebmann !!!

Think there should be a notice on the gate, just like there used to be about not getting your money back if the meeting was called off after set number of heats

The Scandinavian quali round of the European U21 at Holsted cost £0 to get in. Beat that!

Not sure why you think that is important? But 150 krone is €20!!! The actual cost is 30 Krone for a programme, which is a bit more realistic

See the good folk at Holsted are letting fans in for the amazing price of nowt!!! Now what a line up for free!! Might even be tempted to drive up myself to see the cream of Scandinavian youngsters plus some Finnish bloke

Cost of living is the big difference. There is around 40% lower living cost in Poland. Obviously great for foreigners and that is why a lot of Germans travel over the border every week. Just like according to Dortmund and a BBC report a couple of years back 1000s of British football fans take advantage of the cheap tickets for Dortmund’s Bundesliga home games. Cheapest tickets to stand in the 80,000 crowd are less than €17!!!

Total b###s up this. Brokstedt with Holta and Rene Bach etc and then Stralsund turn up with a bunch of youngsters. Lots said on the net(including myself) that they wouldn't turn up and pay Bundesliga prices for what was a 2nd division team and even some of the second division sides are better than that Stralsund team!!! Should be a minimum strength.....was actually looking forward to this but it was obvious before a lap was run who was going to end up winning.Speedway !!! No wonder I am losing my enthusiasm. Maybe Ludwigslust at the weekend will get me to the track. Lower level meeting, but if the line-up is relatively equal ability then I am ok with that. Rant over

It is also no new phenomenon, not wanting stadia near your home. Sure there were complaints way back in the 1930s about speedway racing in or around London. And it wasn't confined to the UK, as the track in Hamburg caused neighbours to complain and try to get it closed for a few years in the early 1930s

Stralsund track is around a football pitch from memory, and they make a big fuss about bikes going onto the centre. Handing out fines for anything other than pushing a bike across the green(pitch). Also never really seen a great meeting there

You would have thought the situation would be the other way round. On the basis Prague is one of Europe’s major tourist cities the council don’t need to attract speedway fans. In fact in a lot of major cities they are turning against attracting tourists. On the other hand Pardubice council might want to attract a few thousand foreigners for a weekend. But I don’t think the speedway club want to touch the GP Quick google shows both Prague and Czech Republic had a record tourist year in 2018 and Prague is already taking measures to clamp down on Air bnb and have appointed a night life Mayor to try and get to grips with the excesses of tourists and cheap drink

Personally when summer comes along it is out with the sandals for me. And I am so so lucky that my skin is Peril white that I can even wear white socks and nobody notices !!!

Speedway GP Prague with English commentary