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Grindsted as far as i know are not one of the best supported clubs.And this is a local derby! But the one time i went there i had to park my bike in a ploughed field.Big risk of it falling over as i didn't have anything to put under the stand.So that was the one and only time i went there.Now i have a car i would still think twice about parking there

You two are weird and i on occasion work for one of you

I think it is Grindsted tonight Yup,just looked on the schdules and Grindsted v Esbjerg.Just noticed Mr Mungo put Fjelsted when that should be esbjerg.Mikkel B makes his debut today after Vojens folded

Well i mean it is certainly true that he won.I am guessing a bit that all of the riders have more experience,because i don't know the history of all.but those i do know have been riding a fair while.I even think one or two might be over21 years old now.And Robert seems to have taken out a German licence so he can ride 500cc bikes here,rather like the Dryml brothers did years ago.And as far as i know ex World Champ Egon Müller was thinking of helping him out.Not sure if he actually is now though Here is the result of the meeting http://www.speedway.org/ergebnisse/2012/moowidamm/ergebnisse/index.html

Yes and young Robert Lambert won an 'open' U21 meeting here in Germany yesterday against far more experienced riders as far as i know

No it is the European Junior competition.Always used to be U19s,but must have changed it.Although funnily enough i think in Denmark and Sweden they have had qualifications using U19s for theEuropean and U21 for the World comps.So.......it is speedway after all

Also the Speedway GP Umbrella Girls page on facebook......so i have heard.Not looked myself

Yes,but it is obviously colder,so they are more covered up for this one.Can't really compare to the red and white girls in the first one

Pretty sparse crowd!!!!

Another successful weekend in Germany for Kyle U21 EM Quali(Pfaffenhofen) 1. Piotr Pawlicki, PL- 14 (3,3,3,2,3) 2. Eduard Krcmar, CZ - 12 (3,3,3,2,1) 3. Vaclav Milik, CZ - 11 (R,3,3,3,2) 4. Kyle Newman, GB - 10 (2,1,2,2,3) 5. Tobiasz Musielak, PL - 9+3 (d,d,3,3,3) --- 6. Viktor Kulakov, RUS - 9+2 (3,3,2,1,d) --- 7. Michell Hoffman, D- 8 (3,2,R,0,3) 8. Michal Lysik, RUS- 8 (2,2,1,3,R) 9. Andriej Kobrin, UA - 7 (2,R,2,3,R) 10. Marcel Helfer, D- 6 (d,2,1,1,2) 11. Nejc Malesic, SLO - 5 (2,2,d,1) 12. Valentin Grobauer, D - 4 (1,1,1,0,1) 13. Xavier Muratet, F - 3 (0,1,0,0,2) 14. Stanislav Melniczuk, UA - 3 (1,R,2,R,d) 15. Lukas Ziegler, D- 3 (2,1) 16. Nick Lourens, NL- 3 (1,d,1,1,0) 17. David Pfeffer, TD - 2 (2) 18. Lukas Simon, A - 1 (1,R,R) from speedwaylive.hu Nerves of steel for Tobi Musielak to get through after that start

Missing that vital back up for the top 2 Tomaz.Need to get someone to change nationality like Ferjan did......

Tried a bit too much too early there Czaja.But lovely looking girls

From what i hear, that London is so hard to get to.So i am pressuming that some people who go to the Olympics won't be able to get there and back to Cardiff in time?That is a total guess though as i don't know when either is on....

Thanks for that.Great little story.Memory must be playing tricks if dad was at Hackney,but as it is such an unuaual surname i wondered if they were related

Stralsund 42 J.B.Monberg (1,3,1,3,0,3)11 R.Haupt (0,1,1,0,1)3 T.Busch (3,1,3,2,3,f.x)12 S.Wozniak (1,3,e.f,1,e.f,1)6 V.Belousov (3,2',3,1,1)10+1 Landshut 42 M.Smolinski (2',2,2',2',2,3)13+3 R.Gafurov (3,2,2,3,3,3,2')18+1 J.Jamróg (2,0,f.x,1,1',2)6+1 M.Helfer (0,0,2,2,0)4 C.Hefenbrock (0,1,0,ex.2m,)1

Heard Robert won the U21 competition in Moorwinkelsdamm yesterday against quite experienced opposition.Well done.Seems he has entered the German Championship comp with a German licence for more experience.

I seem to recall a Dons junior with the surname Verge.Steve Verge maybe?Is this young Danny Verge any relation?

You surely cannot have seen Dons greats like Vic Huxley,Billy Lamont,Jim Kempster and the not so great,but local to me(his shop is just a mile away)Alfred Rumrich?But maybe Jack and/or Kenny are older and saw them?

Yes,i saw this on speedway.org yesterday.It is great that the young girl isn't too badly injured.I guess we have to wait and see what the consequences for the club and maybe speedway in general in Germany might be.I would guess there has to be an inquiry.Freak accident that might probably at the same or similar stadium never again happen,but precautions haveto be taken.I do remember a few years back at Berlin for the Ice Racing a bike(think it might have been Harald Simon's)flew over the fence.But luckily it was on the third/fourth bend where no one stands/sits.Just a grass bank.If it had happened at the other end it might have caused the same incident as that is generally packed

Ha....i worked in Mill Lane,Carshalton for a few years....And also used to do White City,Wimbledon,Hackney and Rye or Eastbourne and then came Arena Essex

Yes,that is true.But i do try to plan my saturday visits so that i can take in 2(if really lucky 3)meetings.Next weekend i am having to decide whether to go to Skaerbaek or Vojens for the 80cc DM(YGT quali's or even go to Esbjerg for the 500cc 1st Div and then to one of the later qualis Would love to go up for this one.But we moved our place of work just over a year ago 1 hour further away from the border,so it is really hard to make it unless we have a day when not much is happening.But should be a good one

This is soooo true.I watched 5 out of the first 6 meetings and not one of them was better than average this season.Last year we saw some very dodgy track prep in Poland that got teams fined.....but still you will hear all the stuff about how great it is.I do remember someone aftera veeeery average meeting posting "Polish speedway at it's best" Blinkered is the word i think.The thing is once someone gets into the routine/mentality of saying how good Polish speedway is they find it hard to actually see the reality.The stadiums are superb,but the speedway is no better or worse than most countries.I would say that Pawel does in my opinion call it as we all see it and will say when it is a poor meeting

Indeed Mikael.That seems a fair entrance price for what is on offer.No point anyone saying,but in Poland it is cheaper.......It isn't easy to balance thefact the fans want top riders,but don't want to pay too much for that.And the club also wants to give the best they can afford.As for the stream....well there are a fair number of fans who hardly ever go to a meeting and just watch free streams which doesn't really contribute much to the sport.At least this way they will be contributing something

Superbly filmed.Not so sure about the guns though.Also not sure the cheap childish comment at an ex sponsor is fitting.The company put money into the sport when i would guess not many others were queing up to do so

Well i have to work on some pics for the young Russian Arslan Fayzulin,so i wish you a good evening and hope you join us for more speedway from Eskilstuna on the morrow