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A big pairs meeting has been announced for Herning.Top riders like Nicki Pedersen,GP rider Niels Kristian Iversen and Seb Ulamek plus Jesper B.Jensen will be paired with riders from the Danish U21 squad as a season opener on the 18th April Herning

Just seen that vandals have caused €5,000 worth of damage to the stadium.Just mindlessly thrown drawers and speedway cups all over the place.Even thrown flowers on the floor and smashed the vase.All the doors in the stadium have been broken and the tractor damaged But the meeting is still on and the track is in good condition.Lets hope the weather stays fine for the club,who have suffered a few set-backs in the last few years with the weather Güstrow vandalism

I am the photographer who has to use card and rubber bands don't forget I wonder if the meetings will be on the net.This site has links to sport from Swedish Canal+ i think Sport on the net Or maybe the Polish site that gives links to speedway?

Ah,i know who i can ask to send me some copied dvd's then

Not surprising that the topic of Russia came up quite a bit at the Ice Racing GP in Berlin this weekend. One well known journalist said "never again".He told a story about a group getting stopped by police and the policeman rolled up a bit of paper,told the driver of the car to blow in it and then said he had failed "an alcohol test" and had to pay a fine. There was also an item in the Bahnsport mag about a group of riders getting stopped at the border and told the vehicle they were driving was against the law as it had 10 seats.They had to spend 9 hours at the border taking out 2 of the seats and "negotiating" so they could travel on. Another told of the mistake of saying he was a journalist and having most of his equipment confiscated Travel with a tour group would be the best bet,rather than alone

Nice pics Conkers.You might strike lucky with the one of Franky and the young lady with her face painted.She has already been in contact with me for a photo.She has asked for a photo of me as well though!!!!

For dangerous or unfair riding

Seems there was a meeting in Berlin this weekend with representatives from Denmark,Sweden,Germany,Czech Republic and even the US(not sure if anyone from Britain was there )to try and find a solution to the problem of so many different types of bike for the youths.Erik Gundersen,the Danish representative said the Danes think the 250cc bikes are to powerful for their junior tracks.There has at least been a group set up to look further for solutions. More info here(although in German Youth speedway

Was a great weeknd of racing.The weather was fine saturday,but wet on sunday.Could have been worse though.I am just surprised at the crowd figures given.3,900 saturday and 4,500 on sunday!!!! I thought sundays attendance was lower than saturdays.I would even say i haven't seen it so empty on a sunday.Had no problems moving around and finding a spot,whereas normally you really have to fight to get around

Hehe Of course i saw Joonas on the list.And would love him to go through unbeaten.Just not convinced his form in Germany is as good as Walasek and Karlsson or Smoli.But fingers crossed for a Brokstedt win Yes they will just add riders as they go along.If one of the others isn't available they will sign someone else for a meeting or two.Like i mentioned before it might be that we see Lindbäck here this year

Line-up for the opening Bundesliga meeting in Neuenknick -www.sc-neuenknick.de SC Neuenknick 1 Kevin Wölbert 2 Adam Skornicki (PL) 3 Dominik Möller 4 Rafal Okoniewski (PL) U21 Tobias Busch U19 Max Dilger MSC Brokstedt 5 Mathias Kröger 6 Joonas Kylmäkorpi (FIN) 7 Nicolai Klindt (DK) 8 Tobias Kroner U21 Sönke Petersen U19 Ramon Stanek MSC Olching 9 Martin Smolinski 10 Manuel Hauzinger (AUT) 11 Frank Facher 12 Hans Jörg Müller U21 Manfred Betz U19 Sebastian Kapser MSC Diedenbergen 13 Peter Karlsson (SWE) 14 Grzegorz Walasek (PL) 15 Ronny Weis 16 Thomas Stange U21 Dennis Wienke U19 René Deddens A good looking line-up with reigning champs Olching looking the weakest side.Diedenbergen have two top riders in Walasek and PK.Great to see him back in the Bundesliga after a few years break.Just a question of how much back-up those two will get.Stange can be very good,but is injury prone and young René Deddens is also a good prospect.But home side Neuenknick have a very strong line-up with the exceprtion of Möller.Dilger is likeyl to be unbeaten in the U19s and German U21 champ Tobi Busch will only be troubled by Sönke Petersen as far as i can see in the U21s.Brokstedt look very solid and should be challenging for the win.Be interesting to see how Tobi Kroner and Smoli fare against the top foreigners.And also if Adam Skornicki can continue his good early form My prediction: 1.Neuenknick 2.Brokstedt 3.Diedenbergen 4.Olching Edit:Meeting cancelled due to weather

Interesting news about a possible test match.I was wondering,as last year in Poland they held the 4tt with Sweden,Denmark,Poland and Oz.Was hoping they would do that again,but a test match with Oz is possibly better.Will have to book the week off work for this

The season opener in Germany with this new competition from the UEM.Line-up fom the Bundesliga site Denmark 1. Patrick Hougaard 2. Klaus Jakobsen 3. Peter Juul Larsen 4. Patrick Nørgaard 17. Simon Nielsen TM: Jan Stæchmann Croatia 5. Nikola Martinec 6. Renato Cvetko 7. Nikola Pigac 8. Andrej Kežman 18. Jurica Pavlic Germany 9. Kevin Wölbert 10. Max Dilger 11. Erik Pudel 12. Frank Facher 19. Sönke Petersen France 13. Theo di Palma 14. Maxime Mazeau 15. Benoit Lorenzon 16. n/a 20. n/a France haven't named their team as of yet.If and when they do i don't imagine they will trouble the leaders.Could be a good battle between the other teams.Denmark a bit weakened by the retirement of Jonas Raun could possibly be pipped by Germany.Nørgaard is maybe a weak link and Simon Nielsen whilst having potential might still be a bit inexperienced,although he won the junior event at the first meeting in Güstrow last year.Croatia have potentially the meetings top scorer in Pavlic.How much back up he will get from the others maybe Tomaz can tell us.But he did say Croatias "other" big talent,Dino Kovacic is too young for this competition, sadly Edit: from the MC Güstrow site States that there remains a question mark against the French team.But if they can't put out a full team,the places will be filled with German riders and the meeting will go ahead as planned.Obviously only the other 3 teams will be properly in the competition.Found 3 names for the French team on a Russian site!!!

No.I only rented a lens for thursday.My budget couldn't stretch to a weekend as well(should have seen me.I had a bit of card and a rubber band as a lens shade and a plastic bag to protect the camera against the rain.Not like my profi colleagues ).Not the way my friends were drinking

One of the photogrphers nearly had his lights put out for acting like a tabloid photographer World Championship,Berlin fotos

I'll second the first bit(and everyone else i bumped into over the weekend) and Bugger!!!!!! To the second bit Nice one

There is an article in this months Bahnsport about Lublin having debts of around €170,000!!! And 70% of that was owed to their riders

Thanks Ian. Mark said he would be there saturday at least.Not sure if he was staying sunday as well.Had a good chat with him and his mechanic.Not sure if he was happy with his performance,but he was getting stuck in and was certainly competetive.Was a good meeting.Obviously Bauer was easily the winner,but for the other rostrum places there was keen competition.Was lucky with the wind as it had been blowing the bales across the track all day but eased up just before the meeting or that could have caused a problem.Should be better for the weekend although still a bit wet

Results from the German Championship,Berlin 1. G.Bauer 15 Pkt 2. D.Tschatschin 14 Pkt 3. S.Pletschacher 12 Pkt +3 4. M.Krecklau 12 Pkt +2 5. R.Stellingwerf(NL) 10 Pkt 6. S.Gegenbauer 10 Pkt 7. F.Fürst 10 Pkt 8. M.Niedermayer 8 Pkt 9. C.Kirchner 8 Pkt 10. F.Mayerbüchler 5 Pkt 11. J.Weber 5 Pkt 12. R.Greisel 3 Pkt 13. P.Mader 3 Pkt 14. A.Roth 2 Pkt 15. M.Uzzell(GB) 2 Pkt 16. R.Verhoef(NL) 1 Pkt 17. S.Gartmann(CH) 0 Pkt Heat details Photos

And for those that can't make Berlin but have access to German channels RBB

I was of the opinion that it was.Think i read it in an interview with Johnno or Davey Watt.Would be wrong if the goalposts have been moved.But i am not surprised about this.

About the best post i have read from Steve Shovlar.I don't agree 100% with it,but it is nice to see an honest post without the crap

Couple of clips from Assen on youtube plus a stylish short on Tuinstra Tuinstra

The hard thing to tell is how often some of the riders will be available.And then how will the grade D riders go. I do agree,i think it will be between Holsted and Slangerup.Can't see Holstebro finishing that high up nor Esbjerg that low. My prediction Slangerup Holsted Esbjerg Fjelsted Grindsted Outrup Brovst Holstebro

Er....,for the sake of keeping to my new years resolution i am saying nowt