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I think they should definetely get David Hasselhoff for 2007!! I'd book my flights today if they get him!

This is the way that clubs, as they are in Sweden and Finland, work! There are people to do the work, while others come and take the benefits. It would be totally different if it was done UK style. There's a promoter with his money who calls the shots. No need to ask "Would you, please?" I know there are a great deal of volunteers in UK tracks, but they know what they get when they come involved. They are promised something and thats it. Over here there's that possibility if things go great there's more money for the club. In the UK there's that one adress for it, the promoters pocket. Over here everyone wants it to be used as they see fit.

Well maybe you'll go bankcrupt this year if things go like they did last year. There were officials from Smederna practicly ready to pull the plug on the whole thing because people were only interested in free tickets. It turned out OK, no probs. Maybe there even isn't any bad blood left?

I believe it... I was in a meeting where the fixtures were decided. Afterwards we had a drink with the Kuusankoski people, and went trough the fixtures finding dates when they'd have riders missing. Their manager had already told me they had signed Swede's and how cheap they were earlier, but even though I offered to pay for the round, this time he remained mysterious and did not give any names! The U21 rule in our league went a little belly up. Kuusankoski played the "quality of the league"-card, and it seems now that the U21 rider doesn't have to be finnish. If a nominated finnish U21 for a team gets injured, they can replace him with a foreign U21 rider.

My post was more of a windup than a regular comment, but it has some truth in it. More money is a good thing no doubt, but judging by how it's been used in the past it doesn't look too good. The Västervik stuff really got on my nerves, because they had a "bought" team of imports, won the league and told the council to pay up the debts (simplified version). For what I've understood about whats going on with Bajen, trying to build an indoor arena for this year... A bit over the top if you ask me. The fence bit is interesting. I saw Sam Ermolenko on Sky commenting how good the swedish fences are at the moment, and he even questioned the need for an airfence with them. I havent seen that many stadia's in Sweden to comment on their facilities, but wherever I go to see speedway I have to Q to P, so more toilets sound fine!

The way I had it figured it out, they had not paid any of their ambulance fees from last year (practicly same amount) and the service was about to be withdrawn. Like so often in Sweden, someone came through with deep pockets and paid it off. Not a problem anymore.

... pay bigger points money to even younger/older and even more unheard of poles, be their age's 20- or 40+? I sincereally hope that this season Svenska Mästare hasn't made an economical loss like others before it. Kaparna went almost bankrupt after their championship and Västervik made a loss around 100k € after this season. VMS Elit has been so strongly supported by EF that they might have escaped it.

I found this a couple of days ago, managed to book rooms for our group. http://www.allhotels.lv/?reg=9&page=search...t=1&ctry=latvia

This just in, it's official. Alltough for some reason all the foreigners have been left out, except Emil Linqist. I know all the teams have at least one in their side, and they are allowed to use two per meeting. Kauko Nieminen might ride in one or the meetings, so Kotkat have held talks with the Gustavssons from Sweden. Other foreigners as listed earlier. Finnish league 2006 Paholaiset, PMK Manager: Tomi Kauppi Cesary Owizyc, Marko Suojanen, Petri Koskela, Panu Karvonen, Petri Meritähti, Jari Mäkinen (u-21) Kotkat, SeMK Manager: Mauri Palmi Kaj Laukkanen, Kauko Nieminen, Rene Lehtinen (u-21), Joni Keskinen (u-21) Leijona-Haukat, HMK-SsMK Manager: Kalevi Kyyhkynen Emil Linqvist, Tomi Reima, Toni Salmela, Marko Hyyryläinen, Joni Kitala (u-21), Kalle Kivistö (u-21) Keittiöpiste, KMMK Manager: Jorma Mäkikunnas Juha Hautamäki, Tero Aarnio, Juha Mäkelä, Jyri Palomäki, Teemu Lahti (u-21) Snails, VRT Manager: Juha Kuosmanen Joonas Kylmäkorpi, Jani Mäkelä, Mico Brotkin, Tomi Tuomainen (u-21), Aarni Heikkilä (u-21), Aki-Pekka Mustonen (u-21) Daugavpils Maksims Bogdanovs, Vjaceslavs Giruckis, Jevgenijs Karavackis, Jevgenijs Petuhovs, Kjastas Puodzuks, Dmitrijs Palkovskis 1st Division aka City-series Vaasa (VaMK) jj. Markku Uuttu Jonne Perälä, Tero Villanen, Timo Villanen, Mikko Rahko Pori (PMK) jj. Seija Mansikka-Aho Petri Koskela, Markku Raappana, Petri Meritähti, Tomi Kauppi, Mika Suojanen, Jari Mäkinen Forssa (FMS) jj. Jorma Tuomisto Aarni Heikkilä, Janne Nyman, Ari Tuomisto Kauhajoki (KauhjMK) jj. Anssi Hautala Pasi Räsänen, Jan-Erik Korkeamäki, Juho Ruuska, Olli Heikkilä, Markku Autio, Reino Koivuluoma Seinäjoki (SeMK) jj. Harri Nieminen Pekka Valo, Harri Nieminen, Petteri Koivunen, Panu Karvonen, Mikko Koskinen, Tuomas Reinikainen, Joni Keskinen Lahti (SsMK) jj. Vesa Hyyryläinen Markku Weckman, Ismo Lehtosalo, Vesa Hyyryläinen, Risto Flink, Kalle Kivistö, Joni Kitala People over here seem anxious to get things underway. League will probably start in late April, when Daugavpils will have their home meeting. Training camp is planned to go with it. The league calendar will be published next week, when it's confirmed in a meeting regarding it.

Now that would be perfect!!!!! thanks for the info...

This is the one I was talking about. Any chance a team within a decent distance might make/host it? 200-300 km = trainride?

Any news or rumours where the U21 team Champ-final is to be ridden on the thursday before Bydgoszcz GP? Anyone have an idea when such info would be published?

He was a longtrack specialist, but had ridden speedway plenty over here. He was in his speedway prime in the late seventees, thats probably why he was in the UK. He continued his career until the late 80's. I've heard stories plenty why he never came back, from himself as well as others. It just wasn't his thing to ride there, he couldn't adapt personally.

I had a chat about this a few weeks ago. Then they had 10 of them spread between Hans Andersen, Leigh Adams and Robert Eriksson (swedish dealer / rider). There was someone else I cant remember. Last season I heard Kelvin Tatum commenting about a new Jawa frame on Sky broadcast from the SWC on the Dryml brothers, so the testing has already been done. To some extenct anyway.

Jawa has produced a frame that imitates the Rickardsson-Penske frame when it comes to rear "suspension". However the front end with adjustable steering geometry that Trick has (and owns the patents to) hasn't been copied. This is from someone who's seen the frame. Like debated earlier Crump has switched to GM (photo's from Sittingbourne training) but Nicki's switch to Jawa hasn't been confirmed yet. 1. Trick 2. Scotty 3. Crump 4. Nicki

Speedway.org says that the third Finn will be Pekka Karttunen.

In Finland the 3rd member will be either Kaj Lehtinen or Raimo Henriksson. I'd go for Lehtinen...

If you can get him an average low enough, I'll call him and send him back for this season! McKinnen sounds about right!

He is... He has... a boy called Arttu (2yrs). I had a tape once of his early days in the UK on which he was questing for Newport. He rode a max if I'm not mistaken. Olli Tyravainen... LOL! Tyrväinen would do better. Veijo Tuoriniemi was featured on speedway+ some time ago, when he made somebodys "nightmare team". That was a good laugh. He now has his own speedway business. He tune's motors for Antti Aakko and various finnish riders. He also imports Jawa and GM here. We did a google on Rauli Mäkinen just last saturday, and found a thread of him here at BSF. Someone was saying: " Didn't speak a word of english, but always had a smile on his face." That's him. He didn't adapt too well to the british way of life. Because of the language problem, he ate his serials with orange juice... I thought that was hilarious... Cant think of others. I know Toni Salmela was in the UK once with Kokko, but decided that it wasn't for him.

"Illegal" moped racing, Vesilahti, Finland 25.2.2006 Stock Moped A-final ... 5th f-s-p "Tunturi '73"

I've spent a few hours trying to book a hotel in Daugavpils. Not a success, alltough there is one reservation without confirmation. It looks like Kjastas Pudsuks was confirmed as a wild card according to one of the Latvian touristinfo site's. http://www.daugavpils.lv/?load=80/280&set_lang=en

From the guestbook at www.isracing.net. On the finnish forum someone was wondering why this Engenström fellow is not in the swedish A-team... Nordic final 2006 1. Ulf Engenström Sverige 15p 2. Torleif Burman S 14p 3. Kaj Lehtinen SF 13p 4. Peter Koij S 11p 5. Hans-Olov Olsén S 11p 6. Pekka Karttunen SF 8p 7. Tomi Kirilov SF 7p 8. Jouni Seppänen SF 7p 9. Fredrik Olsson S 6p 10. Ari Tuomisto SF 6p 11. Paul Johansson S 5p 12. Manteren SF 4p 13. Timo Kankkunen SF 4p 14. Hyttinen SF 3p 15 Jo Saetre Norge 3p 16. Joakim Söderström S 2p.

Jari was the first person to ride a 500cc speedway bike since the beginning of the 90's in the centre of Tampere. He did a few laps for show yesterday @ Pyynikki. His dad Rauli Mäkinen was practicly unbeatable in the late 70's early 80's @ Eteläpuisto, situated only few hundred meters from Pyynikki. Eteläpuisto was better located than Wimborne Road FYI! When U2 come over I'll tell you all about it! EDIT: Actually you've been there already, in black&white!!

I was the secretary and timekeeper. Didn't see anything! There were some good heats, could've been more close though...

Suomi 43 Pekka Karttunen 100120 4 Tomi Kirilov 213R11 8 Kaj Lehtinen 321233 14 Jouni Seppänen 00010 1 Henri Malinen 0000 0 Timo Kankkunen 01X 1 Raimo Heriksson 333033 15 jj. Matti Pöysä Ruotsi 65 Ulf Engenström 33232 13 Hans-Olov Olsson 011221 7 Torleif Burman 21323 11 Peteri Koij 12211 7 Fredrik Olsson 232R2 9 Joakim Söderström 123331 13 Paul Johansson 1202 5 jj. Sture Jansson 1. Engenström, Kirilov, Karttunen, Olsson 3-3 49,19 2. Lehtinen, Burman, Koij, Seppänen 3-3 51,35 3. Henriksson, F. Olsson, Söderström, Malinen 3-3 51,72 4. Engenström, Lehtinen, Olsson, Seppänen 2-4 52,25 5. Henriksson, Koij, Hohansson, Kankkunen 3-3 50,35 6. F.Olsson, Söderström. Kirilov, Karttunen 1-5 52,53 7. Henriksson, Engenström, Olsson, Malinen 3-3 52,07 8. Kirilov, Koij, Burman, Karttunen 3-3 51,62 9. Söderström, Johansson, Lehtinen, Seppänen 1-5 53,06 10. Engenström, Olsson, Karttunen, Kirilov R 1-5 53,97 11. Burman, Lehtinen, Koij, Henriksson 2-4 53,53 12. Söderström, F. Olsson, Kankkunen, Malinen 1-5 52,47 13. Lehtinen, Olsson, Seppänen, Johansson 4-2 53,81 14. Henriksson, Burman, Koij, Kankkunen X 2-4 53,32 15. Söderström, Karttunen, Kirilov, F. Olsson 3-3 53,91 16. Henriksson, Engenström, Olsson, Malinen 3-3 52,07 17. Burman, Johansson, Kirilov, Karttunen 1-5 53,38 18. Lehtinen, F. Olsson, Södesrtöm, Seppänen 3-3 54,22 Attendance 950+ even though ski jumping was on TV from the Olympics!!! Usually we get 1200-1500, so very good. The date was forced, we had no choice!