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Is there any ticket info available for the Rybnik Challenge? Also help would be appreciated regarding the MDMP final that is held the previous day, somewhere?

Jouni Seppänen runs the whole show now. He knows first.

He's pulled out from the GP's this season. Spoke with him on saturday and his knee is still pretty bad. So he decided to opt against the GP's. He has raced and will again tomorrow in our speedway league, but with GP level and short tight tracks in the LT, he thought it would be best to leave it. I havent really followed him that closely, but I think the next op will be 4th on his left knee. If and when it happens, they'll pin it so that the ligaments can stay still for about 3 months. Will probably happen this autumn.

This is what I find "interesting" in longtrack. Riders like Appleton, Phillips, Kröger... someother spend years and years, possibly a couple of decades on the LT and are the "champions" and draw cards. Then comes Kai Huckenbeck, Joonas Kylmäkorpi, Cameron Woodward and others, even A-P Mustonen with a bucket load of cash, buy the right kit and are winners by a margin...

Any idea Jesper how come Huckenbeck did so well?

Wasn't the last big race money around 100k. So if every rider gets 10k in the start of the season for "free" from BSI, thats about two rolling bikes with top parts. I could call that substantial help. EDIT: Regarding Tampere SGP2016, I read yesterday that promoter Jarno Kosonen had said after the GP that the time slot for the Tampere SGP might change next year. First of the Finnish football games for UEFA2018 is on Oct 9th 2016 at Ratina. Which currently is still without a pitch. So a 100 meters shorter track at Ratina on top of the pitch that will host UEFA football in October 2016...

The prize money is listed in the FIM rule book. Thats all the money that the FIM quarantees. BSI pays on top of that. Exact amount is unkonwn.

Ylitornio Finland according to the grapevine.

The other one pays fines to the other and it's sorted.

At the time I took S-Bahn to Henningsdorf (most northern stop) and then DB to Bärenklau. After that it was about 6-8 km's walk with one turn left and another right. From Bundesplatz near the ice racing it was a full day (8-10 hours) both times and we barely left the city.

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That dont change the fact that the deal was and is for three years.

Now this just will not sink in with me... We are past the first half of the year and the SGP hasn't practically even started yet.

Nope, Netherlands won in Swingfiels a couple of years ago already... EDIT: Was late with this. Impressive. How was that even possible.

Cash creates opportunities.

10 months for alcohol is in the boundaries of your Basic "off-the-shelf" punishments in WADA books. EVEN when we know it's 2 years for the first doping offence you make. They gave a year for a motorcycle rider here in Finland a couple of years ago and SML had to explain to the Finnish WADA/ADT why they were so hard on him.

I had almost already written that the meeting was practically organised by Finnish people with clerk of the course experience of around half a dozen or more SGP's, years of speedway refereeing and a couple of LT GP's... But that would not have been taken seriously, at all...

Warsaw.

Local wild card. Approved by CCP. Thanks. About same with our last similar victory, when Kylmä win in Abensberg a few years back...

A question with the most sincere thought behind it, absolutely NO bad feelings behind it, but when has an Italian rider won a meeting of this caliber in the past? Armando himself, way back? The one in front chooses his line first... ?

And speaking of Denmark, I spoke with Gundersen last summer. They have 130ish 85cc 12-16 years and the same in 50cc microspeedway 5-11. They can afford to "lose" a few to 250cc. We have 10+1. We cant.

That 4tt is exactly that, just a glorified open meeting... LOL But as has been the case, it "appears" during the meeting... Last time the 85cc YGT was in Denmark, it was ridden at a different track. They just invite who's there on practise/semi day.

And they (organizers) are atleast 2 riders short for even those two semi's. Someone has pulled out again. 36 places requested, 32 given and not even that is filled. I guess it's happening for real...

The killing of 85cc has been going on for years now. Main reasons for its survival has been the strong position it's having in Denmark and Sweden. Now from the start of 2016 the YGT age limit is dropped to 15 in the top end and 250cc has been U17 for years. Also what I hear, is that the availibility of these 250cc engines is very limited. Thats just hearsay from people that have tried to get one. With FIM 85cc going to be ages 12-15 and 250cc being 13-17 its gonna effectively cut the number of riders in half in 85cc. It can happen on the world scale, but like over here IMO it's better to stick with 85cc as we have bikes and tracks and a running operation. Trying to split it will kill them both and in the current situation that speedway is in over here, it would not get back up. Actually told this to CCP and look what they did...

SEC is a real championship, the same as SGP. Its FIM Europe and FIM, European and World. SBPC is glorified open meetings.