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All the official FIM attendance figures for every Grand Prix can be found at http://www.internationalspeedway.co.uk/extra9.htm

as are Paul Coward (from Middlesbrough) and Robin Archer (Newcastle)

Poole will be like that on October 4th! Well, maybe not ...

Thanks for the info!

I see that only 3 Finnish riders made it to Chervonograd yesterday for the semi-final of the European U-19 Team Championship. Any idea why? I assume Katajisto is still injured?

OK, thanks guys.

Excellent. Many thanks!

2pm SS4

I think you will also find that the rider finishing 3rd in a race when it's a 3-3 will not get paid for a bonus point if the 4th rider does not finish the race. Can anyone confirm that?

Many thanks for that

I assume there was no 4-team international event after the Final, like there has been in recent years?

This means that the Final at Rye House on 5 Sept will be Great Britain v Poland v Denmark v Sweden Australia are eliminated. http://www.internationalspeedway.co.uk/wjtc10.htm

after 4 heats: Blue 4 wins Red 4 seconds So the gates are all nice and even then!

f-s-p, could you tell me if these meetings are taking place? Thanks

One of the 5 qualifiers was at Holsted, for the 4 Nordic countries only. Why can't GB be qiven a qualifying round for the British, Australian, New Zealand, and USA riders (i.e riders resident in GB) to be staged in the UK? (Although, given the number of young Oz riders here at the moment, maybe they should stage their own qualifier?) It would save a lot of travelling. And, hey, LB might even turn up!

Esbjerg, Denmark, compete in the Danish Superleague. But they also have two teams in the 9-team Danish Division 2 league, one of which is "the Girls Team". They haven't won a match yet, but give them time. See: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.esbjergmotorsport.dk%2Fklub%2Findex.php%3F2_Division%3A2._Div_Piger_Truppen_2010&sl=da&tl=en or http://www.esbjergmotorsport.dk/klub/index.php?2_Division:2._Div_Piger_Truppen_2010 I don't ever remember an all-female team taking part in a recognised league before. Brian Collins http://www.internationalspeedway.co.uk/ P.S Back in 2001, Sabrina Bogh won the Danish Under-21 Championship

Greg has given great service to the USA team over the years. If he concentrates on earning the money towards the end of his career, then so be it.

From USA speedway group: Finland - 48 Slovenia - 47 USA - 30 (Fish 12, CK 11, Kenny 5, Tommy 2) Italy - 24 No Hancock for USA (required by Zielona Gora); No Manzares for USA (too young - under 17)

Thanks, Tomaz

Yes, thanks Tomaz. I had thought that the Slovenia forum was closing, as well as the website. Pleased to see that it is still open!

First in Test Match series between Croatia, Slovenia, & Czech Republic 27.03 : Croatia 64 Czech Republic 26 (at Gorican) A rather weak Czech team beaten by Croatia augmented by 2 Polish guest riders Croatia: Lukasz Jankowski (Pol) 15 (5 rides), Jurica Pavlic 12(4), Dino Kovacic 12(5), Renato Cvetko 10(5), Robert Mikolajczak (Pol) 10(5), Jasmin Ilijas 5(4), Ivan Vargek 0(2) Czech Rep: Jan Holub 8(5), Vaclav Milik 7(5), Michael Hadek 5(5), Roman Cejka 3(4), Jakub Fencl 2(4), Jiri Brummer 1(4), Jaroslav Hladky 0(2)

f-s-p, on a recent TV programme here in the UK, we were told that Helsinki airport had NEVER closed due to bad weather, because they have every piece of snow clearing equipment that there is! At the time they showed it, we had the usual delays and closures of British airports due to a few cm of snow.

I'm forwarding this from another group: As you may or may not be aware the Auckland City Council is up to its dirty tricks again in trying to get rid of the Speedway at Western Springs. You may recall all the drama in 2004 when there was the march and also the petition that raised approx. 56,000 signatures in support of the speedway. The current council has decided to invalidate that petition that was accepted unanimously by the previous council. That means we have to start all over again. The Western Springs speedway club has an online petition going. Please go the link below and add your name - takes less than a minute Please pass it on to all your mates and anybody else you can get to sign http://www.speedwayclub.co.nz/signpetition.php

They're making the World U-21 Final into a mini-GP series. Will sixteen U-21 riders be able to AFFORD to dash around Europe on the crap meeting and expenses money that the FIM pay? Especially if they do poorly in the first couple of meetings. It's not as though they are guaranteed a GP place if they win.

23 Feb : SWEDISH ELITSERIEN - Round 2 at Avesta ORNSKOLDSVIK 41 : Stefan Svensson 14, Patrick Sohlberg 8, Rene Stellingwerf 7, Ulf Ledstrom 6, Seppo Siira 6 GAVLE 35 : Per Olof Serenius 12, Peter Koij 8, Magnus Lundgren 7, Fredrik Johansson 7, Fredrik Olsson 1 FUNBO 20 : Tommy Flytman 12, Roger Nordmark 3, Robert Henderson 2, Borje Ivarsson 2, Joakim Soderstrom 1 STROMSUND 18 : Kai Lehtinen 7, Olof Olsen 7, Tomas Ekstrom 3, Tobbe Alstromb 1, Robert Grejsvold 0 After 2 rounds 1. Gavle 5 pts 2. Ornskoldsvik 4 3. Stromsund 2 4. Funbo 1