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line-ups for the Nov24 Test Match: AUSTRALIA: Sam Masters (cpt), Jaimon Lidsey, Jordan Stewart, Justin Sedgmen, Cooper Riordan, Zaine Kennedy. Rest of the WORLD: Rob Branford (UK, cpt), Zach Wajtknecht (UK), Tom Brennan (UK), Kyle Bickley (UK), Matias Nielsen (DEN), Kenneth Jürgensen (DEN).

Speedway is best as a team Sport, no doubt about it. The League and International Test Matches is what it makes it so unique and very special as a motorsport. Nowadays we have a full season of league meetings for the club teams, but what I miss most of all is some meaningfull International teams competition, like there was in the 1970s. When I watch the Rugby Union Autumn Test matches just this month, I realise what Speedway is missing out on big time.

FIM should return to the old and trusted format with 18 riders, six per race, and have nine heats, two semis, and one final race at each of the LT World Championship rounds.

St.Johann in Austria intend to run an open individual ice sppedway meeting on Saturday, January 19, 2019 Another ice meeting is to be held at Weissenbach, Austria (date tba) Does anybody know if there will be an ice speedway meeting somewhere in Switzerland this winter?

In 2019 the F.I.M. runs an official Individual Flat Track Motorcycle World Cup series over three finals. http://www.fim-live.com/en/sport/sport/flat-track/ F.I.M. Flat Track World Cup 2019: July 13, 2019 - Final 1 at Terenzano (Italy) September 7, 2019 - Final 2 at Morizès (France) September 14, 2019 - Final 3 at Misano (Italy) This year, the F.I.M. Flat Track Cup final was held as a one-off Event at Misano (Italy) on September 8, 2018. http://www.fim-live.com/en/sport/ranking/flat-track/ 2018 F.I.M. Flat Track Cup results: 1st ... Francesco Cecchini (Italy) 2nd ... Gerard Bailo (Spain) 3rd ... Franc Serra (Spain) 4th ... Ferran Sastre (Spain) 5th ... Mikko Kostinen (Finland) 6th ... Adrian Garin (Spain) 7th ... Maikel Dijkstra (Netherlands) 8th ... Guillermo Cano (Spain) 9th ... Lasse Kurvinen (Finland) 10th ... Gianni Borgiotti (Italy) 11th ... Hanson Schruf (Austria) 12th ... Niclas Poytalaakso (Finland) 13th ... Lorenzo Villamagna (Italy) 14th ... Pavel Pucko (Czech Republic) 15th ... Carlos Espinosa (Spain) 16th ... Paolo Piccinini (Italy) 17th ... Florian Eder (Austria) 18th ... Yasmin Poppenreiter (Austria) 19th ... Wilfried Delestre (France) 20th ... Jiri Kraus (Czech Republic) 21th ... Vaclav Gehart (Czech Republic) .

American Flat Track has appeared at this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed

... and the final round 18 at Meadowlands Raceway, East Rutherford, New Jersey, just outside of New York CIty (October 6, 2018)

Round 17 at Minneapolis, Minnesota (September 29, 2018)

Round 16 at Williams Grove, Pennsylvania (September 8, 2018)

Round 15 at Peoria, Illinois (August 18, 2018)

Round 14 at Rapid City, South Dakota (August 7, 2018)

Round 13 at Sturgis, South Dakota (August 5, 2018)

Round 12 at Weedsport, New York (July 7, 2018)

Round 11 at Lima, Ohio (June 30, 2018)

Round 10 at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (June 16, 2018)

Round 9 at Lexington, Kentucky (June 2, 2018)

Round 7/8 at Springfield, Illinois (May 26 & 27, 2018)

Round 6 at Sacramento, California (May 19, 2018)

Round 5 at the Turf Paradise, Phoenix, Arizona (May 12, 2018)

AFT Round 4 at Calistoga, California (May 5, 2018)

AFT Round 3 at the Texas Half-Mile, Fort Worth, Texas (April 28, 2018)

Something to watch in the Off-Season - the American Flat Track 2018 Series on NBC Sports Network, now on YouTube Round 2 at Dixie Speedway, Woodstock, near Atlanta, Georgia

Meeting at Leicester was rained-off and there seems to be no chance of a re-staging so late in the year. Anyone know now who is the British Sidecar Speedway champion of 2018?

Don't think so. Since SGP practise isn't compulsory anymore, the riders will go where the money is, and that is Polish League meetings.

Just like the Hammers have moved from Lakeside to Rye House, maybe the Robins will have to move from Swindon to Oxford one day ?