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Tomorrow night's TV match, looks rather tasty. Valsarna - Indianerna Valsarna 1 Scott Nicholls (GB) 2 David Watt (AU) 3 Grigory Laguta (RU) 4 Artem Laguta (LV) 5 Daniel Nermark (SE) 6 Ludvig Lindgren (SE) 7 Tomas Gapinski (PL) Indianerna 1 Bjarne Pedersen (DK) 2 Henrik Gustafsson (SE) 3 Piotr Protasiewicz (PL) 4 Joonas Kylmäkorpi (FI) 5 Antonio Lindbäck (SE) 6 Niels-kristian Iversen (DK) 7 Simon Gustafsson (SE) Indianerna, look very strong at reserve, especailly with Niels-kristian Iversen being in there, I can't wait.

I saw Tommy race at Wimbledon the week before that tragic and fatal accident. He was in brilliant form that night. He even beat Dave Jessup in the Golden Helmet match race 2-1, using Wimbledon junior Ian Williams bike, after his own bike broke down, in the first leg. He then went and won the Malboro Southern Riders Qualfuing Round, with a maximum 15 point score. This is how I remember him at his brilliant best. Wimbledon speedway was never the same, after that night.

My Czezh Republic riders #1 Tomasz Gollob 9 #2 Jaroslaw Hampel 8 #5 Greg Hancock 8 #15 Janusz Kolodziej 7

My four riders are #2 Jaroslaw Hampel 9 #5 Greg Hancock 9 #7 Kenneth Bjerre 8 #11 Fredrik Lindgren 8

Many thanks Ghostwalker for posting the link to your excellent Swedish league heat formula. It will really come in handy for me on Tuesday and Thursday night's. I have downloaded, and printed off a few copies already.

OK, I was watching the meeting also, but my swedish is rubbish. I wasn't following any scores on the any website, as I had my laptop connect to my large TV via HDMI. With no on screen graphics or scoresheet I didn't know for certain, which riders were really in each race.

Ricky Kling and Magnus Zetterstrom are Smederna's other guest riders

THJ is one of Smederna's guest riders

1973 Wimbledon 6 October 1st ARTHUR PRICE Boston 12 2nd Bobby McNeil Eastbourne 12 3rd Lou Sansom Workington 12 4 Bruce Forrester Teesside 11 5 Dave Baugh Bradford 11 6 Mike Broadbanks Chesterton 10 7 Richard Greer Peterborough 10 8 Graham Drury Ellesmere Port 9 9 Arthur Browning Birmingham 7 10 Brian Kennett Canterbury 5 11 Geoff Bouchard Long Eaton 5 12 Ken McKinlay Scunthorpe 4 13 Dave Morton Crewe 3 14 Jim Wells res Sunderland 3 15 Dave Mills Hull 1 16 Tom Owen Barrow 1 Res Willie Templeton Berwick 3 Res Bob Young Rayleigh 1 I have dig out my programme if you want the indivdual riders scores.

Many thanks Gatwick Rocket, I'm sure that this info will help a few people, who keep records.

Looking forward to this Dackarna Vs Vargarna on Premier Sports in the UK with delayed coverage, at 10pm.

Anyone who missed the Stal Gorzow match yesterday can watch a replay here Stal Gorzow match

Only too pleased to try and help, sorry I put up the wrong info. As these scores are hard to find. Could you put the info on here, in case anyone else is keeping records, of events, and don't have these one's.

oops my mistake Iris123 I have the details of the semi finals in Vjoens and Prague, have to my speedway stars tomorrow to see if there any details from Krsko.

1st USA 30 Dennis Sigalos 18, Bobby Schwartz 12 2nd England 22 Peter Collins 15, Kenny Carter 7 3rd Denmark 21 Hans Nielsen 11, Ole Olsen 10 Australia 16 Billy Sanders 11, Gary Guglielmi 5 Finland 16 Kai Niemi 12, Ari Koponen 4 New Zealand 13 Mitch Shirra 8, Larry Ross 5 Czechoslovakia 8 Jiri Stancl 5, Ales Dryml 2 Hope this helps

I'd rather have sixteen riders competing the World Championship any day, then a having a different wild card, at the GP meetings.

There is a competition on the Speedway Grand Prix website, that's free to enter with prizes.

I have just checked their website and found this Swedish Speedway — Elite League — Round 1 Elit Vetlanda vs Piraterna Tuesday 3 May at 6pm Nothing on the Sky Tv guide yet though. Premier Sports

Many thanks June01 for the information. Great website now added to my favourites.

Anyone know where I can find the full heat details of the 2002 Speedway Grand Prix

With several speedway teams lost a large amount of money last season, which is not good for anyone involved in the sport that I love. I have devised a formula that would not only help teams to save money, but also give extra entertainment to the sports' supporters, which could work. But would any forward thinking promoter adopt such an imaginative idea as this. My idea is quite simple. 1) All teams to be reduced to six riders per team, thus saving the expense of having a seventh rider. This could save clubs many thousands of pounds each season, especially if their previous seventh rider was from outside the UK. This would also automatically strength all teams, as you could in theory have six riders with a seven point average, in your team. This might also help riders to stay at their clubs for longer and them help build a relationship with both the fans and their local sponsors. The league would use the current 42.50 points limit. Having regular pairings might help also bring back the lost art of team riding. 2) Now for a change in the league’s racing meeting formula. The league would use the old traditional International style formula of eighteen heats per meeting (but fifteen heats league matches would also work, with all riders having a minimum of five rides each). This gives the supporters three more races to watch, for eighteen heat league matches, and making the meeting more value for money, for the supporters without much extra cost to the promoter. Teams would alternate gates between inside and outside, for each race (so you have gates 1 & 3 in heat one, then your team then has gates 2 & 4 in heat two, and so on). The gate positions being reversed from heat number ten (so if you had gates 1 & 3 in heat one, you would now have gates 2 & 4 in heat ten). 3) Riders at numbers 1, 3 and 5 being allowed to take at least one additional rides per meeting in cases of rider replacement or injuries during the meeting. With riders at numbers 2, 4 and 6, being allowed two rides. All riders also being allowed to take one tactical substitution ride (which would count as additional ride. Riders allowed a maximum of eight rides (or seven rides if the fifteen heat formula was used), per meeting. The top three averaged riders in a team to ride at positions 1, 3 and 5, with the top averaged rider at the number 1 riding position. The lowest three averaged riders riding in any order, for numbers 2, 4 & 6. Using this formula most clubs would be able to keep the majority of their 2010 line-ups, and in some cases, some teams would be unchanged (expect for not having a seventh rider, of course). Please feel free to discuss.

I think most teams had junior matches now and again, during the second halves. I know Wimbledon did. I have now checked the speedway stars match reports from 1980, but I couldn't find any mention of full junior meetings meetings from this year.

Many thanks Steve, just can't remember why I didn't fill in the result.

Taken from the 1981 speedway yearbook 1980 Anglia Junior League Averages M R Pts BP TPts CMA Andy Warne 9 18 44 5 49 10.89 Mark Cornish 11 22 48 3 51 9.27 Colin Cage 9 12 17 5 22 7.33 Rory Austin 7 14 21 4 25 7.14 Adrian Desborough 6 12 15 4 19 6.33 Also Rode Carl Baldwin 1 2 6 0 6 12.00 Colin Butler 4 8 10 2 12 6.00 Andy Pennell 2 4 2 1 3 3.00 Guests Martin Raynor 1 2 6 0 6 12.00 Geoff Coley 1 1 0 0 0 0.00 Mildenhall arrived short-handed at Leicester. Results HOME Cradley Heath 10 - 4: Crayford 13 - 4: Ipswich 7 - 11: Leicester 13 - 5: Milton Keynes 12 - 6: Peterborough 13 - 5: Rye House 14 -4: Swindon 13 - 5 AWAY Cradley Heath 6 - 12: Crayford 9 - 8: Ipswich 11 - 7: Leicester 8 - 9: Milton Keynes 9 - 9: Peterborough 5 - 11: Rye House 15 - 3: Swindon 7 - 11 They finished second in the league four points behind Ipswich. If you want anymore details I will post them for you.

Just looking back at my 1982 World Team Cup Final, raced at the much missed White City, programme. And for some reason I didn't fill in the Final of the Victor Ludorum race, even though I completed the qualifying races of the event. Was it raced? If it was does anyone have the 1982 Victor Ludorum Final race result.