Swedish U21 Championship

[Guest SwineTown]

Does anyone have the scores and heat details for this meeting? - I know FL won and Lindbakc was 2nd.

Many thanks

ST,

[Anders]

Does anyone have the scores and heat details for this meeting? - I know FL won and Lindbakc was 2nd.

Many thanks

ST,

Swedish U21 Championship Final

at Målilla (home of Luxo Stars)

Friday July 2nd 2004

 

Attendence: 1237

 

A great day for speedway under blue skies (well, almost...) ended with much drama and two run-offs to decide the podium places. Antonio Lindbäck looked a bit quicker than the overall winner Fredrik Lindgren but Lindgren won both times against Lindbäck and therefore defended his title from last year.

Tough call for the bronze medal as well, Jonas Davidsson took advantage from the favourable inside gate on win heat twentyone to grab the bronze.

Among the other riders, Mattias Nilsson had some bad luck with clutch problems in a heat he could have won, with another three points in his fourth outing, he would have been in contention for a podium finsih.

Ricky Kling made his first U21 final and he definitely did a good job with five points, should be interesting to see how he develops over the years.

 

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Final score:

1) (12) Fredrik Lindgren, Team Dalakraft, 13p. ( 3 1 3 3 3 ) +3

2) (2) Antonio Lindbäck, Masarna, 13p. ( 3 2 2 3 3 ) +2

3) (8) Jonas Davidsson, Rospiggarna, 12p. ( 3 3 3 0 3 ) +3

4) (11) Sebastian Aldén, Masarna, 12p. ( 2 3 3 2 2 ) +2

5) (14) Daniel Davidsson, Rospiggarna, 12p. ( 3 3 2 1 3 ) +1

6) (13) Eric Andersson, Rospiggarna, 10p. ( 1 3 3 1 2 )

7) (4) Mattias Nilsson, Bysarna, 8p. ( 2 2 TT 3 1 )

8) (10) Niklas Fridell, Indianerna, 7p. ( 1 1 2 3 0 )

9) (15) Tobias Messing, Eldarna, 6p. ( 2 2 Ef 1 1 )

10) (7) Johan Engman, Indianerna, 6p. ( 1 1 1 2 1 )

11) (17) Sebastian Bengtsson, Kaparna, 5p. ( - - 1 2 2 )

12) (5) Ricky Kling, Luxo Stars, 5p. ( 2 0 1 2 0 )

13) (1) Andreas Lekander, Griparna, 4p. ( 1 1 0 0 2 )

14) (6) Robert Pettersson, Bajen Speedway, 3p. ( 0 0 2 0 1 )

15) (9) Andreas Messing, Eldarna, 2p. ( 0 2 - - - )

16) (16) Linus Jansson, Getingarna, 2p. ( 0 0 1 1 0 )

17) (3) Tomas Karlsson, Örnarna, 0p. ( 0 0 Ef - - )

 

1 [58.9]: Lindbäck, Nilsson, Lekander, Karlsson.

First attempt called back due to an unsatisfactory start.

Re-run won by Lindbäck from the gate, Karlsson had an engine failure while fourth on the final lap but finished the race.

 

2 [58.8]: J Davidsson, Kling, Engman, Pettersson.

Davidsson untroubled. Kling passed Engman on the inside on bend three of lap one.

 

3 [58.6]: Lindgren, Aldén, Fridell, A Messing.

Aldén gated but Lindgren passed him on the outside on bends three/four for a comfortable win.

 

4 [58.8]: D Davidsson, T Messing, Andersson, Jansson.

Two passes on the same bend in this one, Davidsson passed Messing and Andersson passed Jansson on the outside on bend three of lap one.

 

5 [61.5]: Andersson, A Messing, Lekander, Kling.

Positions held throughout the race with Kling all over the track trying to find something to pass Lekander.

 

6 [59.5]: D Davidsson, Lindbäck, Fridell, Pettersson.

Horrible gate from Lindbäck who had to fight with Fridell for an entire lap before getting by him, Davidsson was long gone by then. Pettersson never in it.

 

7 [60.0]: Aldén, T Messing, Engman, Karlsson.

Big distances between all the riders.

 

8 [59.3]: J Davidsson, Nilsson, Lindgren, Jansson.

From the gate with Lindgren not able to make an impact on Nilsson.

 

9 [59.8]: Aldén, Pettersson, Jansson, Lekander.

Lekander all over Jansson but surprisingly not able to pass him.

 

10 [59.5]: Lindgren, Lindbäck, Kling, T Messing (Ef).

Great fight for two laps between the top three, Lindgren took the command right from the start and Lindbäck wasn´t quite close enough for a pass.

 

11 [60.3]: J Davidsson, D Davidsson, Bengtsson, Karlsson (Ef).

A Messing looped when make a practise start, probably broke some ribs in the fall and was replaced with Sebastian Bengtsson for the remainder of the meeting.

J Davidsson untroubled winner, behind him Karlsson chased Bengtsson only to suffer an engine failure on lap three.

 

12 [61.1]: Andersson, Fridell, Engman, Nilsson (TT).

Nilsson´s clutch broke at the tape and he got excluded, tough for Nilsson who could have been in contention with a win in heat twelve.

From the gate in the re-run even though Engman closed in on Fridell on the final lap.

 

13 [61.4]: Lindgren, Engman, D Davidsson, Lekander.

Engman gated but was passed on the inside on bend three by Lindgren but Davidsson wasn´t as successful as Lindgren, couldn´t get by Engman, chock of the day.

 

14 [60.6]: Lindbäck, Aldén, Andersson, J Davidsson.

The unbeaten Davidsson missed it from gate three and even though it was much quicker than Andersson, he couldn´t pass.

 

15 [62.6]: Fridell, Kling, Jansson, Karlsson (N).

Jansson from first to third on the third bend of lap one when both Fridell and Kling went around him.

 

16 [61.6]: Nilsson, Bengtsson, T Messing, Pettersson.

Good cut-back by Nilsson in this one, passing Bengtsson on the inside on bend one of lap two when Bengtsson went wide to cover Nilsson´s outside move.

 

17 [60.6]: J Davidsson, Lekander, T Messing, Fridell.

Tapes to flag.

 

18 [59.9]: Lindbäck, Bengtsson, Engman, Jansson.

Lindbäck by a British mile.

 

19 [61.2]: Lindgren, Andersson, Pettersson, Karlsson (N).

From the gate.

 

20 [60.4]: D Davidsson, Aldén, Nilsson, Kling.

Two good chases, Aldén hunted Davidsson for first two laps but Aldén had to watch out for Nilsson who was on his tail for the remaining two laps.

 

Run-off for 3rd-5th [60.0]: J Davidsson, Aldén, D Davidsson.

Aldén on the inside of D Davidsson on lap three but J Davidsson was long gone.

 

Run-off for 1st-2nd [59.8]: Lindgren, Lindbäck.

Lindgren gated, took Lindbäck wide on bend one and won easily.