Swedish Elitserien Round 11

[Anders]

SWEDISH ELITSERIEN ROUND 11

Tuesday July 8th 2008

 

MASARNAAVESTA - VÄSTERVIK

 

Västervik riding in Avesta usually means no Tomasz Gollob, and that's the case once again as Gollob will miss the Avesta meeting for the fifth straight season and for the sixth time in the last seven visits! However, without Gollob they can bolster a stronger duo at reserve and that could be needed against a full strength home side. MasarnaAvesta has lost three of five home meetings so far but as Västervik usually struggle in Avesta, the home side are still the favourites IMO.

 

MasarnaAvesta (home)

1. Leigh Adams

2. Emil Sajfutdinov

3. Dave Watt

4. Simon Stead

5. Kenneth Bjerre

6. Steve Johnston

7. Dennis Andersson

( 8. Anton Rosén )

 

Västervik (away)

1. Niels-Kristian Iversen

2. Tomasz Chrzanowski

3. Chris Harris

4. Grigorijs Laguta

5. Bjarne Pedersen

6. Billy Forsberg

7. Mads Korneliussen

( 8. Jonas Andersson )

 

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ROSPIGGARNA - INDIANERNA

 

The in-form Indianerna meets Rospiggarna away from home, a combination that hasn't turned out very well for Indianerna in recent seasons. The Indians have been strong at home lately but can they beat Rospiggarna away? It doesn't look likely as Rospiggarna are producing strong performences as well, beating Västervik away in the last round by 49-47. Also, Charlie Gjedde is back in the line-up and surely makes Rospiggarna the favourites at the Orionparken track.

 

Rospiggarna (home)

1. Greg Hancock

2. Charlie Gjedde

3. Janusz Kolodziej

4. Chris Slabon

5. Adam Shields

6. Travis McGowan

7. Andreas Messing

( 8. Jonas Messing )

 

Indianerna (away)

1. Adrian Miedzinski

2. Magnus Zetterström

3. Matej Ferjan

4. Jesper B Monberg

5. Piotr Protasiewicz

6. Simon Gustafsson

7. Henrik Gustafsson

( 8. - )

 

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DACKARNA - SMEDERNA

 

Robert Miskowiak will miss tomorrow's meeting in Målilla, the Eskilstuna-Kuriren reports, and the changes made to the line-up will make it harder for Smederna to produce an upset against the current champions Dackarna. Daniel King may be just as good as Miskowiak overall but hasn't been to Målilla before, and to fit the Elitserien debutant Brit under the maximum average, Robert Henderson needs to replace Linus Eklöf at No 7. With Eklöf, Smederna could've had an advantage in the reserve rider's heats but that looks less likely now and Dackarna should be able to win this in the end, despite a seemingly long tail.

 

Dackarna (home)

1. Fredrik Lindgren

2. Hans Andersen

3. Peter Karlsson

4. Emil Kramer

5. Andreas Jonsson

6. Ludvig Lindgren

7. Claus Vissing

( 8. Christian Isomettä )

 

Smederna (away)

1. Wieslaw Jagus

2. Robert Miskowiak Daniel King

3. Krzysztof Kasprzak

4. Martin Vaculik

5. Jonas Davidsson

6. Rory Schlein

7. Linus Eklöf Robert Henderson

( 8. Robert Henderson )

 

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LEJONEN - HAMMARBY

 

League leading Lejonen hosts capital club Hammarby, and will be made heavy favourites in the process. Hammarby are missing Rafal Dobrucki and Martin Smolinski, replacing them with Pawel Hlib and Renat Gafurov. The Lions middle order riders should be having a good day against the Hammarby counterparts and despite Hammarby having a 12 point lead for the bonus point, that should definitely be in the reach for Lejonen.

 

Lejonen (home)

1. Nicki Pedersen

2. Sebastian Ulamek

3. Tomasz Jedrzejak

4. David Ruud

5. Piotr Swiderski

6. Ricky Kling

7. Mariusz Wegrzyk

( 8. Robert Pettersson )

 

Hammarby (away)

1. Rafal Dobrucki Pawel Hlib

2. Joonas Kylmäkorpi

3. Matej Zagar

4. Martin Smolinski Renat Gafurov

5. Scott Nicholls

6. Kim Nilsson

7. Denis Gizatullin

( 8. - )

 

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PIRATERNA - ELIT VETLANDA TV-Meeting

 

Old stats from Motala is nice fun for Elit Vetlanda with three straight wins, but old stats doesn't take the current form of Piraterna into consideration. The Pirates have five wins in the last six meetings but have made a change anyway as Michal Szczepaniak makes his season debut in place of Mikael Max, and the home side looks to their strength in depth to prevail.

 

Elit Vetlanda are missing the services of Thomas H Jonasson who wasn't available when Elit Vetlanda registred the line-up on Thursday evening and now has suffered a backlash after riding in Poland on Sunday as well. Instead, former Piraterna team manager Fredrik Staaf, now in Elit Vetlanda, bolster all the Elit Vetlanda stars in this one, trying a top heavy line-up for the first time this season.

 

Will the top five of Piraterna manage to hold Elit Vetlanda's top five at bay after the interval. That's the question before the TV meeting of the 11th round of Elitserien.

 

Piraterna (home)

1. Grzegorz Walasek

2. Ryan Sullivan

3. Robert Kosciecha

4. Damian Balinski

5. Daniel Nermark

6. Linus Sundström

7. Michal Szczepaniak

( 8. - )

 

Elit Vetlanda (away)

1. Jason Crump

2. Peter Ljung

3. Jaroslaw Hampel

4. Lee Richardson

5. Rune Holta

6. Robin Bergqvist

7. Robin Aspegren

( 8. Anders Mellgren )

 

All meetings can be followed live on www.speedway.nu from 19:00 local time.

 

 

[BritPete]

Another fine read, Anders. I have noticed before that Gollob does not like riding at Masarnaavetsa. Did he have a nasty crash there once?

 

 

Looks like it will be a good TV match tonight, and an away win is very likely IMO.

Edited July 8, 2008 by BritPete

[superguest]

My predictions

 

MasarnaAvesta 50 - 46 Vastervik

Rosspiggarna 53 - 43 Indiannerna

Dackarna 60 - 36 Smederna

Lejonen 63 - 33 Hammarby

Piraterna 47- 49 Elit Vetlanda

 

[Subedei]

Surely sheer stupidity from the Blacksmiths to go with Schlein?

[Anders]

SWEDISH ELITSERIEN ROUND 11

Tuesday July 8th 2008

 

MASARNAAVESTA - VÄSTERVIK

 

MasarnaAvesta (home)

2. Emil Sajfutdinov

6. Steve Johnston

 

Västervik (away)

4. Grigorijs Laguta

 

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LEJONEN - HAMMARBY

 

Lejonen (home)

1. Nicki Pedersen

 

Emil Sajfutdinov won't be lining up for MasarnaAvesta tonight. He is stuck in Germany with a visa problem, something that ruled him out of both Italy and Poland during the weekend. Steve Johnston will move up to second string and Sebastian Aldén takes Johnno's place at reserve.

 

Grigorijs Laguta will be missing as well as he hurt his arm in Poland on Sunday. His place will be taken by James Wright if a flight connection can be found, Västerviks-Tidningen reports.

 

Nicki Pedersen is another one who has been forced to a late withdrawal, due to gallstone problems. Chris Holder will take his place at No 1.

 

Another fine read, Anders. I have noticed before that Gollob does not like riding at Masarnaavetsa. Did he have a nasty crash there once?

 

-"He won't ride at the track in Avesta. Gollob said a long time ago that won't go there" says team manager Peter Helgesson to Västerviks-Tidningen. -"He was involved in a bad crash in Avesta, which could be the reason he's not in the team" says Helgesson.

 

I can't remember when this happened but AFAIK Antonio Lindbäck took Tomasz Gollob through the fence. Must have been in 2001 or something like that.

 

Surely sheer stupidity from the Blacksmiths to go with Schlein?

 

Not a fan of Schlein myself but I'm not sure I agree. Sure it's a gamble, most definitely, but this could be the perfect time for Smederna to blow some life back into Schlein. He's done reasonably well in Målilla on previous visits and against the Lindgren/Vissing partnership at reserve, he should be able to win both heat 2 & 11 (both involving only reserve riders). Would certainly be good for his confidence and if Smederna can get him going, they will benefit in the long run. But if he doesn't deliver tonight, it will be a long time before he's back in the line-up again...

[speedy den boy]

sorry but can we get the coverage in the uk or even highlights?

[Ghostwalker]

sorry but can we get the coverage in the uk or even highlights?

 

there is stream links available at http://www.soccer-live.pl/transmisje.php?id=motorsport but there is no transmission just a black picture with no sound.

 

[iris123]

there is stream links available at http://www.soccer-live.pl/transmisje.php?id=motorsport but there is no transmission just a black picture with no sound.

Sounds perfect.

[Ghostwalker]

Lejonen won easily home against Hammarby even without Nicki.

 

Rospigarna went from a 6p lead to a 48-48 tie against indianerna. Greg didn't even manage to score a point in the final heat.

 

Elit Vetlanda's suite of away losses continues with Piraternas victory. I'm a bit surprised since Crump, Holta, Hamepl and Richardson EVS should have won this meeting.

 

Västervik again without Gollob who suffered from Avestaphobia once a year lost norrowly against Masarna.

 

The 5th meeting dackarna-Smederna was postponed due to rain.

Edited July 8, 2008 by Ghostwalker

[Anders]

SWEDISH ELITSERIEN ROUND 11

Tuesday July 8th 2008

 

Links to the heat details for the meetings have been provided by Ghostwalker in the post above.

 

MASARNAAVESTA - VÄSTERVIK 49-47 (84-108)

Attendence: 2011

 

The home side started with a maximum but quickly found themselves down by 11-19 after five heats. By some fairly successful tactical substitutions, MasarnaAvesta crawled slowly back into the meeting and with a 4-2 in the final heat they actually won the meeting.

 

MasarnaAvesta (home) 49 (84)

1. Leigh Adams 3-3-3-3-3-3 = 18 (6)

2. Steve Johnston 2*-1-N-1* = 4+2 (3)

3. Dave Watt 2-1-1*-2-1 = 7+1 (5)

4. Simon Stead 0-N-2-1-1* = 4+1 (4)

5. Kenneth Bjerre 1-1-1-3-0-2 = 8 (6)

6. Sebastian Aldén 2-0-Ef-3-1-2 = 8 (6)

7. Dennis Andersson N-N-N-N = 0 (0)

8. Anton Rosén 0-0 = 0 (2)

 

Västervik (away) 47 (108)

1. Niels-Kristian Iversen Fx-2-2-3-3 = 10 (5)

2. Tomasz Chrzanowski 1-0-0-0 = 1 (4)

3. Chris Harris 3-2-2-2-2 = 11 (5)

4. James Wright 1-2*-0-0 = 3+1 (4)

5. Bjarne Pedersen 3-3-2-1*-0 = 9+1 (5)

6. Billy Forsberg 1-N-0-3 = 4 (3)

7. Mads Korneliussen 3-2*-3-0-1-0 = 9+1 (6)

8. Jonas Andersson

 

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ROSPIGGARNA - INDIANERNA 48-48 (97-95)

Attendence: 3781

 

The Indians took a brief lead after heat 9 but other than that, Rospiggarna looked like winners, especially after a heat 14 maximum which opened up a six point lead. Indianerna kept the meeting alive with a 4-2 in the first nomination heat but a draw still looked highly unlikely with Hancock lining up in heat 16. However, the Protasiewicz/Ferjan pairing produced a major upset as they headed home the Gjedde/Hancock duo to tie the meeting!

 

Rospiggarna (home) 48 (97)

1. Greg Hancock 3-3-3-3-0 = 12 (5)

2. Charlie Gjedde 2*-3-F-3-1 = 9+1 (5)

3. Janusz Kolodziej 2-Ef-1*-1 = 4+1 (4)

4. Chris Slabon 1*-3-2-0-2 = 8+1 (5)

5. Adam Shields 1-2-2-2*-0 = 7+1 (5)

6. Travis McGowan 2-0-0-N = 2 (3)

7. Andreas Messing 1*-0-1-1 = 3+1 (4)

8. Jonas Messing 3 = 3 (1)

 

Indianerna (away) 48 (95)

1. Adrian Miedzinski 1-2-1-2-3 = 9 (5)

2. Magnus Zetterström Ef-1*-3-1-1 = 6+1 (5)

3. Matej Ferjan 3-1*-3-0-2* = 9+2 (5)

4. Jesper B Monberg 0-2-2-0 = 4 (4)

5. Piotr Protasiewicz 3-3-2-1-3 = 12 (5)

6. Simon Gustafsson 0-1*-0-2 = 3+1 (4)

7. Henrik Gustafsson 3-2*-0-0 = 5+1 (4)

8. -

 

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DACKARNA - SMEDERNA

 

Meeting was postponed. New date TBA.

 

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LEJONEN - HAMMARBY 55-41 (97-95)

Attendence: 3026

 

Lejonen are more than just Nicki Pedersen, at least at home were they beat Hammarby heavily to claim the aggregated bonus point as well. It was fairly close at the interval, 32-28, but the Lions were far too strong after that and secured the win definitely when Ulamek/Ruud recorded a maximum against Gafurov/Kylmäkorpi in heat 15. Another heat advantage, 4-2, in the final heat got them the third point as well.

 

Lejonen (home) 55 (97)

1. Chris Holder 2*-3-3-1-1 = 10+1 (5)

2. Sebastian Ulamek 3-3-0-1-3 = 10 (5)

3. Tomasz Jedrzejak 2-0-0-0 = 2 (4)

4. David Ruud Ef-2-2-3-2* = 9+1 (5)

5. Piotr Swiderski 3-2-1-3-3 = 12 (5)

6. Ricky Kling 3-0-1*-3 = 7+1 (4)

7. Mariusz Wegrzyk 2*-0-1-2* = 5+2 (4)

8. Robert Pettersson

 

Hammarby (away) 41 (95)

1. Pawel Hlib 1-N-0-N = 1 (2)

2. Joonas Kylmäkorpi 0-1-3-0-3-0 = 7 (6)

3. Matej Zagar 3-2-2-2-0 = 9 (5)

4. Renat Gafurov 1-2-1*-2*-1 = 7+2 (5)

5. Scott Nicholls 2-3-3-2-0-2 = 12 (6)

6. Kim Nilsson 0-N-0-0 = 0 (3)

7. Denis Gizatullin 1-1*-1*-1-1 = 5+2 (5)

8. -

 

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PIRATERNA - ELIT VETLANDA 49-47 (91-101) TV-Meeting

Attendence: 1954

 

For the sixth time this season, Elit Vetlanda lost away from home, snatching a defeat from the jaws of victory. Leading by two after heat 11, Elit Vetlanda looked likely winners with their top heavy side but Piraterna fought well and relegated the away riders to four last places in the final five heats.

 

Jason Crump passed Robert Kosciecha for the win in heat 16 but Grzegorz Walasek still got the Pirates the win as he passed Lee Richardson for that vital third place.

 

Piraterna (home) 49 (91)

1. Grzegorz Walasek 1-1-3-3-1* = 9+1 (5)

2. Ryan Sullivan 3-2-0-0 = 5 (4)

3. Robert Kosciecha 1-3-1-3-2 = 10 (5)

4. Damian Balinski 0-1-3-2-2 = 8 (5)

5. Daniel Nermark 2-1-1*-2*-1* = 7+3 (5)

6. Linus Sundström 2*-N-N-Fx = 2+1 (2)

7. Michal Szczepaniak 3-1*-0-0-1-3 = 8+1 (6)

8. -

 

Elit Vetlanda (away) 47 (101)

1. Jason Crump 2-2-2*-2-3 = 11+1 (5)

2. Peter Ljung 0-0-3-3-0 = 6 (5)

3. Jaroslaw Hampel 3-2*-0-0 = 5+1 (4)

4. Lee Richardson 2*-3-3-1*-0 = 9+2 (5)

5. Rune Holta 3-2-2-1-3 = 11 (5)

6. Robin Bergqvist N-N-N-N = 0 (0)

7. Robin Aspegren 0-0-0-1* = 1+1 (4)

8. Anders Mellgren 1-1-0-2 = 4 (4)

 

For Piraterna,

Walasek looked dreadfully slow early on but woke up. Sullivan, well, how he was able to beat Crump on a deep track before fading as the track got better is beyond my understanding. Kosciecha was the ace of the home side, beating Crump twice even though he still managed to look ice cold on a couple of occasions. Balinski was solid after a dodgy first ride. Nermark does not only look like putting riders through the fence by accident, he takes them to the fence by will also. Guess that Team Sweden will need his toughness in WTC though. Sundström did what could be expected. Szczepaniak got easy points most of the night, wasn't overly impressed.

 

For Elit Vetlanda,

Crump was OK but can do better. Was faster than any on the night but couldn't always pass the opponents. Ljung improved as the meeting went along and earned his place in the first nomination heat. Hampel started like a train but went from second to fourth in his third outing and was nowhere to be found in his fourth. Not good enough. Richardson was great, as he has been all year for Elit Vetlanda. I'll accept his last place in heat 16 as he normally is a "heat 15 rider". Holta was good, tried hard all night. Aspegren improved as the track got slicker. Mellgren started well, when the track was rough, but faded a bit towards the end. It's easy to forget the fact that last season's FIM Youth Gold Trophy champion only rides in his first season on 500cc. Well done, Anders!

 

Man of the match: Robert Kosciecha

 

Most exciting rider: Jason Crump

 

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CURRENT STANDING:

 

1. Lejonen, 11, 8-0-3, 2/2, 18p (+86)

2. Rospiggarna, 11, 7-1-3, 2/2, 17p (+9)

3. Dackarna, 10, 6-0-4, 1/1, 13p (+55)

4. Elit Vetlanda, 11, 5-0-6, 2/2, 12p (+11)

5. Piraterna, 11, 6-0-5, 0/2, 12p (+1)

6. Hammarby, 11, 5-0-6, 1/2, 11p (-9)

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7. Västervik, 11, 4-0-7, 1/2, 9p (+37)

8. Indianerna, 11, 4-1-6, 0/2, 9p (-55)

9. Smederna, 10, 4-0-6, 0/1, 8p (-39)

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10. MasarnaAvesta, 11, 4-0-7, 0/2, 8p (-96)

 

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UPCOMING FIXTURES:

 

Tuesday July 15th 2008

Break for the World Team Cup

 

Tuesday July 22nd 2008

Hammarby - MasarnaAvesta (52-44)

Indianerna - Västervik (39-56)

Rospiggarna - Piraterna (48-47)

Dackarna - Lejonen (44-52)

Smederna - Elit Vetlanda (43-53)

 

Results from round 3 are listed in brackets.

 

 

[Subedei]

It is good to see the Indians having a renaissance season. They seem to have been in the doldrums forever.