Ice Racing 2009

[Conkers]

Russian Final Day 2 Saransk

 

Nikolai Krasnikov (Ufa) 25 +3 [12+13],

Danil Ivanov (Togliatti) 25 +2 [12+13],

Yunir Bazeev (Saransk) 24 +3 [12+12],

Ivan Ivanov (Togliatti) 24 +2 [12+12],

Vitali Khomitsevich (Togliatti) 20 [11+9],

Pavel Tschajka (Lukhovitsy) 17 + 3 [9+8],

Dmitriy Khomitsevich (Togliatti) 17 + 2 [7+10],

Dmitriy Bulankin (Ufa) 17 + Ex [7+10],

Maxim Zakharov (Saransk) 15 [9+6],

Edward Krysov (Kamensk- Ural) 14 [8+6],

Ilya Drozdov (Lukhovitsy) 12 [6+6],

Mikhail Bogdanov (Uchaly) 10 [8+2],

Sergey Baltachev (Ufa) 10 [4+6],

Sergey Makarov (Lukhovitsy) 5 [2+3],

Igor Kononov (Sterlitamak) 4 [1+3],

Stanislav Arkhipov (Ufa) 0 [0+0]

 

They had three runs offs and Bulankin was excluded for crossing the inside line. According to the Russian Forums he made something of a lengthy protest about his exclusion. Ivan beaten by Baseev for third place and Krasnikov beat Danil for the first place.

Sounds like it was a great final from the descriptions. Sadly it won't be on the net as there was no TV coverage.

Looking back it may be that they will show the Ufa GP next month

 

 

 

[iris123]

Sounds like Nikolai helped team colleague Bulankin out a bit in the last heat.Dmitri had to finish at least second and Nikolai at least third to go into run-offs.Nikolai it seems tucked in behind Bulankin and blocked the way past.Pity it isn't on the net as last year was super racing.Maybe someone will stick something on youtube

[Conkers]

Perhaps Joni can answer this:

 

With Archipov failing to score, will he be ruled out of the 2009 World Championship?

Also, will Bulankin be the final qualifier or is he out too? Maybe that was the reasoning behind his protest.

 

Got to agree with you Doug, the Ufa riders were obviously team riding in the final heat.

[iris123]

Perhaps Joni can answer this:

 

With Archipov failing to score, will he be ruled out of the 2009 World Championship?

Also, will Bulankin be the final qualifier or is he out too? Maybe that was the reasoning behind his protest.

Yes.I wonder if there is a chance he will pull out "injured" or "sick" and be replaced by another(Bulankin?) Is that possible?I doubt the Russians will want an out of form rider representing them.I wouldn't be surprised if he is ill or something.A very poor performance from him

 

Plus i see that the Czech Championship is over 3 meetings!!!!That is something new as far as i can remember in recent times

CZ

Edited January 4, 2009 by iris123

[Joni]

Perhaps Joni can answer this:

 

With Archipov failing to score, will he be ruled out of the 2009 World Championship?

Also, will Bulankin be the final qualifier or is he out too? Maybe that was the reasoning behind his protest.

 

Got to agree with you Doug, the Ufa riders were obviously team riding in the final heat.

The MFR has officially entered Arkhipov in the qualifying round in Saalfelden, so that cannot be changed.

But of course, he can still break a leg or something like that…

 

I can't see why Bulankin should be the final qualifier, as the Russians have only 7 starting places this year. But I haven't read the Russian forum yet (that's usually one big mountain of crap to dig through...).

Edited January 4, 2009 by Joni

[Conkers]

So Archipov should ride next weekend in Austria, which is possibly why Bulankin was making a fuss as he finished in 8th.

Maybe in his mind he should have been considered ahead of his team mate who failed to make any impression on the meeting.

No doubt we'll see if he rides next week.

Thanks Joni

 

 

 

[DutchGrasstrack]

Just received from the FIM...

 

_________________

 

FIM Ice Racing World Championship

Qualifying Round 1

Saalfelden (Austria) 11.01.2009

 

1. ZORN Franz (Austria)

2. BAUER Günther (Germany)

3. HYTÖNEN Jussi (Finland)

4. KRASNIKOV Nikolay (Russia)

5. STELLINGWERF René (The Netherlands)

6. KLATOVSKÝ Jan (Czech Republic)

7. SKABRAUT Markus (Austria)

8. FÜRST Florian (Germany)

9. ARKHIPOV Stanislav (Russia)

10. DIVIŠ Andrej (Czech Republic)

11. KOIJ Peter (Sweden)

12. GEGENBAUER Sebastian (Germany)

13. AAKKO Antti (Finland)

14. LUNDKVIST Johan (Sweden)

15. BRUCKNER Johann (Austria)

16. TSCHATSHIN Dimitri (Germany)

 

17. VAN DER STEEN Henry (The Netherlands)

18. KREUZBERGER Josef (Austria)

[Joni]

So Archipov should ride next weekend in Austria, which is possibly why Bulankin was making a fuss as he finished in 8th.

Maybe in his mind he should have been considered ahead of his team mate who failed to make any impression on the meeting.

No doubt we'll see if he rides next week.

Thanks Joni

Surprisingly..., the MFR now states that their secretary has made a silly mistake by sending entry forms for Arkhipov and Krasnikov. I don't know what the FIM will say about this, but it appears that the Khomitsevich brothers are now coming to Saalfelden.

 

[f-s-p]

Result from Růžená (CZ)

 

Thanks to Jacqueline who sent me a text. Results direct from the event

 

1. Jan Klatovský, CZ 12

2. René Stellingwerf, NL 11

3. Stefan Pletschacher, D 10

4. Antonín Klatovský, CZ 9

5. Martin Leitner, A 9

6. Florian Fürst, D 8

7. Mario Schwaiger, D 7

8. Charlie Ebner, CH 7

9. Josef Kreuzberger, A 5

10. René Verhoef, NL 4

11. Johann Bruckner A 3

12. Andrej Diviš, CZ 3

13. Jan Pecina, CZ 3

14. Martin Běhal, CZ 2

15. Zdzislaw Zerdzinski, PL 2

16. Piotr Hejnowski, PL 1

17. Tomasz Kopik, PL 0

18. Henry v.d. Steen DNR

 

Elimination Heat: Fürst , Kreuzberger, Kopik, van der Steen

 

So this meeting was abandoned after 18 heats after someone went through the ice in to the lake?

 

Something like that anyway... Anyone know better?

[iris123]

Surprisingly..., the MFR now states that their secretary has made a silly mistake by sending entry forms for Arkhipov and Krasnikov. I don't know what the FIM will say about this, but it appears that the Khomitsevich brothers are now coming to Saalfelden.

And Arkhipov if he still has to be among the nominee's will be in Togliatti.And more than likely pull out to be replaced by the Russian reserve rider(Bulankin?)

[DutchGrasstrack]

06/01/09 ~ Steingaden (GER)

 

1. Franky Zorn AUT (3 3 3 3 3) 15

2. Günter Bauer GER (3 2 3 3 3) 14

3. Antti Akkoo FIN (3 1 3 3 3) 13

4. Harald Simon AUT (2 3 2 2 2) 11

5. Markus Skabraut AUT (1 3 2 1 3) 10

6. Rene Stellingwerf NL (3 3 0 2 1) 9

7. Per Olof Serenius SWE (2 1 3 0 2) 8

8. Peter Koij SWE (2 2 2 0 2) 8

9. Florian Fürst GER (0 2 1 3 X) 6

10. Sebastian Gegenbauer (GER F 0 2 2 2) 6

11. Jan Klatovsky CZ (1 2 0 2 1) 6

12. Stefan Pletschacher GER (1 1 1 1 1) 5

13. Christoph Kirchner GER (2 0 1 0 0) 3

14. Max Niedermaier GER (0 1 1 1 0) 3

15. Hans Weber GER (1 0 0 1 0) 2

16. Simon Gartmann CH (0 0 0 0 1) 1

[Conkers]

f-s-p Posted Today, 02:17 PM

 

So this meeting was abandoned after 18 heats after someone went through the ice in to the lake?

 

Something like that anyway... Anyone know better?

 

It says on Speedway.Org "Das Rennen wurde wegen der Bahnverhältnisse nach dem 18. Lauf abgebrochen. 
Gewertet wurden 16 Heats." but that's all I can find about it. I understand someone that Jackie knows was there, perhaps she may be able to enlighten us further?

 

EDIT Just had a text from Jackie who says The Ice was very bad after Ht 18, it was broken in the first corner and it was too dangerous, so the Jury called it off. The info came from Stefan Pletschacher.

 

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ris123 Posted Today, 03:01 PM

 

And Arkhipov if he still has to be among the nominee's will be in Togliatti.And more than likely pull out to be replaced by the Russian reserve rider(Bulankin?)

 

My goodness Doug, you are getting cynical as you get older.

 

Well done to Franky Zorn in Steingaden. Should be nicely warmed up for his home qualifier on Sunday

Edited January 6, 2009 by Conkers

[iris123]

My goodness Doug, you are getting cynical as you get older.

You wouldn't bet against that scenario,would you? That is if he still has to be among their nominations.

[Conkers]

I posted a couple of pages back that the MFR were making a big thing about the fact that this year their riders would qualify from the Russian Final for the World Championship.

Then they nominate riders for a meeting, only to replace them later. (Dmitri rides at 4 and Vitali rides at 9 BTW).

I can see why Bulankin was making a fuss over his run-off exclusion, as he was 8th and therefore should have qualified on merit. Archipov was last , failing to score and yet was through.

I bet there were some really red faces in the MFR offices that afternoon as they tried backpeddaling on that one.

Edited January 6, 2009 by Conkers

[iris123]

I can see why Bulankin was making a fuss over his run-off exclusion, as he was 8th and therefore should have qualified on merit. Archipov was last , failing to score and yet was through.

I bet there were some really red faces in the MFR offices that afternoon as they tried backpeddaling on that one.

As Joni said a few pages back only 7 Russians this year.So Dmitri needed the win in that run-off

 

courtesy of my friend miro on inspeed here are the nominee's

Saalfelden: V. Khomitsevitsch, D. Khomitsevitsch.

Togliatti: Krasnikov, D. Ivanov, I. Ivanov. Reserve: Bulankin, Sakharov

Sanok: Baseev, Tchajka

[DutchGrasstrack]

Another update to the Saalfelden Quali lineup.... Finnish riders decided to swap numbers, so Akkoo rides at #3 now and Hytonen rides at #13.

[Conkers]

I've had a message from Roger Newton that he Rob Irving and Graham Halsall are to ride in the Alpenarena Cup on Saturday 17th January.

 

Full line up:

 

1 Gerhard Greisl (D)

2 Zdzislaw Zerdzinski (Pl)

3 Robert Irving (GB)

4 Peter Mader (D)

5 Anton Zmaga (Rus)

6 Roger Newton (GB)

7 Markus Birn (CH)

8 Lukas Rösti (CH)

9 Patrik Sohlberg (S)

10 Thomas Cavigelli (CH)

11 Simon Gartmann (CH)

12 Dani Müller (CH)

13 Dirk Fricke (CH)

14 Tomek Kopik (Pl)

15 Philip Weiss (CH)

16 Fredrik Johansson (S)

17 Graham Halsall (GB)

18 Piotr Hejnowski (Pl)

19 Charly Ebner (A)

20 Jarno Möri (CH)

 

It will also be the Swiss Championship forming part of the meeting. Lost of Swiss riders of varying abilities in the meeting this year. There should be two other Swiss riders there but according to Speedway.org there are two Swiss riders in Togliatti that weekend too, which must mean Heinz Goldi and one other but for the life of me I can't think who it would be.

 

DutchGrasstrack Posted Today, 11:39 AM

Another update to the Saalfelden Quali lineup.... Finnish riders decided to swap numbers, so Akkoo rides at #3 now and Hytonen rides at #13.

 

I bet the guy writing the Press releases is getting pretty fed up having to change it every few days.

Are Biro sponsoring the meeting perhaps?

Edited January 10, 2009 by Conkers

[f-s-p]

I bet the guy writing the Press releases is getting pretty fed up having to change it every few days.

Are Biro sponsoring the meeting perhaps?

I've heard this Jean-Paul fellow is a very interesting chap! Now with a couple of injuries he might hit double figures with the revisions...

[iris123]

We saw last season that the quali places can get a bit tight becasue one Dutch rider is assured a place in the GPs whether he qualifies or not.Tuinstra was given a place instead of someone else.Germany are also in the same position,although Bauer is a strong candidate to go through on his own.But now Poland are also assured one qualifier.So the qualis could be very tight.We could end up with only 4+1 going through from one or two qualifiers

Polish Wildcard

[DutchGrasstrack]

Received some interesting news today... . Some guys from Holland are going to run a ice-racing meeting in Wartena (The Netherlands) this sunday. On the day there will be 3 classes; normal Iceracing, Moto-x, and normal Speedway.

 

I have no idea if there will be any International Ice racers (should be..), more info soon (I hope lol).