Swedish Elitserien Round 8

[Anders]

PREVIEW OF SWEDISH ELITSERIEN ROUND 8

Tuesday June 16th 2009

 

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IKAROS SMEDERNA - DACKARNA

at Smedstadion, Eskilstuna

 

The Eskilstuna team have opted for a change at reserve with Linus Eklöf and Krzysztof Buczkowski being scratched, and replaced by Daniel Henderson and Martin Vaculik, the Slovak who has been on fire in the Polish league, especially at home in Gdansk.

 

Changes also for Dackarna as Kenneth Bjerre makes way for Peter Karlsson. Another Dane will leave the reserve place alongside Ludvig Lindgren, as Nicolai Klindt makes an exit for Claus Vissing who makes his season debut. Olof Nilsson replaces Niklas Larsson as the No 8 junior, Larsson suffering a broken ankle in his crash in the Swedish Junior Championship Qualifier this weekend.

 

Ikaros Smederna (home)

1. Magnus Zetterström

2. Daniel King

3. Krzysztof Kasprzak

4. Mikael Max

5. Wieslaw Jagus

6. Daniel Henderson

7. Martin Vaculik

( 8. Robert Henderson )

 

Dackarna (away)

1. Andreas Jonsson

2. Rory Schlein

3. Fredrik Lindgren

4. Hans Andersen

5. Peter Karlsson

6. Claus Vissing

7. Ludvig Lindgren

( 8. Olof Nilsson )

 

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VÄSTERVIK - LEJONEN

at Sparbanken Arena Västervik

 

After losing in the opening round at Vetlanda, Västervik have four straight meetings without a loss. To continue that streak, they'll have to do it without Grigorijs Laguta who are missing due to visa problems. Chris Harris steps up from reserve while Kevin Doolan joins Anton Rosén at No 6-7.

 

There are some problems in the Lejonen camp as well, with a couple of the riders not showing much form, Lewis Bridger having problems with his van in Poland (according to manager Anders Fröjd on his blog), and Chris Holder not likely to ride in Britain on Monday evening (according to BSPA's website), so I personally doubt he'll ride in Sweden the next day. Apparently Ricky Kling is standing-by for Bridger at reserve.

 

Västervik (home)

1. Tomasz Gapinski

2. Bjarne Pedersen

3. Niels-Kristian Iversen

4. Chris Harris

5. Tomasz Gollob

6. Kevin Doolan

7. Anton Rosén

( 8. Pontus Aspgren )

 

Lejonen (away)

1. Dave Watt

2. Piotr Swiderski

3. Nicki Pedersen

4. Chris Holder

5. David Ruud

6. Lewis Bridger

7. Dennis Andersson

( 8. Christian Agö )

 

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ROSPIGGARNA - PIRATERNA

at Orionparken, Hallstavik

 

The home team can bolster the two new signings in Sebastian Ulamek and Travis McGowan, replacing Chris Slabon and Maciej Janowski of last week's losing team at Västervik. McGowan is a former Rospiggarna rider and should feel at home right from the start, and Ulamek usually goes very well at Orionparken, so they will be good newcomers for Rospiggarna.

 

Piraterna don't have Emil Sajfutdinov in the line-up this week either, one hardly gets surprised anymore. Robert Kosciecha made his comeback from injury in Poland yesterday (Sunday) and could soon be fighting for a place in the Pirates' line-up, but overall no surprises in the Motala team.

 

Rospiggarna (home)

1. Greg Hancock

2. Henrik Gustafsson

3. Janusz Kolodziej

4. Sebastian Ulamek

5. Ryan Sullivan

6. Travis McGowan

7. Jonas Messing

( 8. Robin Burestad )

 

Piraterna (away)

1. Daniel Nermark

2. Damian Balinski

3. Antonio Lindbäck

4. Jonas Davidsson

5. Rafal Dobrucki

6. Rafal Okoniewski

7. Linus Sundström

( 8. - )

 

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ELIT VETLANDA - VARGARNA

at Vetlanda Motorstadion

 

League leading Elit Vetlanda comes from on home meeting to another but still makes a change, giving Robin Aspegren a shot at No 7, instead of Adrian Gomolski. Squad member Jurica Pavlic was kept on the sideline once again, despite that this meeting looked like a good opportunity to give him his Elitserien debut.

 

Just like in the Elit Vetlanda squad, this looked like a good chance to give Matej Kus his Elitserien debut, especially considering he rode at the Vetlanda track in two meetings during the pre-season. New signing Patryk Dudek is also kept at the sideline while Joe Screen rides in his first away meeting of the season.

 

Elit Vetlanda (home)

1. Lee Richardson

2. Peter Ljung

3. Jaroslaw Hampel

4. Thomas H Jonasson

5. Jason Crump

6. Patrick Hougaard

7. Robin Aspegren

( 8. Anders Mellgren )

 

Vargarna (away)

1. Scott Nicholls

2. Adam Skornicki

3. Adrian Miedzinski

4. Joe Screen

5. Adam Shields

6. Kim Nilsson

7. Tai Woffinden

( 8. Jonas Andersson )

 

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Indianerna doesn't ride this week.

 

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All meetings can be followed on www.speedway.nu (official) or www.elitspeedway.nu (unofficial) from 1900 local time.

 

 

[racers and royals]

Thanks Anders for your excellant previews.Is a match this week on live tv or has the u21 football knocked it on the head.

[Ghostwalker]

Thanks Anders for your excellant previews.Is a match this week on live tv or has the u21 football knocked it on the head.

 

nope the speedway will go ahead as usual.

 

About Smedernas team, i reckon that Daniel Henderson will mostly stand on the sideline

while big brother Robert is the one who will take on the riding.

[racers and royals]

nope the speedway will go ahead as usual.

 

About Smedernas team, i reckon that Daniel Henderson will mostly stand on the sideline

while big brother Robert is the one who will take on the riding.

Thanks-but is there an Elitserien match on live tv this week ?

Edited June 15, 2009 by racers and royals

[Ghostwalker]

Thanks-but is there an Elitserien match on live tv this week ?

 

yes that was what i meant. for speedway broadcast schedule check http://www.canalplus.se/speedway.aspx

[krompa]

Will Nicki Pedersen ride? If not, TV should cover Rospiggarna - Pitraterna. Much closer for sure.

What about Holder? Missed yesterday's meeting in Torun and wasn't ready to ride tonight in UK.

What other options can Lejonen use? Adams or R/R for Nicki, Jedrzejak/Suchecki/Kramer for Holder?

[Anders]

Will Nicki Pedersen ride? If not, TV should cover Rospiggarna - Pitraterna. Much closer for sure.

 

According to Nicki's website, it's 99,9% chance that he will ride in Sweden tomorrow.

 

What about Holder? Missed yesterday's meeting in Torun and wasn't ready to ride tonight in UK.

 

I haven't heard anything about Holder, but as he wasn't scheduled to ride tonight, I have a hard time seeing him riding in Sweden tomorrow. That's a pure assumption from my point of view.

 

What other options can Lejonen use? Adams or R/R for Nicki, Jedrzejak/Suchecki/Kramer for Holder?

 

IF Nicki doesn't ride, they can use Adams, R/R or any other available squad member. Nicki has the highest average in the team, so can be replace by anyone.

 

IF Nicki does ride but Holder doesn't, they can use any of those you mentioned as a replacement for Holder, OR ride R/R for him. That works as he has the second highest rolling average in the line-up.

[krompa]

Thanks Anders, but are you sure Holder has second rolling CMA? Not Adams?

 

Nicki Pedersen * (DK) 10,44 9,93 42 20 4

Leigh Adams * (AU) 10,18 9,96 36 16 3

Chris Holder * (AU) 6,17 6,38 35 20 4

Piotr Swiderski * (PL) 6,04 6,28 31 18 4

Tomasz Jedrzejak * (PL) 5,95 5,58 0 3 1

David Ruud * (SE) 5,91 6,20 41 24 5

David Watt * (AU) 5,75 5,66 21 15 3

Lewis Bridger (GB) 5,11 ... ... ... ...

Zbignien Suchecki * (PL) 4,15 4,11 7 7 2

 

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[krompa]

Oh, I got your point, second in the lineup declared for tomorrow's meeting. Yes?

Edited June 15, 2009 by krompa

[Anders]

Oh, I got your point, second in the lineup declared for tomorrow's meeting. Yes?

 

You are absolutely correct.

[MattK]

Excellent write-up (as ever).

 

Will be interesting to see how Travis goes for Rospiggarna.

[Brummie Kev]

Hope Ludvig Lindgren has a decent meeting for Dackarna tonight, tough line up for him. Hes starting to show some form in Britain, good to see him busy riding in his home country and also riding in his first Polish meeting on sunday for Zielona Gora ( I think).

 

Hes one of my favourite riders and its good to see him doing well at the moment.

Edited June 16, 2009 by Brummie Kev

[Ghostwalker]

Hope Ludvig Lindgren has a decent meeting for Dackarna tonight.

 

well i dont (he is riding against my team Ikaros Smederna)

[superguest]

Whats happened to Greg, Rospiggarna are using R/R for him?

[racers and royals]

Whats happened to Greg, Rospiggarna are using R/R for him?

Dont quote me-but i think he has had to fly to the states on family matters.

[hahenkka]

Can someone explain why was Iversen Excluded in heat 13? (not sure if if was 13) My Swedish ain´t so good.

[MARK246]

Can someone explain why was Iversen Excluded in heat 13? (not sure if if was 13) My Swedish ain´t so good.

 

He wasn't ready to start, so it was a 2 minute exclusion

[hahenkka]

He wasn't ready to start, so it was a 2 minute exclusion

 

For me it looked that he was ready, but if the ref says that he wasn´t then thats fine. Referees are always right

[Anders]

The Swedish referees are very hard when it comes to two minute exclusions. All Elitserien teams (and possibly Allsvenskan teams as well, can't remember...) must have a two minute clock on the inside of the track, so not a second is allowed passed two minutes. Rolling up to the tapes just when it hits two minutes will result in an exclusion, riders should be aware to stand straight, stand still, 10 cm from the tapes and inside the box. No fuss!

[Ghostwalker]

Västervik - Lejonen 54-42

 

Västervik:

1 T. Gapinski (2* 0 2 3 2) 9+1

2 B. Pedersen (3 2 1 3 2*) 11+1

3 N. Iversen (2 3 3 EX EX) 8

4 C. Harris (EF 1 2* 1) 4+1

5 T. Gollob (2 3 3 2* 3) 13+1

6 K. Doolan (3 1 1* 0 3) 8+1

7 A. Rosen (1 0 0) 1

8 P. Aspgren -

 

Lejonen:

1 D. Watt (0 1 2 1* 2 3) 9+1

2 P. Swiderski (1 0 0) 1

3 N. Pedersen (3 3 2* 2 2 0 1) 13+1

4 Ch. Holder - (R/R)

5 D. Ruud (3 3 0 3 1 1 0) 11

6 L. Bridger (2 0 0 1 2) 5

7 D. Andersson (0 1 1* 1) 3+1

8 Ch. Agö -

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Elit Vetlanda - Vargarna 59-37

 

Vetlanda:

1 L. Richardson (1 3 3 0 3) 10

2 P. Ljung (3 3 0 2* 0) 8+1

3 J. Hampel (3 3 2* 3 3) 14+1

4 T. Jonasson (0 EF 3 1) 4

5 J. Crump (3 3 3 3 2*) 14+1

6 P. Hougaard (2 1 0 3) 6

7 R. Aspegren (0 1 0 2*) 3+1

8 A. Mellgren -

 

Vargarna

1 S. Nicholls (2 1 1* 0 1*) 5+2

2 A. Skórnicki (0 2 2 0) 4

3 A. Miedzinski (2 2 2 2 1* 1) 10+1

4 J. Screen (1* 2 1* 1 0) 5+2

5 A. Shields (T 1 1* 2 2) 6+1

6 K. Nilsson (1 0* 0) 1+1

7 T. Woffinden 3 2 0 1 6

8 J. Andersson 0 0

 

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Ikaros Smederna - Dackarna 46-50

 

Ikaros Smederna :

1 M. Zetterström (0 1 1 1) 3

2 D. King (3 EF 0 0) 3

3 K. Kasprzak (0 2 3 1 2) 8

4 M. Max (1 1* 1 3 0) 6+1

5 W. Jagus (3 1* 2* 3 1) 10+2

6 D. Henderson (1) 1

7 M. Vaculik (3 2 2 3 3 1*) 14+1

8 R. Henderson (1 0) 1

 

Dackarna

1 A. Jonsson (2 3 3 2* 3) 13+12

2. R. Schlein (* 0 0 1) 2+1

3 F. Lindgren (2* 3 D 0 3) 8+1

4 H. Andersen (3 3 2* 3 2*) 13+2

5 P. Karlsson 2 2 2 2 0 8

6 C. Vissing (0 1 EX/2m EF) 1

7 L. Lindgren (2 1* 0 2) 5+1

8 O. Nilsson -

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Rospiggarna - Piraterna 51-45

 

Rospiggarna
 
1. G. Hancock (R/R) -
2 H. Gustafsson (1* 3 1* D 0 0) 5+2
3 J. Kolodziej (2 3 2 1 3 0) 11
4 S. Ulamek (0 EF 3 3 2 3) 11
5 R. Sullivan (2* 2 2 0 1* 3) 10+2
6 T. McGowan (3 3 0 2 3) 11
7 J. Messing (1 1 1) 3
8 R. Burestad -

 

Piraterna

1 D. Nermark (0) 0

2 D. Balinski (3 1 1 1* 1* 7+2

3 A. Lindbäck (1* 3 3 2 3 2) 14+1

4 J. Davidsson (2 U 0 3 1* 2) 8+1

5 R. Dobrucki (1 2 3 2 0 1*) 9+1

6 R. Okoniewski (F/X 0 2 1 2) 5

7 L. Sundström (2 0 EF) 2

 

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