Icicle Posted October 21, 2009 Report Share Posted October 21, 2009 Any news if Posa riding yet again this season?? Long may he keep going!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-s-p Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 Any news if Posa riding yet again this season?? Long may he keep going!! I talked to him in August and he didn't say anything about quitting, in fact quite the opposite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityrebel Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 To add to what DGT has already written, you may like to know Frankfurt has a covered Tennis Court built on it,although you can still see the outline of the track on Google Maps. Deventer, Eindhoven, Heerenveen and Almaar are now covered but don't stage Ice Racing, whilst Groningen now has an office block built on it (it's behind the Hotel that I stay at when I go to Assen). Assen is the sole Dutch track, and has been covered for about 15-16 years, Berlin Wilmersdorf is still used, but the SportForum in the East hasn't staged Ice Racing since 2002, whilst Inzell is currently being redevoloped with a dome put over it and won't stage Ice Racing until 2011 at the earliest. when was the last time racing was held at grenoble. the year i went the weather was so mild it was a struggle to stop the track from thawing out!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conkers Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 when was the last time racing was held at grenoble. the year i went the weather was so mild it was a struggle to stop the track from thawing out!. Â If I remember correctly, the time you were there may well have been the last time they staged racing there, in 1988. The track was a "natural" ice track, and despite it's location it wasn't cold enough to support a natural track. Plus the lack of success by French riders meant that the French Federation withdrew their support. The same thing happened in 1993 with Madonna Di Campiglio in Italy, when that track held the first day's racing at Midnight, as the track wasn't properly frozen, and the second day was terrible, as the track was like slush. It also co-incided with the death of Reme Dal Bosco in Berlin, that the Italians completely withdrew from Ice Racing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted October 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 The Gaffer takes to the ice Ufa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conkers Posted October 24, 2009 Report Share Posted October 24, 2009 Just had this list from Joni, which is not official.  Biggest shock is that Innsbrook returns to the fold after some considerable time! And they have gone for St.Johann, so Iris123 was right  Qualifying rounds: 9 jan Saalfelden (A) 16 jan Sanok (Pl) 23/24 jan St Johann (A)  Finals: 6 feb Togliatti (Rus) 13/14 feb Saransk (Rus) 20/21 feb Innsbruck (A) 13/14 mrt Assen (Nl) 20/21 mrt Berlin (D)  Team Final: 30/31 jan Krasnogorsk (Rus)     Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted October 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2009 Crikey,Austria has become the main centre of Ice racing this year in the west.How much of this is down to help from the Dutch i wonder?Thought i read something about this on the Russian forum.Might be mistaken though Can't really take any credit.It was the Russians who were reporting St.Johann as the home for that 3rd quali Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conkers Posted October 24, 2009 Report Share Posted October 24, 2009 Saalfelden is organised by Eisspeedwayclub Lenzing-Saalfelden and AFAIK were/are helped by Motorclub Assen. Â If I remember correctly, St.Johann is organised by the Motorclub of which Harald Simon is a member. More than likely, the Lenzing Saalfelden club lend a hand there as the two places are only 45 minutes apart. Â I suspect that the Innsbruck meeting may be orgainsed by DMV Sudbayern, who orgainse the Inzell meeting, together with a local Mortorclub and with the OaMTC. Mind you, looking at the Google Earth view of Innsbruck, they may need to build a few temporary stands around the track as it appears to just be a track and an adjacent building - The Olympia Eisstadion, and nothing else. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conkers Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 Looks like Berlin will be hosting the German Championship on the Thursday before the final rounds of the World Championship, 18.3.2010. They have a ticker on their site announcing it HERE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grim Reeper Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 I know it is not likely to be open before 2011 but having been to a presentation yesterday in Ipswich on the SnOasis Project, this would surely present the ideal venue in the UK for Ice racing and whoever promotes/organises thiese meetings might want to take a look at the project. Whatever the objectors may say, it is now going ahead and with a 30 month build time frame 2011 or 2012 could see this venue available. Any one intereested in the plans should look at the following website www.snoasis.co.uk  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted October 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 Any news if Posa riding yet again this season?? Long may he keep going!! A site worth keeping an eye on.Posa in his own words Posa needs surgery,but hopes to ride again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conkers Posted November 2, 2009 Report Share Posted November 2, 2009 According to a poster on the German Speedway Forum, the Eispeedwayclub Lenzing-Saalfelden and the KNMV will be organising the Innsbruck rounds of the World Championships, and the track will be the Olympia Eisstadion.  German Speedway Forum     Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted November 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 2, 2009 According to a poster on the German Speedway Forum, the Eispeedwayclub Lenzing-Saalfelden and the KNMV will be organising the Innsbruck rounds of the World Championships, and the track will be the Olympia Eisstadion. Â German Speedway Forum But the Russians want the date moved.......... They would rather have it on the first march weekend so they don't have to make two trips to the west to cut costs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conkers Posted November 2, 2009 Report Share Posted November 2, 2009 But the Russians want the date moved.......... They would rather have it on the first march weekend so they don't have to make two trips to the west to cut costs  Having looked at the Russian Forum and the Calendar, there are four weekends of World Championship Events, then a three week break and two weekends of Championship events. I suppose a trek for the Russians from Saransk to Innsbruck, then back to Ufa for the final round of the Elite League is a bit much. Innsbruck proposed date only clashes with an All Russian Meeting in Arsenievo, whereas there is nothing the weekend of 6/7th March (unless the UEM have eyes on that date for the European Championship at Ufa) The feelings on the Russian Forum are that it's Russia who are the dominant Ice Racing power yet the other nations are having too much of a say. One poster has particularly harsh words for the Motorclub Assen because of their involvement in The Netherlands and Austria. Some are even calling for the MFR to break away from the FIM (now where have I heard that before? ) Maybe the FIM will relent as Innsbruck is an artificial track, and then there can be two blocks of three rounds. After all Innsbruck to Assen isn't as far as Ufa to Assen  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted November 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2009 The feelings on the Russian Forum are that it's Russia who are the dominant Ice Racing power yet the other nations are having too much of a say. One poster has particularly harsh words for the Motorclub Assen because of their involvement in The Netherlands and Austria. Some are even calling for the MFR to break away from the FIM (now where have I heard that before? ) Maybe the FIM will relent as Innsbruck is an artificial track, and then there can be two blocks of three rounds. After all Innsbruck to Assen isn't as far as Ufa to Assen This is what they said last year as well though and i posted that they were going to try and get more delegates onto the FIM committee.I guess it failed.There are also some harsh words for the likes of Sweden,who want to participate in all the competitions,but let others(Russia in particular) take the financial strain of hosting the meetings.Not happy bunnies so it seems....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humphrey Appleby Posted November 3, 2009 Report Share Posted November 3, 2009 The feelings on the Russian Forum are that it's Russia who are the dominant Ice Racing power yet the other nations are having too much of a say. Â Much like in speedway where the smaller speedway nations seem to wag the tail of those that actually provide professional speedway riders with a living... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted November 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2009 Woohoo.....Ice Racing comes to North Germany!!!!!! Â Teterow....... The Teterow meeting has been scrapped for next year at least.A sponsor has dropped out,plus they seem to have miscalculated the thickness needed for Ice racing.The promoter was thinking 4cm was enough,like in Speed Skating Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-s-p Posted November 5, 2009 Report Share Posted November 5, 2009 The Teterow meeting has been scrapped for next year at least.A sponsor has dropped out,plus they seem to have miscalculated the thickness needed for Ice racing.The promoter was thinking 4cm was enough,like in Speed Skating Miscalculated... Now there's an uderstatement of the season! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conkers Posted November 5, 2009 Report Share Posted November 5, 2009 Maybe he just wanted the one heat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwoMinuteWarning Posted November 9, 2009 Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 Daniel Davidsson won the indoor meeting at Linkoping last Saturday. Results at http://www.piraterna.com/Default.aspx?nodeId=1479 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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