Ice Racing 2012

[Conkers]

The Russian Premier League will have six teams this season, following the return of Miner Uchaly after a season out of the sport, with relegated Lukhovitsy and a team from the Far Eastern Region of Amur, Blagoveshensk taking part. Speedway-Amur have signed Roman Akimenko and Pawel Tschajka as their main riders and will use local riders in the reserve slot. There would have been seven teams but Kumertau had their application rejected.

 

Teams:

Speedway-Amur Blagoveshensk,

Miners Uchaly

Samara

Mordovia 2 Saransk

Lukhovitsy

Izhevsk

 

There is an Amur Governer's Cup meeting on 27/11 at Blagoveshensk with the opening Premier League meeting the weekend after 3/4.12

 

There is something about the track and the meetings from the local Amur paper here but you'll need to use a translation site unless you are using Chrome

[Ghostwalker]

Ice racing at Eskilstuna? Smederna have been asked, by Peter Jansson who is team manager for the national ice racing teams, to host race

perhaps already in the beginning of 2012. Peter says that Smedernas track would be suitable for ice racing. I Assume that he would know but

would it really work on a track with banked bends?

 

http://ekuriren.se/s...pas-pa-isracing

Edited November 18, 2011 by Ghostwalker

[Conkers]

Line up for The Amur Region Governor's Cup, Sunday 27th November, 2011:

 

They haven't made the draw for start numbers yet.

 

Roman Akimenko (Blagoveshensk)

Pawel Tschajka (Blagoveshensk)

Sergei Logachev (Blagoveshensk)

Roman Pavlenko (Blagoveshensk)

Alexander Turovets (Blagoveshensk)

Alex Jelenia (Blagoveshensk)

Constantine Starosel'tsev (Rajchikhinsk)

Andrei Ivanov (Ussuriisk)

Vladimir Momont (Ussuriisk)

Basil Luhovoj(Ussuriisk)

Alexander Kotlyar (Ussuriisk)

Anatoly Komarov (Ussuriisk)

Peter Shevchenko (Ussuriisk)

Arkady Shalavin (Ussuriisk)

Vladimir Matyas (Ussuriisk)

Andrei Selifonev (Khabarovsk)

[iris123]

Line up for The Amur Region Governor's Cup, Sunday 27th November, 2011:

 

Be interesting to see how Tschajka goes,but not really a great line-up compared to recent years.No Baraboschkin.

 

What will be more interesting is the meeting in Kamensk at the start of December.International line-up including from what i saw on the Russian forum a rider from 'England' Wonder who has agreed to travel out?

 

And also nice to see that Ufa will follow Togliatti and have the riders in a team colour scheme of blue/white.Think one of the other teams have gone for green/white.Now if they were hoops.....

Anyway,good to see that training has started in Novosibirisk

Edited November 20, 2011 by iris123

[Conkers]

Be interesting to see how Tschajka goes,but not really a great line-up compared to recent years.No Baraboschkin.

 

What will be more interesting is the meeting in Kamensk at the start of December.International line-up including from what i saw on the Russian forum a rider from 'England' Wonder who has agreed to travel out?

 

And also nice to see that Ufa will follow Togliatti and have the riders in a team colour scheme of blue/white.Think one of the other teams have gone for green/white.Now if they were hoops.....

Anyway,good to see that training has started in Novosibirisk

 

The Governors cup is a chance for the Locals to train competitively with Tschajka and Akimenko. The following week, is the opening of the Premier League, so I suspect finances from the Amur region have been thrown at that.

 

Interesting to see who rides from England, as the ACU appear to have declined any slots in any competition this year.

[Conkers]

Taken from Swiss Ice Racing Site

 

Swiss Championship - 12.1.2012 (Re-Run Date 26.1.2012)

Team Racing - 14.1.2012 (Re-Run Date 28.1.2012)

 

ALSO

 

The season Opener at Kamensk-Ural on Friday 2.12.11 has 13 riders named so far. They are hoping to add another three in the next week, when contracts are agreed. It also sees the home debut of K-Urs foriegner, Harald Simon at his Home track.

 

Harald Simon (Austria), Dirk Fricke (Switzerland), Rene Dunki (Switzerland), Stefan Pletschacher (Germany), Max Niedermeier (Germany), Martin Leitner (Austria), Alex Utusikov (Tyumen)

Evgeni Scherbakov, (Saransk), Vassily Kosov (Saransk), Eugene Kosov (Saransk), Eugene Taushkanov (Kamensk-Ural), Basil Nesytyh (Kamensk-Ural), Vyacheslav Svitek (Perm)

[Jacqueline]

Ulvarna Speedway/Vargarna will arrange an international Ice Challenge 30. Dezember 2011. http://www.vargarna.nu/

With the 3 Santa-Cup meetings (27.12. - 29.12.) a fantastic iceracing week.

[Conkers]

Amur Governors Cup, 27.11.2011

 

Results:

Heat Scores:

Pawel Tschajka (Blagoveshchensk) (3,3,3,3,2) 14,

Roman Akimenko (Blagoveshchensk) (3,2,3,2,3) 13,

Andrei Ivanov, (Ussuriisk) (3,2,2,2,3) 12,

Andrei Selifonov (Khabarovsk) (2,1,3,3,2) 11,

Peter Shevchenko, (Ussuriisk) (0,3,0,3,3) 9,

Vladimir Momont (Ussuriisk) (1,2,1,2,3) 9,

Anatoly Komarov (Ussuriisk) (2,3,0,3,0) 8,

Alexander Kotlyar (Ussuriisk) (2,0,3,1,2) 8,

Sergei Logachev (Blagoveshchensk) (1,3,2,1,fx) 7,

Vladimir Matyas, (Ussuriisk) (3,fx,2,0,2) 7,

Roman Pavlenko (Blagoveshchensk) (0,1,1,2,1) 5,

Constantine Starosel'tsev (Rajchikhinsk) (1,1,1,1,1) 5,

Constantine Darenskaya (Blagoveshchensk) (2,1,fx,1,0) 4,

Sergei Lonshakov (Blagoveshchensk) (ns,xt,2,0,1) 3,

Denis Gavrishin (Blagoveshchensk) (0,2,1,0,0) 3,

Alex Jelenia (Blagoveshchensk) (1,fx,0,0,1) 2

 

SF1: Tschajka, Shevchenko,Ivanov, Momont

SF 2: Akimenko, Komarov, Selifonov, Kotlyar

 

FINAL: Tschajka, Akimenko,Shevchenko, Komarov

[f-s-p]

The Finnish final has been set on March 3rd at Seinäjoki. Finland is again set to take part in the Swedish Allsvenskan, but the dates for the series are not known.

[Conkers]

"BATTLE ON THE ICE", Kamensk-Ural, 2.12.11

 

Results (Heat Scores in Brackets) (Russia unless stated)

 

A FINAL: Michael Zelepukin (15), Andrei Gavrilkin (13), Basil Kosov (13), Basil Nesytyh (12)

B FINAL: Harald Simon (Austria)(12), Martin Leitner (Austria) (8), Max Niedermeier (Germany)(6), Vladimir Bobin (6)

C FINAL: Stefan Pletschacher (Germany)(6), Vyacheslav Svitek (5), Eugene Taushkanov (5), Rustam Akumbaev (5)

D FINAL: Eugene Kosov (2), Artem Akulov (4), Alex Utusikov (4) Dmitri Deev (3)

 

Also Rode: Dirk Fricke (Switzerland) (f), Rene Dunki (Switzerland) (0)

 

NO HEAT DETAILS AVAILABLE.

 

Meeting was 20 heats with four Finals

[iris123]

 

A Final from Kamensk and a pretty good one it was

[iris123]

"BATTLE ON THE ICE", Kamensk-Ural, 2.12.11

 

Results (Heat Scores in Brackets) (Russia unless stated)

 

A FINAL: Michael Zelepukin (15), Andrei Gavrilkin (13), Basil Kosov (13), Basil Nesytyh (12)

B FINAL: Harald Simon (Austria)(12), Martin Leitner (Austria) (8), Max Niedermeier (Germany)(6), Vladimir Bobin (6)

C FINAL: Stefan Pletschacher (Germany)(6), Vyacheslav Svitek (5), Eugene Taushkanov (5), Rustam Akumbaev (5)

D FINAL: Eugene Kosov (2), Artem Akulov (4), Alex Utusikov (4) Dmitri Deev (3)

 

Also Rode: Dirk Fricke (Switzerland) (f), Rene Dunki (Switzerland) (0)

 

NO HEAT DETAILS AVAILABLE.

 

Meeting was 20 heats with four Finals

If i was you mate i would in future refer to Mr Kosov + Mr Nesytyh by the first name of Vasili/Vasily,rather than Basil Somehow Basil just doesn't go!!!

Edited December 3, 2011 by iris123

[Conkers]

If i was you mate i would in future refer to Mr Kosov + Mr Nesytyh by the first name of Vasili/Vasily,rather than Basil Somehow Basil just doesn't go!!!

 

I stand corrected . I was relying on a contact in Russia who gave me the first names.

 

Russian Premier League Round 1, Sat. 3.12.11, Blagoveshensk

 

Blagoveshensk 26 (Pawel Tschajka 11, Roman Akimenko 11, Sergei Logachev 4)

Izhevsk 22 (Sergei Baltachev 12, Eugene Bellasov 7, Alex Ivanov 3)

Saransk 20 (Maxim Karpukhin 11, Maxim Lushnikov 7, Alex Abroskin 2)

Uchaly 17 (Alex Vitrek 8, Alfred Safina 8, Vilya Askerov 1)

Primorsky Krai 14 (Andrei Ivanov 10, Peter Shevchenko 2, Anatoly Kotlyar 2)

Lukhovitsy 13 +3(Sergei Makharov 11+3, Roman Kholodov 2, Igor Kazennyi 0)

Samara 13+d (Nikita Tolokonov 9+d, Dmitri Vintaev 3, Eugene Otpushennikov 1)

 

LEAGUE TABLE:

Speedway-Amur Blagoveshensk 7

Udmertia Izhevsk 5

Mordovia 2 Saransk 4

Miner Uchaly 3

Lukhovitsy 2

MK Rostock Samara 1

 

EDIT: Primorsky Krai only compete in Rounds 1 & 2, and are not part of the league structure.

Edited December 4, 2011 by Conkers

[Conkers]

Russian Premier League Round 2, Sun 4.12.11, Blagoveshensk

 

Blagoveshensk 24 (Tschajka 15, Akimenko 7, Logachev 2)

Izhevsk 20 + 3 (Baltachev 12 +3, Alex Ivanov 5, Bellasov 3)

Saransk 20 +2 (Lushnikov 10 +2, Karpukhin 7, Abroskin 3)

Lukhovitsy 17 (Makharov 17, Kholodov 0, Kazennyi 0)

Uchaly 16 (Safina 9, Vitrek 6, Askerov 1)

Primorsky Krai 15 (Andrei Ivanov 8, Shevchenko 6, Kotlyar 1)

Samara 14 (Tolokonov 7, Vintaev 6, Otpuschennikov 1)

 

LEAGUE TABLE:

Speedway-Amur Blagoveshensk 14 (7+7)

Udmertia Izhevsk 10 (5+5)

Mordovia 2 Saransk 8 (4+4)

Miner Uchaly 5 (3+2)

Lukhovitsy 5 (2+3)

MK Rostock Samara 2 (1+1)

 

Primorsky Krai only compete in Rounds 1 & 2, and are not part of the league structure.

[f-s-p]

They've had to re-schedule the Finnish training camp again due to poor (no) ice cnditions. It's now taking place 16th to 18th of December. And I think it goes on now during the same weekend as there is a camp in Sweden. The first cancellation took out the Poles from the lineup, we'll se what the Czech riders do with this one. Maybe the Poles will now get their ferries sorted? But still, it's a Finnish camp and mandatory for anyone wanting to represent Finland this season on international meetings. And the problem I understand remains in Europe, there's no ice to practise on...

[iris123]

They've had to re-schedule the Finnish training camp again due to poor (no) ice cnditions. It's now taking place 16th to 18th of December. And I think it goes on now during the same weekend as there is a camp in Sweden. The first cancellation took out the Poles from the lineup, we'll se what the Czech riders do with this one. Maybe the Poles will now get their ferries sorted? But still, it's a Finnish camp and mandatory for anyone wanting to represent Finland this season on international meetings. And the problem I understand remains in Europe, there's no ice to practise on...

No.Like i mentioned on Facebook a few days back,we were having forest fires in Germany about 10 days ago!!!!!And the ski resorts are looking very green in comparison to last year.But we had the first bit of snow here today.Rain,Snow,Sleet and more Rain.Bit tricky outside at the moment on the motorway.But doubt it will be much.We are not having the minus 15 temps that they are getting in Russia.And there is a series of Speedway on Ice meetings scheduled in the East of Germany,one of which at least will hopefully be on a frozen lake.Not looking good at the moment

[f-s-p]

No.Like i mentioned on Facebook a few days back,we were having forest fires in Germany about 10 days ago!!!!!And the ski resorts are looking very green in comparison to last year.But we had the first bit of snow here today.Rain,Snow,Sleet and more Rain.Bit tricky outside at the moment on the motorway.But doubt it will be much.We are not having the minus 15 temps that they are getting in Russia.And there is a series of Speedway on Ice meetings scheduled in the East of Germany,one of which at least will hopefully be on a frozen lake.Not looking good at the moment

 

I watched the link you posted, looked like winter. Also a week a go there was a news clip from Jakutia region of Russia, neighbouring Amur possibly and there was full winter with -28. A woman interviewed said it was nothing, last winter they had -60...

[Conkers]

There is coverage of the Elite League meeting from Novosibirsk this weekend from 08.00hrs GMT http://www.sibnet.ru/stream/moto/

 

EDIT: There is a little confusion as to when the meetings start depending where you look so the info I've posted comes from http://www.dosaafnso.ru/news/?ELEMENT_ID=473

Edited December 9, 2011 by Conkers

[Conkers]

Russian Elite League Round 1 Novosibirsk Saturday 10/12/11:

 

 

Saturday:

 

Togliatti 26 (Danil Ivanov 18, Dmitri Khomitsevich 7, Sergei Karachintsev 1)

Ufa 23+3 (Nikolai Krasnikov 14+3, Dmitri Koltakov 8, Dmitri Bulankin 1)

Sterlitamak 23+2 (Igor Kononov 14, Eduard Krysov 5+2, Andrei Shishegov 4)

Saransk 16 (Yunir Baseev 14, Andrei Gavrilkin 2, Artem Scherbakov 0)

Novosibirsk 14 (Maxim Korchemakha 13, Nikolai Kaminsky 1, Alexander Kochetov 0)

Kamensk Ural 12+3 (Igor Saydullin 5, Danil Golosheykin 4+3, Harald Simon 3)

Shadrinsk 12+2 (Michael Zelepukin 7+2, Alexander Rodin 4, Artem Novik 1)

 

League Table:

Mega-Lada Togliatti 8

Bashkortostan Ufa 6

Kaustic Sterlitamak 5

Mordovia Saransk 4

Siberia Novosibirsk 3

Kamensk Ural 2

Torpedo Shadrinsk 1

[Bavarian]

One question, what is the BSPA or ACU actually doing for British ice racing?

 

I miss the British riders in this competition, like when Bruce Cribb and others competed in the 1970s or '80s it was always interesting to see some familiar names (Paul Evitts or Martin Goodwin come to mind) that we knew from speedway, taking part in ice racing during the winter.

 

Now I hear that Martin Smolinksi is thinking about taking part in a meeting here in Germany in Januray. That's if the club or some sponsors will provide him with an ice racing bike for the event. I am sure he will be a major attarction and help to draw a big crowd. And I am sure he will not disgrace himself. He has had some practise laps on a borrowed bike last winter.

 

I miss some adventureous guys from GB, or even NZ, AUST, CAN and the USA, to do the same and go ice racing in Holland, Austira, Switzerland or Scandinavia. Their participation would do the sport of ice racing so very good. Where are they all?