racers and royals Posted May 1, 2015 Report Share Posted May 1, 2015 (edited) teams-taken from Sportowefakty- meeting starts 6pm uk time Germany 1. Martin Smolinski (kapitan)2. Tobias Busch3. Christian Hefenbrock4. Michael HaertelMenadżer - Herbert Rudolph Słovenia 1. Matej Zagar (kapitan)2. Aleksander Conda3. Ziga Kovacić4. Maks GregoricMenadżer - Franci Kalin Italy1. Michele Paco Castagna2. Nicolas Vicentin3. Alessandro Milanese4. Nicolas Covatti (kapitan)Menadżer - Alessandro Dalla Valle Russia1. Wiktor Kułakow2. Wadim Tarasienko3. Emil Sajfutdinow (kapitan)4. Witalij BiełousowMenadżer - Andriej Sawin Winners only go through to round 1 in Gniezno Poland Saturday June 6th Edited May 1, 2015 by racers and royals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oleoleole Posted May 1, 2015 Report Share Posted May 1, 2015 Thanks for the info'. Our first foreign adventure in about 2000 was a similar SWC fixture at Landshut. It was Germany, USA (with John Cook!) and Denmark and ? Looking forward to a return visit next week after we go to St.Johann tomorrow for the SGP qualifier. Hope the weather gods are good to us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchGrasstrack Posted May 1, 2015 Report Share Posted May 1, 2015 Italy Cool to see they even had a qualifier in Blijham (NL) back in 2000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric i Posted May 1, 2015 Report Share Posted May 1, 2015 Why does Emil compete in this qualifier but not the rest of the competition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racers and royals Posted May 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2015 Live updates http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/wydarzenie/35193 6pm uk time start Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racers and royals Posted May 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2015 Russia win to advance to the final stages-can only enhance the Polish round. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waiheke1 Posted May 9, 2015 Report Share Posted May 9, 2015 Will Emil race in subsequent rounds? The lagutas? This meeting shows why teams should be allowed a reserve, as in the "good old days." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchGrasstrack Posted May 9, 2015 Report Share Posted May 9, 2015 Emil will be in Gniezno, hope the Lagutas will be as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
severnsider Posted May 10, 2015 Report Share Posted May 10, 2015 A full strength Russian team could really shake up the medal positions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCB Posted May 10, 2015 Report Share Posted May 10, 2015 A full strength Russian team could really shake up the medal positions They could win it! As long as they can get a 4th rider who can pick up a few points they stand a chance. I hope they take it serious - if the Brits can't win it I like the Laguytas and Emil so would be happy with the Russians winning it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwalker Posted May 10, 2015 Report Share Posted May 10, 2015 (edited) They could win it! As long as they can get a 4th rider who can pick up a few points they stand a chance. I hope they take it serious - if the Brits can't win it I like the Laguytas and Emil so would be happy with the Russians winning it. Loktajev or Tarasenko. Loktajev rode on a russian license in Elitserien last season where he scores 56p from 32 heats. His website says that have double citizenship (Russian/Ukrainian). http://www.loktaev.pl/index.php/alex Tarasenko rode for Rus in the qualifier. Scored 7 p from 5 heats but had two exclusions. http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/wydarzenie/35193 Tarasenko is also in Piraterna's squad in Elitserien this year. Both riders are very talented and could well cause some upsets at SWC if picked. Edited May 10, 2015 by Ghostwalker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
customhouseregular Posted May 10, 2015 Report Share Posted May 10, 2015 I'd wager this was a far better meeting than the Pairs shown on Eurosport last night. Pity the cameras were in the wrong Country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bavarian Posted May 10, 2015 Report Share Posted May 10, 2015 Landshut was rain affected, too. The start of this SWC qualifyer was delayed by one-and-a-half hours for track remedy work. Zagar and Sayfutdinov were not keen to ride on a very deep track, so the track workers scraped a lot of the wet top layer of the track surface off. Racing was eventually o.k, though not overly spectacular, but, yes, it was a better meeting than what I saw on tv of the pairs event in Denmark. Biggest talking point was the lack of a reserve rider in the SWC - both Germany and Slovenia were beaten by losing one of their riders to injury early on in this meeting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
screm Posted May 10, 2015 Report Share Posted May 10, 2015 Biggest talking point was the lack of a reserve rider in the SWC - both Germany and Slovenia were beaten by losing one of their riders to injury early on in this meeting. Its a problem that needs to be addressed though should not be open to abuse, it has to be better that a team can continue to field a full team throughout the meeting rather than going one rider short in certain races. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waiheke1 Posted May 10, 2015 Report Share Posted May 10, 2015 Its a problem that needs to be addressed though should not be open to abuse, it has to be better that a team can continue to field a full team throughout the meeting rather than going one rider short in certain races. Don't know what u mean by "open to abuse." Let teams have a reserve, and allow the reserve to have up to five rides, to cover injury or out of form rider. It is a team event. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwalker Posted May 10, 2015 Report Share Posted May 10, 2015 Its a problem that needs to be addressed though should not be open to abuse, it has to be better that a team can continue to field a full team throughout the meeting rather than going one rider short in certain races. It would difficult to prevent abuse I think, maybe only after approval of track doctor or something but that wouldn't be 100& certain either. The other options would be to allow free use of a reserve. Basically 5-men teams with only scheduled heats for 4 riders. Neither is perhaps ideal but at least the latter would prevent a team from loosing because of one rider getting injured. Like Sweden in SBPC yesterday when Ljung crashed out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCB Posted May 10, 2015 Report Share Posted May 10, 2015 Why would a non-riding reserve who can take up to 5 rides be any worse than a pairs meeting where you have a non-riding reserve who can take rides?! Just let teams declare anyone they like at reserve, if Poland go with Hampel, GB with Tai and Australia with Holder and chose to use that rider in all 5 of the last 5 heats then thats just tactics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
customhouseregular Posted May 11, 2015 Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 Countries would not participate in Tests without reserves, GP's would not run without reserves and so on. Making a team compete without a rider in 3 or 4 races in a FIM sanctioned event is grossly unfair. Russia may still have won but teams and spectators were short-changed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racers and royals Posted May 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 Countries would not participate in Tests without reserves, GP's would not run without reserves and so on. Making a team compete without a rider in 3 or 4 races in a FIM sanctioned event is grossly unfair. Russia may still have won but teams and spectators were short-changed. Spectators were also short changed when they went from 25 to 20 races at the same time. the only reason it went to 4 man teams is that the prize money on offer is so pathetic it hardly covers travel/payment for 4 riders let alone 5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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