DutchGrasstrack Posted September 29, 2015 Report Share Posted September 29, 2015 On the 18th of october Lelystad will stage the Dutch Open championship of 2015. 30 riders have signup sofar:1. Henry van der Steen3. Sjoerd Rozenberg6. Lars Zandvliet11. Buddy Prijs12. Henk Bos16. Kelvin Bos24. Kelly Velda25. Nick Lourens33. Mark Helmhout44. Henk Koonstra45. Anne Spaan46. Sandro Wassermann (DE)47. Geert Bruinsma48. Steven Mauer (DE)49. Dominik Möser (DE)50. Martin Hansen (DK)51. Niclas Nielsen (DK)52. Arslan Fayzulin (RU)53. Onno Rykena (DE)54. Sascha Stumpe (DE)55. Mathias Bartz (DE)56. Kevin Glorie57. Maja Aamund (DK)58. Mark Frimuth (DK)59. Patrik Bjerregaard (DK)60. Jason Jorgensen (DK)61. Ferry Mulder63. Dave Meijerink84. Romano Hummel99. Mika Meijer I think this is awesome that so many riders are interested in racing in The Netherlands, and especially because there is (sadly) no money to pay the riders. The riders will be split in an A and B group. If there are any riders on this forum and fancy a little weekend away please send me a PM asap Lelystad is very close to Amsterdam so perfect to see our capital as well So a perfect season finisher I think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
customhouseregular Posted September 29, 2015 Report Share Posted September 29, 2015 My wife and I and our young (at the time) children holidayed in Lelystad in 1983. Not much there then. The next year we went to Middelharnis which was rather nice. We do have rather a soft spot for the Netherlands and Belgian Flanders. It would be good if this meeting was well supported . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humphrey Appleby Posted September 30, 2015 Report Share Posted September 30, 2015 My wife and I and our young (at the time) children holidayed in Lelystad in 1983. Not much there then. I'm surprised there was anything there in 1983 as Lelystad as only recently been developed into something approaching a town. The Flevopolder is still a pretty dull place though, but luckily quite close to Amsterdam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
customhouseregular Posted September 30, 2015 Report Share Posted September 30, 2015 It was pretty remote although the new town was being built. We had a unit on a holiday park booked through Olau Line, sailing from Sheerness to Vlissingen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triple.H. Posted September 30, 2015 Report Share Posted September 30, 2015 I thought The Hague was the capital or is my brain addled from watching the speedway tonight and the other 2 Manchester teams in the champions league at the same time in the pub Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humphrey Appleby Posted September 30, 2015 Report Share Posted September 30, 2015 I thought The Hague was the capital or is my brain addled from watching the speedway tonight and the other 2 Manchester teams in the champions league at the same time in the pub The Hague is the seat of government, but Amsterdam is the capital. Typical Dutch compromise... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ndBender Posted October 1, 2015 Report Share Posted October 1, 2015 Still looking for a programme from Lelystad if any kind-hearted forum members are going.......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchGrasstrack Posted October 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2015 This event is sadly cancelled due to the bad weather during the past days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
customhouseregular Posted October 15, 2015 Report Share Posted October 15, 2015 This event is sadly cancelled due to the bad weather during the past days. That's a shame...must be some heavy waterlogging though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted October 16, 2015 Report Share Posted October 16, 2015 That's a shame...must be some heavy waterlogging though. All those tears cried after they didn't make the European Football Finals 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
customhouseregular Posted October 16, 2015 Report Share Posted October 16, 2015 Like it iris, like it. I was looking at all the photos of Lelystad on Google images. The place has changed dramatically since i was there in 1983. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchGrasstrack Posted October 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2015 The event will be restaged on 08.11.2015 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-s-p Posted October 17, 2015 Report Share Posted October 17, 2015 The event will be restaged on 08.11.2015 Why not just do it as a Santa Claus Open in Dec! = ) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arnieg Posted November 9, 2015 Report Share Posted November 9, 2015 The event will be restaged on 08.11.2015 result: 1 Jason Jorgensen (Den) 15+3+3 2 Theo Pijper 14+3+2 3 Tim Sorensen (Den) 11+2+1 4 Mark Fr. Pedersen (Den) 8+2+0 5 Pascal Swart 12+0 6 Seb. Mortensen(Den) 10+1 7 Romano Hummel 10+1 8 Nick Lourens 9+0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchGrasstrack Posted November 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2015 Full results here: http://live.baansportfansite.nl/event/118/onk-speedway-lelystad.html Very well run and positive event. The event was run very quickly (check the times) with some great racing. Very impressed by the group of young Danes that came over. They seem to loved it and will come back in the future, even for just a practice day. The KNMV (Dutch fed) was very happy with it, and we had no complains or whatever from anyone. The Lelystad club has now some new people in the organisation, including me, and we are working hard on getting the speedway back on track. New plans are made and we look forward to 2016 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozrik Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 Good to see successful meetings in countries other than the big 4 (GB, Swed, Den, Pol). Good support from the riders to return for the reschedule after a rain off, and it looks like the Dutch riders were competitive in this field. I notice the meeting format is very similar to how meetings are run in Australia, and yes we get through them fairly quickly as well. One more point; a lot of young Dutch riders in 125, but i wonder where they go if eventually they choose to ride speedway for an income? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchGrasstrack Posted November 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 No Dutch riders, other then Theo Pijper, have speedway for an income. Usually the Dutch kids go the grasstrack/longtrack way and do some meetings in the weekends across Europe. It's hard for the Dutch kids to get noticed in the speedway scene, especially because it's such a small sport over here and we hardly have any meetings. Some choose to go on a German license to be able to do all the U21 events there, but other then that it ends with a combo between grasstrack/longtrack and a little speedway. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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