STEPHEN 333 Posted January 18, 2017 Report Share Posted January 18, 2017 This years Grand Prix Challenge has been announced for Togliatti in the Soviet Union, Saturday August 19th. according to the GP Website, the week before the Gorzow Grand Prix itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
customhouseregular Posted January 18, 2017 Report Share Posted January 18, 2017 Nice day trip...I must check Ryanair's flight schedules. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted January 19, 2017 Report Share Posted January 19, 2017 Nice day trip...I must check Ryanair's flight schedules. Couple of hours from Stanstead. Easy ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waiheke1 Posted January 19, 2017 Report Share Posted January 19, 2017 Chance of the laguta brothers picking up wildcard spots for this one? Could be their best chance of making the gp series? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwalker Posted January 19, 2017 Report Share Posted January 19, 2017 Chance of the laguta brothers picking up wildcard spots for this one? Could be their best chance of making the gp series? Artem have already done a season in the GP-series though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwalker Posted February 13, 2017 Report Share Posted February 13, 2017 Andreas Jonsson have attempted to not to try and qualify for the 2018 season due to the poor results the past couple of years. http://www.norrteljetidning.se/motor/speedway/andreas-jonsson-tanker-inte-kvala-till-vm-serien-2018-eftersom-det-gatt-som-det-gjort-de-senaste-tva-aren-sa-avstar-jag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolskiZuzel Posted February 24, 2017 Report Share Posted February 24, 2017 This years Grand Prix Challenge has been announced for Togliatti in the Soviet Union, Soviet Union ? Where have you been for the last 25 years (or so) ? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Shovlar Posted February 25, 2017 Report Share Posted February 25, 2017 Easiest route to get there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racers and royals Posted February 25, 2017 Report Share Posted February 25, 2017 (edited) Easiest route to get there?Fly to Moscow and then internal flight to Kurumoch int airport Samara which serves Togliatti -60 km away this is the route Dave Rowe and Sam Ermolenko take when commentating from there. Edited February 25, 2017 by racers and royals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Shovlar Posted February 26, 2017 Report Share Posted February 26, 2017 Yes looked at it and its £279 return which isn't bad considering the distance. Finair or Aeroflot. Includes a 2 hour wait at Moscow. Only downside is flight times. Most are over nighters and very early returns. The return is like 6 am from Samara on Sunday. Now if the meeting was rained off its a long trip for nothing so you could put back to the Monday. So you would have the Sunday to kill in a Russian town in the backside of nowhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racers and royals Posted February 26, 2017 Report Share Posted February 26, 2017 Yes looked at it and its £279 return which isn't bad considering the distance. Finair or Aeroflot. Includes a 2 hour wait at Moscow. Only downside is flight times. Most are over nighters and very early returns. The return is like 6 am from Samara on Sunday. Now if the meeting was rained off its a long trip for nothing so you could put back to the Monday. So you would have the Sunday to kill in a Russian town in the backside of nowhere.Togliatti 4hours ahead of UK time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted February 26, 2017 Report Share Posted February 26, 2017 Good luck if getting an internal Russian flight. Bumpy ride ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchGrasstrack Posted February 26, 2017 Report Share Posted February 26, 2017 (edited) We flew to Togliatti a few weeks ago for the Icespeedway and the traveling was easy as. Cologne - Moscow Vnukovo - Kurumoch. We used Russias 'Ryanair' Pobeda which is cheap, but they want money for everything else. Make sure you have 2 hours minimum connection time in Moscow. We had less then an hour and missed our connection (also due to a little delay). Passport/visa takes some time. From Kurumoch take an Uber 'taxi' to Togliatti which costs around 15 pounds for a 1 hour 60km journey. Our roadtrip was quite scary in the snow, but it should be Ok in the summer. My experience with taxi's in Russia on a previous trip was terrible as they rip you off guaranteed. Uber solves this problem Kurumoch airport has a hotel on 15 minute walking distance which is expensive but ok. Edited February 26, 2017 by DutchGrasstrack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phillipsr Posted February 26, 2017 Report Share Posted February 26, 2017 Easiest route to get there? Being seeded straight through I'd imagine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwalker Posted March 16, 2017 Report Share Posted March 16, 2017 Swedish nominations for the qualifiers VM kval 1 Esbjerg, Danmark den 6 maj: Peter Ljung & Jacob Thorssell VM kval 3 Lonigo, Italien den 6 maj: Linus Sundström & Pontus Aspgren VM kval 4 Abensberg, Tyskland den 5 juni: Joonas Kylmäkorpi & Ludvig Lindgren Reserver GP kval: Oliver Berntzon Victor Palovaara http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Nyheter/NomineringavforaretillVMochEMKvaliSpeedway2017/#.WMlrLXhU8kk.facebook 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-s-p Posted March 16, 2017 Report Share Posted March 16, 2017 Timo Lahti and Tero Aarnio at Esbjeg for Finland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwalker Posted March 16, 2017 Report Share Posted March 16, 2017 OMG. It just hit me. There's actually no rider really good on the market who could actually add to the series. A sign of stagnation in speedway? IMO Grigory Laguta could add something compared to lets say Lindgren and Maybe Zagar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OveFundinFan Posted March 16, 2017 Report Share Posted March 16, 2017 (edited) Gregory could add something, as could Artem, IF they were always on a good day, which they are not. Zagar is brilliant when he is on a good day. Edited March 16, 2017 by OveFundinFan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidney the robin Posted March 16, 2017 Report Share Posted March 16, 2017 Gregory could add something, as could Artem, IF they were always on a good day, which they are not. Zagar is brilliant when he is on a good day.Greg Laguta on his day is better than Zagar by a long chalk does he show it anough probably not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moomin man 76 Posted March 17, 2017 Report Share Posted March 17, 2017 Swedish nominations for the qualifiers VM kval 1 Esbjerg, Danmark den 6 maj: Peter Ljung & Jacob Thorssell VM kval 3 Lonigo, Italien den 6 maj: Linus Sundström & Pontus Aspgren VM kval 4 Abensberg, Tyskland den 5 juni: Joonas Kylmäkorpi & Ludvig Lindgren Reserver GP kval: Oliver Berntzon Victor Palovaara http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Nyheter/NomineringavforaretillVMochEMKvaliSpeedway2017/#.WMlrLXhU8kk.facebook Dear me. A sign of where Swedish speedway currently stands. Six qualification slots and the majority won't even get to the GP qualifier, let alone stand a chance of qualifying for the GPs in 2018. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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