ICE SPEEDWAY 2023

[Conkers]

At the moment, only Inzell and Berlin have confirmed dates, and I suspect the current situation will exclude any Russian involvement in the World Championship next season.

Berlin plan to run from March 2 - 5. The Geman Championship is pencilled in for Thursday March 2.

Inzell will run over the weekend of March 17 - 19, with Gunther Bauer's farewell on Friday March 17

No doubt Heerenveen will announce their dates shortly.

There is nothing on Speedway Press about the Russian season, but they usually announce the fixtures in October. Whether it's possible to watch any meetings that are streamed will depend on whether or not they are on a site that's not being blocked.

[Bavarian]

There might also be a couple of meetings in Poland agin this winter, but there are as yet no confirmed dates. 

But I wonder how much longer will the FIM continue to run it as an official world championship?

[eric i]

I thought a lot of the ice races were Russian, will the FIM let them ride under a neutral flag or will they be band?

[Conkers]

43 minutes ago, eric i said:

I thought a lot of the ice races were Russian, will the FIM let them ride under a neutral flag or will they be band?

The Russians can't ride in FIM Events.

This is part of the Press Release by the FIM on March 5th:

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To suspend, for the Motorcycle Federation of Russia (MFR) and the Belarusian Federation of Motorcycle Sport (BFMS), the issuance of FIM licences and the FIM licences already distributed. To suspend the functions of persons from MFR and BFMS acting as FIM Officials and as Commissions members/experts/agents of the FIM. As a result, no Russian and Belarusian riders, teams and officials can take part in any FIM Events and activities. 

You can read the full press release on the link below

https://www.fim-moto.com/en/news/news-detail/article/fim-announces-its-decisions-in-relation-to-the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine

I hope this helps?

[eric i]

6 hours ago, Bavarian said:

There might also be a couple of meetings in Poland agin this winter, but there are as yet no confirmed dates. 

But I wonder how much longer will the FIM continue to run it as an official world championship?

Not much longer I would have thought, its going to be a little amateurish without Russia.

[iris123]

I just wonder how the energy prices will affect ice rinks ver the winter, what with everyone else complaining they will hit trouble. I would have thought an ice track outdoors even mre is very expensive

Found this from Bavaria, about problems with Ice arenas raising prices to try and cover higher energy costs and even raising the temperature of the ice !!

https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/energiekosten-eisstadien-erhoehen-preise-und-die-eistemperatur,TEBjCGu

Edited September 16, 2022 by iris123

[DutchGrasstrack]

Russian championship will have 5 Finals this season including a return to Krasnogorsk.

SuperLiga 4 rounds.

[Conkers]

Had a message this morning with a flyer for the Berlin Meetings.

Looks like they are staging the German Championship on Friday March 3, with the European Championship on Saturday March 4.

 

[iris123]

See the Horst Dohm stadium have been hit with some delivery problems, and their ice season has been postponed. Should have already opened, but now won't open until December 1st. But they are seeing a postive in the shortened season in that their energy costs will be lower !! 

[iris123]

Inn Isar have announced they are fielding a team in the 'newly formed Swedish Superliga' and will host a home meeting on  06.01.2023

Where their meeting will be held and wich riders will appear will be announced at a later date, but Jell, and Simon and possibly Celina Liebmann ,look likely 

Edited November 22, 2022 by iris123

[DutchGrasstrack]

2023 FIM calendar:

28 January SVEMO Qualifying round Örnsköldsvik Sweden
18 - 19 March DMSB Finals Inzell Germany
01 - 02 April KNMV Finals Heerenveen* The Netherlands

[iris123]

Russian league line ups

Ufa 

#114 Dinar Valeev

#776 Nikita Bogdanov

#131 Vasily Nesitykh

#117 Nikita Tarasov

 

Kamensk-Uralsky

#919 Dmitry Khomitsevich

#106 Dmitry Koltakov

Ivan Bolshakov

Vladimir Fadeev

Savely Vedyanov

Daniil Fedorov

 

Togliatti

#333 Daniil Ivanov

#911 Igor Kononov

#383 Nikita Toloknov

#9 Ivan Khuzhin

Igor Saydullin

Simon Svitek

Ilya Krivonozhko

Belyi Stanislav

 

Shadrinsk

Dmitry Solyannikov

#405 Artyom Burmistrov

#559 Matvey Volkov

Vladislav Martyanov

#94 Pavel Glotkin

Evgeny Makhnyov

 

Kaltasy 

Andrey Shishegov

Dmitry Bulankin

Anton Sozykin

 

Glazov

Alexey Utusikov

Ivan Volkov

Mark Kurakin

 

Irkutsk

Ruslan Litvinov

Alexander Fesenko

Andrey Anisimov

 

Lukhovitsy

Sergey Makarov

Alexey Kolganov

Nikolai Makarov

Nikita Tsybrov

 

Saransk

Oleg Gavrilkin

Danila Komkin

Vyacheslav Suleyev

Kirill Kryskin

Ivan Demidov

Ruslan Pivovarov

 

Kumertau

Evgeniy Sharov

Ivan Gavrilov

Vladislav Martyanov

[DutchGrasstrack]

Örnsköldsvik qualifier allocations:

1. NL
2. AT
3. IT
4. NO
5. CZ
6. FI
7. DE
8. 
9. NL
10. DE
11. CZ
12. SE
13. SE
14.
15. AT
16. PL
--
17. SE
18. SE

[Schwantz34]

Nice to see Khuzin and Toloknov back from some horrendous injuries late last season.

What a shame about the curtailed WC season, can only hope that the devastation in Ukraine stops soon ( for various reasons )

[Conkers]

Looks like the FIM are still not allowing Russian Riders to compete outside their home country, after the FIM General Assembly in Rimini.

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"After careful consideration of the situation, we have decided to maintain our decisions taken at the extraordinary meeting of the Board of Directors on March 5, 2022,"

The Russian Ice season starts next weekend (10/11 December) does anyone know if we will be able to watch the meetings, or are the links all blocked?

[racers and royals]

12 hours ago, Conkers said:

Looks like the FIM are still not allowing Russian Riders to compete outside their home country, after the FIM General Assembly in Rimini.

The Russian Ice season starts next weekend (10/11 December) does anyone know if we will be able to watch the meetings, or are the links all blocked?

Spoken to Stewmac who will be in touch with you about what he knows about possible streaming links.

[DutchGrasstrack]

They will stream as per usual, but looks likely only on VK (Russian Facebook). 

[stewmac]

12 hours ago, Conkers said:

Looks like the FIM are still not allowing Russian Riders to compete outside their home country, after the FIM General Assembly in Rimini.

The Russian Ice season starts next weekend (10/11 December) does anyone know if we will be able to watch the meetings, or are the links all blocked?

Hi Conkers,

Te best place to catch all the steaming is via the "Ice Gladiators FC" Facebook group. This is a direct link to it here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/icegladiatorsFC/?ref=share

One of the admins there, Anton Terebenin posts details of upcoming meetings, and whether they will be streamed or not. In many cases he himself streams them, and he's pretty good, with a decent level of English too, allowing you to interact and converse with him via the chat on the streams. Be aware that some streams will be via YouTube and others via the Ice Gladiators VK page (VK is a Russian version of Facebook) but all are good quality. 

If you need any more help, ask me and I'll give you more precise details closer to match days once I see the links appearing. 

Edited December 5, 2022 by stewmac

[stewmac]

Russian Super League stages 1/2 this weekend. December 10/11..all details within this post, including line ups and race card.

Will be broadcast via YouTube, on this channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBuZhb543-j_pL5kW0NhmEw 

and if blocked, on the other channel listed within the post: https://www.facebook.com/groups/icegladiatorsFC/permalink/1486269675228718/

Edited December 6, 2022 by stewmac

[stewmac]

Russian Individual Championship, stages 1 and 2 , December 17/18, details including streaming links within this post here from the Ice Gladiators FC Facebook page: 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/icegladiatorsFC/permalink/1486260485229637/