Ghostwalker

yes but the difference is that the riders will be home during weekdays. Lets say they fly to the GP on thursday and gets back home on Sunday. The rider is home from Sunday afternoon to THursday with no league commitments. Far from every rider has wife and kids.

Well now that you mention it. but dont remember what happened with Jagus if he wasnt good enough or if he wasnt fit after the crash in Eskilstuna. Hampel no idea.

yes but the problem is that the first rounds of the qualifiers are quite early in the season and a rider who would normally manage top 8 might find himelf outside top 8 because of Injuries. I Think AJ, Jagus, Hampel could very well all have been top 8 if they hadn't been injured. So i think the qualifiers needs to be looked over a bit to see how the GP riders that are with in top 8 in the first half of the Gps can be given a chance to qualify as well if they miss top 8.

yeah i agree as you said you dont need to have all Gps between may and september. If you have Gps like in Malaysia and other places where its warm during the whole year, you can without any problem have Gps there when the National Series in Europe either havent started yet or already have finished

Swedish Expert commentator ex-rider Peter Nahlin said that he believed that Adams would not ride next year in the GP.

since BSI prefer nationality before performance i would'nt count out Zagar just yet. I wouldnt be surprised if he gets a wc just because he's slovenian.

Again Money before a good track. Hopefully we can get WC or something like that.

Yeah especially when you look at the start list with allot of young up and coming U21 riders and that "everyone" "always" say that they want more Swedish riders in the Swedish teams. but when they are given the opportunity to see these riders in action either in Allsvenskan or in this case a Benefit Meeting many choose to stay home. Such a shame they missed some really good racing today although i wished that someone could have put up some more opposition Against Eric A who only missed 1p today.

full results: Robin's Race, Results Results Grand Final: 1. Eric Andersson Team Dalakraft 2. Billy Forsberg Västervik 3. Viktor Bergström Västervik 4. Ricky Kling (white not green) Dackarna a good competition with lots of passing. But very poor attendances only 342 people.

No Lejoen had big problems with the track and 1 or 2 more heats would have brought Valsarna to Elitserien. And even if it starting to rain you can wait more then 10minutes before aborting the meeting but both the ref and Lejoen was very eager to abort as soon as possible since Lejonen knew if they aborted they would win. *edit* forgot to mention in heat 13 which they started a lejonen rider laid his bike down and the ref then aborted the meeting. Quite convenient for Lejonen. The Referee was also från Målilla in Småland (Småland is a province in Sweden) and suprise suprise Lejonen is also from Småland.

Swedish Elitserien team Kaparna have had their application for an Elitlicense for the 2008 season rejected by Swedish Motorcycle Sports Federation; SVEMO. The Decision can be read in this file (pdf file, in swedish) http://www.svemo.se/file_out.php?id=2034 kaparna has been struggling this year especillay finacially. One of the reasons for that is the lack of hometrack and that they several times have been riding with a line up who's total average has been lower then the determined "floor average" resulting in heavy fines. Also they have had alot of "sickness" in the team and like yesterday riders who dont show up. The rejection was decided since there was several uncertainties about kaparna's finances and arena situations and kaparna have not replied SVEMO who several times have sent inquiries about those questions. Among other things Kaparna have not used certified auditors(?) meaning that the financial report cannot be approved.

well its not how its normally done in the series so for some reason SVEMO (as usual) wants to things different. IMO you cant compare Lejoens score after 16 heats yesterday with what Valsarna only achieved after 12 tonight.

too bad you dont undertsand Swedish coz' the "debate at http://www.masarnaavesta.nu/gastbok.cgi is super intense and there are all kinds of accusations and complains going on. about 15 pages since 20.30.

appearently SVEMO screwd up again and decided about new rules for the fianls yesterday, For ages in Sweden if you need to cancel a meeting before heat 16 the bonus is awarded to the team who has the highest total score after the same amount of ridden heats. But a new rule decided about yesterday says that its the full score of the first meeting that counts. Also it seems like lejonen refused to ride simply because they knew if they stopped the meeting after 12 heats they are safe with 3p but if the meeting would go on they would loose with more then 13p... IMO thats unsportsmanlike and almost cheating.

appearently the meeting is canceled and that should mean that Valsarna against all odds made it back to elitserien despite yestrerdays 13p loss. *edit* i've read the opposite as well that lejoen is promoted not sure yet which applies.

the standing tonight after 12 haets is 31-41 and if they have to cancel the meeting the scores will be added to yesterdays scores after 12 heats which was 31-40. Thats makes a total score of 72-71 in favor of Valsarna.

Big drama in Gislaved. 12 heats have been ridden and Valsarna leads 10p and it have started to Rain and no light pour but heavy raining. If the meeting have to bee canceled now and no more heats can be ridden Valsarna is in Elitserien 2008! with a 1p victory.

there is something wrong with the live updates from Gislaved. the laterst result written i Masarnas gästbok says that the standings after 9 heats is: Lejonen 25 Valsarna 29 = 79-70

Honestly i think Indainerna actually finsihed 9th since i find it very strange that Kaprna managed a 48-48 score in their final meeting away against your team Bajen Liverstam. Piraterna also managed this earlier in the season but Bajen didnt have Scott Nicholls and Kylmäkopi was obviously not fit with 3x0. Normally a team like Kaparna would normally, like any other team, have chance against Hammarby at Gubbängen. the 3 other semi final teams had the following results: Bajen-Dackarna 49-47 Bajen- Elit Vetlanda 56-39 Bajen- Västervik 61-35 Series winner lost with 26points while Kaparna Scored 48-48 how is that possible? it isnt!

I disagree. Well the rules say that the team who wins Allsvenskan is promoted to Elitserien and the last placed team of Elitserien is relegated to Allsvenskan unless a vacancy appears and in that case the last placed team in Elitserien is the team who SVEMO first should ask then the 2nd placed team in Allsvenskan. It have happened before when Piraterna finished last but still was asked if they wanted to stay. There fore i think SVEMO is doing right to ask Indianerna first since if thats what they did 2004 when Piraterna finished last with only 3p why shouldnt they do the same now? In 2004 a vacancy appeared since no team in Allsvenskan wanted to be promoted to Eliserien. SVEMO cant do one thing one year and another thing a few years later. Maybe it might do Indianerna good to be in allsvenskan for a year or two but thats a different matter.

the appellation court has today decided to reject Kaparnas appeal. The full decisions is about 8 pages long and can be read here: Apellation Court Decision

Dackarna won tonights 2nd leg of Semifianl with 57-39 and a total score of 108-84. Dackarna will meet Hammarby in the semi-finals and in the other semi-final Elit Vetlanda will meet Västervik.

tonights meetings are marked with blue in the first post. Note that the line ups for Dackarna-Piraterna might look a bit different then what he scoresheet currently says.

i dont live near Målilla but reports from fans are saying no rain since this morning and it looks like the weather might clear up a bit. For Valsarna/Lejeonen i dont know. Svemo has releases a short information about reservedays. Briefly it says: In the negotiations with BSPA, SVEMO suggested Wednesday 19/9 as a rerserve day but BSPA could not accept that since that would mean that Poole would not have a homemeeting for 3 weeks. So it was decided to use Thursday 20/9 instead. This can be read here (in swedish).

Well SVEMO (=Swedish Motorcycle sport Federation) had since before the season scheduled a reserve day at Thursday. Dackarna wanted to change to Wednesday but Piraterna wanted to stick to Thursday. I dont know why SVEMO chose Thursday maybe they wanted to be consequent and use the same weekday (Thursday) throughout the playoffs.