DutchGrasstrack 804 Posted November 21, 2012 (edited) 29.09 6PM RZESZOW FINAL 4 LIVE ON EUROSPORT !! ----- The calendar for the European championship for 2013 has been annouced. The speedway championship is taken much more serious next year and they are trying to invite big riders as wildcards. Early reports suggest that Andreas Jonsson and Emil Sayfutdinov will ride next year in this championship. The four finals will also be on Polish TV and also the prize money has been upgraded to 50.000 euro per final. The format remains the same as this year, the top 8 (not sure about the numbers) from this year will automatically qualify for the Finals and the rest will come through via the semi finals and the challenge in Slovakia. SF 1 20.04.2013 Chervonograd SF 2 01.05.2013 Debrecen SF 3 23.06.2013 Mureck ECC 06.07.2013 Zarnovica Final 1 27.07.2013 tba Final 2 10.08.2013 tba Final 3 14.09.2013 tba Final 4 29.09.2013 tba Other European championships: Speedway Pairs SF 27.04.2013 Miskolc Final 29.06.2013 Herxheim Speedway Juniors SF 1 01.06.2013 Pila SF 2 08.06.2013 Malilla SF 3 16.06.2013 Macon Final 24.08.2013 Güstrow Speedway Juniors Teams SF 02.06.2013 Pfaffenhofen Final 06.07.2013 Opole 80cc 10./11.08.2013 Elgane 125cc 25.05.2013 Pardubice Grasstrack SF 1 25.05.2013 Artigues de Lussac SF 2 07.07.2013 Noordwolde Final 21.07.2013 Bielefeld Grasstrack sidecars SF 24.08.2013 Bad Hersfeld Final 31.08.2013 Loppersum Iceracing 23./24.02.2013 Lukhovitsy Overview of all FIM and UEM meetings: http://baansportfansite.nl/kalender Map: http://baansportfans...nl/kalender/map Edited September 24, 2013 by DutchGrasstrack 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
f-s-p 832 Posted November 23, 2012 (edited) HERE The other side of the story is that this new venture by FIM Europe will die up on it's ar'se after year one, since the deal from the promoter for the organising clubs is bollocks. This was a 99% direct quote from a TRC member. EDIT: Added the word organising Edited November 23, 2012 by f-s-p Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Humphrey Appleby 13,955 Posted November 24, 2012 Does anyone know what the actual point of the European Championships are? The World Championships are dying on their a**es, and time is being spent on this distraction... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
brewer 159 Posted November 24, 2012 i believe all the uem events are good too hear about from junior to senior level, pity our federation dont look at our boys being entered more so , then your post humphrey sums up british attitude to world speedway. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Humphrey Appleby 13,955 Posted November 24, 2012 i believe all the uem events are good too hear about from junior to senior level, pity our federation dont look at our boys being entered more so , then your post humphrey sums up british attitude to world speedway. There's already a Junior World Championship that's struggling for riders, is it not? And surely a SGP qualifying competition as well? There's maybe no equivalence of the pairs at world championship level, so it could be seen as a second tier SWC, but a lot of the other competitions replicate what already exists at a world level (although in practice they're really only at European level too). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DutchGrasstrack 804 Posted November 24, 2012 (edited) Looks like the British federation (ACU) doesn't care about the UEM meetings either as there won't be any ACU riders riding in both senior and junior (U21) championships.... Junior: 01.06 - Semifinal 1 (Pila, Poland) Austria - 1, Hungary - 1, Germany - 1, Latvia - 2, Poland - 4, Russia - 1, Slovenia - 1, Ukraine - 2, Croatia - 1, Czech Republic - 2. 08.06 - Semifinal 2 (Malilla, Sweden) Denmark - 6, Norway - 4, Sweden - 6. 16.06 - Semifinal 3 (Macon, France) Germany - 3, Holland - 1, Italy - 2, Latvia - 1, Russia - 1, Romania - 1, Slovenia - 1, France - 2, Croatia - 1, Czech Republic - 3. Senior: 20.04 - Semifinal 1 (Chervonograd, Ukraine) Belgium - 1, Hungary - 1, Germany - 1, Italy - 1, Latvia - 1, Poland - 2, Russia - 1, Romania - 1, Slovakia - 1, Ukraine - 3, Croatia - 1, Czech Republic - 2. 01.05 - Semifinal 2 (Debrecen, Hungary) Hungary - 1, Germany - 1, Netherlands - 1, Denmark - 1, Italy - 1, Latvia - 1, Poland - 2, Slovakia - 1, Slovenia - 2, Ukraine - 1, France - 1, Croatia - 1, Czech Republic - 2. 23.06 - Semifinal 3 (Myurek, Austria) Austria - 1, Germany - 1, Denmark - 1, Slovenia - 2, Italy - 1, Latvia - 1, Poland - 2, Russia - 1, Slovakia - 1, Ukraine - 1, Finland - 1, France - 1, Czech Republic - 1, Sweden - 1. Oh and another thing; The European finals will be in Poland (2x), CZ (Divisov probably) and Russia (!!). Edited November 24, 2012 by DutchGrasstrack 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
manchesterpaul 447 Posted December 20, 2012 (edited) Probably my only off-season post but on the subject of TV coverage it's great to see EUROSPORT giving LIVE coverage to the revamped Speedway European Championship meetings. Nicki Pedersen, Tomasz Gollob, Emil Sayfutdinov and Andreas Jonsson already signed up for the series. http://speedwayeuro.com/index.php Hope not counting chickens before they have hatched mind as maybe we should keep fingers crossed, as 'Eurosport UK' can often differ in it's live broadcasting deals and hopefully they will receive the live transmissions? Part of press release... "One Sport Ltd. as the exclusive organiser of SEC ensures great promotion of the competition, mainly thanks to contract signed with Eurosport, which will be official LIVE broadcaster to 59 countries. Official broadcaster of Speedway European Championships in following years will be Eurosport. Thanks to 3-years deal, this TV with unprecedented, 59-countries range, will show all 4 tournaments LIVE on its main channel – We are very happy that speedway, so important sport for Polish fans, will finally find its place on Eurosport. Thanks to our co-operation, speedway will be present in 59 European countries and Meditteranean area, including so important markets like Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Great Britain and of course Poland." Edited December 20, 2012 by manchesterpaul Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DutchGrasstrack 804 Posted December 21, 2012 Calendar of the finals: 27/07 Zielona Gora 10/08 Togliatti 14/09 Gorican 29/09 Rzeszow Divisov was asked to also run a final (before they switched to Gorican), but they had to say no because they couldn't affort it. Apperently 'One Sport' wanted 150.000 euros from the club and thats a 'little bit' over their budget (source: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=cs&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.speedwaya-z.cz%2Fview.php%3Fcisloclanku%3D2012122105). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
f-s-p 832 Posted December 21, 2012 (edited) Calendar of the finals: 27/07 Zielona Gora 10/08 Togliatti 14/09 Gorican 29/09 Rzeszow Divisov was asked to also run a final (before they switched to Gorican), but they had to say no because they couldn't affort it. Apperently 'One Sport' wanted 150.000 euros from the club and thats a 'little bit' over their budget (source: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=cs&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.speedwaya-z.cz%2Fview.php%3Fcisloclanku%3D2012122105). Whosaidwhatsaidfullstop EDIT: it wasnt me, but JUST in this case I support the man in question. Edited December 21, 2012 by f-s-p Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ciderman 100 Posted January 10, 2013 On a positive note its reported in this weeks Speedway Star that Eurosport will cover the 4 Round Final Series Live, at last a major channel taking interest in the sport to give Sky a run for their money. Would be interesting to see if they would cover the GP's should Sky decline. It has a prize fund of £50,000 It's reported as Nicki states "Wage wise it it's equivalent to a Polish League Match So am I reading correctly that Nicki Pedersen earns 50,000 Euros per Polish League Match! Or is it 12,500 Euros over the four meetings, either way thats good money! No wonder everyone wants to ride in Poland if thats the case! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bomo1 141 Posted January 11, 2013 (edited) ...but will it be shown on Eurosport UK, rather than just the European version??? Edited January 11, 2013 by Skidder Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
racers and royals 8,725 Posted January 11, 2013 ...but will it be shown on Eurosport UK, rather than just the European version??? Yes http://www.speedwayeuro.com/downloads/SEC-Press-Release.pdf Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
THE DEAN MACHINE 4,740 Posted January 11, 2013 If this series is shown on live tv .has all the top riders and pays big money and the gp is not on tv dosent it devalue the gp somewhat. The general floating fan will think this is the gp. Apart from being world champion why would any rider let alone fan prefer the gp to this series. If its a sucess it will expand to more countrys and surely bsi must be worried about this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DutchGrasstrack 804 Posted January 11, 2013 See also this topic: http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=72200 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
britmet 233 Posted January 11, 2013 It has a prize fund of £50,000. . It's reported as Nicki states "Wage wise it it's equivalent to a Polish League Match. So am I reading correctly that Nicki Pedersen earns 50,000 Euros per Polish League Match! Or is it 12,500 Euros over the four meetings, either way thats good money! i) It's €50k, not £s, ii) it's a "fund", ie a pool of €50k for all the prize/points money paid out, not all to the winner. Its for each of the 4 meetings. . . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites