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Norwegian Ice Racing Challenge 21/03/2009 Swedish Riders are annouched: * Per-Anders Lindstrøm (SWE) * Peter Koij (SWE) * Peter Jansson (SWE) * Per Olov Serenius (SWE) * Johan Lundkvist (SWE) Lineup also includes: 2x Poland, 2x Germany, 1x The Netherlands, 1x UK, 1x CZ, 1x Finland, 1x Switzerland and 3 from Norway (I guess: Seatre, Skarpnord and Berglund). http://www.speedwayshop.no/iceracing/

I think the Poles gave the seeded place back as they've just runned a run-off for the 6th place . RESULTS: 1. Junir Bazeev RUS 14 + (3 3 3 3 3) 29 2. Pavel Tsjajka RUS 12 + (2 3 3 3 3) 26 3. Per Olov Serenius SWE 14 + (3 2 3 1 2) 25 4. Antonin Klatovsky CZ 12 (2 3 2 2 2) 23 5. Johnny Tuinstra NL 10 + (3 3 1 3 2) 22 6. Kai Lehtinen FIN 8 + (1 2 2 3 3) 19 +3 7. Per Anders Lindström SWE 11 + (3 2 X 2 1) 19 +2 8. Stefan Pletschacher GER 5 + (2 1 0 2 3) 13 9. Martin Leitner AUT 6 + (1 1 2 2 1) 13 10. Henri Malinen FIN 6 + (0 0 3 1 1) 11 11. Mario Schwaiger AUT 5 + (0 2 2 0 2) 11 12. Jouni Seppänen FIN 6 + (2 1 1 1 X) 11 13. Jan Pecina CZ 4 + (1 1 1 0 1) 8 14. Michal Widera POL 3 + (1 0 0 0 0) 4 15. Oleg Dosaev UKR 3 + (- - - - -) 3 16. Miroslaw Daniszewski POL 0 + (0 0 1 1 0) 2 17. Zdzislaw Zerdzinski POL 0 + (- - - - -) 0

Looks like Johnny Tuinstra will reach the GP's on his own "powers" Go Johnny!! .

Good score from Johnny Tuinstra . Any info about the Polish nomination? Is it possible that the Polish Federation select Grzegorz Knapp (if he's fit) for the GP's? As he's quite the best Pole, might be able to score a few points, the others will realy struggle I guess .

Looks like Franky Zorn pulled out the Sanok Cup http://live.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel1.htm

Latest news from Sanok is that the Polish #1 crashed out (Grzegorz Knapp) and he lost his consciousness for a while and his bike rode over his hand. He's currently in hospital, dropped out the Sanok Cup tonight but he's willing to ride in the WC Quali! Johnny Tuinstra had a quite rough ride to Sanok, he hit a hog with his van .

What I know is that Anton Smaga is 19 years old, he came with Sergej Kasakov from Ussurijsk to Germany in January for European meetings. He's also due to ride in the German Championship in Inzell. http://www.motorsport-aktuell.com/offroad/...-auf--7926.html

Togliatti, Day 1 1. Ivan Ivanov RUS (3 3 3 3 3) 15 2. Nikolaj Krasnikov RUS (3 3 3 2 3) 14 3. Daniil Ivanov RUS (3 3 3 1 3) 13 4. Stefan Svensson SWE (3 1 2 3 2) 11 5. Harald Simon AUT (2 2 2 3 0) 9 6. Hans-Olov Olsen SWE (2 2 1 3 1) 9 7. Sven Holstein NL (2 3 0 1 2) 8 8. Tommy Flyktman FIN (1 1 2 2 2) 8 9. Sergej Karachintsev (res) RUS (- - 3 - 2) 5 10. Mikhail Zelepukin (res) RUS (- 2 - 0 3) 5 11. Heinz Goldi CH (1 0 1 2 1) 5 12. Jo Saetre NOR (2 1 1 0 0) 4 13. Marian Kreklau GER (0 0 1 2 0) 3 14. Ulf Ledstrom SWE (X 0 2 1 X) 3 15. Joni Kontoniemi FIN (1 2 0 - -) 3 16. Martin Posch AUT (0 1 X 1 X) 2 17. Claude Gaydeyne FRA (0 0 0 0 1) 1 18. Janne Vilponen FIN (1 X 0 X -) 1

Sanok Cup ~ 24 January 1 Franky Zorn 2 Antti Aakko 3 Per Olov Serenius 4 Grzegorz Knapp 5 Antonin Klatovsky 6 Harald Simon 7 Marian Kreklau 8 René Stellingwerf 9 Jan Klatovsky 10 Stefan Pletschacher 11 Sven Holstein 12 Jouni Seppanen 13 Marcin Sekula 14 Michal Widera 15 Johann Bruckner 16 Igor Kononov 17 ... 18 Mario Schwaiger 19 Piotr Hejnowski 20 Tomasz Kopik 21 Zdzislaw Zerdziński 22 Miroslaw Daniszewski 23 Peter Jansson 24 Kai Lehtinen 25 Tommy Flyktman 26 Anton Zmaga 27 Jo Saetre 28 Thomas Cavigelli R Mark Uzzel R René Verhoef R Oleg Dosaev

Few pics of today.. Henry van der Steen ..... http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/7929/tnp1110270li7.jpg Johnny Tuinstra ..... http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/8176/tnp1110301je5.jpg Wiebe Vochteloo ..... http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/3781/tnp1110268oj6.jpg More soon . Including some video footage. ... EDIT ~ Results, Pics and Video Footage now online ... http://www.baansportfansite.nl/ .

No, Henry van der Steen was racing in Wartena , but he was supposed to race in Saalfelden (as a reserve though).

Well.. I'm back from Ice Racing in Wartena! What a great day, awesome. The organisation did an awesome job, nice little track (about 250 meters). Johnny Tuinstra was even racing there, awesome battles betweem him and Tjitte Bootsma. Small note.. loads of negative words about our "great" federation. Loads of Moto-x/Speedway riders where ready to rock, but they couldn't because they could risk a 2 year ban! And to make to story even "weirder".. Henry van der Steen was allowed to race on a Ice Racing bike, but not on a Speedway bike? . Anyway... roll on Stadskanaal next week... hope the weather stays like this .

Two Dutch Speedway riders did some practice today on a lake near by Koosterkille (The Netherlands) for the Open Meeting in Wartena (The Netherlands) tomorrow... guess both haven't got a KNMV license then LOL. Pictures. Also received some great news that another club (MAC Stadskanaal) is running an ice-racing meeting, next Sunday (18 January) 14.00. Advert.

Yep I'll be there. Will take alot of pictures and some video footage .

Don't think any foreign riders will race in Wartena this Sunday.... the KNMV was complaining about the safety and decided that riders with a Dutch license are not allowed to take part. Also the KNMV "officials" (people with the flags on the infield) are not allowed to "flag" sunday, pretty childish eh? Riders in the "Ice-Racing" class: Tjitte Bootsma, Wiebe Vochteloo, Hielke de Graaf, Gerrit de Bruin, Gerrit Rook. No info about the "Moto-x" and the "Speedway" class yet.

Another (!!) update to the Saalfelden lineup... Max Niedermaier is replacing Dimitri Tschatschin.

Yep, that's right .

Received some interesting news today... . Some guys from Holland are going to run a ice-racing meeting in Wartena (The Netherlands) this sunday. On the day there will be 3 classes; normal Iceracing, Moto-x, and normal Speedway. I have no idea if there will be any International Ice racers (should be..), more info soon (I hope lol).

That's right, there were 2 500cc sidecars at Assen last year; Matthijssen and Holstein.

Another update to the Saalfelden Quali lineup.... Finnish riders decided to swap numbers, so Akkoo rides at #3 now and Hytonen rides at #13.

06/01/09 ~ Steingaden (GER) 1. Franky Zorn AUT (3 3 3 3 3) 15 2. Günter Bauer GER (3 2 3 3 3) 14 3. Antti Akkoo FIN (3 1 3 3 3) 13 4. Harald Simon AUT (2 3 2 2 2) 11 5. Markus Skabraut AUT (1 3 2 1 3) 10 6. Rene Stellingwerf NL (3 3 0 2 1) 9 7. Per Olof Serenius SWE (2 1 3 0 2) 8 8. Peter Koij SWE (2 2 2 0 2) 8 9. Florian Fürst GER (0 2 1 3 X) 6 10. Sebastian Gegenbauer (GER F 0 2 2 2) 6 11. Jan Klatovsky CZ (1 2 0 2 1) 6 12. Stefan Pletschacher GER (1 1 1 1 1) 5 13. Christoph Kirchner GER (2 0 1 0 0) 3 14. Max Niedermaier GER (0 1 1 1 0) 3 15. Hans Weber GER (1 0 0 1 0) 2 16. Simon Gartmann CH (0 0 0 0 1) 1

Just received from the FIM... _________________ FIM Ice Racing World Championship Qualifying Round 1 Saalfelden (Austria) 11.01.2009 1. ZORN Franz (Austria) 2. BAUER Günther (Germany) 3. HYTÖNEN Jussi (Finland) 4. KRASNIKOV Nikolay (Russia) 5. STELLINGWERF René (The Netherlands) 6. KLATOVSKÝ Jan (Czech Republic) 7. SKABRAUT Markus (Austria) 8. FÜRST Florian (Germany) 9. ARKHIPOV Stanislav (Russia) 10. DIVIŠ Andrej (Czech Republic) 11. KOIJ Peter (Sweden) 12. GEGENBAUER Sebastian (Germany) 13. AAKKO Antti (Finland) 14. LUNDKVIST Johan (Sweden) 15. BRUCKNER Johann (Austria) 16. TSCHATSHIN Dimitri (Germany) 17. VAN DER STEEN Henry (The Netherlands) 18. KREUZBERGER Josef (Austria)

If it's true about the air-fences... I hope that the KNMV will pay it... otherwise Dutch Speedway is over I'm afraid. Forgot to add 2 more Dutch dates: 26/09/2009 - International Golden Helmet - Veenoord 29/12/2009 - Indoor Speedway - Exloo

Lineup of the Czech Republic Championship tomorrow in Růžená (CZ) 1. Zdzislaw Zerdzinski, PL 2. Jan Pecina, CZ 3. Martin Leitner, A 4. Grzegorz Knapp, PL 5. Stefan Pletschacher, D 6. Andrej Diviš, CZ 7. René Stellingwerf, NL 8. Martin Běhal, CZ 9. Jan Klatovský, CZ 10. René Verhoef, NL 11. Charlie Ebner, CH 12. Piotr Hejnowski, PL 13. Antonín Klatovský, CZ 14. Mario Schwaiger, D 15. Thomas Cavigelli, CH 16. 1st Quali Heat Quali Heat: Florian Fürst, D Henry van der Steen, NL Tomasz Kopik, PL Josef Kreuzberger, A Very suprised to see that Henry van der Steen is riding there!!

I've posted some video footage on my website too.