DutchGrasstrack

(from speedwayworld.tv) GRAND Prix newcomer Fredrik Lindgren has accepted an invitation to compete in the 2008 Australian Championships as the third and final International competitor. Lindgren, awarded a nominated place in the 2008 World Championship, will get an early start to his racing as he joins Joe Screen and Filip Sitera amongst the three riders competing alongside the stars from the home nation over the five-round series. Organisers feel that Lindgren will automatically become one of the favourites, despite his unfamiliarity with the circuits, and they expect him to be battling for a podium place at least. The Swede will be bringing his regular Polish mechanic with him. Lindgren said: "I cannot wait to arrive in Australia. I’ve heard a lot about Speedway down there and obviously the sport is strong with both Leigh (Adams) and Jason (Crump) finishing on the podium in this year’s World Championship. "Having been confirmed as a full time Speedway Grand Prix rider just one week ago and this confirmation today, October has been a very big month for me. "The Linddales Australian Championships will be a vital opportunity to ensure all my gear is ready to compete at World Championship level in 2008."

Serenius still racing, nice !

Received from the FIM a few seconds ago: Ind. Ice Racing World Championship 11-12/01 Stockholm-SWE (Qualif. 1) 13/01 Saalfelden-AUT (Qualif. 2) 09-10/02 Inzell-GER (Qualif. 3) 23-24/02 Saransk-RUS (Final 1) 08-09/03 Assen-NED (Final 2) 15-16/03 Berlin Wilmersdorf-GER (Final3) Team Final: 16-17/02 Krasnogorsk-RUS World Long Track Championship 17/05 Artigues de Lussac-FRA (Qualif. 1) 01/06 Mulmshorn-GER (Qualif. 2) 21/09 tba-FRA (Long Track Challenge) 24/05 Marianske Lazne-CZE (Final 1) 28/06 St Macaire-FRA (Final 2) 29/06 Morizes-FRA (Final 3) 13/09 Vechta-GER (Final 4) Team Long Track World Championship 23/08 Werlte-GER (Finale) Speedway World Cup 24/05 Miskolc-GER (Qualif. 1) 29/06 Ljubljana-SLO (Qualif. 2) Individual Speedway Youth Gold Trophy 80cc 09-13/07 Skaerbek-DEN Individual Speedway WC Qualifying rounds 12/05 Abensberg-GER (Qualif. 1) 31/05 Gorican-CRO (Qualif. 2) 22/06 Czestochowa-POL (Qualif. 3) 22/06 Lonigo-ITA (Qualif. 4) 05/07 Terenzano-ITA (Semi-Final 1) 05/07 Motala-SWE (Semi-Final 2) 14/09 Zielona Gora-POL (Grand Prix Challenge) Ind. Speedway Junior World Championship 18/05 Norden-GER (Qualif. 1) 18/05 Zielona Gora-POL (Qualif. 2) 24/05 Pori-FIN (Qualif. 3 Scandinavia) 25/05 tba-AUT (Qualif. 4) 31/05 Güstrow-GER (Qualif. 5) 15/06 Rye House-GBR (Semi-Final 1) 19/07 Gorican-CRO (Semi-Final 2) 07/09 Pardubice-CZE (Final) Team Speedway Junior World Championship 01/06 Pardubice-CZE (Qualif.l 1) 01/06 Diedenbergen-GER (Qualif. 2) 21/09 Holsted-DEN (Final) Individual Grass Track Youth Gold Trophy 125cc 28-29/06 Berghaupten-GER Speedway Sidecar Gold Trophy 1000cc 17/08 Tonbridge-GBR (Final)

With only one round to go (tomorrow at Lelystad) Jannick de Jong became Dutch Champion Speedway 2007 at Lelystad today. This is his second double (champion grasstrack and speedway) in row !

Yes it's on; 26 October. All I know is that Lubos Tomicek (CZ), Edward Kenneth (GB), Andy Smith (GB) and Adam Shields (AUS) are riding there.

Superb TJ1, thank you very much ! *calendar updated* http://www.baansportfansite.nl/2008/ek%20wk/index.php

The official calendar of the FIM will be published after the FIM Biennial Session (from the FIM Website) --------------------------------------------- 2007 FIM Biennial Session The FIM Biennial Session, organised alternately with the Congress every two years, will be held from Thursday 18 to Monday 22 October next at the Crowne Plaza Hotel near Geneva airport. Around 300 delegates will be attending the meetings.The programme of the meetings will be the following: Thursday 18: Meeting of the Sports Director, the Commission and Panel Presidents and the Sporting Coordinators (afternoon) Friday 19: Management Council (closed meeting) Saturday 20: Commission and Panel meetings, Internal Auditors meeting Sunday 21: Meeting of Secretaries General, Commissions and Panels (morning) Management Council (afternoon - closed meeting) Monday 22: General Assembly The main points to be discussed in the various meetings are: amendments to the Statutes; elections of FIM Vice-Presidents; amendments to the Sporting Code and other FIM rules; approval of 2006 accounts; proposals of the Management Council and the National Federations; FIM strategic plan; working groups’ reports; calendars for the 2008 sporting season and proposals of the Commissions and Panels for the 2008 season. A press release with the main decisions and all the 2008 calendars will be issued after the General Assembly. ---------------------------------------------

Yep it's a new championship, don't know much more about this yet . (from the info I got)

Both dates added, cheers . New link: http://www.baansportfansite.nl/2008/ek%20wk/index.php (including provisional UEM dates)

Yeah no problem . Wallpaper versions: http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/5071/gp218pk1.jpg http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/9850/gp217db5.jpg

I took some photo's of the tractors: http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/8586/a217zb5.jpg http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/6089/a218gt6.jpg For more photo's of the GP; visit: http://www.baansportfansite.nl/

Hi all Saturday is the 100th Speedway Grand Prix, in the Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen (GER). On the webpage of the Veltins Arena you can see webcam shots from the Arena, so you can see how they build up the speedway track. http://www.veltins-arena.de/foto_webcam.htm Every 30 minutes my webserver will save a copy of a webcam shot to the harddisk of the server, the result of this can be seen here: http://www.baansportfansite.nl/dump/Gelsenkirchen/index.php Hope you like it Jesper // sorry for my bad English

Yep This should have been the full lineup: 1. Kalle Lindgren 2. Theo Pijper 3. Benjamin Borgers 4. Marcin Nowaczyk 5. Erik Eijbergen 6. Thomas Sörenson 7. Niklas Klingberg 8. Sjoerd Rozenberg 9. Jannick de Jong 10. Ricky Ashworth 11. Juha Hautamäki 12. Henry van der Steen 13. Robert Johansson 14. Kaj de Jong 15. Maciej Jader 16. Paul Cooper 17. Henk Bos 18. Pascal Swart 19. Mark Stiekema 20. Andreas Bergstrom Just a shame We had rain ALL day long, so the track was completly ruined . http://www.speedwayveenoord.com/nieuws/wat...baan%202007.JPG In 2004 this race was also cancelled, take a look: http://www.speedwayveenoord.com/nieuws/25%...2012.02%20u.jpg .

Hi all, The lineup of this years Golden Helmet meeting at Veenoord (NL): 1. Kalle Lindgren (SWE) 2. Theo Pijper (NL) 3. tba (TBA) 4. tba (POL) 5. Erik Eijbergen (NL) 6. Thomas Sörenson (DK) 7. Niklas Klingberg (SWE) 8. Sjoerd Rozenberg (NL) 9. Jannick de Jong (NL) 10. Ricky Ashworth (GB) 11. Juha Hautamäki (FIN) 12. Henry van der Steen (NL) 13. Robert Johansson (SWE) 14. Kaj de Jong (NL) 15. tba (POL) 16. Paul Cooper (GB) 17. Henk Bos (NL) 18. tba (DK) 19. Mark Stiekema (NL) 20. Andreas Bergstrom (SWE) Reserve 21. Benjamin Borgers (NL) Full lineup to follow... First race will start at 19.00 (local time), practice will be at 16:30 (local time).

Kaj Laukkanen as he's the first reserve after Peter Karlsson (who is replacing Lindback).

Grzegorz Walasek won it second Matej Ferjan, third Filip Šitera. http://www.speedwaya-z.cz/view.php?cisloclanku=2007100901

Dutch Grasstrack Champion: Jannick de Jong (NL)

European Club Championship, the Final at Miskolc (HUN) yesterday 1. Speedway Miskolc 47 Hans N. Andersen 3 3 3 3 2 14 Norbert Magosi - 0 2 2 2 6 László Szatmári 0 - - - - 0 Matej Ferjan 2 2 3 3 2 12 Jason Crump 3 3 3 3 3 15 2. Atlas Wroclaw 31 Tomasz Gapinski 3 1 2 1 3 10 Krzysztof Slabon 3 2 1 3 1 10 Tomasz Jedrzejak 1 F 1 1 2 5 Maciej Janowski F 2 1 0 3 6 3. Mega Lada Togliatti 28 Rune Holta 2 3 3 2 3 13 Danil Ivanov 1 1 - 0 1 3 Roman Ivanov - 2 2 2 0 6 Emil Sajtfudinov E - 0 - - 0 Greg Hancock 2 1 E 2 1 6 4. Unia Goričan 14 Jurica Pavlic 2 - - - - 2 Luboš Tomíček 1 1 1 1 1 5 Adrian Rymel 1 3 2 1 0 7 Ivan Vargek 0 0 0 0 T 0 (from speedwaya-z.cz)

Updated lineup: Australia Steve Johnston Adam Shields Great Britain Chris Harris Edward Kennett David Howe Lee Richardson Denmark Hans N. Andersen Kenneth Bjerre Jesper B. Jensen Nicolai Klindt The Netherlands Jannick de Jong Italy Alessandro Milanese Latvia Kjastas Puodžuks Germany Martin Smolinski Christian Hefenbrock Poland Rune Holta Sebastian Ulamek Austria Manuel Hauzinger Russia Denis Gizatullin Slovakia Martin Vaculík Slovenia Matej Ferjan Jernej Kolenko Izak Šantej Sweden Andreas Jonsson Fredrik Lindgren USA Greg Hancock CZ Aleš Dryml Lukáš Dryml Josef Franc Zdeněk Simota Filip Šitera Hynek Štichauer Tomáš Suchánek Luboš Tomíček R1 Marian Jirout R2 Matěj Kůs (from: speedwaya-z.cz)

Thank you ! Updated: http://www.baansportfansite.nl/2008/dates.txt

Wow, well done Jurica ! 1. Jurica Pavlic, 14 2. Sebastian Ulamek, 13 3. Patrik Hougaard, 11 4. Matej Ferjan, 10 5. Zibiniew Suchecki, 10 6. Christian Hefenbrock, 9 7. Dennis Gizatullin, 9 8. Lukas Dryml, 9 9. Manuel Hauzinger, 7 10. Sebastian Alden, 6 11. Nicolai Klindt, 5 12. Mariusz Staszewski, 5 13. Ales Dryml, 5 14. Kenneth Hansen, 5 15. Daniel Jelenieuwski, 1 16. Tomas Suchanek, 0 17. Henrik Moller, 0

Cancelled due heavy rain .

http://www.speedway-tom.de/html/abensberg_...m_finale_0.html

Received from the FIM today; WILD CARD Draw N° Riding N° Name FMN Country tba 16 Christian Hefenbrock DMSB Germany TRACK RESERVES Draw N° Riding N° Name FMN Country 17 17 Martin Smolinski DMSB Germany 18 18 Tobias Kroner DMSB Germany

From place 15 to 67.. ouch !