World Cup Qualifiers This Week

[iris123 20,994]

Live updates here.Looking good for Germany at the mo

[Richspeedway 327]

Thanks Iris

 

It has final result as:

 

Nach 15 Heats

1.Deutschland 30 Punkte

2.Slovenien 23

3.Ungarn 21

4.Italien 16

 

So the Germans going through. Who will they face?

Edited June 4, 2005 by Richspeedway

[iris123 20,994]

Yeah,seems the meeting has been cut short because of a power failure and bad weather.Don't know who they will meet.Is there a draw for the next round?

[frigbo 518]

Yeah,seems the meeting has been cut short because of a power failure and bad weather.Don't know who they will meet.Is there a draw for the next round?

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I think they go into the Sweden,Poland and Australia qualifier.

Edited June 4, 2005 by frigbo

[iris123 20,994]

A doddle then,once they put their first team out

[Richspeedway 327]

so Great Britain will be with Denmark and Czech. But maybe also USA Oh dear lol. Sorry if sound bit dim but wondered how do they chose the nations that qualify as of course you got like Finland, Norway, New Zealand etc etc who could go into qualifying. I know you could say well the likes of these other countries are not got top riders but France, Latvia only have couple. Think best would be get all 25 nations and top 6 have bye and rest qualify as others are not getting a sniff.

[Bavarian 767]

The top six of the last World Cup tournament are seeded for the next year.

 

Each and every speedway nation can enter a team for the qualifying rounds, of which the other two teams for the World Cup tournament are decided.

 

Neither Finland, Norway or New Zealand did see much of a chance for their own team (or could not finance it) so decided not to enter.

 

The USA stayed away for some years, too, and only came back this year.

 

Great to see our Young Germans, led by Smolinski and Stange, win the qualifying round in Italy. A huge thunderstorm has put an end to the meeting after 15 of the scheduled 25 heats, but the result stands.

Not that our youngsters will stand much of a chance in the next round in Sweden, with Australia and Poland in there, too. Still a great achievement to be there at all, with a team of five U-21 riders, including a couple of late substitutes (Schäfer and Hertrich) they did a great job in Italy last night.

 

Germany could soon become a happy hunting ground for British speedway promoters! There is not just Smolinski and Stange, we have a lot of talent and many of them are not interested to become long-track riders, as was so often the case with German riders in the past. The new generation is eager to make a career as pro-speedway racers in the UK (or elsewhere).

[lydia 0]

any live results please ?

[ha en bra födelsedag 0]

http://speedwaylokom.narod.ru/

 

this is the latvian speedway site, dont know if its any help

[lydia 0]

NO NOTHING THERE

[KevH 257]

NO  NOTHING THERE

 

There is if you wait about five minutes for the blue screen to go, but unless you can read Latvian I doubt if you'll find the link.

[Bryn 413]

Just spoken to Nigel Wagstaff who's out in Latvia supporting the British based lads (particularly Greg of course!) and forging further his good relationship with the Latvian authorities. Rained in Daugavpils this morning and whilst it stopped and meeting is about to start, it is now drizzling again. Told him about the "Ferjan situation."

[DutchGrasstrack 804]

Live Results:

 

http://forum.speedway.ru/index.php?showtopic=1182&st=255

[Rob B 1,257]

Russia 30, USA 27, Latvia 17, France 4 after heat 13.

 

Looks like it's going to be close between Russia and USA for a place at Swindon.

[DutchGrasstrack 804]

20 Heats:

 

RUS - 48 - (3-2-2-3-3) (1-0-3-3-2) (3-3-2-2-3) (2-3-3-3-2)

USA - 43 - (2-3-1-1-2) (3-3-1-2-3) (2-1-3-3-2) (3-2-1-1-3)

LAT - 24 - (1-1-3-2-1) (0-1-2-1-1) (1-2-1-1-1) (0-1-2-2-1)

FRA - 05 - (0-0-0-0-0) (2-2-0-0-0) (0-0-0-0-0) (1-0-0-0-0)