Dutch Speedway News 2012

[DutchGrasstrack 806]

Well I'm a bit late with the speedway news from The Netherlands this year. Anyway, the first round of the Dutch championship was held on sunday 13 may in Lelystad.

 

Results:

 

A group:

 

1. Jannick de Jong (3,3,3,3) 12

2. Henry van der Steen (3,2,3,2) 10

3. Pascal Swart (1,3,3,3) 10

4. Nick Lourens (2,2,2,2) 8

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5. Randy Oldenziel (3,2,1,2) 8

6. Jeffrey Woortman (2,1,2,3) 8

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7. Raymon Woortman (2,1,2,1) 6

8. Lars Zandvliet (1,3,0,X) 4

9. Erik Eijbergen (1,1,0,1) 3

10. Henkie Koonstra (0,0,1,1) 2

11. Sjoerd Rozenberg (0,0,1,X) 1

12. Robert-Jan Bangma (0,0,0,0) 0

 

B group:

 

1. Andy ter Schuur (2,3,3,2) 10

2. Mark Beishuizen (3,3,3,3) 12

3. Maurin Vochteloo (1,1,2,2) 6

4. Kelly Velda (2,2,X,1) 5

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5. Roelof Postma (0,1,1,1) 3

6. Erwin Werkman (X,0,X,X) 0

 

 

The second round was supposed to be held at Veenoord on the 2nd of June. Sadly this meeting got cancelled, not sure why, but I think it has something todo with the lack of riders. Most riders got important grasstrack meetings on the same weekend...

[DutchGrasstrack 806]

The Veenoord meeting was indeed cancelled due to lack of riders. Strangly this is because there are some important FIM/UEM grasstrack meetings on the same weekend, so infact they could know this months ago. Anyway; the next round of the Dutch championship will be held on the 15th of July at Lelystad.

[DutchGrasstrack 806]

The Dutch speedway season continiues this sunday with the second round of the Dutch championship at Blijham. The 15 July meeting at Lelystad had sadly been cancellend because the track was not OK for racing. As usual the riders are spread over 2 groups which features 12 riders in the A group and 6 in the B group. The meeting on sunday should start around 3pm after the European 125cc championship has finished.

 

A group:

 

1. Lars Zandvliet

2. Jannick de Jong

3. Randy Oldenziel

4. Mark Beishuizen

5. Henry van der Steen

6. Chavdar Chernev (Bulgaria)

7. Henk Koonstra

8. Marcin Sekula (Poland)

9. Raymon Woortman

10. Andy ter Schuur

11. Nick Lourens

12. Pascal Swart

 

B group:

 

8. Nico Eijbergen

10. Robert-Jan Bangma

12. Kelly Velda

23. Roelof Postma

26. Erwin Werkman

27. Maurin Vochteloo

 

 

More info: http://www.baansportf...ate-05-09-.html

Edited September 5, 2012 by DutchGrasstrack

[DutchGrasstrack 806]

Results from Blijham

 

 

A group:

 

1. Marcin Sekula (3 3 3 3) 12

2. Randy Oldenziel (2 2 3 3) 10

3. Pascal Swart (3 2 2 2) 9

4. Henry van der Steen (3 3 3 1) 10

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5. Henk Koonstra (2 2 2 3) 9

6. Nick Lourens (0 3 2 2) 7

7. Raymon Woortman (1 1 1 2) 5

8. Maurin Vochteloo (2 0 1 1) 4

9. Andy ter Schuur (1 0 1 1) 3

10. Rober-Jan Bangma (0 1 0 0) 1

11. Mark Beishuizen (0 1 0 0) 1

12. Lars Zandvliet (1 x x x) 1

 

B group:

 

1. Kelly Velda (2 2 2 2) 8

2. Nico Eijbergen (1 1 1 0) 3

3. Erwin Werkman (0 X X 1) 1

 

 

Report (in Dutch) and photo's: http://baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/169/speedway-blijham.html

[DutchGrasstrack 806]

The traditional Golden Helmet meeting in Veenoord will take place this saturday. 16 riders will take parts in a 20 heat schedule with 2 big finals to decide the winner of the Golden Helmet.

 

Marius Fierlej (PL)

Mariusz Staszewski (PL)

Kiril Cukanov (RUS)

Jari Makinen (FIN)

Robert Lambert (GB)

Marco Gaschka (GER)

Stanislav Melnichuk (UKR)

Peter Juul Larsen (DK)

Jannick de Jong (NL)

Randy Oldenziel (NL)

Henry van der Steen (NL)

Jeffrey Woortman (NL)

Pascal Swart (NL)

Nick Lourens (NL)

Sjoerd Rozenberg (NL)

Dirk Fabriek (NL)

 

Reserve: Raymon Woortman (NL)

[Romualds 2]

Change for Cukanov, Oleksandr Borodaj will ride.

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Dutch Championship:

 

Rd.1 Leystad 13.5.12 OK.

Rd.2 Veenoord 2.6.12 Cancelled (riders.)

Rd.3 Leystad 15.7.12 Cancelled (track.)

Rd.4 Blijham 9.9.2012 OK .

 

So has the championship conclude ? - If so who is the winner, de Jong or Sekula ? (Is it an Open Championship ?)

 

Or will there be another round ?

[DutchGrasstrack 806]

There is another round at Lelystad on October 7.

 

Yes; it's an open championship; if Sekula will ride in the next round and he wins then he's the 2012 Dutch champion.

[DutchGrasstrack 806]

Result from Veenoord:

 

1. Mariusz Fierlej (3,3,2,3,3) 14 + (3,2) 5

2. Mariusz Staszewski (2,X,3,3,3) 11 + (1,3) 4

3. Robert Lambert (3,2,1,3,3) 12 + (2,X) 2

4. Dirk Fabriek (3,3,1,2,2) 11 + (0,1) 1

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5. Jari Makinen (2,1,3,1,3) 10

6. Jannick de Jong (1,3,3,1,2) 10

7. Stanislav Melnickuk (2,3,2,2,1) 10

8. Randy Oldenziel (3,X,2,2,2) 9

9. Henry van der Steen (1,2,1,3,1) 8

10. Peter Juul Larsen (0,2,3,2,0) 7

11. Sjoerd Rozenberg (0,2,2,0,2) 6

12. Raymon Woortman (1,1,0,1,1) 4

13. Marco Gaschka (2,1,0,X,-) 3

14. Nick Lourens (1,1,X,0,X) 2

15. Aleksandr Boroday (0,0,1,-,-) 1

16. Pascal Swart (X,0,0,0,-) 0

17. Jeffrey Woortman (X,-,-,-,-) 0

 

 

Robert Lambert was very impressive once again. After he came second at the German U21 final in Gustrow on friday night he stormed in a third place overall in Veenoord. In his first final he came second just behind Polish rider Fierlej. Sadly he crashed out in the second final which cost him valuable points.

[DutchGrasstrack 806]

The last round of the Dutch championship was held last sunday at Lelystad speedway. Polish rider Marcin Sekula won again and is therefore the new Dutch speedway champion. For the second and third place in the championship they had to run a race-off between Jannick de Jong and Henry van der Steen. De Jong won so he is second in the championship.

 

See below for the results from Round 3. I was quite suprised to see a Bulgarian rider in the results, but also quite sad that there were not a lot of riders once again (many are injured).

 

 

Speedway A:

 

1. Marcin Sekula POL (2,3,3,2) 10

2. Henry van der Steen NL (3,2,3,2) 10

3. Jannick de Jong NL (1,3,2,3) 9

4. Henk Koonstra NL (1,1,2,3) 7

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5. Randy OldenzielNL (3,1,0,x) 4

6. Raymon Woortman NL (2,0,1,1) 4

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7. Chavdar Chernev BUL (0,2,1,x) 3

8. Maurin Vochteloo NL (0,0,0,1) 1

 

Speedway B:

 

1. Mark Beishuizen (3,3,3,3) 12

2. Andy ter Schuur (3,2,2,3) 10

3. Nico Eijbergen (2,1,0,2) 5

4. Kelly Velda (1,2,1,2) 6

5. Roelof Postma (1,0,0,0) 1

6. Niels Remmelts (0,0,1,1) 2

[arnieg 3,717]

I'm a bit confused after looking at the final standings here:

 

http://www.knmv.nl/uploads/archive/2012/KNMV_Speedway_ONK_Totaalstand_2012-10-07.pdf

 

The official results show Robert-jan Bangma competing in the first round and scoring 39 points - these seem to have disappeared and all riders in the B group promoted one place

 

Secondly why are Erwin Werkman's 34 (or should that be 33?) points excluded - shouldn't that only happen to riders competing in all three rounds?

[DutchGrasstrack 806]

I will ask the KNMV about it, I think they forgot to add Bangma his points from the first round to the championship table.

 

 

Calendar for 2013:

 

01/06 Blijham

01/09 Blijham

28/09 Veenoord

 

All are international meetings. At the moment it looks like that there won't be a Dutch championship next year. No clubs have shown interest in staging a Dutch open meeting sadly.

[DutchGrasstrack 806]

Big changes in the Dutch speedway season this year. There will be a Dutch speedway league, well it's a start, but it's a league. Four clubs are going to organise a few league meetings; Veenoord, Blijham and Lelystad will obviously use their own tracks and the Roden club is going to try to run a meeting on a track in Germany.

 

There won't be a complicated signing system, like the professional leagues, but for now the riders will be spread around to clubs.

 

Calendar looks like this:

 

05/05 Lelystad, league meeting

01/06 Blijham, international meeting

03/08 Veenoord, league meeting

??/09 Blijham, league meeting

22/09 Lelystad, league meeting

28/09 Veenoord, international meeting

06/10 Lelystad, dutch open championship

 

 

More info sooooooon.

[iris123 21,150]

Moorwinkelsdamm would be the likely choice i guess.They used to host "Dutch" meetings a few years ago from memory

[DutchGrasstrack 806]

Yes the Roden club is going to try to rent the Moorwinkelsdamm track.