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Yes, I've heard about that too. There were apparenlty major problems with the security at the parking area where riders had their vans parked. Speiser's van was broken into during the practice, and someone tried to broke into Roland Kovacs' van during the meeting.

The last I heard (at the last jury meeting) was that he has a broken leg, dislocated shoulder and a foot injury. But I'm not 100% sure if I understood the lady doctor correctly.

1. Slovenia - 51+3: Matej Zagar (3,3,w,2,3,3) 14+3 Denis Stojs (3,3,3,1,2) 12 Izak Santej (0,2,2,-,3) 7 Maks Gregoric (3,2,1,2,1) 9 Aleksander Conda (2,1,2,3,1) 9 2. Germany - 51+2: Martin Smolinski (0,3,2,3,2) 10+2 Tobias Kroner (2,3,3,3,1) 12 Christian Hefenbrock (2,3,3,3,0) 11 Richard Speiser (2,2,2,w/u,-) 6 Thomas Stange (3,2,3,2,2) 12 3. Italy - 26: Mattia Tadiello (2,0,1,1,3,w) 7 Mattia Cavicchioli (t,1,1,u,-) 2 Guglielmo Franchetti (3,0,3,1,u) 7 Andrea Baroni (0,1,0,0,-) 1 Mattia Carpanese (1,1,2,0,3,2) 9 4. Hungary - 22: Laszlo Szatmari (1,0,0,2,1) 4 Roland Kovacs (1,1,1,0,0) 3 Norbert Magosi (1,2,d,1,1) 5 Jozsef Tabaka (1,w,1,2,2,3) 9 Attila Lorincz (0,0,0,1,-) 1 A great win from my boys. We started really well, but then we had some bad luck with Zagar's exclusion. We were 9 points down, but we fough back and it all went to a run off for the win. It was a great all around performance from our riders. Stojs was the biggest surprise of the day with probably the best meeting in his career. Conda made an excellent debut in the senior team. Gregoric made some mistakes in the later part of the meeting, but was very aggresive in the first part. Santej showed experience and got us the points when we needed them. And Zagar was the real team captain with lots of advices for the less experienced riders. Peterborough, here we come! P.S.: Best wishes from myself and from the slovenian team to Richard Speiser for a speedy recovery.

Finland is the first to nominate their riders for European pairs championship semifinal in Ljubljana on May 23rd. Jari Mäkinen and Joni Keskinen will represent Finland. Petteri, maybe some info on them? What are they likely to do in Ljubljana?

Donji Kraljevec hosted 1st round of common Slovenian-Croatian championship on saturday. Matej Zagar won, Jurica Pavlic was second and Maks Gregoric third. Complete results: http://www.speedway.si/index.php?option=co...5&Itemid=62

Round 3 of junior championship was staged yesterday in Lendava: 1. Dino Kovacic 2. Matic Voldrih 3. Aleksander Conda Complete results: http://www.speedway.si/index.php?option=co...7&Itemid=62

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It went ok, no major problems. We had some problems with the starting gate, but that was sorted before the start of the practice. The meeting was run fast and smoothly. Some reruns were required because of the unsatisfactory starts, as the riders were moving before the starting gate. There were also some crashes, but without serious injuries and, luckily, the air fence wasn't tested. There were no protests to the decisions of the referee so I didn't have much to do during the meeting, except for the control over our officials, who did their job very good. The weather was perfect, it was a nice sunny day with the temperatures around 23 degrees. All in all, I think it was a good meeting, with smooth organisation and a competitive racing. The jury was satisfied with the organisation and didn't have any major complaints.

Results of round 2 in Krsko today: 1.Tabaka 2.Duh 3.Conda Complete results can be found here: http://www.speedway.si/index.php?option=co...8&Itemid=62

Jozsef Tabaka won wound 1 of Croatian-Hungarian-Slovenian junior championship yesterday in Ljubljana. Matija Duh was second and Matic Voldrih third. Complete results are available here: http://www.speedway.si/index.php?option=co...6&Itemid=62

Oh yes mate, it should be a great fight between the two of us. Let the best team (Slovenia of course ) win!

Thanks, mate!

Germany 1. Martin Smolinski (captain) 2. Tobias Kroner 3. Christian Hefenbrock 4. Richard Speiser 5. Thomas Stange Team Manager: Rene Schäfer Hungary 1. László Szatmári (captain) 2. Róbert Nagy 3. Norbert Magosi 4. József Tabaka 5. Matej Ferjan Team Manager: György Senyei Italy 1. Mattia Tadiello 2. Mattia Cavicchioli 3. Guglielmo Franchetti 4. Andrea Baroni 5. Mattia Carpanese (captain) Team Manager: Mauro Cavazzana Slovenia 1. Matej Zagar (captain) 2. Denis Stojs 3. Izak Santej 4. Maks Gregoric 5. Aleksander Conda Team Manager: Tomaz Pozrl

I don't think there will be Austrian junior championship. The only official competition in Austria this year is senior championship.

I am afraid not. These are the channels of Slovenian national TV station which is not really interested in speedway. The best we get from them are short reports from meetings in their news programme, but that's about it. The situation was much better a couple of years ago, when Ferjan was in the GP, and back then TV Slovenija broadcasted 1 hour of highlights from most of the GPs. But we still get some live speedway these days in Slovenia, thanks to sport TV channels. Sportklub channel broadcasted GPs live last year, and Sport TV channel showed Swedish elite league live. These should continue this year. Last year a half hour magazine programme Speedway Mag was also produced and broadcasted on Sport TV, covering Slovenian speedway (national championship meetings), but these project stopped after just two months, due to problems with finances.

I think that Hungarian junior champion will be the winner of their own junior championship.

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Slovenian speedway season starts next weekend with first two rounds of Slovenian-Croatian-Hungarian junior championship in Ljubljana and Krsko. 8 Slovenian riders will participate, 4 Croatians and 4 Hungarians. We are up for a real pleasure as there are a lot of really talented riders in the field and I would say there will be at least 8 riders fighting for the podium. Slovenians Sandi Conda (current Slovenian junior champion), Matija Duh (former Slovenian junior champion), Matic Voldrih (current vice champion) and Samo Kukovica (coming back after 1 year absence, this year on Kolenko's bikes) will be home favourites for the win. Croatians have a strong pair of Dino Kovacic and Nikola Pigac and Hungarians are sending their best two juniors Jozsef Tabaka and Roland Benko to Ljubljana and Krsko. What a quality field, can't wait! The meeting in Ljubljana will also be very important for myself as I will be making a debut as the Clerk of the course. Wish me luck. Here is the draw for both meetings: Ljubljana 11.4.: 1. Samo Kukovica SLO 2. Nikola Pigac HRV 3. Nejc Malesic SLO 4. Ladislav Vida SLO 5. Dino Kovacic HRV 6. Matic Voldrih SLO 7. Aljosa Remih SLO 8. Roland Benko MAD 9. Matija Duh SLO 10. Aleksander Conda SLO 11. Dalibor Bot SLO 12. Jozsef Tabaka MAD 13. Renato Cvetko HRV 14. Attila Lorincz MAD 15. Jasmin Ilijas HRV 16. Attila Molnar MAD Reserve: 17. Marjan Bilobrk SLO Krsko 12.4.: 1. Nikola Pigac HRV 2. Attila Molnar MAD 3. Dalibor Bot SLO 4. Roland Benko MAD 5. Jasmin Ilijas HRV 6. Matija Duh SLO 7. Aljosa Remih SLO 8. Ladislav Vida SLO 9. Attila Lorincz MAD 10. Dino Kovacic HRV 11. Samo Kukovica SLO 12. Renato Cvetko HRV 13. Jozsef Tabaka MAD 14. Marjan Bilobrk SLO 15. Aleksander Conda SLO 16. Matic Voldrih SLO Reserve: 17. Nejc Malesic SLO

And to finish this week reports from Slovenia , here are a couple of pics of the installation of air fence in Lendava today: http://www.speedway.si/index.php?option=co...6&Itemid=62

I can't tell you exactly how much it cost us, but we've managed to negotiate a good price. It depends on what is included in the deal, if the transport is included, how much in advance you pay, if you also order the protective cover etc. But usually Briggo's air fence costs around 30.000 euros (plus/minus a couple of thousand). We had different sources of finances to pay for the air fence. They were mostly financed by clubs and their sponsors, some money was donated to all 3 clubs by our national federation and we also managed to receive an FIM subsidy. As Briggo told me on Monday, after he finishes with the installation in Slovenia, he is off to Sweden later this week, where he will install his air fences in Motala, Malilla, Hallstavik and Vastervik. He also said that some german clubs contacted him recently and wanted an immediate installation.

I don't think the costs of air fences of Polish companies are much lower that those of Tony Briggs. I know approximately how much Gorican (Pavlic) paid for Admar air fence and it's pretty similar to what we paid for Briggs' one. Air fences that are used in GPs (made in Australia) are of course much more expensive. The cost is around 50.000 euros.

It wasn't such a good weather in Slovenia today as it was yesterday, but that didn't stop Tony Briggs and his team to install the 2nd set of air fence in Slovenia - Krsko was done today! We've posted some pics for you to see how it was done on our website: http://www.speedway.si/index.php?option=co...4&Itemid=62

The air fence has been installed in Ljubljana today! A really gorgeous weather has made if a perfect day for the installation as Tony Briggs together with his team and the help from AMTK Ljubljana put up a nice yellow and black fence that will improve the safety on our track and hopefully prevent some injuries. I posted some pics on our website, more to follow later this week: http://www.speedway.si/index.php?option=co...3&Itemid=62

It's Christopher, of course, not Christian. My mistake.

Some more news from Slovenia. The new season is now well under way with practice sessions on all three tracks. We've posted some reports, riders comments, videos and pics on our website: - http://www.speedway.si/index.php?option=co...4&Itemid=83 - http://www.speedway.si/index.php?option=co...8&Itemid=83 - http://www.speedway.si/index.php?option=co...2&Itemid=83 As I have reported back in November air fences will be installed on all three tracks in Slovenia this year. This will actually be done during the next week. Tony Briggs and his team of 'No Pain Barriers' is already in Slovenia and has started with the installation in Ljubljana today. This should be finished tommorow and then Krsko is next on Tuesday with Lendava being done on Wednesday. We'll hopefully be able to arrange pics from all three tracks and post them on our website http://www.speedway.si