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Well, we don't have any 80 ccm riders in Slovenia. In fact, I don't think there is any 80 ccm bike in Slovenia at all. We have one 125 ccm bike here in Ljubljana and that is used by Ljubljana juniors who are learning how to slide. Another problem is the lack of appropriate facilites - there are only 3 tracks in Slovenia and all of them are the standard 500 ccm tracks which are too big for the smaller bikes.

Sorry Iris, I was not in Gorican yesterday (I was in Lonigo for the GP). Can't help you with details from Gorican. Maybe Darija can write something if she has time?

Croatian city Gorican will this weekend stage European 80ccm championship. Here are the lineups for both semifinals: Semifinal 1, 29.07.2006. 15:00 1. Michael Melchiorsen DK 2. Nikola Pigac HR 3. Igor Saydullin RUS 4. Sebastian Carlsson SWE 5. Marcus Andersson SWE 6. Lukasz Piecha PL 7. Michael Jepsen Jensen DK 8. Marc Randrup DK 9. Szymon Wozniak PL 10. René Bach DK 11. Patrik Biber HR 12. Nicolai Carlsen DK 13. Dennis Andersson SWE 14. Mateusz Liszka PL 15. Kasper Lykke Nielsen DK 16. Michael Palm Toft DK 17. Jasmin Ilijas HR Semifinal 2, 29.07.2006. 18:00 1. Ivan Katic HR 2. Steffen Andersen DK 3. Thomas Jorgensen DK 4. Dino Kovacic HR 5. Kamil Cieslar PL 6. Mateusz Malczewski PL 7. Cyprian Szymko PL 8. Daniel Sjogren DK 9. Rasmus Jensen DK 10. Anders Mellgren SWE 11. Marcin Bubel PL 12. Nicklas Porsing DK 13. Dennis Fagerkrantz SWE 14. Alexander Loktaes RUS 15. Simon Nielsen DK 16. Michael Vissing DK Well, most of these names are not familiar to me, I only know a little bit about 5 Croatian riders. Does anyone know if any of the of these riders are any good? Any world stars in the making? Iris123?

FIM rule book also says: 077.8.5 Individual Speedway World Championship Grand Prix Qualifying System The total Grand Prix points scored by each rider having taken part in the Individual Speedway World Championship Grand Prix Series during the season shall be shown on the Final Overall Grand Prix Classification of that year. The current year's Final Overall Grand Prix Classification, after removing the Wild Card riders, the Qualified Reserve riders, the Track Reserve riders and any substitute riders who have participated in the year's Championship, as they are not taken into consideration, shall determine the riders' qualifications for the next year's Championship as follows : • The top 8 riders of the Final Overall Grand Prix Classification of that year shall be directly qualified for the following year’s Grand Prix Series. (...)

This is the latest Czech team (as announced on Thursday): 1 Tomas Suchanek 2 Bohumil Brhel (Capt.) 3 Adrian Rymel 4 Zdenek Simota 5 Josef Franc

I'll be there of course.

20 heats + 1 final

1 Chris HARRIS ACU Great Britain 2 Charlie GJEDDE DMU Denmark 3 Janusz KOLODZIEJ PZM Poland 4 Peter KARLSSON SVEMO Sweden 5 Wieslaw JAGUS PZM Poland 6 Ales DRYML ACCR Czech Republic 7 Simon STEAD ACU Great Britain 8 Mikael MAX SVEMO Sweden 9 Rune HOLTA NMF Norway 10 Robert KOSCIECHA PZM Poland 11 Ryan SULLIVAN MA Australia 12 Kaj LAUKKANEN SML Finland 13 Martin SMOLINSKI DMSB Germany 14 Piotr PROTASIEWICZ PZM Poland 15 Hans ANDERSEN DMU Denmark 16 Matej FERJAN MAMS Slovenia 17 Renat GAFUROV MFR Russia 18 David RUUD SVEMO Sweden

The meeting in Miskolc is definitely tommorow, starting at 11am CET. I'm not aware of any live updates, though.

Heat 25 (final): Holta, Jagus, Laukkanen, Andersen N

Indeed. 6 riders go through from Zarnovica meeting.

Heat 24 results: Laukkanen, Jagus, Kolodziej, Gafurov Laukkanen and Jagus to the Tarnow final with Holta - Andersen decided not to ride in the final after doctor's advice. Kolodziej is 5th and is through, Gafurov is reserve.

As I understand it's a final heat of the mini tournament between those 5 riders with 10 points.

Apparently there will now be another extra heat with Jagus, Kolodziej, Laukkanen and Gafurov with first 3 qualifying to Vetlanda.

The lineup: 21. Dryml, Gafurov, Jagus 22. Laukkanen, Kolodziej Winners of both heats are through to the final, the other 3 riders will ride in heat 23 to decide who finishes 5th.

Przegladzuzlowy.pl live updates site now reports that there will be 3 extra heats between 5 riders who are on 10 points.

Not sure if it will go to heat wins. Article 070.11.3 of the FIM Track racing rulebook clearly states: Should there be a tie for the last qualifying place or substitute position to go forward to the next round, there will be a run-off heat, to resolve the tie. It doesn't say what happens if there's more than 4 riders tied on the same number of points, though.

The FIM has just announced the declared lineups for SWC events 1 and 2: Event 1, 16 July 2006, Rybnik Great Britain 1 Lee Richardson 2 Simon Stead 3 Chris Harris 4 Scott Nicholls (Capt.) 5 Mark Loram Finland 1 Kauko Nieminen 2 Joonas Kylmäkorpi 3 Kaj Laukkanen (Capt) 4 Juha Hautamäki 5 Tomi Reima Poland 1 Piotr Protasiewicz 2 Sebastian Ulamek 3 Janusz Kolodziej 4 Jaroslaw Hampel 5 Tomasz Gollob (Capt.) Australia 1 Ryan Sullivan 2 Rory Schlien 3 Leigh Adams (Capt.) 4 Jason Crump 5 Todd Wiltshire Event 2, 18 July 2006, Målilla USA 1 Greg Hancock (Capt.) 2 Billy Janniro 3 Sam Ermolenko 4 Brent Werner 5 Billy Hamill 1 Antonio Lindbäck 2 Fredrik Lindgren 3 Andreas Jonsson (Capt) 4 Mikael Max 5 Peter Karlsson Czech Republic 1 Lukaš Dryml 2 Bohumil Brhel 3 Aleš Dryml (Capt.) 4 Zdenek Simota 5 Josef Franc Denmark 1 Nicki Pedersen 2 Charlie Gjedde 3 Niels Kristian Iversen 4 Hans Andersen (Capt.) 5 Bjarne Pedersen

Here are the latest news from FIM about GP qualifiers: QR1 in Tarnow (POL) 08.07.06: Rider N° 7, Mathias SCHULTZ (DMSB) has been replaced by Tobias KRONER (DMSB). QR2 in Miskolc (HUN) 09.07.06: Rider N° 8, Matej ZAGAR (AMZS) has been replaced by Izak SANTEJ (AMZS) Furthermore, the AMA (USA) had withdrawn one of their rider N° 3, Brent WERNER and had no rider to replace him. Consequently, the CCP Bureau offered the place to the SVEMO (SWE) who nominated Peter LJUNG in this meeting.

Official starting lists: Tarnow 1 Christian HEFENBROCK DMSB Germany 2 Hans ANDERSEN DMU Denmark 3 Joonas KYLMÄKORPI SML Finland 4 Denis GIZATULLIN MFR Russia 5 Rune HOLTA NMF Norway 6 Janusz KOLODZIEJ PZM Poland 7 Mathias SCHULTZ DMSB Germany 8 Renat GAFUROV MFR Russia 9 Kenneth BJERRE DMU Denmark 10 Rory SCHLEIN MA Australia 11 Bohumil BRHEL ACCR Czech Republic 12 Mikke BJERK NMF Norway 13 Wieslaw JAGUS PZM Poland 14 Lukas DRYML ACCR Czech Republic 15 Kaj LAUKKANEN SML Finland 16 Sebastian ULAMEK PZM Poland 17 Krzysztof SLABON PZM Poland 18 Mariusz WEGRZYK PZM Poland Zarnovica 1 Théo PIJPER FFM The Netherlands 2 Fredrik LINDGREN SVEMO Sweden 3 Chris HARRIS ACU Great Britain 4 Piotr PROTASIEWICZ PZM Poland 5 Jurica PAVLIC HMS Croatia 6 Travis McGOWERN MA Australia 7 Charlie GJEDDE DMU Denmark 8 Tomas TOPINKA SMF Slovakia 9 Mathieu TRESARRIEU FFM France 10 Edward KENNETT ACU Great Britain 11 Niels Kristian IVERSEN DMU Denmark 12 Ryan SULLIVAN MA Australia 13 Sergey DARKIN MFR Russia 14 Mikael MAX SVEMO Sweden 15 Robert KOSCIECHA PZM Poland 16 Manuel HAUZINGER OeAMTC Austria 17 Vladimir VISVADER SMF Slovakia 18 Marian JIROUT ACCR Czech Republic Miskolc 1 Lee RICHARDSON ACU Great Britain 2 Martin SMOLINSKI DMSB Germany 3 Brent WERNER (tbc) AMA USA 4 Simone TERENZANI FMI Italy 5 Simon STEAD ACU Great Britain 6 Thomas STANGE DMSB Germany 7 Mattia CARPANESE FMI Italy 8 Matej ZAGAR AMZS Slovenia 9 Ales DRYML ACCR Czech Republic 10 Lászlo SZATMÁRI MAMS Hungary 11 Peter KARLSSON SVEMO Sweden 12 Billy JANIRO AMA USA 13 Jernej KOLENKO AMZS Slovenia 14 Sándor TIHANYI MAMS Hungary 15 David RUUD SVEMO Swedish 16 Matej FERJAN MAMS Hungary 17 tba MAMS Hungary 18 tba MAMS Hungary

http://www.speedway.org/ergebnisse/2006/gu...okal/index.html

Hello Slovenian speedway website www.speedway.si will provide LIVE UPDATES from tommorow's meeting in Ljubljana - European championship semifinal 1. If you would like to know how Matej Zagar, Christian Hefenbrock, Ales Dryml, Sergey Darkin, Adrian Miedzinski, Mariusz Puszakowski, Marian Jirout and others will ride tommorow, please follow the updates from 16.00 at this address: http://www.speedway.si/index.php?option=co...=386&Itemid=117

Complete results from yesterday's international meeting in Krsko can be found here : http://www.speedway.si/index.php?option=co...d=373&Itemid=82

The official number of spectators in Cardiff this year, as announced at the press conference after the meeting, was 40371.