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Yes, that's true ! This is his last chance to ride in this competition and he will try to win it. It will be hard against Scandinavians, but Jura has been practising on his home track in Gorican in the last couple of days and is very motivated for this meeting.

I can tell you that it's not just a rumour ... I don't think that you need an Italian wild card to get big attendance in Lonigo GP. Italians like watching GP riders even if they're not of Italian nationality. And from what I've seen on a couple of ocassions when I was in Lonigo, they also like Zagar very much so ... Plus there's also a connection to Italian boss Armando Castagna, of course ...

Here are the lineups for both meetings : 8.7. Pardubice 19:00 Czech republic 9 Malek Martin 10 Tomiček Luboš 11 Galliani Antonin 12 Kollert Veroslav 13 Šitera Filip 14 Štichauer Hynek 15 Linhart Patrik Poland 1. Kasprzak Krzysztof 2. Hlib Pawel 3. Kolodziej Janusz 4. Rempala Marcin 5. Zabik Karol 6. Miedzinski Adrian 7. Klecha Krystian 9.7. Mšeno 10:30 Czech republic 9 Malek Martin 10 Tomiček Luboš 11 Galliani Antonin 12 Kollert Veroslav 13 Šitera Filip 14 Štichauer Hynek 15 Linhart Patrik Poland 1 Zabik Karol 2 Szczepaniak Mateusz 3 Hlib Pawel 4 Kasprzak Robert 5 Kasprzak Krzysztof 6 Jedrzejewski Marcin 7 Gomólski Adrian

According to this website : http://www.speedwaya-z.cz/kalendar.php there are two meetings in Prague GP weekend - in Pardubice and Mšeno. As it states : "kontrolní závod juniorské reprezentace" - this means : Czech junior teams test matches. According to Pardubice website these are in fact Czech rep. - Poland matches. Mseno website states that the meeting on 9.7. starts at 10 am, but I'm not sure about the meeting in Pardubice on 8.7.

1. (10) Matej Žagar SLO 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 = 15 2. (16) Manuel Hauzinger AVT 3, 3, 3, 2, 3 = 14 3. (11) Jernej Kolenko SLO 2, 3, 2, 3, 3 = 13 4. (9) Fritz Wallner AVT 1, 3, 3, 3, 2 = 12 5. (15) Jurica Pavlic HRV 2, 2, 3, 2, 2 = 11 6. (14) Aleš Kraljič SLO 1, 2, 2, 3, 2 = 10 7. (3) Denis Štojs SLO 3, 0, 1, 1, 3 = 8 8. (7) Ivan Vargek HRV 3, 1, 2, 2, 0 = 8 9. (13) Nikola Martinec HRV 0, 2, 1, 2, 2 = 7 10. (5) Marko Vlah HRV 2, 1, 2, 0, 1 = 6 11. (2) Manuel Novotny AVT 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 = 5 12. (4) Norbert Grogler AVT 2, 2, 0, Fx, 0 = 4 13. (12) Damir Lučič SLO 0, 1, R, 1, 1 = 3 14. (1) Samo Kukovica SLO Ef, 0, 1, 0, 1 = 2 15. (8) Zoran Strahija HRV 1, Fx, Ef, -, - = 1 16. (6) Heinrich Schatzer AVT 0, Fx, 0, -, - = 0 17. (17) Christopher Fink AVT 1,0 = 1 18. (18) Davor Volk SLO Ef = 0 1. Štojs, Grögler, Novotny, Kukovica Ef 2. Vargek, Vlah, Strahija, Schatzer 3. Žagar, Kolenko, Wallner, Lučič 4. Hauzinger, Pavlic, Kraljič, Martinec 5. Wallner, Martinec, Vlah, Kukovica 6. Žagar, Kraljič, Novotny, Schatzer Ef 7. Kolenko, Pavlic, Vargek, Štojs 8. Hauzinger, Grögler, Lučič, Strahija F 9. Hauzinger, Kolenko, Kukovica, Schatzer 10. Pavlic, Vlah, Novotny, Lučič R 11. Wallner, Kraljič, Štojs, Strahija Ef 12. Žagar, Vargek, Martinec, Grögler 13. Kraljič, Vargek, Lučič, Kukovica 14. Kolenko, Martinec, Novotny, Volk Ef 15. Žagar, Hauzinger, Štojs, Vlah 16. Wallner, Pavlic, Fink, Grögler Fx 17. Žagar, Pavlic, Kukovica 18. Hauzinger, Wallner, Novotny, Vargek 19. Štojs, Martinec, Lučič, Fink 20. Kolenko, Kraljič, Vlah, Grögler

Best 7 qualify from this meeting. By the way - apparently the meeting was another Toninho show !!! He was in a class of his own. Here is the description of the big final from the live updates site : " Miedzinski took lead, Bjerre was 2nd and Lindback 3rd. Lindback was trying very hard to pass the opponents and was almost riding on the fence. And then on the last lap he passed both Bjerre and Miedzinski at the same time !!! FANTASTIC RIDE !!! "

Live updates from Lonigo will be available on Slovenian forum. Here is the link : http://slospeedway.net/forum/lonigolive.htm

A friend of mine who is in Lonigo at the moment phoned me 2 hours ago and said that Richard is there in Lonigo !

Here is now the direct link to the updates from Lonigo : http://slospeedway.net/forum/lonigolive.htm

I can now confirm that LIVE UPDATES from Lonigo will be available on Slovenian forum !!! I'll post direct link to our forum tommorow.

I think I might arrange something from Lonigo on slovenian forum. I can't promise anything at the moment, but we are working on it.

I think the reason for this is that it's a team event and every heat involves one rider from each team. Therefore after heat 16 all 4 teams had 16 rides. It's a difference in compare to individual meetings where riders only ride in one out of 4 heats.

WILD CARD 16 Niels-Kristian Iversen Denmark TRACK RESERVES 17 Charlie Gjedde Denmark 18 Mads Korneliussen Denmark FIM Jury President nominated for the Danish SGP will be Mr R. Giannini from Italy (FMI) and the FIM Referee Mr W. Grodzki from Poland (PZM).

Check here : http://www.fim.ch/en/default.asp?item=37&o...05/507/507.htm#

Hi guys. LIVE UPDATES from WTC qualifying round featuring Slovenia, Hungary, Italy and Germany will be avalaible on Slovenian speedway forum !!! Here is the direct link to the thread : http://slospeedway.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5099#5099

Ferjan is riding in Germany, in 1st round of German Bundesliga (group 2) in Stralsund today. Check here : http://www.speedway.org/liga/2005/index.html#04.06.

And here is the lineup for the other qualifying round : RUSSIA 1. Sergej Darkin 2. Denis Gizatulin 3. Semen Vlasov 4. Renat Gafurov 5. Oleg Kurguskin USA 1. Sam Ermolenko 2. Greg Hancock 3. Billy Jannniro 4. Josh Larsen 5. Brent Werner LATVIA 1. Andrej Korolew 2. Kjastas Puodzuks 3. Nikolaj Kokins 4. Leonid Paura 5. Aleksandr Ivanov FRANCE 1. Mathieu Tresarieu 2. Stephane Tresarieu 3. Sebastien Tresarieu 4. Jerome Lespinasse 5. Christophe Dubernard

Yes, I'm going to Terenzano. Should be an interesting meeting with no real pre-meeting favourite. Here are the lineups : GERMANY Christian HEFENBROCK Rene SCHAFER Martin SMOLINSKI Thomas STANGE Tobias KRONER SLOVENIA Matej ZAGAR Izak SANTEJ Jernej KOLENKO Denis STOJS Ales KRALJIC HUNGARY Norbert MAGOSI Laszlo SZATMARI Sandor TIHANY Zsolt BENCZE Attila STEFANI ITALY Emiliano SANCHEZ Simone TERENZANI Christian MIOTELLO Mattia CARPANESE Daniele TESSARI

No problem, mate. Here they are : Heat 1 : 66.40 Heat 2 : 65.94 Heat 3 : 65.61 Heat 4 : 66.99 Heat 5 : 67.23 Heat 6 : 66.87 Heat 7 : 66.76 Heat 8 : 66.09 Heat 9 : 67.65 Heat 10 : 66.81 Heat 11 : 68.07 Heat 12 : 67.82 Heat 13 : 67.33 Heat 14 : 68.65 Heat 15 : 68.65 Heat 16 : ??? Heat 17 : 68.41 Heat 18 : 68.75 Heat 19 : 68.19 Heat 20 : 69.78 Heat 21 : 68.22 Heat 22 : 68.86 Heat 23 : ???

Sure Garf, I have most of the heat times. The track was very quick early on and we also saw two new track records. Zagar's old record was 66.16. Jason Crump was the first to go under 66 seconds in heat 2 (65.94), but then Leigh Adams in heat 3 set a new, amazing, record of 65.61. After heat 8 heat times got constantly worse, and by the end of the meeting, the riders were doing heat times of around 68 + seconds.

MATEJ ZAGAR was just AWESOME yesterday !!! It was a great night for Matej, Krsko and a whole Slovenian speedway. Matej you made us so proud !!! Here are some photo galleries from Krsko meeting (more to follow) : http://lea.hamradio.si/~s51qa/reportaze/050528_speedway/ http://alan-co.si/robi/SGPKrsko/ http://community.webshots.com/album/355819167kzxUUi http://www.windkiller.com/fotogalerija/thu...ls.php?album=43

Here are some photos from yesterday's practice (courtesy of slovenian photographer Robert Cankar) : http://slospeedway.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=453

The track was pretty deep and grippy yesterday at the practice. And from what I heard Olsen didn't have much comment on that. Surely it won't be as grippy today, but the organizers told me that it won't be so slick as it was last year.

I don't have official practice times, but according to Slovenian team manager Crump, Adams and Rickardsson were the quickest in yesterday's practice in Krsko. Nicki P. and Jonsson were also very fast, as were Lindback and Bjerre. Zagar didn't do anything special yesterday, because he was using a practice bike. The two "rockets" (as he called them), engines that he will be using today are ready for the race and he didn't test them yesterday. He practised with them on this track a fortnight ago and he also very successfully used them in the international meeting in Hungary last week (beating Crump, Holta, Bajerski, Chrzanowski etc). GO MATTY !!!!

Yes, that's me .... NOT. The one with sun glasses is ... naah, can't tell you that