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And I guess Slovenia was on the wishlist this year? If Finland rides in Lonigo, I think they have a good chance of qualifying for the SWC. They only have Slovenia to beat ... Slovenia will also probably send much younger team to SWC qualifications next year. Santej has retired and Stojs is also doubtful for the national team. Kraljic, Voldrih, Duh and Kukovica are the strongest candidates to join Zagar, Gregoric and Conda in the team.

It's Finland, I think.

apparently it's 28th of august

2009 season in Slovenia finished yesterday with the last round of Slo-Cro individual championship. Matej Zagar made it a perfect 4, with yet another maximum win. Jurica Pavlic was 2nd and Maks Gregoric 3rd. Zagar has become a Slovenian champion for the 8th time in a row, Gregoric is 2nd and Sandi Conda 3rd. Complete results from Krsko: http://www.speedway.si/index.php?option=co...9&Itemid=62 Final standings: http://www.speedway.si/index.php?option=co...0&Itemid=62

FIM announced this today: FIM Speedway World Championship Grand Prix & FIM Speedway World Cup New Appointments In a move to further grow and expand the sport of Speedway, the FIM has made the following appointments: Ole Olsen, FIM Speedway Director of Sport At the next FIM Speedway Grand Prix of Bydgoszcz on 17 October, Ole Olsen will be ending his career as FIM Race Director, a position he has occupied with great charisma, competence and authority since the birth of the Speedway Grand Prix in 1995. A living legend in speedway - he won several individual world titles in Speedway (1971, 1975 and 1978) and in Long Track (1973) –Ole Olsen has been appointed FIM Speedway Director of Sport and his main responsibility will be to drive the development, promotion and expansion of the FIM Speedway Grand Prix in close consultation with the FIM and its promoter BSI Speedway. Asked about his new position, Ole declared: “I am very pleased that the FIM has offered me a new and exciting position within the sport of Speedway. I feel privileged to be part of the further expansion and development of the sport I love so much in close relationship with FIM and BSI Speedway. I have fully enjoyed my time as Race Director and have seen with huge pleasure the enormous growth this great sport has achieved over the period through great and passionate work from all parties involved.” Tony Olsson, new FIM Race Director as from 2010 Tony Olsson, who will succeed Ole Olsen, was appointed as from 1st April 2009 as Assistant Race Director working alongside Ole Olsen during the 2009 season. Tony was a professional speedway rider in England from 1986 to 1997 and has held a FIM Clerk of the Course licence since 2005 and officiated at the 2006 Speedway Grand Prix Challenge in Vetlanda, at the 2007 Speedway Grand Prix in Eskilstuna and at the 2008 Speedway Grand Prix in Gothenburg. He has also worked as Track Racing Coordinator at the Swedish Motorcycle Federation (SVEMO) and was Speedway Team Manager for Sweden from 2001 to 2004. Asked about his new position, Tony Olsson stated: “I am really looking forward to this new challenge in my Speedway career. I have learned a lot during this season as Assistant Race Director and feel confident to be able to fulfil my new tasks in the best possible conditions. I wish Ole all the best and good luck in his new position as FIM Speedway Director of Sport where his experience and network will be very useful to our sport.” Roy Otto, President of the FIM Track Racing Commission (CCP) stated: “After working closely with Ole during many years I am convinced that Ole is the right person to be the ambassador of the development and expansion of speedway sport in the world. His expertise and knowledge will be of great help to the sport of speedway to become a worldwide sport. In the name of the FIM, I thank Ole Olsen for the great work he has done for 15 years as Race Director. I also wish to welcome the new Race Director Tony Olsson and am confident he will deliver an excellent job.”

I can confirm that. It was a great party.

More photos, including the podium: http://www.mediaspeed.net/skupina.asp?id=3&skupina=3692

I highly recommend the DVD. Beside the usual good production from Mr. Ballinger, the pre and post meeting interviews should be interesting.

Yes, this is the right place.

This meeting was cancelled. The last (5th) round of SLO-CRO-HUN championship will be tommorow in Debrecen.

Ticket prices - Event Day: Grandstand A & B: €55.00 General Admission: €35.00 Children (u14's): €10.00

Sooo, who's coming to Krsko this weekend?

Matej Zagar won 3rd round of Slovenian-Croatian individual championship in Lendava yesterday. Jurica Pavlic was 2nd and Denis Stojs 3rd. It was an eventful meeting, full of accidents and incidents. Complete results are here: http://www.speedway.si/index.php?option=co...2&Itemid=62 Just one round is left, on October 10th in Krsko. Current standings: 1 Matej Zagar SLO 120 2 Jurica Pavlic CRO 111 3 Maks Gregoric SLO 95 4 Izak Santej SLO 95 5 Denis Stojs SLO 90 6 Ales Kraljic SLO 88 7 Matija Duh SLO 87 8 Aleksander Conda SLO 86 9 Dino Kovacic CRO 85 10 Aljosa Remih SLO 77 11 Samo Kukovica SLO 76 12 Renato Cvetko CRO 71 13 Ivan Vargek CRO 61 14 Nikola Pigac CRO 57 15 Beno Lipnik SLO 56 16 Nejc Malesic SLO 56 17 Matic Voldrih SLO 55 18 Jasmin Ilijas CRO 54 19 Ladislav Vida SLO 52 20 Dalibor Bot SLO 51 21 Marko Vlah CRO 45 22 Kreso Petkovic CRO 39 23 Marjan Bilobrk SLO 28

45:42 for Slangerup. Kukovica got 6 points.

How about Slangerup-Fjelsted? Samo Kukovica makes a debut for Fjelsted today.

The third and final test match between Slovenia and Croatia was staged yesterday in Ljubljana. Slovenia won 48:30. Details here: http://www.speedway.si/index.php?option=co...3&Itemid=62

Matej Zagar won round 2 of Slovenian-Croatian individual championship yesterday. Jurica Pavlic was 2nd after beating Maks Gregoric in a runoff. Group B was won by Beno Lipnik. Complete results are posted here: http://www.speedway.si/index.php?option=co...3&Itemid=62

Hi Mariusz. This meeting was postponed. New date is September 19th.

Lucky you. We only have 15 riders racing in Slovenian championship at the moment. But we still qualified for the SWC. It's about quality, not just about quantity ...

1 Chris Holder MA Australia 2 Jaroslaw Hampel PZM Poland 3 Kauko Nieminen SML Finland 4 Chris Harris ACU Great Britain 5 Lukas Dryml ACCR Czech Rep. 6 Jonas Davidsson SVEMO Sweden 7 Piotr Protasiewicz PZM Poland 8 Grzegorz Walasek PZM Poland 9 Kenneth Bjerre DMU Denmark 10 Magnus Zetterström SVEMO Sweden 11 Jurica Pavlic HMS Croatia 12 Martin Smolinski DMSB Germany 13 Fredrik Lindgren SVEMO Sweden 14 Dave Watt AUS Australia 15 Adrian Miedzinski PZM Poland 16 Maksims Bogdanovs LaMSF Latvia 17 Antonio Lindbäck SVEMO Sweden (Reserve rider) 18 Tobias Kroner DMSB Germany (Reserve rider)

There's only one proper Matej and he is riding ...

Nominations for wild card and track reserve riders for Slovenian GP have been made: http://www.speedway.si/index.php?option=co...9&Itemid=62

http://www.speedwaygp.lv/promo/

No, it was really Tomasz. Zagar? He won 2 heats and retired from the other 3. The carburettor problems was the official reason given, but a long and expensive way to get to the final in Togliatti may have some influence on Matej's result yesteday ... (you didn't hear this from me )

This article might be of an interest to some British (or should I say Scottish ? ) speedway fans: http://www.speedway.si/index.php?option=co...0&Itemid=62