racers and royals

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Just back from watching the mighty Berkshire beat Cumberland at cricket to reach the Lords final and find i`ve missed nothing.Lets hope Leszno can make the track raceable

Sorry my error Bjarne Pedersen of course

pedersen .Kylmakorpi.walasek.protasiewicz.jesper b monberg qualify from lonigo

Kylmakorpi needs a 2nd in heat 20 to qualify

Couldn`t quite work out how the play-off worked

King`s out in Lonigo-not a great day for the brits

It has happened before-they have a set formula-at least 3 races if my memory serves me right Edit sportowefakty are saying 4 races Doesn`t come into it

Zagar needs to win heat 20 to get in run-off Iversen out as well- If he does its the nightmare 5 riders for 4 places

Ward has failed to qualify for the final

looking at updates something has happened in heat 8

Watt excluded for having Ward off

Zetterstrom 2 lasts in Lonigo

Its not a problem in the GP`s-they wouldn`t have the time to do extra races-they already struggle not to overun some times.

Darcy struggling in Gorican

Early stages in Gorican but it looks as if our hopes rest with Daniel King in Lonigo

In all FIM meetings excluding GP`s they never take 1st 2nds etc into account-always run-offs-i think 6 from this round went through because this semi was semi no 1 and the FIM decided it(persumably before the draw)last year the Russian qualifier that no riders could get visas for also had 1 more qualifier from it.

They needed a 3rd for the rostrum-always have a run-off kk was 3rd hans has qualified as 6 went through from Dagavpils-providing a Swede qualified from one of the three meetings

Qualifiers Ljung,Buczkowski,Gustafsson,Golobowskij,Andersen,Kasprzak

Looks as if 6 will qualify from this meeting as Ljung will be the required Swede in Vetlanda

Rory and Eddie can go home now !

I`ve not been there but a bus(no51)goes from the airport to Udine(it says make sure its the 51 that goes to Udine because the same no goes to Trieste) and i would try www.booking.com for a hotel in Udine-several available for GP weekend

Some shocks in the first three races.

Could it be Daugavpils you are most interested in

As this is buried away on page one-i thought i would reply to my own post before someone asked about updates