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Kevin Fajfer replaces the injured Milik at 2 for Piraterna.

Josh Pickering signs for Rzeszow

The first 20 heats are the starter - heats 21,22 and 23 the main course.

The rules are known way before the season- the riders know the big points are handed out in race 23 “ the Grand Final “.

Rider wins it in heat 17 and we are all bored from then on- Television, crowd at the track like finals. Keep it the way it is i say.

Confirmed teams from around 5.30pm UK time and live updates. Smederna v Indianerna https://ta.svemo.se/Public/Pages/Competition/DrivingSchedule/CompetitionLiveResult.aspx?Branch=Speedway&Columns=CompetitionInfo,Branch,Name,Organizer,FromDateShort,LiveResult&DateFilter=TODAY&pagesize=10&IsArrangeable=true &ShowSearch=true&Style=SvemoWebsite&CompetitionId=17692 Vargarna v Lejonen https://ta.svemo.se/Public/Pages/Competition/DrivingSchedule/CompetitionLiveResult.aspx?Branch=Speedway&Columns=CompetitionInfo,Branch,Name,Organizer,FromDateShort,LiveResult&DateFilter=TODAY&pagesize=10&IsArrangeable=true &ShowSearch=true&Style=SvemoWebsite&CompetitionId=17691 Vastervik v Piraterna https://ta.svemo.se/Public/Pages/Competition/DrivingSchedule/CompetitionLiveResult.aspx?Branch=Speedway&Columns=CompetitionInfo,Branch,Name,Organizer,FromDateShort,LiveResult&DateFilter=TODAY&pagesize=10&IsArrangeable=true &ShowSearch=true&Style=SvemoWebsite&CompetitionId=17693

Saturday before their last rides. Bottom 6- so yes everything to ride for. Madsen 3 Blodorn 4 Lebedevs 4 MJJ 4 Fricke 5 Parnitskyi 5

How can you say that about heats 16 to 20 ? 11th gets 6 GP points 16th 1 GP point, which is a big difference !

But surely every point does count throughout the 1st 20 heats. One rider gets more points finishing 2nd in the semi than the other rider finishing 2nd in the other semi is because they finished with a better record in those 20 heats.

Friday’s matches line-ups Torun v Zielona Gora start time 5pm UK time Torun 9 Dudek 10 Lambert 11 Blodorn 12 Michelsen 13 Sayfutdinov 14 Duchinski 15 Kawczynski 16 Zielona Gora 1 Kubera 2 M Curzytek 3 Prem Pawlicki 4 Lebedevs 5 Madsen 6 McDiarmid 7 Hurysz 8 Grudziadz v Leszno start time 7.30pm UK time Grudziadz 9 MJJ 10 Szarszewski 11 Drabik 12 Fricke 13 Tarasenko 14 Iwanski-Helt 15 Malkiewicz 16 Leszno 1 B Cook 2 Rew 3 Kolodziej 4 Zengota 5 Prem Pawlicki 6 Parnitskyi 7 Mania 8

3 qualifiers on Thursday 7th May Krakow start time 3pm UK time Gniezno start time 5pm UK time Opole start time 3.30pm UK time Final is at Grudziadz on Thursday 28th May

Overtaking for fun !!

RR ( ZZ ) for Kolodziej for Leszno

Lambert not great either.

Grudziadz fans protesting about not being able to buy tickets online- so they are watching in the Grudziadz stadium i gather.

Wednesday’s matches line-ups Slangerup v Fjelsted Slangerup 1 Bech 2 MJJ 3 Michelsen 4 Birkemose 5 Drejer Fjelsted 1 Jakobsen 2 Rew 3 Basso 4 J Jensen 5 Thorst Holsted v Esbjerg Holsted 1 Kurtz 2 R Jensen 3 Gusts 4 Jonas Knudsen 5 B Pedersen Esbjerg 1 NKI 2 Nielsen 3 Doyle 4 Przedpelski 5 Bolcho Region Varde v Brovst Region Varde 1 Lindgren 2 Cierniak 3 Heiselberg 4 V Pedersen 5 B Bailey Brovst 1 Tungate 2 Lahti 3 Hjerilld 4 Buch 5 Levishyn Vojens v Grindsted Vojens 1 Mads Hansen 2 Jesper Knudsen 3 Lebedevs 4 Kolodinskis 5 Andersen Grindsted 1 Pollestad 2 Douglas 3 Nagel 4 Sorensen 5 Konzack

Tuesday’s Matches line-ups Smederna v Indianerna- live on Premier Sports 1 Smederna 1 Pollestad 2 Nilsson 3 Chugunov 4 Janowski 5 Lebedevs 6 Andersson 7 Henderson Indianerna 1 Wozniak 2 Becker 3 Huckenbeck 4 Berntzon 5 Prem Pawlicki 6 J Grahn 7 R Karlsson Vargarna v Lejonen Vargarna 1 Vaculik 2 Blodorn 3 Lidsey 4 Przyjemski 5 Jakobsen 6 Hjelmland 7 L Selvin Lejonen 1 Cerniak 2 Henriksson 3 Chmiel 4 Woryna 5 Przedpelski 6 Bock 7 Tornblom Vastervik v Piraterna Vastervik 1 Lambert 2 Brennan 3 Thorssell 4 R Jensen 5 M Hansen 6 Palovaara 7 Wahlquist Piraterna 1 Smektala 2 Milik 3 O Fajfer 4 Kolodinskis 5 Paluch 6 Persson 7 Ejnermark

22 started and we lose 3 after this 1st round. Leaderboard personalresponsibility £2000 iand £1600 Icescot £1500 London Racer £1200 Shockster £1200 Dave Rowe £1025 tintin £1000 Skippy147 £1000 Fromafar £1000 r8gdp £1000 Garry1603 £900 gmarsbar2 £900 Come on the skipper £600 Salty £500 Col £403 Racers and Royals £400 gjcone44 £300 the Cheese £150 therefused £100 We Lose full-throttle —£2200 Shrewsburywolf —£1650 Hilly —£300 Round 2 is in Prague on Saturday 23rd May

GP points 1st 20 points Woryna 2nd 18 points Bewley 3rd 16 points Zmarzlik 4th 14 points Lambert 5th 12 points Lindgren 6th 11 points Doyle 7th 10 points Dudek 8th 9 points Holder 9th 8 points Kurtz 10th 7 points Kubera

GP points 11th 6 points Parnitskyi 12th 5 points Lebedevs 13th 4 points Blodorn 14th 3 points Fricke 15th 2 points MJJ 16th 1 point Madsen

Thanks- some idiots don’t lol

25 took part last season- currently at 13 so far. we need more entries before 6pm !!!

As always i find it interesting looking at Bet 365’s under/ exact / over market. this is actual points over 20 heats only. I am quoting the exact score they think( equivalent to my mid-spread) Zmarzlik 12 Kurtz 11 Lambert 10 Jack Holder 10 MJJ 10 Bewley 9 Lindgren 8 Lebedevs 8 Doyle 7 Woryna 6 Madsen 6 Fricke 6 Dudek 6 Kubera 5 Parnitskyi 3 Blodorn 3 those scores add up to 120 which is total points in the 20 heats.

No because someone who starts the meeting ( 1-16 ) is not guaranteed to score any GP points as the 2 reserves if they get rides their points will be counted after 20 heats in the classification. I’m not sure i fully agree with that as within the last 2 seasons Michelsen i think it was was excluded in his 1st ride, couldn’t race again and was outscored by the reserve who also never scored a point but finished races !! ( 4th beats exclusion) and poor old Michelsen finished 17th with no points.

Hi Salty, think you are losing it lol 10 qualify after 20 heats to go forward. top 2 straight to final semi 1 / 3,6,8,9 semi 2 / 4,5,7,10 winners only to final.( 20,18,16,14) therefore the 2nds are 5th and 6th ( 12,11) 3rds are 7th and 8th (10,9) 4th are 9th and 10th (8,7) 11th 6 12th 5 13th 4 14th 3 15th 2 16th 1