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Keep an eye on here i would suggest- just says November http://www.speedway-prague.cz/

The FIM/ BSI will change the rule so that all competing GP riders will be required to attend the draw immediately before practice or forfeit their place- No way will Polish Extraleague matches take place the night before a GP . !!!!!!

If you think that Chris Harris wasn`t on over £100 per point at Rye house then you are living in cloud cuckoo land !!!!!

Indeed- but is it fair on the FIM/BSI that a rider could be injured riding Polish league the night before and no time available to get a next in line rider in. Plus i`m sure some riders are more then happy to try out their various engines at practice.Poland has gone to far on this one and they won`t win !!!!!!

No not really here are the latest confirmed line-ups-some not confirmed like Pawel Przedpelski to Czestochowa https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/784378/sklady-druzyn-pge-ekstraliga-2019 https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/784577/sklady-druzyn-nice-1-liga-zuzlowa-2019 https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/784586/sklady-druzyn-2-liga-zuzlowa-2019

Daniel Kaczmarek and Peter Ljung have left Torun and Daugavpils respectively and joined Tarnow. Greg Walasek has joined Ostrow Interesting signing for Rawicz(Leszno associate team) of 16 year old Aussie Keynan Rew

In my opinion the Thursday`s and Sweden rumour is just rubbish. Nine teams in the Eliterserien(Swedish top league) in 2019 so 1 team misses out each round therefore 18 Tuesday`s will be required to run the regular season. Between the beginning of May (7th) and the 3rd September there are 18 Tuesday`s- they shouldn`t even have to lose a Tuesday for the SON in 2019. Yes they tried something new in 2018 when they had a back to back 24 hour Tues/Wed local derby fixture which they maybe will try and do again. The Swedish 2nd div runs Thursday`s and hasn`t caused the UK many problems. In my opinion if GB want Thursday`s they will get priority in 2019.

No way will the FIM/BSI change from Friday practice- the Extraleague will have a bloody nose over this !!!!

Just been looking at the 2019 Polish league regulations and sadly there appears to have been no change to the Extraleague no 8 and 15 riders who still can be national or international U 23 riders.

This new contract for coverage of the Extraleague from 2019 to 2021 is reportedly worth 60 million PLN as against 25 million PLN for the period 2016-18. Phil Rising recently wrote a piece in the Star regarding the FIM and BSI are very unhappy at the Extraleague scheduling matches now on Friday`s-including those friday`s which are practice days for the GP the following day It didn`t register at the time of reading it why the Extraleague would want to do this. The FIM/BSI could easily scupper this plan by insisting that all riders must be present at the draw on practice day.( even getting them to pull their own draw number out) In this weeks Star(excellent edition) it becomes clearer when it says that N Sport have lost the exclusive rights and are from next season sharing the Extraleague coverage with Eleven Sports. I have subsequently found out that the intention is all matches are now being televised live- 2 on Friday`s on eleven and 2 on Sunday`s on N Sport- happy days for us Polish TV and internet watchers !!!!! I`m not sure how this is all going to resolve itself- I can`t see that the GP riders will be happy missing practice to ride in an Extraleague match- surely with only 14 round matches to fit in over the regular season there must be dates available that don`t encroach on GP weekends.

Think the "hot heats" were dropped because Kings Lynn were not giving the away side the same opportunity to be on the track prior to heat 1 which quite rightly was deemed to be unfair. Just to clarify the earlier post which you responded to- the grading breaks in Poland are after heat 4, 7 , 10 and 13 with the longest break after heat 13 so that the nominations for heats 14 and 15 are made.

LT challenge is now on the 25th

That Belle Vue final i think is Either the 12th OR the 13th July- full U21 calendar Individual Junior World Championships: May 25 - 1st qualifying round - Pardubice (Czech Republic) 25 May - 2nd qualifying round - Germany (location not yet known) May 25 - 3rd qualifying round - Poland (location not yet known) 27 July - 1st finale - Poland (location not yet known) September 14 - 2nd finale - Latvia (location not yet known) October 4 - 3rd finale - Pardubice (Czech Republic) Junior World Junior Team: 29 June - 1st semi-final - Daugavpils (Latvia) June 29 - Semi-final - Vetlanda (Sweden) 12/13 July - finals - Manchester (Great Britain)

99.9% certain that the onesport speedway best pairs comp is no longer- Google translation of a Sportowefakty article One Sport changes priorities. Speedway Best Pairs at 99 percent will not be The SEC final in Chorzów, the expansion to Latvia and above all the fight for the right to be the promoter of the Grand Prix cycle, are the most important priorities of One Sport. The Speedway Best Pairs will disappear from the calendar of Polish company events. Dariusz Ostafiński Dariusz Ostafiński 04 November 2018, 11:17 . . For the last three years, the Speedway Best Pairs tournament has been a competition for team sponsors. Previously, we had prosecution at the level of representation, but after BSI intervention (they reminded them that they have rights to the world championships of couples), One Sport had to change the formula. Now, the Toruń company intends to completely abandon the cycle dominated by Fogo Power. He is the winner of the last three rounds of the SBP. When we ask at One Sport for further SBP's future, we hear that 99 percent will not be tournament in season 2019. Polish promoters do not want to do anything by force. Besides, there were some problems with SBP recently. Frequency, but not only. The clubs were furious that their players were taking part in it. Malicious statements were made that you could just send speedway riders to "Żabka Cup". . SBP will not be, but One Sport remains, alongside BSI, the second major player on the speedway market. Next year, Poles will still be playing Tauron SEC tournaments (four rounds with the final in Chorzów - there is a plan to do it again) and IMŚJ. The friendly matches of the national team and the 250cc class championship will come to that. In December, however, you will be able to say more about the entry of One Sport into the Grand Prix cycle. Then there will be elections in FIM. If Wolfgang Srb wins, who knows our company and promotes it to a certain degree, there will be a chance to rebound the GP with the English BSI. It is also worth mentioning that there is a plan of expansion to Latvia, where the government got interested in slag. This may end with the inauguration of the SEC in Riga and one of the rounds of the IMŚJ in Daugavpils. The match of the Polish national team in Latvia can not be ruled out.

Longtrack 2019 calendar Indywidualne Mistrzostwa Świata na długim torze: 30.05.2019 - I runda, Herxheim (Niemcy) 15.06.2019 - II runda, La Reole (Francja) 07.07.2019 - III runda, Muhldorf (Niemcy) 07.09.2019 - IV runda, Morizes (Francja) 22.09.2019 - V runda, Roden (Holandia) Drużynowe Mistrzostwa Świata na długm torze:(team) 14.09.2019 - Finał, Vechta (Niemcy) Eliminacje do Grand Prix 2020: 29.06.2019 - Runda kwalifikacyjna, Mariańskie Łaźnie (Czechy) 24.08.2019 - Grand Prix Challenge, Scheessel (Niemcy)

I assume if other tracks owe riders money they heed the BSPA warnings and do something about it- Rye House i believe didn`t and therefore the SCB/BSPA had to take drastic action.

I think he is just being pig-headed. Bigred`s post sounds right to me. Rye House were thrown out of the league for mounting debts- Harris would not be chasing them- he`s got no chance of getting anything from them- of course he and presumably other riders that are owed have been in touch with the BSPA to find out what`s going on !!!!

I wouldn`t be surprised if riders wages come at the end of that list.

And if they get anything it`s at "standard pay" scale which will be a fraction of what they are owed.

So the field is 1. Martin Smolinski (Germany) 2. Dmitri Bergé (France) 3. Mathieu Trésarrieu (France) 4. Josef Franc (Czech Republic) 5. James Shanes (Great Britain) 6. Theo Pijper (Netherlands) 7. Bernd Diener (Germany) 8 Romano Hummel(Netherlands) 9 Martin Malek ( Czech Rep) 10 Andrew Appleton(GB) 11 Max Dilger(Germany) ??? 12 Jesse Mustonen 13 Chris Harris 14 Anders Mellgren 15 Meeting W/C

Nothing to do with lack of planning !!! I hope you are joking( i am not blaming Workington solely but the other championship clubs and the BSPA equally) Between the beginning of the season(March 15th) and season end there were 33 weeks- i would be interested to know how many home fixtures did Workington have and how many rain offs ??

For fear of repeating myself, unless there is a major hike in the prize fund the tournament cannot support teams of 3 senior riders. If you take the published prize money and work out that this has to cover riders wages, hotels, travel, team managers,mechanics for 3 meetings it’s just ridiculous. For 2019 that has to include travelling to Russia !!!!

Sorry to have to say it but Masarna are a joke of a team and are not doing the Swedish Elitserien any good the way they are carrying on !!!!

Vastervik rider and a real talent- Lindback and Lindgren are more than capable of doing a job on their own for Sweden !!!

You want to get out more and lay off the sauce Anton Karlsson is a real talent and Luke Becker has just finished a season in Poland for Rzeszow