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Interesting article in this weeks Star with the information that Torben Olsen is moving across to the IMG rallycross series, which is very much what Paul Bellamy did in 2015. Reading the article it appears that Paul has been promoted ? and now is overseeing the Speedway division as well as the Rallycross. Wonder who is in the frame to replace Torben as Managing Director Speedway.

Fully booked Saturday September 21st !!!!!!! Available Friday 20th

The final round is at the Slaski stadium Chorzow on Saturday September 28th start time 6pm local and tickets are on sale here https://sklep.ebilet.pl/aadk/3659174697238546 This is a special Sportowefakty promoted pre-sale before the general sale begins on Monday.

1st of the One sport promoted " test matches" is at Rzeszow start time 2.30pm local time. Line-ups to be named

Maybe someone who lives in Germany could have posted them(and i don’t mean Bavarian !!!)

Start list Heerenveen March 30th and 31st FIM Ice Speedway World Championship – Final 5 30th & 31st March 2019 – Heerenveen (The Netherlands) – Starting List ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- . Ballot N. Riding N. Name FMN Country 1 106 Dmitry Koltakov MFR Russia 2 199 Martin Haarahiltunen SVEMO Sweden 3 333 Daniil Ivanov MFR Russia 4 181 Andrei Shishegov AMFK Russia 5 192 Niclas Svensson SVEMO Sweden 6 16 (Wild Card) Jimmy Tuinstra KNMV The Netherlands 7 58 Stefan Svensson SVEMO Sweden 8 919 Dmitry Khomitsevich MFR Russia 9 97 Ove Ledström SVEMO Sweden 10 383 Nikita Toloknov MFR Russia 11 99 Stefan Pletschacher DMSB Germany 12 33 Johann Weber DMSB Germany 13 665 Charly Ebner AMF Austria 14 100 Franky Zorn AMF Austria 15 88 Max Niedermaier DMSB Germany 16 114 Dinar Valeev MFR Russia 17 Reserve 17 Jasper Iwema KNMV The Netherlands 18 Reserve 18 Bart Schaap KNMV The Netherlands

start list Inzell 16th and 17th March FIM Ice Speedway World Championship – Final 4 16th & 17th March 2019 – Inzell (Germany) – Starting List -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------. Ballot N. Riding N. Name FMN Country 1 58 Stefan Svensson SVEMO Sweden 2 88 Max Niedermaier DMSB Germany 3 97 Ove Ledström SVEMO Sweden 4 665 Charly Ebner AMF Austria 5 106 Dmitry Koltakov MFR Russia 6 100 Franky Zorn AMF Austria 7 99 Stefan Pletschacher DMSB Germany 8 192 Niclas Svensson SVEMO Sweden 9 114 Dinar Valeev MFR Russia 10 919 Dmitry Khomitsevich MFR Russia 11 33 Johann Weber DMSB Germany 12 333 Daniil Ivanov MFR Russia 13 383 Nikita Toloknov MFR Russia 14 199 Martin Haarahiltunen SVEMO Sweden 15 16 (Wild Card) Günther Bauer DMSB Germany 16 181 Andrei Shishegov AMFK Russia 17 Reserve 17 Markus Jell DMSB Germany 18 Reserve 18 Luca Bauer FMI Germany

FIM video of Ice speedway of nations from Togliatti February 16th and 17th

Poland are gearing up for the new season with practice sessions at several clubs this week. Czestochowa have announced this line up for their opening meeting on Saturday March 23rd 3pm local time start. Uczestnicy Memoriału im. Bronisława Idzikowskiego i Marka Czernego:1. Leon Madsen (forBET Włókniarz Częstochowa)2. Grigorij Laguta (od maja Speed Car Motor Lublin)3. Fredrik Lindgren (forBET Włókniarz Częstochowa)4. Damian Dróżdż (forBET Włókniarz Częstochowa)5. Matej Zagar (forBET Włókniarz Częstochowa)6. Paweł Przedpełski (forBET Włókniarz Częstochowa)7. Andzejs Lebedevs (Lokomotiv Daugavpils)8. Adrian Miedziński (forBET Włókniarz Częstochowa)9. Michał Gruchalski (forBET Włókniarz Częstochowa)10. Jakub Miśkowiak (forBET Włókniarz Częstochowa)11. Mateusz Świdnicki (forBET Włókniarz Częstochowa)12. Bartłomiej Kowalski (forBET Włókniarz Częstochowa)13. Sebastian Ułamek (forBET Włókniarz Częstochowa)14. Daniel Jeleniewski (Orzeł Łódź)15. Piotr Protasiewicz (Falubaz Zielona Góra)16. Patryk Dudek (Falubaz Zielona Góra)

They don`t mess around in Poland- the updated 2019 Extraleague do`s and dont`s in English. https://storage.googleapis.com/speedwayekstraliga/2019/02/9b090d71-manual-for-pge-extraleague-riders-2019.pdf

They are normally a couple of day`s late with the news- especially Polish GP`s

Here https://kstorun.kupbilety.pl/impreza/torun-fim-speedway-grand-prix-of-poland,114.html

Presumably the difference between the capacity and the 10470 available are the Torun season ticket holders seats( 5000 approx) which are reserved for them if they want a GP ticket.

Unless you want to deal with the Polish ticket touts i would change your plans if i were you- you could always have a look at the ticket re-sale websites(viagogo etc)

Torun as far as i can see have not said a time when selling starts tomorrow, so it could well be 11pm tonight our time.

some further info- Google translated- stadium plan https://kstorun.kupbilety.pl/sprzedaz/krok,2.html 4.Trybuna Główna / Red Zone: - Lodge 1 and Lodge 2: PLN 1000; - Sectors 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7: 600 PLN; * Program of the competition - 15 PLN (until 30/08/2019 promotion - program at the price of 10 PLN / until 31/08/2018 promotion - the program at the price of 10 PLN) * Super VIP / Hospitality VIP Package: PLN 300 (only available for red zone tickets / only for Red Zone tickets) In the package Super VIP / Hospitality VIP includes: - program of the competition (program); - numbered parking space in car park B (number of places limited) - entry to the VIP ROOM area (located in the driveway to level 2 of the Main Stand), available cold and warm buffet, open bar, cold and hot drinks .

Not sure- probably be added soon as will Robert Lambert.

List of the Polish teams signed riders( contracts submitted to the PZM https://www.pzm.pl/pliki/komunikat/gksz/2019-02/26575/komunikat32019.pdf Could be interesting that Robert Lambert is not yet included for Lublin. Could he be owed money from 2018 still ?

Austria Fritz Wallner Slovenia Matej Zagar Slovakia Martin Vaculik Italy Armando Castagna

Nick Morris has signed for Rybnik.

£800000 approx

Sportowefakty article- translated by Google. Tomasz Gollob fourth in line for treatment in Switzerland. The operation can cost 4 million There is a chance that at the turn of April and May Tomasz Gollob will go to a Swiss clinic dealing with experimental treatment consisting in electrical stimulation of the core. The master betrayed that he is fourth in line. . Professor Harat gave Gollob the green light for an operation in Switzerland. There is hope that the champion will stand on his feet At a Friday press conference beginning the ZOOleszcz group meeting in Bydgoszcz, Tomasz Gollob revealed in an interview with Expres Bydgoski that a Swiss clinic dealing with electrical stimulation of the core inscribed it in the queue for surgery. The world champion said that he is fourth in it. In the hands of Swiss doctors (they do two operations per month), they can be found at the turn of April and May. Gollob from a cross-country accident that occurred in April 2017 is paralyzed from the chest down. He moves on the wheelchair. In the second half of last year, Tomasz underwent two operations. One was pacemaker implantation, which reduced spastic pain. The second was to remove the stones from the gall bladder. The speedway player has been recovering for a long time, and another huge effort will be waiting for him in a moment, because this will be the procedure of placing a pulse generator in the core. Tomasz will have to appear in a Swiss clinic a week before The method that Professor Marek Harat (taking care of Gollob) calls a research program has already helped three men. There is hope that in Tomasz's case it will be the same. Besides, the professor gave Gollob the green light, he said he should try this method. If this happens, it will cost PLN 4 million.

When did the Ladbrokes/Coral group sell Monmore Green ??

In that case it`s Torun as previously mentioned plus the possibility of one of the Nice Polska league matches and possibly a Div 2 match as well, however they might decide to all go the next day and leave it exclusively to the SEC- Any league fixtures on the Saturday probably won`t be known till mid June. Edit Rawicz v Pila is scheduled for the 27th.