racers and royals

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.

Saturday is the 27th July and Sunday 28th. The Saturday is the 2nd round of the SEC finals in Torun. Is it Saturday or Sunday you want to know about ?

It can be if prepared right. sometimes it is ultra slick and the racing suffers. It seems that Gniezno are also hosting the Nice Polska league riders championships on September 21st which is the Cardiff GP date.

I think we are all in the “ soup “ !!!!

SVEMO statement- translated by google !!!!! Sweden is forced to withdraw from the Speedway European Championship (SEC) qualifying in 2019. In early December 2018, all national federations received FIM and FIM Europe's respective competition calendars for 2019 so that one could begin work on the national calendars. Finding a weekend in the FIM / FIM Europe Track Racing calendars where we could run our traditional SM weekend proved impossible because there was no vacant weekend between May 18 and October 12, which was completely free of FIM and FIM Europe competitions. This prompted Svemo Track Racing to make a decision not to run a SM weekend 2019, but to run USM / SM in Hallstavik on 27/7 (same day as JVM Final 1 in Poland) and run Junior SM in Vetlanda on 7/9. On January 29, we are told that One Sport (promoter for the SEC and the JVM series) together with FIM and FIM Europe's Track Racing Managers have agreed to change dates on SEC Final 1 (22/6) and JVM Final 1 (27/7 ). Svemo Track Racing has since this message arrived on January 29, tried to get One Sport and FIM Europe to understand what problems it poses nationally when making such a late date change, but unfortunately we have been able to cause them to change back to their "original ”Date. As a result, Svemo Track Racing has no other decision to take than to withdraw from the qualification for the SEC series 2019, which has been notified to affected organizations. In the case of Antonio Lindbäck who, due to his position in the SEC series 2018, is directly qualified for the series 2019, Svemo Track Racing has had a dialogue with Antonio and since he has sold in that he will participate in the SEC series 2019 to his sponsors, he will to participate in the series. Unfortunately, this means that Antonio will not be able to participate in the SM finals which both he and Svemo Track Racing think are very boring, but the whole of this "soup" should never have occurred at all, says Tony Olsson, Grenchef Svemo Track Racing.

Lindback withdrawn from Swedish championships and will do SEC finals- all the other Swedes withdrawn from SEC qualifiers.

Wonder who is going to get the wildcard ? Will they give it to a young gun like Smektala or Drabik, or will an old hand get it like Hampel, Kasprzak or one of the Pawlicki brothers ?

All times Polish time Round 1 Saturday March 30th Lodz v Ostrow Eleven sport 20.15 Sunday March 31st Gniezno v Gdansk Polsat Sport 14.30pm Round 2 Saturday April 6th Rybnik v Lodz Eleven sport 20.15pm Sunday April 7th Gdansk v Tarnow Polsat sport 14.30pm Round 3 Saturday April 13th Tarnow v Ostrow Eleven sport 20.15pm Sunday April 14th Gniezno v Rybnik Polsat Sport 14.30pm Round 4 Monday April 22nd(Easter Monday) Lodz v Gniezno Eleven sport start time TBA Sunday April 28th Rybnik v Tarnow Polsat Sport 14.30pm

Eleven Sport Poland. No information as yet on Foreign TV deals for Polish league as far as i`m aware so every chance Premier/Freesports will again show. The Extraleague i`m sure would like others to be interested in bidding ie BT or SKY but not sure that will happen. With all 4 matches in each round being televised live domestically in Poland- Eleven 2 on Friday`s and N sport 2 on Sunday`s it will be interesting how many matches per round they will make available or be able to sell to foreign TV stations.

Not sure if this has been posted before but " left turn" is the story of World ice speedway champion Dmitry Koltakov

" scenic horse" is right for Zmarzlik- he galloped away at the top of the averages- or you could say he won it in a canter.

Found photo here(bottom photo) http://community.betfair.com/greyhounds/go/thread/view/94094/31498343/photos-of-park-royal-white-city-and-charlton#flvWelcomeHeader

Round 2 world championship Day 1 Saturday February 9th Shadrinsk Russia

Keep up Bavarian - already posted on previous page by yours truly

Forgot that. Blimey practice is going to be a long affair now. It`s going to be nearly long enough for the riders required for the Extraleague fixtures to make it there.

As i say i don`t expect any sympathy but other bookmakers price up on the morning of the GP. I however being the no 1 Bookmaker betting on speedway always price up at least 7 days before them and unable to alter the spread once posted, i am therefore always sweating on riders getting injured and now no longer a random draw. I haven`t become No 1 by accident as i will prove once again in 2019

This is from the GP website " Each rider will get the option to take four practice runs in groups of three during a free practice session. The order in which riders take to the track will be predetermined by the FIM – not by the 2018 championship positions." Presumably the meeting WC gets his chance along with the 15 permanent riders to choose his start position - in which case 16 does not divide by 3 !! Edit wonder if that should have read 3 practice runs in groups of 4 ??

Not sure if you punters are going to have a lot of sympathy for the poor old bookie- but yesterday`s announcement of qualifying times setting draw positions makes my job even harder. You can be assured however that i will leave no stone unturned in ensuring it`s Bookies 1 punters 0

He is talking about the free practice before the flying laps, which determine 1 to 16 start. Presumably the slowest in free practice goes 1st in the flying laps.