racers and royals

This meeting will take ages due to loads of 2 on the trots- Becker rides in heat 5 for the 1st time i think. https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/relacja/92543/i-runda-sdc-w-lamothe-landerron

Crowd looks ok- lets hope they and us get some decent racing

Wonder when Greg Hancock last raced in France ?

I suppose we will find out in 15 minutes if anyone is there watching !!

Just a reminder that live internet coverage starts at 7pm UK time here

Live updates from 6pm UK time tomorrow(Saturday15th) https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/relacja/85339/final-imej-w-stralsund

Sportowefakty are saying it`s 13 riders over 13 heats- that`s 4 rides each. Then the 3 finals i assume A,B and C heat details https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/relacja/92543/i-runda-sdc-w-lamothe-landerron

Is there a 12 rider heat format where the riders meet each other once- how many heats would that take ?

I have just been reading on Sportowefakty that it`s likely to be a 12 rider 15 heat match with then A,B,C finals ? I said a few days ago that i thought this would be a disaster of a comp and it`s certainly looking that way.

Got to be 16 riders surely ? 13 Lahti 14 Simota 15 kosciuch 16 Smetana

Kasprzak signed by Dackarna to replace Dudek

Obviously the SEC podium places are all up for grabs tomorrow as well as finishing in the top 5 which qualifies the riders to the 2019 series finals. Leaderboard before the final round 1 Madsen 38 2 Hampel 34 3 Lambert 33 4 Sayfutdinov 30 5 Michelsen 28 6 lindback 28 7 Milik 26 8 Huckenbeck 26 9 Kildemand 25 10 Kudryashov 21

Stadium all but sold out- only a few very expensive red zone tickets now available.

Start list and draw for the 5th and final round in Muhldorf Sunday 30th September. 1 71 Anders Mellgren SVEMO Sweden 2 93 James Shanes ACU Great Britain 3 134 Richard Hall ACU Great Britain 4 88 Hynek Stichauer ACCR Czech Republic 5 25 Michael Härtel DMSB Germany 6 84 Martin Smolinski DMSB Germany 7 42 Stephan Katt DMSB Germany 8 86 Jérôme Lespinasse FFM France 9 444 Josef Franc ACCR Czech Republic 10 37 Chris Harris ACU Great Britain 11 115 Theo Pijper KNMV The Netherlands 12 1 Mathieu Trésarrieu FFM France 13 96 Dimitri Bergé FFM France 14 15 Lukas Fienhage DMSB Germany 15 8 Bernd Diener DMSB Germany TR1 16 Jörg Tebbe DMSB Germany TR2 17 Danny Maassen DMSB Germany meeting starts 12.30pm UK time top 10 1 Berge 85 2 Tresarrieu 82 3 Smolinski 82 4 Franc 67 5 Shanes 64 6 Pijper 48 7 Harris 47 8 Hall 41 9 Diener 37 10 Dilger 31

The track is 370 M - just in case Sam doesn`t mention it

Togliatti v Oktiabrskij Wednesday September 12th

https://www.speedwayplay.com/elitspeedway is the website - if you are interested and it happens again next season - subscribe about a week before the season starts in early May. Yes Swedish Elitserien league only(top league) You can decide which of the 4 matches per round you want to watch live- and the other 3 you can watch later. the TV match that gets broadcast by Premier/Freesports and Eleven Sports Poland is a multi camera production. whereas the other 3 matches are a single camera. All matches have a Swedish commentary.

Line-ups for Sunday`s finals 1st leg matches Rybnik v Lublin https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/relacja/92521/row-rybnik-speed-car-motor-lublin Ostrow v Rzeszow(non TV) https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/relacja/92523/mdm-komputery-t-ostrovia-stal-rzeszow Wroclaw v Czestochowa https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/relacja/92525/betard-sparta-wroclaw-forbet-wlokniarz-czestochowa Gorzow v leszno https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/relacja/92526/cash-broker-stal-gorzow-fogo-unia-leszno

Has anyone read the regs i linked- does anyone understand them ?

Agree however on this occasion we won`t miss anything as even though the meeting is supposed to be starting at 7pm UK time, it has been confirmed that the 1st race will be shortly after 7.30pm UK time just as Eurosport(UK) come on air.

Just wanted to say good things about Speedway play subscription. I took it out at the beginning of the season for £13 per month- will never subscribe to Premier sports again after being stitched up in 2017 by them. For the money i have been able to watch the 4 matches every week plus the Swedish senior and U21 finals. Quality of broadcast has been great after a few problems in the 1st couple of weeks- few things they need to improve with the graphics which i`m sure they will for 2019. i cancelled the subscription this week and had confirmation back within the hour. in my opinion i have had very good VFM this season and highly recommend it and will subscribe again in 2019.

left to bet

Competition website http://speedwaydiamondcup.pl/en/ competition regulations http://speedwaydiamondcup.pl/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/regulations.pdf

Sadly i fear this competition will be one big disaster- 24 hours before the first round we still don`t know the confirmed line-up. Even Polish sources are unsure. Both luke Becker and Thomas Gapinski have both indicated they are riding in France. The internet coverage is confirmed and is being done by Podkarpaciel who film all the Rzeszow matches -here 7pm UK time

Doyle injured tonight in heat 10 ?