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Martin Vaculik is practising in Gorzow this week so should be fit to retake his GP place in Horsens.

Sportowefakty are reporting that Martin Vaculik is going to practice in Gorzow on Thursday and Friday and if everything goes ok will return in the derby on Sunday or the following Sunday

Gniezno draw announced(wildcard to be named) Lista startował 1. finału SEC w Gnieźnie: 1. Jonsson2. Madsen3. Sajfutdinow4. Lambert5. Kildemand6. Kasprzak7. Milik8. Hampel9. Huckenbeck10. DZIKA KARTA11. Franc12. Kudriaszow13. Lebiediew14. Piotr Pawlicki,15. Lindbaeck16. Michelsen

Vetlanda line-up announced 1 1 Anton Karlsson SVEMO Sweden 2 2 Nathan Greaves ACU Great Britain 3 3 Frederik Jakobsen DMU Denmark 4 4 Kye Thompson MA Australia 5 5 Henri Ahlbom SML Finland 6 6 Luke Becker AMA USA 7 7 Filip Hjelmland SVEMO Sweden 8 8 Elvis Avgucevics LaMSF Latvia 9 9 Gleb Chugunov MFR Russia 10 10 Dan Bewley ACU Great Britain 11 11 Lasse Fredriksen NMF Norway 12 12 Dominik Möser DMSB Germany 13 13 Joel Kling SVEMO Sweden 14 14 Dominik Kubera PZM Poland 15 15 Jonas Jeppesen DMU Denmark 16 16 Davis Kurmis LaMSF Latvia 17 17 Christoffer Selvin SVEMO Sweden 18 18 William Björling SVEMO Sweden

We move on to round 8 this Sunday coming( provided weather permitting the SON finals ran on Friday/Saturday) 1st up Nice Polska Gdansk v Gniezno Polsat sport start time 1.30pm UK time followed by Gorzow v Zielona Gora N Sport programme starts 3pm UK time 1st race 3.30pm UK time followed by Torun v Czestochowa N Sport programme starts 5.30pm UK time 1st race 6pm UK time

Extraleague TV matches announced for round 9 Sunday June 17th Grudziadz v Tarnow N Sport programme starts 3pm UK time 1st race 3.30pm UK time Sunday June 17th Czestochowa v Gorzow N Sport programme starts at 5.30pm UK time 1st race 6pm UK time Other round 9 matches the same day are Zielona Gora v Wroclaw at 4.30pm local and Leszno v Torun at 7pm local

Can`t see why you feel the need to get uppity with Nick Rushbrook- if he doesn`t know about Go speed he obviously didn`t deal with them- so that leaves the BSPA themselves. So like him i suggest you ask them !!!

Who is team managing Finland if you are not ??

Has to be Doc Bridgett- a top track curator and a really nice chap.

Practice is at 12 noon tomorrow

It doesn`t happen often but i am confused as to how Robert Lambert is in the SEC finals - where has he come from ? and who has he replaced ? Edit he has replaced Artem Laguta who presumably want`s to concentrate on the GP`s

Can i suggest that at these pay rates it`s clear why we now have a pairs event with a young rider at reserve. - The SWC went from 5 riders down to 4 and now it`s down to 2 to split the money- the young reserve is happy to come along for the experience in most cases.

SON event 1 Teterow Saturday June 2nd all heats short version https://www.cda.pl/video/2337672ad?wersja=720p

Did they have dry shale available once he had taken off the slop ?

Yet in your orginal post about the farce that was the postponment, you said Glyn had to stop work on the track and attend to the airfence. Surely his time would have been better spent working on the track. Wasn’t it fact that the person who helps wasn’t in that day. Therefore Matt Ford must take the blame for ensuring there were enough people available to make the track raceable.

I expect Zagar fancied a week off to prepare properly for Czestochowa on Sunday- rather than riding Friday/Saturday and then Sunday knowing Slovenia hadn’t a chance in Wroclaw lol

I can Scores from Friday’s 21 heats are added to the 21 heats on Saturday - and the top scoring team is in the final(race 23 on 2 nd day) so every point is vital to get straight through to that race !! the 2nd and 3rd highest scoring teams after the 42 heats go into race 22 (semi- final) and the winners go to the grand final race 23. The losers get the bronze medal on the podium. Gold and Silver is decided on the result of race 23 - the grand final.

Pity they didn`t read these 2 rules which i posted yesterday afternoon- They might have known that the reserve cannot come in for starting offences. " In front of the starting tape, a countdown clock is placed on the infield indicating the remainder of the 2 minutes time allowance. If, in the opinion of the Referee, any Rider or Riders are not ready to start when the 2 minutes time allowance has expired or are not under the control of the Starting Marshal, they shall be disqualified from the heat. The disqualified Rider or Riders shall not be replaced." 8.4 Unsatisfactory Start Starts will be carried out in accordance with Regulation 70.10.5 Where, in the opinion of the Referee, a start has been incorrect then he will immediately stop the race and order a restart. The Referee will give a warning to any rider deemed to have been the cause of or contributed to the unsatisfactory start. This will be communicated verbally by the Race Director before the race is restarted. In circumstances where the referee is of the opinion that an offence has been committed but the offending rider has gained no advantage and is deemed not to have interfered with any other rider in the same heat, the Referee may allow the heat to continue and issue the warning after the heat is completed. In these circumstances the offending rider must be informed before leaving the pits for his/her next heat. Any starting offence committed after a warning has been given in the same meeting under this Regulation will result in the disqualification of the rider from that race. This will be signified by the showing of his disqualification light by the Referee. The Reserve Rider will not be permitted to take the place of any rider disqualified for starting offences

I watched it live on the internet. Nicklas obviously didn`t break his leg in the crash last week - he must have been a lucky boy.

Racecard for SON event 2 at Belle Vue via this link https://www.facebook.com/speedwayservice

FIM are taking their time naming the wildcards !

Bydgoszcz v Rzeszow Sunday 3rd June

It`s not easy that`s for sure, however and i don`t know if Nigel Pearson uses a computer or fills in a paper scorechart but he only had one team`s score wrong(ukraine) which i noticed around heat 16.

Wonder if Greg was happy to be taken out of heat 9 ???

Nothing as yet- but there certainly will be somewhere in Poland. Just keep an eye on here https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/kalendarz/2018/10/07