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Pila v lodz Friday 18th May Polish silver helmet qualifying round Czestochowa Thursday May 10th

A good night was had by all I think- great turnout of riders and fans. Poor PA was the only downside for me. Riders I can remember were there are Dave Mullett, Reg, Jamie and Jeremy luckhurst, Rob Dolman, Graham Clifton, Barry Thomas, Ted Hubbard, Graham Miles, Laurie Etheridge, Ian Clark, Alan Sage, Barney Kennett, Paul Evitts, Mike Spink, Rob Tilbury, keith Pritchard, Alan Kite. it was also good to see Lionel Hoskins still going strong.

I would say it’s more to do with the manager being an idiot- the team spirit within the club must be terrible. I see at least Drodz should be getting rides for Wroclaw tomorrow as Fricke is at 5

Rules are here http://www.fim-live.com/en/library/ in search put in speedway of nations more from the rules Race Off 1 & 2 After the 21 qualification heats there will be 2 additional heats. Heat 22 will consist of the team in 4th & 5th place. Heat 23 will consist of the team in 3rd place and the winner of heat 22. The winner of heat 23 will join the 1st and 2nd placed teams in qualifying for the finals. Final 1 & 2 The Scores from Final 1 will be added to the scores from Final 2 (42 Heats) to determine 4th to 7th place for the 2018 SoN. Final 2 will consist of 2 extra heats, a Semi Final heat and a Grand Final heat to determine the top 3 of the 2018 SoN. Heat 22 (Semi Final heat) will consist of the 2nd & 3rd placed teams from the 42 qualifying heats.The winning team of the Semi Final heat will join the top scoring team in heat 23 the Grand Final heat. The winning team of the Grand Final heat will become 2018 SoN champions. The losing team of the Grand Final Heat will become 2018 SoN Runner up. The losing team of the Semi Final Heat will become 2018 SoN Third Place.

Sunday`s teams Rybnik v Gniezno https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/relacja/84947/row-rybnik-car-gwarant-start-gniezno Wroclaw v Zielona Gora https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/relacja/84341/betard-sparta-wroclaw-falubaz-zielona-gora Gorzow v Czestochowa https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/relacja/84342/cash-broker-stal-gorzow-forbet-wlokniarz-czestochowa NB nothing on Premier/freesports Sunday or Monday that I can see.

Torun v Leszno Friday 18th May all heats short version https://www.cda.pl/video/2293191b7?wersja=720p

I am driving to Kent tomorrow to meet up with Canterbury and Reading star Dave Mullett I will be tagging along to the do at Sittingbourne stadium to celebrate the 50 years of the Canterbury crusaders. If any forum members are going it would be nice to say hello during the evening.

Was Piotr saying to Rune after the race " what you can do i can do "

Coupled with the fact that 75% of the Swedish league use Polish bikes and mechanics and with ferries etc would struggle to get there for Monday`s.

The timings don`t always work like that Some decent racing from Pila today

will be watching the "main course" Torun v Leszno on http://www.maniak.tv/kanal-7

Jack Holder no 8 for Torun again this evening.

cracking heat 8

The Pole Grajczonek looking good in pila tonight

One constant in Poland- start time 4.45pm 1st race off 4.46pm

Gregorij and Artem have an older brother Alexander- Pawel is Alexander`s son

i will be watching Pila match on http://www.maniak.tv/kanal-2

Sportowefakty saying no Chris Harris for Pila- replaced by Pawel Laguta Lovely afternoon in Pila

Lonigo GP qualifier.

3 wildcards still to go- i’m pretty sure Lindback and Piotr Pawlicki will be 2 of them which just leaves ANO.

The FIM are sadly between a rock and a hard place with these qualifiers- they struggle to get federations/staging clubs to put on these meetings- hence no semi`s in the GP qualifying this year. If it wasn`t for Germany and Italy coming forward all the time there would be major problems. Monday May 21st is a bank holiday in Germany so you can understand the Abensberg club wanting that date.

Master of speedway moorwinkelsdamm 5th May decent line-up https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/relacja/86971/master-of-speedway-w-moorwinkelsdamm

Slangerup live updates start time 1.30pm UK time https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/relacja/85382/2-runda-el-do-gp-2019-w-slangerup Lonigo live updates start time 8pm UK time https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/relacja/85383/3-runda-el-do-gp-2019-w-lonigo the last round is on Monday from Abensberg

Bank holiday in Poland- not the greatest race track in Poland. Start time 12.30pm UK time- teams TBC live on Polsat sport at 12.45pm UK time

You are correct sir- 2 "tests to go" on May 31st they meet Sweden in Poznan and then the Rest of the world which is the 2nd meeting in the Slaski stadium in Chorzow on September 29th