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Mikael Max who retired last year, will have a farewell race at G&B arena at Wednesday May 3rd. It will be a friendly meeting between Dackarna and Team Mikael Max. http://www.dagensvimmerby.se/sport/speedway/e/10988/da-kan-speedwaypubliken-avtacka-veteranen/ THJ will do the Swedish ski classic Vasaloppet this Sunday, together with 15-16 000 others. http://www.vetlandaposten.se/article/jonasson-pa-glid-byter-hojen-mot-skidor/ http://results.vasaloppet.se/2017/?content=detail&fpid=search&pid=search&idp=9999991678885A000028ED54&lang=SE&event=VL_9999991678885A0000000551&event_main_group=2017&num_results=100&search%5Bname%5D=Hjelm+Jonasson&search%5Bage_class%5D=%25&search%5Bsex%5D=M&search%5Bstart_group%5D=%25&search%5Bnation%5D=%25&search_sort=name&search_event=VL_9999991678885A0000000551 You can follow him online at this page: http://results.vasaloppet.se/2017/?pid=tracking He haven't been assigned a start number yet though.

I agree that a rider can look at what Tai (or anyone else of the top riders) do and see if there is anything they can do similar or if there is anything they can learn. However that does not mean that just copying Tai's way of doing things is going to work for another rider. Here is an interview with rally driver Jari-Matti Latvala. Obviously rallying and speedway are different things but I still think it is relevant for the discussion, http://www.wrc.com/en/wrc/news/february-2017/latvala-and-ogier-/page/4329--12-12-.html

Yeah I had a Philips region free DVD-player.

Before I forget it, Tuesday June 6th is a public holiday which means that some meetings (may) start(s) earlier. Smederna - Masarna will start at 17.00 but I am not sure if there are other meetings that also starts earlier. Also round 7 Indianerna - Masarna and round 9 Masarna - Indianerna have been shifted so that it now is the opposite. This was requested by Masarna since they did not want to have a home meeting the same week as the SM-finals.

Well the thing is with the EU broadcasters is that they violate the free movement in the inner market thing. I've posted a link about it before in a thread somewhere here on BSF. I can't find the same link again (ok I haven't bother to look for it) but here are a few other links, http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2016/07/26/paramount-agreement-could-spell-end-of-geoblocking/ http://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-antitrust-geoblocking-idUSKCN0WK1IZ http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-2645_en.htm https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/23/eu-accuses-sky-and-us-studios-of-illegally-restricting-access-to-films http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-15-5432_en.htm

groups draw for Vetlanda lagcup http://www.vetlandaposten.se/article/elit-vetlanda-stalls-mot-mastarna/

Andreas Jonsson have attempted to not to try and qualify for the 2018 season due to the poor results the past couple of years. http://www.norrteljetidning.se/motor/speedway/andreas-jonsson-tanker-inte-kvala-till-vm-serien-2018-eftersom-det-gatt-som-det-gjort-de-senaste-tva-aren-sa-avstar-jag

The Elitserien teams association (ESS) have launched there own website as well as facebook/twitter accounts. http://www.elitspeedway.com/ https://www.facebook.com/elitspeedwaycom/ https://twitter.com/elitspeedway

Smederna will host one of the U21 qualification meetings. The meeting will be held on May 20th. Smederna assumed the hosting of the meeting since original hosts Indianerna decided they no longer wanted/were able to host it. http://www.ekuriren.se/sport/smederna-arrangerar-vm-kval/ http://eskilstunasmederna.se/internationell-kvaltavling-till-eskilstuna-motorstadion/ You coming DG?

This Sunday Posa will ride his last race. http://www.svt.se/sport/vintersport/posa-kor-sitt-sista-race-kanns-lite-vemodigt/

Most people in Eskilstuna likely doesn't even know who Smederna are so there aren't much gossip around the city. Eskilstuna have about 100'000 inhabitants maybe 10% knows of Smederna and follow scores and etc but it's only 25-30% of them 10% who show up for meetings. I don't really know either. At the end of 2014 Smederna (club | föreningen) and Smederna Speedway AB (AB ~ Ltd) had a combined result of + 260kSEK. Last winter the profit was suddenly a large loss and now they tell us that they are back to a large profit (about 1,2MSEK) despite that Smederna had a really poor attendance average last season. Sure the team rode like rookies but still. As for Indianerna, well a 4MSEK debt. How is it even theoretically possible to achieve such thing?

Artem have already done a season in the GP-series though.

It has been decided that Norwegian and Finnish riders will be allowed to ride in Div-1 in the uupcoming season. The Norwegian riders will be registered with Hagfors (Valsarna) while the Finnish riders will be registered with Rospiggarna. The riders (like all div-1 riders) can be loaned by the other teams. http://www.svemo.se/ImageVaultFiles/id_12598/cf_44/Beslutsprotokoll_13_Track_Racing_2016.PDF

It is mentioned on the previous page. It will be held at Masarna's track but when have not announced yet. http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=67537&page=82&do=findComment&comment=2887783

Smederna have signed Andrejs Lebedevs as a back up (not part of the registered squad) in case of injuries. http://eskilstunasmederna.se/lebedevs-klar-som-back-up/ It seems Indianerna have managed to find an extra board member that will allow them to sign contracts with sponsors and such. However it isn't formally official yet since bolagsverket needs to formalize it, which is expected to take place early next week. http://www.na.se/motor/speedway/na-avslojar-han-ar-nye-styrelseledamoten-som-kan-radda-indianerna-jobbar-pa-som-fan

according to the article linked blow, it seems that there are no regulations that would prevent Indianerna from participating in Elitserien next season. However that requires them to sign a contract/agreement with Svemo which means that Indianerna accepts to enter a control year. If Indianerna still have debts next autumn, they will be evicted from Elitserien. The question is still how Indianerna is supposed to sign anything when they don't have enough board members? http://www.na.se/motor/speedway/na-avslojar-indianerna-tvingas-till-kontrollar

I think Doyle might be a bit uncertain. It will depend on how well he recovers from his injure.

Press conference tomorrow.

I guess it's pretty good. Not super duper as Kumla, Motala or Målilla though.

Indianerna still have until 23.59 on Dec 31st to solve this situation. The current situation is that the previous board members (in Indianerna speedway AB) have resigned leaving the board with only one member. There are sponsors who claims that they are willing to help Indianerna financially but since there only is one board member, no sponsor agreement can be signed since that requires a minimum of three board members. The latest is that they sponsor meetings won't happen until after x-mas and new year though.

Don't know yet. They were supposed to have had sponsor meetings but these have been postponed for some reason.

The Swedish SEC round is possibly at Hallstavik.

Allsvenskan's fixtures have been released.http://www.svemo.se/ImageVaultFiles/id_12559/cf_44/Serieuppl-gg_Allsvenskan-2017_fastst-llt.PDF

Magnus Karlsson have signed with Lejonen as a guest rider. http://www.dagensvimmerby.se/sport/speedway/e/9333/tog-sm-silver-med-dackarna-nu-ar-han-klar-for-en-annan-elitserieklubb/

Masarna will host next year's SM-weekend. Date TBA. http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Nyheter/ArrangoravSMhelgeniSpeedwayutsedd/#.WDwkGz83VsI.facebook