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Daguavpils weather: https://www.instagram.com/p/BS_tYqWByU_/

If a merged Elitserien/Allsvenskan is going to work, they have to have two meetings/week for parts of the season since it otherwise isn't possible to have 22 meetings+play off during the available months. IMO due to climate/weather, the seasons can't start earlier then may and needs to finished by early October.

That is correct, 3068 on average http://www.elitspeedway.com/nyheter/e/70/bra-resultat-for-speedwayklubbarna-i-publikbarometern/ Which is an increase by 19% from 2016. However I mainly think it is due to good weather (no rain offs in Elitserien for 2016) and Masarna's return to Elitserien. Elitserien is still the 3rd best attended league in Sweden and speedway is also the 3rd best attended sport in Sweden. football (Allsvenskan) is nr 1, icehockey (SHL) is nr 2. http://www.svt.se/sport/motorsport/speedwayen-lyfte-rejalt-pa-laktarna/

Smederna press and practice will be held at April 25th. Practice during the day with a race in the evening between Smederna riders. http://eskilstunasmederna.se/press-practice-25-april/

A bunch of photos from the track works at Smedstadion https://www.facebook.com/eskilstunasmederna/posts/1336996186393866

THJ will replace Joonas Kylmäkorpi in the SEC qualifiers https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1433973273308858&id=120142831358582

Joonas' recovery was going well but he have been told that very recently that he needed to undergo a hip surgery to have his tigh/hip joint replaced by a new artificial one. http://www.vn.se/article/lejonens-nyforvarv-slutar/ https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002975.htm

With GPs the question as always is that if you want one, is there is someone willing to pay BSI the staging fees that they require? And does that someone think that he / she can make a profit from it? For a second Swedish GP, Tele 2 Arena is Imo a less bad option than Fridnds due to better communications (subway, parking garages...) and because it's smaller than Friends.

If you have a descent internet connection, you can get Eurosport player.

I think that the Swedish broadcaster C more have no problem filling the gaps in a 2 hours meeting with interviews, intra discussions between commentators and the track side studio people, guests as well as feature stories. The issue is the for ESP these gaps are filled with a fixed feed where the camera just overlooks the track. So C more might want to have the 2 hour meeting as it is while ESP want to have it shorter.

To be honest I don't know. I think it is likely that it won't be shown, at least not on Eurosport. They didn't really seems to understand how league speedway worked. That there is delays due to weather, broken airfences, injured riders and etc and

Eurosport or Europort player.

The technology suggestion is not about replacing the tapes just about using the technology as complement to the tapes. Starting procedure will be the same but if a rider is too quick, the heat will be stopped and the rider warned.

It's about reaction, not anticipation. All other sports with a standing start disallow anticipation of the start. Some starts might look good but there is a limit on how fast a human can react to a visual stimuli. First there is the time for your brain to register what your eyes see and then the brain need to react to that and send signals to telling the muscles to act. Finally there is the time for the clutch to react and the tires to spin up. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4456887/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_chronometry You can try your own reaction time at this site http://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime . My best for click when the red box turned green was 198ms . I agree with Star Lady about the transponders. That would likely eliminate the jump starts since riders (eventually) would learn that there no longer is any idea to try and roll before tapes up since that would be picked up by the transponders.

The squads (so far) for Mikael Max's final race. http://www.dackarna.nu/sv/nyheter/nyheter/e/5807/loram-och-woffinden-till-max-final-race/

We're 2/3 into March already and I don't think it will be cold enough again this spring to give it a new try, at least not in Örnsköldsvik or on natural ices. Possibly if you go in northern most areas like Kiruna but I doubt that they have any suitable tracks there.

IMO Grigory Laguta could add something compared to lets say Lindgren and Maybe Zagar.

The Swedish nominations for the qualifiers EM kval 1 Nagyhalasz, Ungern den 1 maj: Jacob Thorssell EM kval 3 Terenzano, Italien den 1 maj: Linus Sundström EM kval 4 Lamothe Landeron, Frankrike den 6 maj: Kim Nilsson & Joonas Kylmäkorpi Reserver EM kval: Pontus Aspgren för kvalen i Nagyhalasz & Terenzano Tomas H Jonasson för kvalet i Lamothe Landeron http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Nyheter/NomineringavforaretillVMochEMKvaliSpeedway2017/#.WMlrLXhU8kk.facebook

Swedish nominations for the qualifiers VM kval 1 Esbjerg, Danmark den 6 maj: Peter Ljung & Jacob Thorssell VM kval 3 Lonigo, Italien den 6 maj: Linus Sundström & Pontus Aspgren VM kval 4 Abensberg, Tyskland den 5 juni: Joonas Kylmäkorpi & Ludvig Lindgren Reserver GP kval: Oliver Berntzon Victor Palovaara http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Nyheter/NomineringavforaretillVMochEMKvaliSpeedway2017/#.WMlrLXhU8kk.facebook

Yes if you live in Denmark and have a subscription.

However, everyone that are owed money by Indianerna are to tell if they approve or not at a meeting later this week. I am not sure how that works technically. I think that even if some say no, the reconstruction can still be approved. Antonio Lindbäck says that he will say no. http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=161&artikel=6645820

Indianerna's application have been approved. http://www.na.se/motor/speedway/beslutet-indianerna-beviljas-rekonstruktion

Indianerna have sent in the application at the distric court (Tingsrätten) for financial reconstruction. A decision is expected early next week. http://www.na.se/motor/speedway/indianerna-ansoker-om-rekonstruktion

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