Ghostwalker

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

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.