Ghostwalker

No, Two months ago. http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=80525&page=15&hl=taxes&do=findComment&comment=2742872

The annual Vetlanda team cup will be held this weekend. Here are the lineups. The finals will be broadcasted at Vetlanda Posten's website.. http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/2016/04/14/laguppstallningar-vetlanda-lagcup/ ...and here are some who have been a bit naughty as far as Skatteverket and the court are concerned, It actually happened 8-9 years ago but the case haven't been settled until a few days ago: http://www.tranastidning.se/article/dom-om-speedwaypengar-star-fast/ http://www.hogstaforvaltningsdomstolen.se/Domstolar/regeringsratten/Avg%c3%b6randen/2016/April/4594-4595-14.pdf

Why don't they show the full meetings on Eurosport player? Even if the tv-schedule is clogged, there is no limit for amount of events that can be shown on ESP player.

Anyway here is the official line-up: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=525325420973551 There are five available places to ride for and one wild card. My prediction: Kildemand Madsen Andersen MJJ Larsen Wild card to Mikkel Michelsen or Mikkel Bech (didn't he drop the Jensen part of his last name?).

Perhaps it's just me but I think that all national riders' (swedish riders in Sweden, Danish in DK and etc) participation in their home league should take precedence over any foreign league meeting unless their team expressively give them all green to ride somewhere else. SGP/SWC/U21 WCH/ U21 SWC and qualies to those should obviously be expected and have a higher priority. The problem is that there is a league meeting in either Sweden, Denmark, Poland or Britain every day (unless there is a GP or equivalent) which means that it usually is very difficult to find suitable dates to put rained off meetings since "all" riders are occupied with a meeting somewhere else. Therefore a team shall be able to decide that their national riders are needed in the postponed meeting and that they therefore have to ride in the postponed meeting.

Well that is the issue with SCL. Team strengths are too different and if (the weaker) teams are allowed to "strengthen up" well then the whole point, of which is the best teams, is lost. IIRC the Speedway champions league is a British idea so don't blame the Poles for this one. According to this post by Skidder1, the Poles actually seemed to be against the idea at first: http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=75598&page=1&do=findComment&comment=2398374

Not really sure what it actually says but here is an article: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=pl&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fm.sportowefakty.wp.pl%2Fzuzel%2F593541%2Fjacek-gajewski-walasek-w-zawieszeniu-temat-mroczki-nie-istnieje&sandbox=1

it's next week on Saturday in Berlin.

Ok. No I have not seen an actual license/contract, only what the (official) rules say and "historic cases" like with Zorro last season. I also have a weak memory that Andreas Jonsson skipped the SM-final one year towards the end of the last decade but I am not sure.

Västervik have decided to replace Dakota North with Rasmus Jensen. http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/2016/04/10/vastervik-agerar-transferfonstret-jensen-klar/

It's not an assumption, it based on the information in the rule book(s), which say that a rider that have entered national qualification meeting are obligated to show up but it does not say that it is mandatory to enter (rule 1.3). For SM the rules (10.12.*) specify how to enter but again no mention of that it is mandatory to ride. As for riding abroad the conditions for obtaining a starting permit from Svemo is specified in rule 1.4 where it says that riding abroad (league or open meetings) is not allowed to affect the rider's participation in the Swedish league system, national or international championships (including the qualifiers for that) However as I wrote earlier, Zorro entered the qualification to the 2015 Individual Swedish championship, but then decided to pull out citing "personal reasons", see this link, and Zorro did not receive any kind of fines or suspension for that. Rule books: http://multi.mediapaper.nu/Pdf/?PubId=495F29390A5F1AA87112A4F533E2737C http://www.svemo.se/ImageVaultFiles/id_10492/cf_44/NT_tom_maj2016.PDF http://www.rf.se/ImageVaultFiles/id_68650/cf_394/RFs_stadgar_2015.PDF

I don't think any license requires you to actually enter the national championship. In last season, Magnus Zetterström entered but pulled out of the Swedish championship qualifier without any consequences since it's not mandatory to participate but had pulled out to go ride a league meeting in Britain or Poland or Denmark, he would have been faced with a suspension since he would have violated the permission to ride abroad. So riders are allowed to decline to participate as long as they don't ride somewhere else instead.

Elit Vetlanda have signed Artem Laguta as a temporary replacement for Emil S until Emil have recovered from his surgery. http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/2016/04/08/laguta-klar-elit-vetlanda/

For a rider with a Swedish license, the participation in foreign league or meetings shall not interfere with the rider's participation in the Swedish league system or other championship meetings (which includes qualifiers to those). THJ did it a couple of years ago, he had agreed to a nomination to ride in the SGP qualifiers but then decided that it would mean that he would miss the Polish league meeting the next day so he decided to skip the qualifier which earned him a ban. You can read the rule (1.4) in it entity at: http://multi.mediapaper.nu/Pdf/?PubId=495F29390A5F1AA87112A4F533E2737C

It have been solved. The wild card have been recalled and the meeting have been moved to Tuesday April 19th. Which means that MJJ can ride in Poland but will have to qualify like the others. They will race for 5 available places and then a wild card will be handed out after the meeting. The solution is the same as the former national team manager wanted to use in the first place. http://www.fyens.dk/sport/Speedway-konflikt-loest-wildcard-trukket-tilbage/artikel/2974008

Västervik have bought a new airfence that can be dugged own a bit to prevent crashing riders from getting underneath it. The old fence have been sold to the speedwaytrack in Örebro, don't know though if it's for the 85cc track or the 500cc track. http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=86&artikel=6406102

DMU and the riders threathening to boycott next week's qualifier will meet tonight to discuss things. DMU is represented by DMU-boss Jørgen Bitsch and kommission manager Stefan Kristjansson. The riders are represented by Hans Andersen and Bjarne Pedersen. Jørgen Bitsch said that they need to be aware of the "juridical consequences" of the possible solutions that they will discuss. Hans rode in England yesterday and have another meeting tomorrow but decided to get back home for this meeting. http://www.fyens.dk/article/2973946

I don't know either but Munkebo was having all sorts of track problems last season so it could something like that as well.

I've read some of the articles about this and there it have said that he is also from Slangerup speedway or representing Slangerup speedway.

I don't think a federation can withdraw the riders' license just for not showing up but they can temporary suspend the rider(s) (like with the Russian SWC riders last season) and like THJ was by Svemo a couple of years ago. So if they don't ride next Friday then they might not be allowed to ride in Poland two days later but I don't think that DMU can permanently ban any rider who entered the national qualifier but failed to show up. A rider can become injured or sick and then it would be very harsh to permanently withdraw their license but as said above, DMU can temporary suspend any rider failing to show up, to prevent them from riding elsewhere instead of the qualifier.

Svemo have released their nominations for SGP and SEC qualifications: SGP qualies: Kings Lynn: Fredrik Lindgren och Joonas Kylmäkorpi. Slangerup Danmark: Linus Sundström och Tomas H Jonasson. Terenzano, Italien: Peter Ljung och Kim Nilsson. Reserv SGP qualies: Pontus Aspgren. SEC Qs: Debrecen Ungern 30 april: Linus Sundström & Peter Ljung. Liberec Tjeckien 14 may: Joonas Kylmäkorpi. Zarnovica Slovakien 15 maj: Tomas H Jonasson och Fredrik Lindgren. Reserve: Jacob Thorssell. Personally I don't think it's fair for Thorssell to be left out (except as a SEC Q reserve) while the others (except Nilsson) get nomination for both SGP and SEC qualies. http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Nyheter/NomineringavforaretillVMochEMKvaliSpeedway2016/

Sure, sounds reasonable in theory but honestly do you really believe that they would have given the wild card to lets say Mikkel Michelsen or Mikkel Bech over MJJ or PK? I would think that they wouldn't have done that. What if Mikkel Michelsen or Mikkel Bech would have become injured or sick and thus unable to ride in the Danish qualifiers? Then they would have been without any chance of participating in the SGP/SEC qualifiers this season just because SK/DMU decided to give the wild card to someone who preferred to ride in an foreign league meeting instead of the qualifiers. They should keep the wild card but to be eligible for it, the rider would have to enter the qualifiers unless becoming sick or injured but in that case he would not be allowed to ride for two So have the qualifier first, then based on the qualifier results, hand a wild card to anyone of those who missed out.

Former Masarna riders Tony Rickardsson and Dennis Andersson have helped Masarna with the design the changes that Masarna have made to their track for 2016. http://avestatidning.com/sport/1.3731829-richardsson-designade-masarnas-nya-bana

The rules for 2016 have been published, click on the pdf symbol to download. http://multi.mediapaper.nu/?PubId=495F29390A5F1AA87112A4F533E2737C National motorcycle sports regulations http://www.svemo.se/ImageVaultFiles/id_10492/cf_44/NT_tom_maj2016.PDF

Well I say let MJJ ride in Poland but make it clear that if he does he will not be riding in the SGP/SEC qualifiers. That would set a precedence for future cases should any rider considered skipping the national qualifiers in favour of foreign league meeting. I do agree with the riders that the wild card primarily should be for a riders that misses out due to injury or etc and secondly for any other riders that rides in the national qualifiers but fails to be among those who finish on a qualification slot.