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I was a bit too quick with top 5. re-run for 3rd and 4th place. https://twitter.com/EMS_Speedway/status/722507867887153152 re-run for first https://twitter.com/EMS_Speedway/status/722508903615823872

Am Krämerwald 6 . 16727 Oberkrämer https://www.google.com/maps/place/Am+Kr%C3%A4merwald+6,+16727+Oberkr%C3%A4mer,+Tyskland/@52.703111,13.043899,601m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x47a902eff93fbcb7:0x3899f093407ce171?hl=sv-SE http://www.speedwayteam-wolfslake.de/da-finden-sie-uns-1.html

It will start in 20 minutes. The only liver coverage I know about is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeCDPyyRTOA but it might not be live all the time. It is provided by these: https://www.facebook.com/groups/osderelskerspeedway Esbjerg ms will update the results on their facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EsbjergMotorsport/ heat 1. Madsen falls on his own on lap 1 and is excluded. Results heat 1: Korneliussen, B. Pedersen. Bach. Nasty crash in heat 3 lap 2. Ht 2 results: Anders T, 3 Mikkel M, 2 Hans A, 1 Patrick H, 0. Heat 3 crash: Kenni caused Lasse Bjerre to fall and Lasse was hit by Kildemand. Kenni excluded. Kildemand wins heat 3, Lasse Bjerre is 3rd. Not sure about who was second., Mikkel Bech was second. Overtook Bjerre on lap 3. Heat 4 results, Klindt, MJJ, K. Bjerre. Nicolai Busk, Heat 5: Bech, Klindt, Thomesen, Koreneliussen. heat 6 restarts. Hougaard cashed a 3-rider crash and is excluded. All riders up and walking though. Live results available at espeedway: http://live.espeedway.pl/race_detail.php?id=5013 ht 6: B. Pedersen, K.Bjerre, Kenni. ht 7: Leon Madsen, 3 Peter Kildemand, 2 Mikkel M, 1 Nikolaj Busk, 0. heat 8 good fight for second between MJJ and Hans Andersen. Andersen had the upper hand for two laps but MJJ manage to grab 2nd. Rene Bach, 3 Jepsen Jensen, 2 Hans Andersen, 1 Lasse Bjerre, 0. Lasse Bjerre have pulled out from the rest of the meeting due to his crash in heat 3. https://www.facebook.com/EsbjergMotorsport/posts/527200154119411 Heat 9: Patrick H, 3 Jepsen Jensen, 2 Peter Kildemand, 1 Mads Kor, 0. Heat 10: Bjarne P, 3 Anders Thomsen, 2 Nikolaj Busk, 1. Ulrik Østergaard Heat 11: Kenneth Bjerre, 3 Hans Andersen, 2 Mikkel Bech, 1 Claus Vissing, 0 Heat 12: Klindt, 3 Mikkel M, 2 Bach, 1 Kenni Larsen, 0 attendance 2022. Heat 13: Mikkel M, 3 Kenneth Bjerre, 2 Mads Kor, 1 Ulrik Østergaard, Heat 14: Hans Andersen, 3 Bjarne Pedersen, 2 Peter Kildemand, 1 Klindt, 0. Heat 15: Jepsen Jensen, 3 Leon Madsen, 2 Anders Thomsen, 1 Kenni Larsen, 0. Heat 16: Mikkel Bech, 3 Patrick H, 2 Bach, 1 Nikolaj Busk, 0 Apparently N.Klindt have declined a GP qualification seeding but would accept a seeding for SEC qual. Heat 17: Mads Korneliussen 3, Hans Andersen 2, Kenni Larsen 1, Nikolaj Busk 0. Heat 18: Mikkel Bech 3, Bjarne Pedersen 2, Jepsen Jensen 1, Mikkel Michelsen 0 Heat 19: Leon Madsen 3p, Patrick H 2p, Klindt 1p, Claus Vissing 0p Heat 20: Anders Thomsen, Kenneth Bjerre, Peter Kildemand, Rene Bach, Top 5: Bjarne Mikkel Bech A. Thomesen K. Bjerre MJJ. Wild card will likely goto Kildemand but it depends on if any rider declines a gp and or SEC quali seeding.

Kenni Larsen is the most underrated rider in Elitserien according to Elitserien's team managers. http://ekuriren.se/sport/1.3993306-smedernas-dansk-mest-underskattad

Ok televised meetings for the first 4 rounds have been confirmed. There will only be one televised meeting/round this season. Cmore had lots of problems/complaints about the non-focus meetings last season so I don't think it was a successful enough for them to continue with it this season. 3 May: Piraterna Lejonen 10 May: Masarna Elit Vetlanda 17 May: Indianerna Dackarna 24 May: Lejonen Rospiggarna http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/2016/04/19/klart-med-tv-matcher-fram-till-omgang-4/

Lejonen have decided to replace Okoniewski with Maksym Drabik with whom they have signed a three year contract. http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/2016/04/19/lejonen-varvar-polskt-stjarnskott/

It seems that Cmore have decided which meetings that are going to be focus meetings in the first two rounds according to http://www.tvmatchen.nu/speedway/ Round 1, May 3rd: Piraterna-Lejonen Round 2, May 10th; Masarna-Elit Vetlanda Still unconfirmed though.

Dackarna have signed a two year deal with Friends Arena about Dackarna providing some 40 volunteers to the GP staff. http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/2016/04/18/dackarna-far-fortsatt-fortroendet-pa-friends-arena/

R&R is right.There were two qualifications semi-finals held on Friday with the A & B final held on Saturday. Sort of like a mini SWC.

The A-final of Vetlanda Lagcup can be watched here: http://www.vetlandaposten.se/article/live-tv-13-50-lagcupen-i-speedway/

From Michelsen's Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/BERfmGjwtWj/

I disagree slightly. IMO Munkebo is (on paper) sligthly stronger then Belle Vue. Bjerre, Andersen and especially Larsen are quite good riders. Smolinski is not that good but probably have some pretty descent experience with the track.

I agree but I can to some extent understand ESP as well. Based on what the Dutch ESP told me, ESP has been very unhappy about the feeds from Sweden, allot of delays due rain or crashes and etc. Is it on or off? When is there a decision on whether the meeting is on or off and etc. From that perspective I can understand why ESP are reluctant to show it live.

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.