Ghostwalker

I very much doubt this. Exclusive right usually is limited to a geographical area (like UK or Nordic countries) and not to a certain platform. Especially when it comes to first hand rights.

The club itself cannot do anything but operating drones over crowded areas without permission is not allowed (see quote below) it also have to abide to aviation laws regarding drones. So if you decide to operate a drone to film a meeting at Eastbourne, the club/promoter cannot stop you from doing that but it would quite possible be a police matter since you, by breaching the CAA regulations, might be considered to be putting others at risk. You might also be considered to obstruct aviation which might lead to heavy fines if you are found to be guilty.

It will be shown afterwards on ESP 2 Swe at 21.10. Seems to be mainly football on ESP2 and figure skating on ESP1 which I assume have much higher viewing figures.

Well why should they allow it if someone have the broadcasting rights? It is the same as when you go to a "high profile" concert or sporting event and you are told that you are nor allowed to bring "professional" recording equipment/cameras or similar (unless you have permission).

I don't think so.

Yes they are. They have two seasons (2016+2017) remaining on their deal with Svemo.

Without the riders there wouldn't be any fans watching but at the same time if there's no one watching there probably wouldn't be any riders either. Speedway needs both, so it's more of a catch 22 then that this or that is more important.

A nice idea but as long as there is someone with the tv-rights to the entire league the clubs likely cannot have their own streams. Non-league meetings is another case of course.

Tried this link? http://tv.eurosport.fi/tvschedule.shtml Only show the nearest two weeks though.

SEC title definitely more worth then being an also ran in the SGP. SEC when Dryml won wasn't the same as it is today. Sure, Emil S, Nicki P, Grigory Laguta, Martin Vaculik, Antonio Lindbäck. Definitely sounds like typical second rate riders. You remember Ales winning the title also proves that you are wrong. Winners will be remembered, the also rans will be not. 2014 season, Greg was WC, Emil was EC but who finished 6th-8th in the SGP? I don't think many, if anyone, will know/remember without looking it up.

I don't know. Perhaps (speculation) it's due to the nature of the speedway sport and the general design of the bikes? In most other high speed motorsports, the fuel tank is usually much more well protected and most car series, regardless if it is F1 or WRC or WEC or DTM, they have some special types of safety tanks (safety fuel cells http://fuelsafe.com/ http://atlinc.com/racing.html) which is usually embedded in the car to protect it from external forces. On a speedway bike on the other hand everything is very exposed, the engine, the exhaust and the fuel system so if there is a crash (which there often is in speedway) I think the risks if petrol is leaking out might be quite more dangerous (very hot engine and exhaust pipe+silencer) then if methanol would leak out since petrol is more prone to ignite, perhaps using petrol would increase the risks of a fireball a bit too much? *while I was typing E I Addio also answered. Perhaps it's a combination?

Of course you can create engines that runs on regular petrol but one advantage with methanol is that it has a higher fire safety then petrol. Petrol ignites much more easily and it burns with a much higher temperature. So from a safety aspect, methanol is to prefer over petrol. http://www3.epa.gov/otaq/consumer/08-fire.pdf

Smederna have been invited, as the only club, to Svemo's annual environmental forum at Arlanda airport. This is because are considered are an example of success regarding the environmental aspects of their arrangements as well as their work/program together with Svemo about "biological diversity". Smederna's "slogan" is environmental friendly motorsport of world class quality. http://ikarossmederna.se/eskilstuna-och-smederna-lyfts-fram-som-framgangsexempel-under-nationellt-miljoforum/

Malmö will open the track this weekend for a training camp. http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/2016/03/10/sasongen-igang-malmo-till-helgen/ Further north there will another while or two before the tracks can be opened.

The "but neither should British speedway be criticised for not participating because it wants to run its own programme of meetings at the weekends (which it has done for the past 80 years)." says it all. Some want things to be like the "always" have been. If Speedway is going survive it's time to stop with the "territorial thinking" like the one above.

An article about Daniel Henderson. http://ekuriren.se/sport/1.3871047-henderson-plogade-fram-sin-egen-traningsbana

1. BSI are also a private owned sports promotion company. I am perfectly fine with free competition. 2. There are several. Tour de Ski in cross country skiing is a sort of "mini-cup" in addition to the original world cup, albeit organized by FIS just like the regular world cup. NHL owners doesn't want "their" players to play in the Olympic so they revived their own world cup tournament simply because they considered getting too little pay from IOC's Olympic games tournament. The last thing haven't been said though regarding NHL player in the Olympic. We had two parallel touring car racing series in Sweden during 2012. STCC was the old established series but a few teams left STCC and started a new championship called TTA. For the 2013 season they had joined forces again though. For many years USA had competing formula cars racing series. I don't remember which series was which anymore but they were named IRL, IndyCar, ChampCar, CART and similar.

I also prefer national teams but BSI/FIM didn't like that so One sport had no choice. I also am not buying the "BSPA weekly schedule" thing.

A shame to see that the Brits is still not present? Still afraid of upsetting BSI?

https://twitter.com/NickiP_Racing/status/704283393064828928 Official trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8LPjtIhl4c

Some kind of announcement will be made today at 12.30 CET. https://twitter.com/JKonikiewicz/status/704243674838859776

Realistically, the weather is and have been too warm to have it at a naturally frozen track at Mariestad anyway so I don't understand why they even thought about moving it? It's time the clubs realized that the weather this far south is too unreliable to have ice racing events on naturally frozen tracks.

Another Russian ice racing rider: https://www.instagram.com/p/BCEAc1rP9M1/

Yes that is right. The tax authority didn't considered the sponsorship money to be actual sponsorship but a form of indirect salary. The difference is that sponsorship money is tax deductable (at least to some extent) while regular salary is not. So it was considered that Holta (and i think also Jason Crump) had received the sponsorship money is such a way that it was an attempt to escape taxes. It can also be used as a way to circumvent salary cap even if there isn't any salary cap in use any more.

Can any of our Polish members tells us what this is about? http://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/579317/greg-hancock-zaplaci-za-klamstwa-klubow Something about Greg H, something about illegal/illegitimate clauses in the contracts or something like that. It seems, according to the article, that Greg will be fined and possible also loose a large sum of money?