Ghostwalker

Well he used Stefan Edberg for a few years. Andy Murray have used Ivan Lendl as a coach and Andy is now using former player Ameli Mauresmo, Djokovic is using Boris Becker...

There have been some controversies regarding Robert Lambert's average Some think because he have a German license his new Swedish average should be based on his average from the German Bundesliga rather then on his average in the British Elite league. The only reason to why Masarna is complaining is because using the EL as a base for the average will be slightly higher then using BL as base. EL=1.318 BL=1.250 http://www.dt.se/sport/motor/snittproblematik-i-masarna-vi-kan-inte-kora-med-nagra-tilltankta-laguppstallningar The rules says that a rider who does not have an official Swedish average will get a new average based on the average in his/hers home league, the question is then how you determine which league is the home league? IIRC Australian and New Zeeland riders are considered to have the Elite League as their home leagye Some claim that because of his German license his average should be based on the German league average. In my opinion Robert is a that having a German license doesn't make BL his home league. He's represented GB in 2014 team U21 world cup, 2nd in 2015 individual British championship, describes himself as a British motorcycle speedway rider. So without a doubt he IS British and therefore the Elite League should be considered his home league with hesitation.He was also registered as a British rider least season but as far as I know nobody had any issues with that then.

Rasmus Broberg's appeal regarding his suspension have been overruled by RIN. http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/2016/02/10/brobergs-overklagan-avslagen-av-rin/ ...and yet he re-signed with Vetlanda.

Surely it depends on what the club and the rider have agreed on? I am pretty sure that Emil and Vetlanda have discussed this during contract talks and that Emil knows what/how Vetlanda are planning to use their best riders. I doubt Emil would have signed with Vetlanda if he wasn't satisfied with what Vetlanda offered.

I think that Vetlanda is clear favourites but after them it is a pretty much an open game between the rest of the teams. Personally I would switch positions between Rospiggarna/Piraterna and Smederna/Lejonen. Lejonen have a pretty big advantage of their home track which Rospiggarna also have to some extent. I also think that Dackarna will be better then 7th. Smederna have many good riders but their Swedish riders are pretty week, then there are some ? regarding Laguta and Zagar. How well will they perform? Laguta wasn't as good last season as he have been the two previous seasons and Zagar have never really done that well in the Swedish league. However Smederna do have Michelsen available as well and he can replace Kenni, Zagar or Laguta without needing to replace Zorro who himself also is a bit of a question mark since he usually is very up and down. But I guess that Smederna didn't really have much choice when Thorssell signed for Rospiggarna, Kim Nilsson signed with Masarna and Berntzon went to Vetlanda. But as I said it will probably be a very open game between the rest with Masarna as the possible weakest team but they have KK on a very low average and if he gets going again then Masarna could also do pretty well. It will be interesting to see what Lambert can do. I think he will do pretty well. I think final standings will be something like this; Vetlanda Indianerna Rospiggarna Lejonen Dackarna Smederna Piraterna Masarna

I think Emil and Bartoz will share the meetings. Especially since Bartosz will be doing the GP-series this season. Vetlanda could also theoretically replace Tai or Jarek with Emil but they then need to replace THJ with Mikkel Bech (+Sögaard for Kling if Tai) but I don't think Vetlanda will do that since THJ is from Vetlanda (or just outside). At least not in the beginning of the season.

His average makes it quite difficult to fit him in. Sure you can replace Bartoz and Ricky with Emil and Jesper Sögaard but the question is how much you will gain/loose from that. Tai Woffinden 1,948 Tomas H Jonasson 1,500 Emil Sajfutdinov 2,390 Oliver Berntzon 0,648 Jarek Hampel 2,000 Kenny Wennerstam 0,500 Jesper Sögaard 0,500 total 9,486 remaining 0,014

By request from Krompa here are some line ups for this years Elitserien. Position name average' Ikaros Smederna Kenni Larsen 1,882 Pawel Przedpelski 1,429 Matej Zagar 1,578 Magnus Zetterström 1,364 Grigory Laguta 1,755 Daniel Davidsson 0,955 Daniel Henderson / Rasmus Broberg 0,500 total average: 9,463 remaining: 0,037 Elit Vetlanda Tai Woffinden 1,948 Tomas H Jonasson 1,500 Bartoz Zmarzlik 2,148 Oliver Berntzon 0,648 Jarek Hampel 2,000 Kenny Wennerstam 0,500 Ricky Kling 0,564 total 9,308 remaining 0,192 Rospiggarna: Martin Vaculik 1,914 Krzystof Buczkowski 1,500 Jason Doyle 1,707 Timo Lahti 0,906 Andreas Jonsson 1,930 Jacob Thorssell 0,844 John Lindman 0,500 total 9,301 remaining 0,199 Masarna: Joonas Kylmäkorpi 1,608 Robert Lambert 1,318 Leon Madsen 1,476 Linus Sundström 1,288 Przemyslaw Pawlicki 2,000 Krzystof Kasprzak 0,850 Anton Rosén 0,848 total 9,388 remaining 0,112 Dackarna: Maciej Janowski 1,491 Peter Ljung 1,673 Michael Jepsen Jensen 1,560 Mikael Max 1,447 Patryk Dudek 1,465 Magnus Karlsson 0,664 Robin Aspegren 0,870 total 9,170 remaining 0,330 Lejonen: Chris Holder 1,754 Peter Karlsson 1,238 Kenneth Bjerre 1,273 Hans Andersen 1,517 Nicki Pedersen 2,113 Mathias Thörnblom 0,704 Pontus Aspgren 0,839 total 9,438 remaining 0,062 Piraterna: Piotr Pawlicki 2,220 Szymon Wozniak 0,864 Greg Hancock 1,946 Jonas Davidsson 1,032 Peter Kildemand 1,860 Fredrik Engman 0,880 Dennis Jonsson 0,500 total 9,302 remaining 0,198 Indianerna: Antonio Lindbäck 2,016 Fredrik Lindgren 1,462 Piotr Protasiewicz 2,027 Miroslaw Jablonski 0,813 Niels-Kristian Iversen 1,984 Robin Törnqvist 0,500 Joel Andersson 0,691 total 9,493 remaining 0,007 Use this .xls file to build your own teams.: http://www.mediafire.com/view/php8epgyzbwxp6s/Swe_team_build_2016.xls For 2016 there is a gentlemen's agreement between the clubs to have three Swedish (by nationality, not license) riders in each lineup. The two lowest floating averages goes to 6 and 7, the others to pos 1-5. The team manager can choose internal positions himself. Positions are usually shifted slightly depending on if it is a home or away meeting. 12 heats is required to obtain a new floating average. Team building average (ingångssnitt) stays the same the entire season.

Individual championship qualification events + two friendly meetings. SM kval: Nyköpings SK, 8 juni (reservdag 10 juni). JSM kval: Mariestads MK, 18 juni (reservdag 19 juni). Kval 1 till YGT 85cc: Vetlanda MS, 24 april. Kval 2 till YGT 85cc: Nyköpings SK, 21 maj. Friendly test meeting 85cc (SE x 2 + NO + FI), Nyköpings SK, 21 maj. Friendly test meeting 85cc (SE x 2 + NO + FI), Örebro SF, 22 maj. USM kval 1, 85cc: Linköpings MS, 11 juni (reservdag 12 juni). USM kval 2, 85cc: Hagfors MCK, 11 juni (reservdag 12 juni). Gunnar Lundberg Cup 85cc: Westerviks MSK, 6 augusti (reservdag 7 augusti). Par RM 85cc: Västra MK, 24 september (reservdag 25 september). http://www.svemo.se/ImageVaultFiles/id_10556/cf_44/Beslutsprotokoll_1_Track_Racing_2016.PDF

Yep I agree with Jonas, it is an artificially frozen track so that should be allright.

I know. I think Smederna already had managed to build an ice in before they were awarded the final. However when Smederna announced that that had been awarded the final, they said that if they managed to make an that was about 20cm thick, it would survive a week with temperatures above zero degrees. So with the current forecast I think Hallstavik is a bit doubtful too. I think we can get a pretty good estimate at the end of next week whether the final in Hallstavik seems to be doable or not.

Correct. http://norrteljetidning.se/sport/1.3521279-rospiggarna-tar-over-som-sm-arrangor However the weather forecast for Hallstavik doesn't look that good either with mainly above zero degrees the nearest week and a half, so we'll see what happens there if they can pull it off or if they have to cancel it as well.

I don't know if there ever was any conclusions released to the public but the investigators believed that it might have been the case: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formulaone/michael-schumacher/10640839/Michael-Schumacher-skiing-crash-did-helmet-camera-cause-head-injuries.html

Smederna have announced today that, the Individual Swedish ice racing final which were supposed to have been held at Smederna's speedwaytrack on the last Sunday in February, will not go ahead as planned due to the warm weather. http://ikarossmederna.se/ingen-mojlighet-att-genomfora-sm-finalen-i-isracing/ Swedish (Svemo) nominations for this year's international event. http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Isracing/Nyheter/Uttagningartillkommandeisracingtavlingar/

You mean BEL getting a taste of it's own medicine? Why should BEL have exclusive right to "every" day of week? Why should BEL but not Poland and/or Denmark have the right to Fridays? As it currently is the BEL is just as a big "issue" to the others leagues as they are to BEL since BEL have a meeting almost every day of the week. Try to find an available night for a postponed Elitserien meeting and you'll see that it's "impossible" to find a race night were both teams have all riders available since they are occupied with racing in BEL and Denmark which means that teams usually are somewhat depleted when the postponed meetings are re-run. So this is just another case of British speedway expecting every league or series to adjust to/revolve around them.

Swedish Pairs will take place on March 2nd at Otterbäcken IP just outside Gullspång. http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Isracing/Nyheter/ParSMiIsracingkorsiOtterbacken/

Copyright or perhaps trademark infringement.

There have been lawsuits or similar against teams like Indianerna, Frölunda Indians and Chicago Blackhawks (and other teams as well) for using alternate names for native Americans as nick names. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_mascot_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_mascot_controversy http://www.expressen.se/gt/sport/frolunda-indians-har-nu-blivit-do-anmalda/

Swe, Individual final: https://www.facebook.com/events/1702684176653046/

Just like BSI/IMG and most other companies that that involves themselves in sport as either sponsors and or promoters.

I think the most important is that have teamed up with Eursosport to get a trans-European* coverage without having to negotiate separate deals for each country/market. *Eurosport can also be seen outside Europe in some extent in Asia and I do belive that they are. Their actual arrangements needs some work though. Over 3,5 hours for a SEC meeting is almost on hour too much. There were also some questionable decisions regarding track prep for the Kumla round last year.

Changed post-season format for the Danish league: League winner and 2nd placed team goes directly to the "Superfinal" which will be held on the league winners track but unlike previous years, teams placed 3 and 4 won't be guaranteed a place in the final since they will now have to a semi final against teams placed 5 and 6. 3rd placed team will have the advantage of hometrack. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=493755677463859 Can't say I am particular fond of the Danish Superfinal format but on the Swedish format on the other hand isn't particular much better.

From what I've been told from one of Eurosport's commentators, ES was very unhappy about the general production. Lot's of delays due weather and or crashes and etc as well as general uncertainties regarding if/when a meeting would start due bad weather. IMO these are hardly new things to league meetings, which doesn't have the forced "go aheadness" of GP-meetings, so perhaps it was a combination of bad luck with the unusual amount of postponed meetings and poor research from Eurosport. Poor research in that sense that they perhaps didn't really knew what to expect since anyone who regularly attends speedway knows that there will be delays and postponed meetings.

Sorry I don't know. But AFAIK the Östersund quali was not covered by Svemo TA. It was listed as scheduled but there was no link to a live results page. I only have the points results: http://www.op.se/sport/motor/svensson-och-ledstrom-till-gp-final

Official Svemo news article: http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Isracing/Nyheter/SM-finaleniisracingtillEskilstuna/