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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/

Imo that will be the future anyway for international championships like SGP, SEC and SBPC.

Smederna have decided to host the Swedish final. http://ikarossmederna.se/sm-finalen-i-isracing-till-eskilstuna/ It will be held at Smederna's regular track which means that it will be a naturally frozen track. Pure madness if you ask me when you have in mind that the Swedish weather is very unpredictable even in the winter. I feel that this is a too big gamble and what happens when/if the weather changes to milder conditions?

Harald Simon has been taken to hospital after crashing during a "duel" with Stefan Svensson. http://www.op.se/sport/motor/vm-finalen-just-nu-harald-simon-skadad-ambulans-tillkallad Results: https://ta.svemo.se/Public/Pages/Competition/IndividualDrivingSchedule/CompetitionLiveResult.aspx?Branch=Isracing&Columns=CompetitionInfo,Branch,Name,Arena,FromDateShort&Datefilter=Today&pagesize=6&CompetitionId=6789&ShowAll=true&SortByResults=true

Formula 1 and MotoGP seems to do pretty well with their made up teams. So who cares except BSI who only seems to whine for the sake of it rather then doing something themselves.

Friday's result: http://www.op.se/sport/motor/oviksforaren-fyra-bakom-tre-ryssar

I don't say that they are but as long as the championship title sponsor also sponsors a few selected competitors in said series, they can never escape suspicions of bias. Especially not when those selected riders and said sponsors seems to have an ongoing "campaign" to "discredit" Nicki, who just happens to be the main rival to those riders.

Rybnik confirmed. http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/2016/01/13/sec-rybnik-vard-for-finaltavlingen/