Ghostwalker

Why does Harris bother qualifying when he will be subscribing to the last place anyway?

Look who's talking: http://speedwaygp.com/news/article/4419/doyle-im-no-dirty-rider

Nah I remembered it wrong, it was on a Saturday but it was a Polish play off meeting. http://www.speedwaygp.com/news/article/2824/season-over-for-sayfutdinov

IIRC Emil have not done a SGP since he was fenced by Miedzinski in a GP two years ago.

no, I wrote response time. Simple reaction is closer to 200ms. So basically what we have is; Magnets starts to move The eyes will detect movement Signal goes from eyes to brain Brain will process the signal and realize that the magnets are moving Brain will send signal to the fingers to release the clutch handle fingers will release the clutch handle clutch handle will travel to full drag / completely released back wheel will start to spin bike will start to move. I don't how long the sum of the above is but it is the time that should be measured and made a rule of together with transponders (after testing) transponder provider examples: https://www.mylaps.com/en/x2 http://www.tagheuer-timing.com/en/transponder-transponder http://www.finishlynx.com/sv/packages/motorsports-high-speed-timing-systems/ The transponders can also be used to determine who crossed the line first during close finishes.

Give it some time, Emil is still only 26 years old.

Emil still says no to SGP, this time it's due to him wanting more time with his family. https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=sv?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A//sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/544739/emil-sajfutdinow-nie-mysli-o-powrocie-do-sgp-sec-mi-wystarcza

No. The "play off averages" are only used to determine R/R eligibility and etc during playoffs but has no affect on next season.

Fans shouldn't have to. There should be a dedicated section on the speedwaygp.com website with information on which broadcaster that have the rights in each country. Something like this: http://www.fiaworldrallycross.com/article/tvlisting then put the list under the Fanzone menu so it is for fans to find. Fia WRX have the tv-listing page linked from the first page.

There will be an individual meeting in Hallstavik on Friday October 2nd. http://norrteljetidning.se/sport/1.3139709-klart-for-individuell-tavling-i-parken

Stefan Bennesved is the new team manager for the Swedish 85cc national team. http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Nyheter/NylandslagsledareiSpeedwayforungdomar85cc/

Sebastian Aldén. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Ald%C3%A9n

I think Hampel is hoping the same.

Stupid, should have been someone like Thorssell or Palovaara instead.

Masarna-Västervik live here: http://www.dt.se/sport/motor/live-se-masarnas-semifinal-mot-vastervik-direkt-pa-dt-se I didn't know about this until now. Live score: http://ta.svemo.se/Public/Pages/Competition/DrivingSchedule/CompetitionLiveResult.aspx?Branch=Speedway&Columns=CompetitionInfo,Branch,Name,Arena,Organizer,FromDateShort&Datefilter=Today&pagesize=10&CompetitionId=4694&ShowAll=true http://ta.svemo.se/Public/Pages/Competition/DrivingSchedule/CompetitionLiveResult.aspx?Branch=Speedway&Columns=CompetitionInfo,Branch,Name,Arena,Organizer,FromDateShort&Datefilter=Today&pagesize=10&CompetitionId=4695&ShowAll=true

if the rest of the sports world have technology to detect those who react to quickly, why can't speedway also have that? The mean human response time for visual stimuli is about 290milliseconds . Imo develop a system with transponders which will detect if anyone is moving when the green light is on and if any rider is reacting too quickly. I think a transponder system is the only way to truly separate good starts from chance starts and rolling starts. Until such system is in place there will be rolling starts and chance starts that will be unnoticed and there will be good starts that will be called back. Imo stricter marshalling would also reduce the likeliness of rolling starts succeeding. If the riders are forced (exclude anyone not obeying) to have front wheel 2 cm from the tapes then it will be harder to roll since if they do they will do a T/T. Also when it comes to 2min exclusions/gardening. If the referees actually would start to enforce 2min violations then the riders would adjust and actually making sure that they are ready when the 2 min expires = problem solved. 2 min is 120 seconds not 121 or 123 seconds and neither is it 118 seconds. They can do as much gardening as they like as long as they are ready with the front wheel at the tapes when those 120 seconds are up.

Add a controversial referee decision to that. Antonio overtook Pawlicki in heat 15. There was contact, Pawlicki fell and Antonio was excluded. Most people thinks it was a wrong call since they say that Pawlicki tried to close the door on Antonio and thus initiated the contact resulting in his own fall.

We have an average cap, which is set to 10.250 (heat averages) then there is an agreement (which some teams circumvent) of three Swedes per lineup. There is, however, no cap limit for the squad but a limit for 7 riders with an average above 0.500. As for the line-up, as long as the riders fit under the cap and as long as the two riders with the lowest floating average are at positions 6 and 7 a team manager can put the riders in any order he or she likes.

Yes and no. Pre-airfence there was mesh fence around the entire track which was kept with the airfence was introduced. Then initially with the plywood, the mesh fence along the straights was kept but apparently it has since been removed. IIRC the wood along the straight was tested at one or two tracks (Eskilstuna and possible a few more) for one or two seasons before becoming mandatory and back then the mesh fence was still there.

Sure you can. Vetlanda did with Hampel. They replaced Hampel with Emil (who is part of Vetlanda's squad). So they replaced on of their two top riders (Tai and Jarek) with someone who is even better then the rider they replaced. As I wrote, it is all about how the team manager decides to build his team/squad. Dackarna could have signed a better rider then Hans Andersen to become less vulnerable to injuries on Nicki and Doyle but they choose not to and thus when Nicki became injured they will suffer (obviously also because Joonas in injured). They could have refrained from negotiating Dudek's contract and used him instead of Hans. They could've signed Janowski or Zagar instead of Hans but they didn't and now they pay the price for that. A team manager could like Dackarna's put all effort/money/average cap space on one rider and thus be vulnerable to injuries or you could build a team/squad with a little less one man show and a little more "depth".

Which problems? Dackarna being rubbish hasn't anything to do with the squad system. Neither does it say anything about the squad system itself. This is how Dackarna decided to build their team. it is built around Nicki scoring 12+ points. The problem tonight was that MJJ+Doyle+Hans scored 14p together from 16 heats. A British style guest rider system would not change that. Remember that Vetlanda is also missing a rider, his name is Jarek Hampel, a pretty good rider. Thanks to the squad system, Vetlanda can use Emil S instead of Hampel. Rather than using a random rider for each meeting. Then look at the Vetlanda team, Emil S+Tai + Zmarzlik as heat leaders with Ljung and THJ as second strings + Holta at reserve. Nicki and Joonas would have made it closer but Vetlanda would have won easily anyway.

Yes, see the end of the first post.

Weather is go for launch. Haven't rained for most of the day and no more rain is expected. The other meeting could probably have been held today as well but the forecasts yesterday said lots of rain all day and evening. It have also been confirmed that tomorrow's meeting will be televised.

Jan Konikiewicz head of SEC believes that Gorzow will remain in the GP-calender because, according to him, the Gorzow GP is to important for BSI to drop. However he is also talking/negotiating with Gorzow for SEC. https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=sv?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A//www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/543981/sec-realna-alternatywa-dla-grand-prix-w-gorzowie-to-zapewne-proba-wywarcia-presj

Normally R/R is only allowed for injured riders and for riders that are occupied with federation meetings (national and international championship meetings and etc), however for postponed meetings R/R is also allowed for riders that are occupied with another league meeting. The rule that applies here is rule * 5.10.4