Ghostwalker

One of the semi finals is held in Motala this afternoon. Live scores available here in Swedish and English : http://www.piraterna.se/default.aspx?NodeId=1453 Lineups: POLAND (Red) 1. Bartosz Zmarzlik 2. Kacper Gomolski 3. Szymon Wozniak 4. Piotr Pawlicki FINLAND (Blue) 1. Mika Loppi 2. Jiri Nieminen 3.Jooa Partanen 4. Nike Lunna SWEDEN (White) 1. Jacob Thorssell 2. Victor Palovaara 3. Fredrik Engman 4. Oliver Berntzon RUSSIA (Yellow) 1. Aleksandr Loktaev 2. Ilya Chalov 3. Victor Kulakov 4. Vadim Tarasenko

Piraterna and Västervik have failed to agree on a new date for the postponed meeting, This means that Svemo will have to decide a date for them. https://twitter.com/killkenny_/status/485064462001795072

next weeks tv-meeting is Västervik - Dackarna.

Nice pass again by Artem. Fjelsted wins meeting by Esbjerg gets the aggregated bonus point.

It seems you caught the underlined decease again. Rene Bach tactical substitute in heat 11. Kildemand out? But apparently that is not the case.

Some great racing in this heat.

Yeah I really wonder what Mikkel was thinking?

Mikkel B, what are you doing? Screw up.

Laguta is said to be away for 6-8 weeks (counting from the surgery I guess) which would be early to mid August sometime. Re Kulakow no more transfers allowed this season. And speaking of Laguta, that was a superb pass by Artem.

I don't know. First It looked like Rene Bach pushed him off but the re-runs don't give us a good view.

Yellow to be X'd.

Esbjerg team manager says that they have not lost any of the 7 times last season and the 3 times this year that they have used Artem Laguta instead if NKI.

as I have said before Grogorij and Artem have not been approved before butI don't know why they are not approved, See these posts/articles: http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=64549 http://speedwaygp.com/news/article/459/czechmate-for-russians

If you look at someone like Jarek Hampel or Niels-Kristian Iversen for many seasons they were just struggling in the SGP but then both were out of the GP for a few years and then came back stronger then ever. I also think we will see the same for Emil. It's no rush he still has around 20 years or so of his career in front of him (if you use Greg H as measure).

Grigorij Laguta is injured but neither he or his brother would have been approved for a UK visa anyway for KL semi.final.

I have read that the Danish league have almost doubled their attendance the past 5 years. From about 950 in -09 to about 1650 this season. Also it seems that the system with A,B,C and D riders categories are a bit unpopular by some teams.

a short news story about Varg-Olle Nygren and his speedway school for adults: http://www.svtplay.se/klipp/2129680/85-arige-varg-olle-nygrens-kurser-i-speedway-for-nyborjare-pa-sista-varvet

No they have lost twice. although it was in the beginning of the series, http://ta.svemo.se/Public/Pages/Competition/DrivingSchedule/CompetitionHeatSchema.aspx?Branch=Speedway&Season=2014&Serie=Elitserien&Resultfilter=APPROVED&Columns=FromDateShort%2cName%2cHeatSchema%2cHeatResult&pagesize=20&CompetitionId=3321 http://ta.svemo.se/Public/Pages/Competition/DrivingSchedule/CompetitionHeatSchema.aspx?Branch=Speedway&Season=2014&Serie=Elitserien&Resultfilter=APPROVED&Columns=FromDateShort%2cName%2cHeatSchema%2cHeatResult&pagesize=20&CompetitionId=3338 However Smederna only lost by 12p tonight and you have to have in mind that they didn't have Grigorij Laguta who is injured but who also is almost unbeatable at Smedstadion., If you would have had Grisha as nr5 instead of Zengota, Smederna would have won tonight's meeting.

We'll see when Grisha is back. He was expected to be away 6-8 weeks according to Smedernas match programme magazine.

Bb, i dont have an ipad only my trusted HTC Desire. Also Jansson and Jarl should have used MikMik instead of Zorro in heat 10. Superb move by MikMik on Emil in heat 9.

Only 2003 spectators but i think the rain scared away maybe 1000 people.

Track is rubbish as usual needs more grip on the outside if we are going to get the most out of Pawel P.

Update, 18.30. Weather at track is ok, no rain at the moment and haven't as much here as it has downtown.

It's currently raining downtown pretty much unfortunately. Don't know what it looks at the track but I'll give you an update once I get to the track which will be around 40 minutes from now.

Swedish Elitserien tonight at 18.00 UK time on Eurosport 1. Preview thread: http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=76970 Then tomorrow at 17.30 UK time there is live streaming from the Danish league at http://kanalsport.dk/ http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=76173