Ghostwalker

I listened the latest episode of Metanol speedway podcast, referee Krister Gardell was a guest and said the referees prefer not to award race especially if the positions are fairly close. If the positions are very clear the race can be awarded but as he said if they are not ref's usually don't award races. Just announced that next week's televised meeting is Smederna - Vetlanda. Heat 7 what a race.

Kim Nilsson sets a new track record in Vetlanda. New record is 62,4 seconds.

Great heat 3. Smederna seems to be heading towards another big loss, I think we need to have a replacement for Laguta asap.

Loktaev is injured but Dackarna new that he wouldn't be available due to Russian championship semi-final being held today according to Dackarna website. http://www.dackarna.nu/sv/nyheter/nyheter/e/4876/ingen-loktaev-pa-mandag-och-tisdag/ http://www.dackarna.nu/sv/nyheter/nyheter/e/4879/preliminara-laguppstallningar-till-tisdagens-bortamatch-mot-indianerna/

If you look at the floating averages in last weeks's lineup; http://www.mediafire.com/view/s0k2m3g68aui92q/ES.2014.R7.Vargarna-IkarosSmederna.pdf Only Kildemand and Vaculik had a higher floating average is higher then Aspgren's floating average.

Krompa no the team manager cannot choose any rider. It is all riders with a lower floating average+the rider which is the rider with the closest higher average, Tonight Ricky Kling, Billy Forsberg and Tomasz Gapinski can take the R/R heats. I also checked last weeks meeting's score and Miedzinski did not take a R/R heat. http://ta.svemo.se/Public/Pages/Competition/DrivingSchedule/CompetitionHeatSchema.aspx?Branch=Speedway&Season=2014&Serie=Elitserien&Resultfilter=APPROVED&Columns=FromDateShort,Name,HeatSchema,HeatResult&pagesize=20&CompetitionId=3353

Holta is also sacked by Västervik. http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/vastervik/aven-holta-uppsatt-i-transferfonstret1/

Tomorrow at 18.00 BST / 19.00 CEST, Swedish Elitserien round 8, Indianerna vs. Dackarna live at Eurosport 2. Preview and discussion thread here: http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=76882

Preview round 8: Meetings/broadcast start at 19.00, it is shown live at C more in Sweden and Eurosport 2 for rest of Europe. Indianerna – Dackarna (tv meeting): race card: http://www.mediafire.com/view/h9zlj2om3c3nkmo/ES.R8.Indianerna-Dackarna.pdf Indianerna Fredrik Lindgren Kenneth Bjerre Piotr Protasiewicz Antonio Lindbäck Niels-Kristian Iversen Mikael Max Joel Andersson Dackarna Patryk Dudek Mikkel Bech Nicki Pedersen (K) Krzystof Buczkowski Joonas Kylmäkorpi Robin Aspegren Dennis Andersson This weeks tv-meeting is the top fight between Indianerna and Dackarna. Dackarna started the season really well and is the only team so far that have defeated Rospiggarna in this years series. Indianerna had allot of injuries in the beginning but have two straight wins from last week when they took two very big wins against Västervik and against Piraterna. This week Piotr Protasiewicz is back from injury which means that Woodward and Swiderski is out. It also means that Joel Andersson also is back in the lineup. This will be a very tough meeting which could end either way but Indianerna looks very hot at the moment so I think they will win this. Hopefully the track will be of its usual standard which provides very good racing as we could see earlier in the season in the meeting between Indianerna and Elit Vetlanda. Västervik – Ikaros Smederna: Västervik Krzysztof Kasprzak Peter Ljung (K) Hans Andersen Rune Holta Troy Batchelor Ludvig Lindgren Mathias Thörnblom Ikaros Smederna Oliver Berntzon Grigorij Laguta R/R Kenni Larsen Grzegorz Zengota Peter Karlsson Mikkel Michelsen Magnus Zetterström Västervik has made plenty of changes in the transfer window as a last desperate measure to try to avoid being buried in the last place in the standings. They have got a good opportunity tomorrow against Smederna which are without Laguta who are injured. Västervik have to win tomorrow or else it would start to look very bad for Västervik. However I think Västervik will win this due to the absence of Laguta but the team have ridden well before without Laguta (away against Piraterna) and they will use R/R this time. Smederna's reserves should have the upper hand against Västervik's ditto. Young Berntzon will for the first time in his career ride as a heat leader in Elitserien, I hope he doesn't feel too much pressure. Vargarna – Piraterna: Vargarna Martin Vaculik Pontus Aspgren R/R Peter Kildemand (K) Billy Forsberg Adrian Miedzinski Tomasz Gipinski Ricky Kling Piraterna Bjarne Pedersen Rory Schlein Darcy Ward Linus Sundström Greg Hancock (K) Simon Gustafsson Anton Rosén Quite surprising, Vargarna actually have more points then Piraterna who again suffers from injury on one of their top riders. The way the team is built, Piraterna are very sensitive to injuries on their top riders so I think Vargarna will be able to take their second straight win. Elit Vetlanda – Rospiggarna: Elit Vetlanda Tai Woffinden Emil Sayfutdinov Jaroslaw Hampel Jacob Thorssell Janusz Kolodziej Tomas H Jonasson Magnus Karlsson Rospiggarna Andreas Jonsson Jonas Davidsson Mads Korneliussen Timo Lahti Andzejs Lebedevs Grzegorz Walasek Kim Nilsson I don't think there is much to say about this meeting, Vetlanda should win fairly comfortably at home against Rospiggarna. Rospiggarna have made one change and that is Harris who is left outside the team because of poor results from him (only 3p as a reserve last week) and he his replaced by Latvian talent Andzejs Lebedevs, Live scores for tonight's meetings can be found at: http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/

Schelin does not ride today but will replace Fredrik Engman tomorrow.

According to sportowefakty he did not break anything and he might already be back on Sunday. https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sportowefakty.pl%2Fzuzel%2F449224%2Fkamil-adamczewski-i-aleksandr-loktajew-bez-zlaman&edit-text=

Kacper Gomolski moves from Valsarna to Masarna. http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/masarna/gomolski-lamnar-valsarna-for-masarna/

Unfortunately not.

It have also been confirmed that Jason Doyle will replace Artem Laguta at Vargarna. http://www.nt.se/sport/laguta-ut-ur-truppen-9919027.aspx

Västervik have signed one of the Pawlicki brothers according to an interview with Davey Watt: http://www.vt.se/sport/?articleid=7691536

Lineups for the re-run on Monday of the postponed meeting between Dackarna and Piraterna: Dackarna Nicki Pedersen Joonas Kylmäkorpi Patryk Dudek Alexandr Loktaev Mikkel Bech Krzysztof Buczkowski Dennis Andersson Robin Aspegren Piraterna Bjarne Pedersen Linus Sundström Darcy Ward Simon Gustafsson Greg Hancock Anton Rosén Fredrik Engman

Apparently Västervik have decided to sack Daniel Nermark as well. http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/vastervik/avslojar-nermark-uppsatt-i-transferfonstret/ Rumours are that, Davey Watt, Rune Holta and Daniel Nermark will be replaces by Tobias Musielak, Tomasz Jedrzejak and Premyslaw Pawlicki. The latter is someone I really would love to see as a replacement for Grigorij since he is one of few good riders outside Elitserien. The issue for Västervik is that they now becomes very sensitive to injuries on Ljung, Thörnblom and Ludvig Lindgren since the other Swedes that they have in their squad hardly keeps Allsvenskan standard and would be way out of their depths in Elitserien.

Many crashes tonight. is it the track or the silencer or what is the problem?

Anyone else that thinks it wrong that a rider can ride in both nomination heats?

Agreed, remove the fence rather then pulling the rider out.

he seems to be ok. Unacceptable though that the airfence lifts up so much. *edit ambulance on track.

injured. Broken foot most likely. http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=76372&p=2469315 https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=sv&sl=pl&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sportowefakty.pl%2Fzuzel%2F448673%2Fprawdopodobny-koniec-sezonu-grigorija-laguty-odnowiona-kontuzja-aktualizacja

Kulakow does not have a Swedish team.

Peter Ljung said in an interview that Miedzinski is the only rider he not would want to be a team mate with.

Miedzinski really stupid riding by him.