Ghostwalker

They should have used Kenni instead of MJJ or MBJ.

I read in the newspaper this morning that Nicki Pedersen said that NKI have been rididng for 8 straight days, hat NKI needed a day off or something like that and that this was the only available day. In that case MJJ would be moved up and a new reserve would be brought in. A look at Iversen twitter seems to confirm that he is not riding tonightl.

Don't worry, you won't miss anything of importance.

No, each club and the Ltd that is owned by the clubs, have a board which is elected by the members/shareholders and each board have a chair-man/woman of the board. That person usually have the general responsibility for the club. Then most clubs have a sporting director and 1-2 team managers. The sporting director is usually one of the team managers. Each club usually have multiple teams, i.e. Smederna who have 1 Elitserien team (Ikaros Smederna), 1 DIv1 (3rd tier series) team (Smederna), 1 (mandatory) Elit B team (Smederna) and one 80cc team (Smederna ungdom). Smederna like most other clubs also have a speedway school (from age 5 and older). The clubs then have a joint organization which I don't remember the name of, then there is two additional separate organizations, one for Allsvenskan and one for Elitserien. The joint organization handles general matter for the sport while the separate organizations handles matters that only applies to that series. Matters like season fixtures, tv-money/broadcasting negotiations with Svemo and other additional rules (tilläggsregler) for that series. Svemo is the ruling federation but rules can both be decided about by Svemo and the teams but all rules have to be issued by Svemo in the annual seriereglerna (series rules). Svemo also administrates the sport regarding team licenses, rider licenses, referees, registering teams for leagues and riders for teams and etc. However from next season everything will be managed the by the clubs themselves (which will be like waiting for the inevitable disaster). See this post for more info; http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=67537&page=47&do=findComment&comment=2451626 Regarding track ownerships it varies from one track to another, all tracks except one (Tallhult, Hagfors) is owned either by the club who use it (like G&B Arena in Målilla which is used by Dackarna) or by the city (Kommun) in which the track is located. All tracks except Gubbängen (used by Hammarby) are speedway exclusive tracks meaning speedway is the only or main purpose use. Despite all this extensive organisations and etc, there are only 88 licensed riders (87 until Billy Forsberg decided to do a comeback) and several riders have retired recently and there are also several riders (Pk, Zorro, Max) who are on the verge of retirement. Luckily there are a few young guns like Oliver Berntzon and Fredrik Engman who might have a good future. Iris, the answer to your question "Do the clubs work together or do they try to out fox each other" is both. But mainly clubs are very short time minded, they want rule changed that are good for them at the moment but not necessarily good for the sport in a long timer perspective. Like the average cap, some teams like Vetlanda and especially Dackarna have for many years wanted a much higher cap or no cap at all. Obviously since they have much stronger sponsoring then the other team, they want to be able to field a stronger team regardless if that would be negative for the sport in general in a long term perspective.

Weather update, today was very very warm and sunny (around +25-27 °C around 80 °F) tomorrow will be the same with around +22 °C (72 °F) in the evening. I don't expect very good racing, they will probably water it as much as possible but it will be difficult when it is so warm and sunny. Then the sun doesn't set until 21:38. So hope for the best but don't expect anything like the meeting from Kumla earlier in this week. I haven't seen any mentions of how good/bad the ticket sales have gone so far but I would expect maybe 5000-7000 or something like that, it is very hard to know what to expect. The sunny weather hopefully brings an extra 1000 or so to the attendance. Some short fatcs about the track; opened in 2002. Length is 335, banking in first bend is 8%, banking in second bend is 4%. Start/finish line is quite early into the straight and gating is usually pretty even. Capacity: 10'000 is possible, over that will get it very crowded and during the latest 5 years have been some parking problems due some moron building a large go-cart track all over the that until then was a parking place. Attendance record: league meeting; 8353 Smederna vs. Masarna, July 1st 2003. play off: Smederna-Kaparna, 2003 final, 8626. Sep. 24th 2003. Grand Prix: not sure, mayne 10-11'000.

point limit is 10.250 and is based on heat averages. You can find allot more info here: http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=67537

That is correct, or be to be precise, track name (and location) is Sannahed (just south of Kumla).

"Larsen kunne ikke vinde alene for Munkebo". An article about Munkebo's loss against Slangerup. http://www.fyens.dk/Sport/Larsen-kunne-ikke-vinde-alene-for-Munkebo/artikel/2511053#sportfyn.dk

Great news. Former speedway rider Billy Forsberg have decided to make a comback after 5 years away from Speedway. http://nt.se/sport/han-nysatsar-i-vargarna-9829966.aspx http://www.vargarnaspeedway.se/uncategorized/billy-forsberg-gor-comeback-i-vargarna/ An interview with Grigorij Laguta. http://www1.idrottonline.se/SmedernaSpeedwayforening-MotorcykelochSnoskoter/Nyheter/Nyhetsarkiv/GrigorijLagutaDetkommerblienunderbarkvall/

Kenni Larsen is really on fire tonight.

Go Kenni!

Ok, we're live. Looks like warm and partially sunny/cloudy.

For my team: Kids aged 11 and younger enter for free, while kids/teens aged 12-16 pays 50kr (£5). Ages and prices varies slightly between tracks. Riders are only paid when the ride so I don't think the squad itself costs that much extra.,

I guess you could say that, he have been riding for Indianerna since 2000 and they are the only team he have ridden for in Sweden.

Next week will be the opposite. Vetlanda is one of the worst tracks in Elitserien. Rarely much passing, A typical "Hampel-track" with gate and leader after first bend wins the heat.

i think pepe leon nki emil *edit two right.

Very impressive performance by Indianerna.

Dackarna defeated Västervik with 48-42, Rospiggarna defeated Vargarna with 52-38.

3898 in the attendance in the Småland derby in Målilla between Dackarna and Västervik.

3436 is the attendance in Hallstavik in the meeting between Rospiggarna and Vargarna.

There been have several, including this heat.

Heat 9 in Motala, Oliver Berntzon goes out and shows the back wheel. to Darcy and Simon Gustafsson

I told you so and heat 7 was also very good. Now track grading.

I know from personal experience that when the top guys is replaced by riders of lesser quality those bums seats will be fewer.

Another pretty good heat.