Ghostwalker

Smederna have been asked but no decision have been taken yet. http://www.smederna.nu/?page=news&newsid=2855 (2nd half of the article).

Santa Cup in Gävle have been cancelled due to the warm weather that have melted the ice. http://www.racemagazine.se/gavle-staller-in-santa-cup/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Daniel Henderson takes the last remaining position among the Elitserien teams, as a guest rider for Smederna. This means that the young very talented rider Mattias Thörnblom will be without an Elitserien team position for next year.

How do you know that they tell you the truth? It's hardly something they would admit is it?

I know this is what they tell you but honestly I don't believe them because BSI are the promoter of the GP series and it lies within the interest which riders that are in "their" GP-series. Although it might be FIM that runs the qualification officially I am pretty sure that BSI have some influence on the matter.

I read that Jurica Pavlic and his girlfriend became parents again today when his girlfriend gave birth to their second daughter.

This have been reported before by Iris123: http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=72610&page=29&&do=findComment&comment=2336906

JT, you can contact buczek via twitter: https://twitter.com/buczekspeed

FIM/FIm-Europe have officially withdrawn the threats and attempts to ban SGP riders in the SEC. They cite that it would be against the rights of the Europeans Union. http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/sgp/fim-drar-tillbaka-blockaden-av-forare/

It seems that things are a bit clearer now. Announcement by Svemo regarding teams and the series below Allsvenskan: http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Nyheter/Speedwayserierna2014/ http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/vetlanda/elit-b-division-1-ungdom-lagen-2014/ According to http://speedwaymedia.speedwaymedia.se/#post815 fixtures for those series will be announced in January. Div1U and Div2 U is 80cc series,

actually i have gotten the impression that Zagar's withdrawal came several days earlier then Thursday but that it was not announced until the last minute.

I emailed Tony Olsson, who is the highest person in charge in Swedish speedway, but he couldn't give my any info at all about the Div1 and Elit-B fixtures. The only info he could give me was that they will release the fixtures as soon as they have been finalized.

But HE DIDN'T!!!!!! He was given another freebie nomination. This time it was ahead of 20-30 other riders who were ahead of him on the list of qualified reserves for the Grand Prix Challenge. Riders that weren't even asked if they wanted to take their rightful place in the Grand Prix Challenge. So in what way have Chris Harris qualified by right?

Freddie Lindgren said in an interview that old style leather were a bit unpractical due to that they are a bit inflexible which is a bit restrictive when it comes to the riders movements on the bike. Freddie also said that leathers are difficult to wash properly which means that they will become quite unhygienic after a while.

West Row, price money is bigger in SEC then SGP and regarding the sponsors I think it varies from rider to rider depending on who the sponsors are and what their main market is, The SEC have probably a wider covering in Europe thanks to that Eurosport broadcasts it all over Europe which means that sponsors will get exposure on countries that otherwise wouldn't have any speedway on tv. SGP on the other hand probably (?) have a bigger coverage outside Europe but on many different broadcasters,

An article about Filbyterna: http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/ovrigt/filbyterna-ser-ljus-i-tunneln/ http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=sv&sl=sv&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.speedwaynyheter.se%2Fovrigt%2Ffilbyterna-ser-ljus-i-tunneln%2F

Some speedway tonight.

No Zagar for Piraterna. http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/piraterna/ingen-zagar-i-motala-2014/ Due to an undisclosed reason Matej Zagar will not ride for Piraterna in 2014.

Yeah you are right about that.

Surely if Tomek opts out, they should choose another rider for his wild card rather then just give it to their protégé Chris Harris.

You're doing the exact same thing,

Emil have announced today that he will choose the SEC over the SGP. http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/sgp/emil-sayfutdinov-valjer-sec/ http://emilracing.com/index.php?op=str,18,0,0,138&j=EN&akt_tytul=Emil%20found%20the%20sponsors%20for%20Grand%20Prix%20but%E2%80%A6

Griparna have really been messing around the last couple of days, Lets's start from the beginning, Fredrik Edberg have been involved in both Hammarby's and Griparna's operations for some time. In the past week Edberg split with Hammarby in quite turbulent forms and he decided to fully focus on his role as deputy-chairmen of the board for Griparna. However since that moment he have sacked three riders that Griparna signed for next season. The riders in question are Joel Andersson, Szymon Wozniak and Rasmus Jensen. They were sacked since Edberg wanted to bring in three other riders; Kim Nilsson for everyone thought have signed for Hammarby, Ty Protctor and Kauko Nieminen. This means that with about 1 week reaming to the deadline for when the teams are to be registered, those three riders now are without a team place for next year since the other teams are already full (except maybe for Hammarby).

So why do they put Russia in the Kings Lynn group (if the qualify) when they know that some riders will have problems with acquiring a visa?

According to Speedwaynyheter.se there will be one SEC in Scandinavia next season but Jan Konikiewicz does not want to say at what track or in which country it will be held. Jan also confirms that they are negotiating with Güstrow and that there will be an event in Germany next year. According to the same article FIM-Europe and BSI had a meeting the past weekend regarding the ban on Gp-riders in SEC. Jan says that at the moment it seems that SEC have "won"n but he does not want to say more until it has been official. http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.speedwaynyheter.se%2Fsec%2Fem-deltavling-till-skandinavien%2F