Ghostwalker

Following the 6000+ sized attendance two days ago, Ikaros Smederna have taken the lead in the attendance standings: Smederna have averaged on 3808 per meeting which is more then twice as much as Hammarby which only managed 1738/meeting. http://www.aktuellspeedway.se/attendance.php?serie=1&season=2013

Why should it be? If a rider wants to represent the country in which he lives and and that country also is the country that his wife is from then why should it be a matter for FIM to approve or disapprove it? It should be a matter for the immigration authorities and the licensing authority in the country the rider wish to ride. It would hardly be the first time an athlete decides to represent another country. Despite that they have already represented another country during their professional career. Just because FIM have their "marketing ideas" for speedway in Russia and a possible GP in Russia should not allow them to take decisions that are based on what's best for their "wallet": For that they need to have big Russian stars, they have Emil and Grigorij but now one of them wants to change to a Latvian license. Obviously this is not good for FIM's marketing plans for speedway in Russia. Joonas Kylmäkorpi is another riders who have switched between licenses during his career, From Swedish to Finnish and back to Swedish license. Yet FIM apparently didn't not have any problems with that?

Its hardly their business is it? In Holta's case I think he lived(/s) in Poland with his wife who is Polish? Does not Laguta live in Latvia with his Latvian wife? So they allowed Rune bot not Laguta? Also the reason to why he want to change is from what I understand that he has lost his patience with those who are running speedway in Russia,

We probably will from Motala but most likely not from Vetlanda.

Tuesday 17th: Vetlanda - Piraterna Wednesday 18th: Piraterna - Vetlanda Now on Thursday Örnarna-Rospiggarna Thursday Sep. 12th Rospiggarna-Örnarna.

ok good to know DGT.

sorry I did not make any time notifications.

Dackarna- Elit Vetlanda tonight.stream sources should be same as last night.

True. However I assume that there is a citizenship connected to the license. If you want to have a Swedish license you need a Swedish citizenship which means that the citizenship is connected to the license. If it works the same in Latvia and Laguta wants a Latvian license he also would need a Latvian citizenship and with a such the VISA rules does not apply to him. Again I am not sure what the Latvian license rules says and perhaps it is possible to have a Latvian license with a Russian citizenship.

I've seen claims that Laguta considers to change to a Latvian license for next year, which would mean that he would not need a VISA since Latvia is a member state of the European Union.

His name change probably won't change officially with the leagues until next season. I am not sure how much changes that are allowed to be made outside the transfer windows.

I don't think Emil would have managed to re-take the lead in the standings, Tai's form have been much better in the second half of the season compared to Emil's form. I agree that Miedzinski was to blame for the crash especially when they were more or less side by side. As long as the referees keep excluding the outside rider these blockings will continue, Referees need to start exclude riders when they do this kind of dangerous blockings.

But he is in the lineup, at nr 7. MIkkel Bech Jensen, if you remember he changed his name to only Bech and skipped the Jensen part.

All I know is that the announcers said that Zagar had been excluded for unsportsmanlike conduct, I sat at the back straight and I didn't see what happened but I think he somehow deliberately tried to interfere with Buckowski. Really disappointed with the performance in heats 11-13 & 15. Jonsson and Pavlic, Zorro and Berrntzon scored to few points. You can only imagine what it would have looked liked with PK and Kenni in the lineup. Probably 7-8points each. It was to nice see Kenni again though and he got a deserving applause during the presentation. Not to be too pessimistic but there is no way we will manage to turn this around tomorrow. Piraterna will win by 8-10 points tomorrow.

H4 Zagar X unsportsmanlike conduct. Crowd 6237

He is listed for Vetlanda for tomorrow but not for tonight.

Fire it up! "Grilling champion" Buczek shows how its' done.

http://www.viponlinesports.eu/sports/motorsports.html or coolsport.tv

I assume that Mikkel Bech will have to put priority on Vetlanda's meetings.

No rain expected for neither Tuesday or Wednesday.

Örnarna have signed THJ as a replacement for PK:

lineups and race cards for Tueday, Wednesday, Thursday added to first post as well as live result links.

aflyst / avlyst means cancelled or closed depending on which situation it is used in.

Startlist for Hammarby Speedway Open 2013:

Most likely it depends on your ISP, different ISPs have different censor lists.