Ghostwalker

Great info Vlad, thanks for your effort.

I have a contact S.B. who lives in Riga, I can check with him to see if he knows anything.

Tonight's meeting between Masarna and Griparna is postponed because of rain, new date is tomorrow. Likely Rospiggarna-Örnarna will be postponed as well. Gnistorna-Lejonen is likely to go ahead though. Rospiggarna vs. Örnarna only managed with 8 heats before it was aborted due to rain. Tonight was the final round of this year's Allsvenskan. Lejonen is currently 4th but if Masarna wins with 47-43 or more tomorrow, they'll move up into 4th. Griparna finished 6th but since there is no demotion from Allsvenskan, so they will be back in Allsvenskan next season. Final standings: Örnarna, 453 - 404, 19p Rospigagrna, 458 - 398, 17p FNC Gnistorna, 440 - 459, 11 Lejonen/Masarna Lejonen/Masarna Griparna, 387 - 422, 6p http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Allsvenskan2013/Serietabell/

Could you tell me how many times Freddie qualified on his own and how many times he have gotten a wild card. I think he has one qualification via GP-challenge and one top 8. The rest is wild cards. THAT is what matters. I'm amazed that some people are suggesting that Gollob would deserve a wild card. I agree that he have been one of the most entertaining riders through the years but those days are long gone. Tomek is no longer the GP-rider he once was. You can't hand out wild card based on something that was 5-10-15-20 years ago. You have to look at this season and at next season. He didn't look to interested last year and even less interested this year. Its time to let go of the old generation and welcome the new generation with Emil, Tai, Darcy, Holder, MJJ, Dudek, Janowski...

yes he did but so what? He have had more wild cards then places acquired by qualifying on his own.

pawlicki is confimed as a reserve according to speedwaygp.com http://speedwaygp.com/news/article/2763/nki-cruises-into-gp-challenge

Sportowefakty had 8+1 at first but have changed it to 7+1.

Good reuslt, both Nermark and Jonasson to the final. Also good that Dryml and Kennett didn't qualify.

I see but he does have some connection to Latvia don't he?

yeah he looked good. I think he had good speed throughout the entire meeting. Still not a good gater though. A brief review of the meeting: heat 1: great start by Zorro, Nermark and Jedrzejak was close behind him going in into the first bend. Laguta was a little behind the others but found a nice line between Nermak and JJ which propelled him past both of them. Laguta and Zorro had no problem keeping the 5-1 for the remaining 3½ laps. heat 2: Initially looked like a 3-3 when Davidssons bike packed up at the start. Ludvig in front, EKlöf 2nd and Berntzon 3rd. Berntzon find some very nice grip along the fence and passed Ludvig on the outside. 4-2 Smederna heat 3: Pk took this from the start, and if I remember it correctly Buczek managed to squeeze himelsf up into 3rd. 4-2 Smederna. heat 4: quite undramatic, Batchelor from the gate, Linus was close initially but lost some ground after a whiel. AJ kept chasing but were never within striking distance. heat 5: A great start by Oliver (!) took him up into the lead where he remained for the rest of the heat, Zorro tried and trid but wasn't able to pass Ludvig. 4-2 Smederna. heat 6: Batchelor gates and moves into 1st, out of the first bend PK and Buczek passes Nermark who was holding 2nd, less then half a lap later Smederna have moved within striking range of Troy. The Russian rocket blasts past Troy on the inside while Buczek are doing the same on the outside. Buzz and PK keeps the lead with ease for the last 3 laps. 5-1 Smederna. heat 7: A more or less identical heat as heat 6. Västervik's riders gates but Smederna takes care of the first one in the first bend and across the line after one lap Laguat and Zorro did the same move as PK and Buzz in the previous heat. 5-1 Smederna. heat 8: a quite undramatic heat. PK takes his 2nd win and still have a maximum (8+1) after three rides. Buzz brings in the one pointer. 4-2 Smederna. heat 9: Linus gates but lacks enough speed to keep Västervik's rider behind him. AJ with an easy win. heat ends 3-3. heat 10: Laguta misses the start again but manages to get himself up into 1st without any problem. Oliver misses the start and does not have enough speed to threathen Ludvig and Troy. heat 11: Oliver gates and takes the lead, Eklöf manages to squeeze himself into second going into bend 1 on lap 2. He and Berntzon keeps the lead all the way. 5-1 Smederna. heat 12: Nermark and JJ gates, AJ manages to split the 5-1 with a nice insider. Buczek a bit behind. Västervik win the heat with 4-2. The only heat in which they score more points then Smederna. heat 13: Hans takes the lead from the strart and keeps it for the remainder of the heat. Zorros manages to pass Nemark and secures a 3-3. This was the only lost point for PK tonight. 11+1 so far from 4 rides. heat 14: A Smederna 5-1 from tapes. heat 15: PK from the start, AJ misses some but manages to pass Hans and going out of the final bend AJ squeezes himself past Troy but Troy have a little better acceleration out of the bend and re-passes andreas just before the line and gets 2nd by 2-3 inches. 4-2 Smederna and 59-31 in the meeting. Smederna gets 2p for the win as well as the aggregated bonus point. The track was very good the first half of the meeting but then lost the outside grip. Perhaps the track became a but dry as they didn't want to put to much water on the track as there was a high risk for rain. Laguta was unbelievable, super fast and are usually able to find good lines for passing 12p maximimum for him. He has 47+2 out of 51 possible the last three meetings. PK 13+1 tonight. I'm a bit gutted that he missed his maximum. AJ was also very good tonight. 10+1 for him. Good lines, smooth racing and good speed. Cuuld be better if he had better starts. Oliver Berntzon a very very good meeting from him 9 out 12 possible points. 3 heat wins and good riding in general. Well deserved for him. Zorro had a much better meeting then two weeks ago. 7p is a pretty good score from him. Buczek only managed 5p from 4 rides. A little too little. Possible he will get an unwanted rest nest week in favor of Kjastas Poudzuks. LInus Eklöf was totally ok , he takes the scores that is reuqired. Smederna and Hammarby will meet in Stockholm on Monday next week which is last weeks postponed meeting. Then on Tuesday we have: Indianerna - Smederna Piraterna - Vargarna Elit Vetlanda - Hammarby Västervik - Dackarna Current standings: Piraterna 13 617 - 553 21 Dackarna 13 611 - 558 21 Västervik 13 602 - 566 19 Indianerna 13 584 - 586 17 Ikaros Smederna 12 546 - 533 15 Vargarna 13 584 - 584 12 Elit Vetlanda 13 578 - 592 12 Hammarby 12 465 - 615 8

Smederna are back with a big bang. Laguta is hotter then sun. It almost looks like he is missing the starts on purpose just so that he can practice on doing passings. Heats 1-7 were awsome but track has lost some of the grip on the outside.

Perhaps but in that case I would say that Grigorij Laguta would be a better choice. Although he is using Russian license, Grigorij was born in Latvia.

yes he is. http://www.smederna....ews&newsid=2754 http://ekuriren.se/sport/speedway/1.1866440-comeback-for-taggad-jonsson

I don't know, I've just put up the teams as listed on Svemo.se with confirmed changes. For Västervik Peter Ljung will note be able to ride as he injured his foot yesterday evening. So västervik have changed their lineups again, R/R for Harris at nr 2 and Jedrzejak as nr 3.

Elitserien Round 13 Dackarna – Elit Vetlanda #TV meeting# race card: http://www.mediafire...litVetlanda.pdf Dackarna Patryk Dudek Fredrik Lindgren Darcy Ward Dennis Andersson Michael Jepsen Jensen Mikkel Michelsen Victor Palovaara Elit Vetlanda Martin Vaculik Tomas H Jonasson Jaroslaw Hampel Mikkel Bech Janusz Kolodziej Jacob Thorssell Ricky Kling Hammarby – Piraterna Hammarby Grzegorz Walasek Artem Laguta Leon Madsen Mikael Max Kenneth Bjerre Sebastian Alden Robin Aspegren Piraterna Przemyslaw Pawlicki Linus Sundström Greg Hancock Piotr Pawlicki Matej Zagar Anton Rosen Fredrik Engman Ikaros Smederna - Västervik Ikaros Smederna Grigorij Laguta Magnus Zetterström Peter Karlsson Krzysztof Buczkowski Andreas Jonsson Linus Eklöf Oliver Berntzon Västervik Daniel Nermark Chris Harris R/R Tomasz Jedrzejak Hans Andersen Troy Batchelor Ludvig Lindgren Daniel Davidsson Vargarna - Indianerna Vargarna Peter Kildemand Tomasz Gapinski Adrian Miedzinski Kim Nilsson Nicki Pedersen Anders Mellgren Pontus Aspgren Indianerna Antonio Lindbäck Joonas Kylmäkorpi Piotr Protasiewicz Rune Holta Niels Kristian Iversen Mathias Thörnblom Damian Balinski current standing: http://www.svemo.se/...13/Serietabell/

what's the rush with the race cards?

Its illegal and ít's not uncommon that the use of weed leads to the use of stronger drugs and other forms of criminality.

Well IMO Lindgren does not deserve another wild card, he have had too many already and If it has to be a Sweden then I think THJ should be allowed to do a full GP-season. I also think (as I always do) that Grigorij Laguta is worthy of a wild card.

I also want to add, that I think Greg will make top 8. Freddie Lindgren will probably get another undeserved wild card.

Why would you want to give a wild card each to Gollob or Greg? Both have been around for a long time and are two of speedways biggest profiles but its time to let them go if the fail to qualify on their own.

Definitely the worst GP so far this season, even worse then Prague. The few good things were Iversen getting his well deserved first GP-win and that both Emil and Tai escaped without injuries.

the last time Emil just qualified to the semis he won the whole thing. So c'mon Emil you can do it again.

Honestly Paul, no offence mate but do you really need to mention your race cards and/or your spreadsheets in every other post?

So are you the new Mega Lada Pr-person?

The tape definitely went up faster on the inside then the outside. Ward and Greg had a clear advantage there. Should have been a restart. Edit* restart it is.