Ghostwalker

sorry but they have to ask the riders from the qualifiers first.

Rico stays another two seasons with Vargarna. www.nt.se/sport/artikel.aspx?ArticleID=7193314

Vaculik Kasprzak Ljung Madesen Ulamek http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Speedway_Grand_Prix_Qualification

don't think it will affect that much,

according to an article at espeedway.pl Pepe have decided to pull out of next years GP series so that he can stay at Zielona Gora in the Polish Extraliga. source.

Valsarna have retained Girgory Laguta, Ludvig Lindgen &Krzysztof Buczkowsk. They have also signed Krzysztof Kasprzak. Team manager Jerker Eriksson leaves and returns to Dackarna. Valsarna have also decided to incorporate (just their team and not the whole club) and they have also decided to start a Div1 team.

Valsarna will present the majority of their riders at a press conference tomorrow at 15.00 Swedish time.

Good news for all of us Smederna fans. Kenni Larsen have signed for another year with Smederna. http://www.ikarossmederna.nu/index.php?page=news&newsid=2108

no its not 6 races are deffo too little for a world championship. I wouldn't mind seeing another two or three Gps. I think we are at a minimum as it is.

Rory Schlein will stay with Hammarby for 2012. https://twitter.com/#!/RorySchlein3 Rospiggarna also have two confirmed riders for 2012: kim Nilsson and Timo Lahti. http://www.unt.se/sport/kim-nilsson-klar-brfor-rospiggarna-1504938.aspx Smederna is looking for a replacement for THJ and Jimmy Jansson have had a bief chat with Freddie Lindgren. http://folket.se/sportfolket/speedway/1.1227522

*rumours* are that Smedernas Daniel Henderson and Magnus "Zorro" Zetterström will go for another type of horsepower for 2012. http://www1.idrotton...asduellisadeln/

my choice would be Grigorij Laguta. Very good results in both Sweden and Poland. The question though, is if he would have problems getting a visa?

Vargarna/Ulvarna have decided to start an ice racing team. The team will be run by Ulvarna who will rent the track from Vargarna. www.nt.se/sport/artikel.aspx?ArticleID=7179981

some rumours: Fredrik Lindgren stays with Dackarna. Dackarna have signed two Australian riders. One of them is supposed to be a GP rider. so probably Holder and Ward. Its also rumoured that Batchelor have signed with Vetlanda. According to sportowefakty, Adrian Miedzinski have signed with Hammarby, Hammarby have also signed Dennis Andersson.

THJ have decided to leave Smederna for Gnistorna. THJ were about to sign for another year with Smederna when Gnistorna raised their bid more then Smederna could match. Obviously i'm quite disappointed but as always money talks.

Iris, while i agree with you Andreas Jonsson is not a good example since did his best season ever this year. Finished 2nd in the GPs and being the best rider in Elitserien and also top 5 in Ekstraliga. Hampel finished 2nd in the Gps in 2010 and was 3rd this year and very consistent in the leagues. But you're spot on regarding Hans though.

Sidney, Chris Holder managed to get in via qualifiers and 21 year old Vaculik wasn't many points away from the GPs either.....

Neither Scott Nicholls or Adrian Gomolski will be offered new contracts with Valsarna.

@Iris123, Both Holder and Bjerre came in via qualifiers and both have managed to stay within top 8 so far.

it wasn't boring but it wasn't that great either. Heats 12-15 were very good but the rest was just ok.

actually i'm not that impressed, Close racing but very little passing.

He will be 21 next year so yes he will be eligible.

first post updated with the agreed rule changes for 2012. rules taken from: http://www.svemo.se/...eglerinfor2012/ There also speculation about many of the riders. Especially riders like Chris Holder Darcy Ward Piotr and Przemyslaw Pawlicki Rune Holta Fredrik Lindgren Tomasz Gollob Pawlickis have been rumoured to Elit Vetlanda. If my calculations are correct. Vetlanda can squeeze them in together with the 5 confirmed signings and still have 0,039 to the average cap. Freddie Lindgren is claimed to be very close to sign with Västervik. Gollobs whereabouts are also uncertain since Hammarby's team manager made a statement to the press that Gollob (and a few other riders) were not desirable for the 2012 season. I think that there would be many team interested but perhaps Västervik where Tomasz for for over 10 years would be a strong candidate. However Västervik doesn't most surely not the amount of money required for such a signing.

Sin city speedway will have its grand opening on Saturday October 22nd. One of the riders participating is Thomas H Jonasson. Its doubtful though if it can host a GP since its only 1/8 mile long which is less then 200m and i think 250m is the minimum length? SIn City Speedway: http://sincityspeedway.com/ poster: http://www.thjracing...7_7753959_n.jpg http://www.thjracing.se/?p=1801 So brandonbee48 pack the Mrs. into the car and take a road trip its only 2200 miles from Pittsburgh, PA

Ther have been suggestion from Svemo to introduce a salary cap at 2.9 million kronor (£278000) however as of Friday afternoon only three teams have sent in their approval. IMO Piraterna's team manager Stefan Andersson describes the problem with it very well: What Stefan is saying is that some teams would follow that cap while others will be able to let the sponsors pay the riders so that he team appears to have lower salary costs then they actually have. If i'm not misstaken Rune Holta got a quite large tax penalty a few years ago for sponsor money from one of Vetlandas sponsors . Skattetverket (Swedish Tax Agency) considered it be a salary which Rune of course hadn't paid any tax for since he considered it sponsorship. Personally i agree with Stefan, there is no point in having it if they teams can bypass it.