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There was a discussion between the referee, team managers and team captains. They will wait for the rain to stop and a new decision will be taken at 20.30 Swedish time. If the rain stops completely before that track work will start immediately. Other wise final call is at 20.30. Track staff needs about one hour to grade the track.

The referee Björn Yngve was interviewed on Cmore and he said as it looks now the teams will probably give it a go but if the rain intensifies it will likely get postponed. In that case Monday is the likely day for a new and only attempt.

Raining now, don't think it will be on tonight.

At least 15-20 minute delay according to Björn Oldeen at Cmore. However on radar it looks it will start raining again very soon.

Indianerna's team managers Peter Johansson and Kai Salonen have extended their contracts for another season https://www.indianerna.nu/artikel/gmckaku44-2emdd/peter-och-kai-forlanger-over-sasongen-2022.

As expected Smederna uses the same line up for Wednesday's meeting.

Sebastian Aldén och Anton Rosén have been announced as the new team managers for Masarna.

Kasper Woryna will ride at nr 2 for Smederna, no R/R for G. Laguta. My guess is that G. Laguta probably won't be in the line up on Wednesday eithereither and that Smederna will use the same 7 riders since Laguta didn't ride in the Polish final.

IIRC he had some involvement with Antonio Lindbäck for a brief period of time.

He was but for some reason he had to withdraw with a very short notice.

Bjarne farewell race tonight at Esbjerg but no live stream unfortunately. Line ups: Team Alvac Industry 1. Bjarne Pedersen 2. Hans Andersen 3. Kenneth Bjerre 4. Niels-Kristian Iversen Team DFI Group Ventilation 1. Matias Nielsen 2. Michael Jepsen Jensen 3. Lasse Bjerre 4. René Bach Team Johannes Andersen Transport 1. Andreas Lyager 2. Peter Ljung 3. David Bellego 4. Esben Hjerrild Team Plymouth Gladiators 1. Jonas Jeppesen 2. Frederik Jakobsen 3. Rasmus Jensen 4. Emil Breum

Former Smederna rider Linus Eklöf has decided to retire. He says it is due his wife/girlfriend is expecting and that he is starting on a new job in Stockholm. IMO not really surprising given that Linus hasn't really evolved. much during 500 cc career. http://speedwayfans.se/svensken-lagger-slapskon-pa-hyllan-motivationen-finns-inte-langre/

It is. Then I would assume that they will choose whatever meeting they think will have the closest score.

Team manager interviews: https://www.elitspeedway.com/artikel/1mdjaktvf-21mi1/infor-semifinalerna

To be honest I'm not really a fan of the Vojens track but there aren't really that many options. Holsted? Parken (Copenhagen)? Horsens? Most Danish tracks have a quite low standard.

one gp/weeekend. not two/weekend one some tracks like this year.

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Read some news in Swedish speedway magazine Speedway racing. SGP will revert to the old format with only one GP /weekend. And Tony Rickardsson has apparently been recruited as an ambassador for SGP.

Semi final pairings Tuesday: Rospiggarna - Eskilstuna Smederna Tuesday: Dackarna - Västervik Wednesday: Eskilstuna Smederna - Rospiggarna Onsdag: Västervik - Dackarna https://www.elitspeedway.com/artikel/q5c1aktuf-21mi1/klart-med-semifinaler

So semi final teams seems to be decided and it will be interesting to see what opponent Smederna will choose. Rospiggarna looks good but I still think Smederna will chose them.

Hampel and Kubera are still not allowed to ride for their Swedish teams. I also soul assume R/R for Lambert since he is put as nr 2.

No Hampel next week either, he is still being stopped by Lublin. Lejonen see it as a breach of contract and such they can fine the rider but they will have talk with Jarek first. Also Svemo track racing boss Mikael Karlsson had a talk with the Polish federation who apparently were "wondering" regarding how the Polish side was handling it (in English = we don't care). https://www.svt.se/sport/speedway/polska-stjarnan-kan-botfallas-av-lejonen

A bit late but found another stream. https://www.twitch.tv/pauramoto

Great pass by Thomsen.

Smederna announced that will start at the away track in the semi final so that semi final series will be like this: 28 September ........... vs. Smederna 29 September Smederna vs. ................... Smederna says that the reason to why they chose to start away is that the Covid restrictions will be removed from the 29th.