Ghostwalker

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.

Rospiggarna won the first round with 48-42 but I think Vetlanda will be able to gain that on their hometrack.

Well what is the point of wild cards otherwise if you are just going to give them to riders placed 7,8,9,10,11,12,13 (depending one who qualified from the GP challenge)? I definitely think they should be more "wild" with their picks but perhaps be more committed to it and it and the riders 2-3 seasons to establish themselves in the SGP.

Sponsors+ spectators. I also think most clubs expected the restrictions to be eased off earlier and that the spectators would return at that point but that latter have not happened in the extent the teams expected. As for the Polish teams/riders some teams like Smederna have not had any problems with fielding the team they want except for Loktaev who have had visa problems related to restrictions entering Sweden due to the pandemic. They have also not used Grigorij Laguta that much due to Woryna's success. Västervik and Dackarna have mostly used the riders they want but due to the SGP Thursday meetings have been problematic. So yes to some extent it's a bit strange that some clubs have no issues with their riders riding elsewhere but others have such huge problems.

Yes.

"Family reasons" mentioned by C-more commentator Stefan Klemetz.

I haven't seen anything yet. With the current lineup only Berntzon, Eklöf and Henriksson so I would assume that they would try to find another rider but I doubt KK or Miskowiak are available.

Hampel is confirmed to not be riding tonight. Official reason is that he has been stopped from riding by Lublin.