Ghostwalker

its what Ludvig Lindgren said that the Aston Villa football games are more loud then B-hams speedway meetings but yet no one is suggesting that the football fans have to be quieter, So it seems that its not actually the noise that is an issue but something else.Which means that when the no longer can complain at the noise (they will anyway) they will find something else to complain at. also Iris123 where did you read that we have a problem? The only track that i know of that have a noise problem is Gubbängen. And if you look at the track locations (see this thread and click on the track names) you can see that most tracks are outside the nearest settlement. I also think that allot of things can be done to reduce the noize outside arenas, without or before modifying the bikes. Like creating noise barriers to reduce the amount of noise emerging from a track.

As mentioned before the Allsvenskan teams will a joint press & practice this year. Location: Eskilstuna Motorstadion Date: April 21st Time: Thursday 17.00 for press activity and 19.00 for the pairs meeting. Don't know yet if the event will be streamed, for those who of you who live too far way to attend the event, but stay tuned for more info. Luckily the spring seems to be around the corner and the snow have melted quite rapidly so hopefully it should not be a problem.

i'd say that it will be a very tight championship thís year. If Emil is fit he will surely be top 5, if Kolodziej continues like he did in 2010 i'd say that he'll be a top 5 candidate as well, together with Crump, Gollob & Hampel. Those are the ones i believe will be top 5-6. Maybe also Nicki. Then we have a whole bucnh of riders fighting for the two remaning top 8 places, Bjerre, Holder, Harris, Holta, AJ, Greg, Freddie but probably not Anto9 and Laguta.

Peter Rye have been appointed team manager of Hammarby. link.

Lennart Andersson have been elected as the new chairman in Valsarna. Other news about Valsarna is that even if their finances look very bad for a majority of the season, Valsarna did managed a 60'000kr (~£6000) plus last season. Hopefully the finances will stay on black figures for Valsarna. Other new chairmen are Johan Thuresson in Piraterna and Jeanette Moback for Tigrarna. More news: the ovaltrack racing section of Svemo (that is the section fo (speedway, iceracing, longtrack and grasstrack) have been affected by several changes and defections. First the 4 people strong sections were slimmed down to an one person section were Leif Fredriksson were supposed to be the man to lead the section, with Kristian Stenström as a co-ordinator. However Kristian left his position in February and a few days ago Leif decided to leave his position as well. Pelle Westlng , who is secretary general of Svemo, says that the workload put on Leif became to much but there is a support system that can step in. However, at the moment, we dont use the tern leader of the section. Its on the volounteer side that we have problems. *1 Leifs duties will be managed by Bertil Bergström from Svemo's main board, he will be assisted by Pernilla Larsson at Svemo's secretariat and by Svemo sporting director Annika Pettersson. Tony Olsson will also assist them in an advisory role. In the article there are also questions about the National team's team manager and whether or not Peter Jansson (also TM for Vargarna) will stay as tm. He is not replaced at the moment but he might be replaced. We don't know yet, but clearly he have had too many roles, we just can't give him all the work just because he is a kind man. We need to start having full or part time employed national team, team managers. It is connected to a larger structure, we dont need just one tm like the National football team, Svemo have several different sports. full article in google english. * 1= Many of those who work in the various sections of Svemo, are doing it on a volunteer hobby basis and there for have regular jobs and etc. as well.

Lejonen have lost their main sponsor Axelent who have decided to sponsor Nicki Pedersen only.

Apparently a date has been decided, The championship weekend will be held during September 16th-17th (Friday & Saturday at G&B Arena in Målilla. the U21 final will be on Friday evening while the 80cc and the Grand Final will be on Saturday evening. http://www.nyheterna.net/sporten/speedway_sm_i_maalilla_igen

yep that is correct. Ty won the 2010 edition of Vargarna Riders Championship. http://www.laget.se/vargarnaspeedway/3884-nyhetsarkiv-do-1-item-81219.html

Ty Proctor have signed with Allsvenskan team Avantia Speedway. http://www.nt.se/sport/artikel.aspx?ArticleID=6637342

Svemo have extended Hammarby's team manager Fredrik Edberg's suspension by another two years for ignoring the previous 10 month suspension. http://folket.se/sportfolket/speedway/1.949345 http://www.eurosport.se/speedway/ledare-stangs-av-i-tva-ar_sto2657403/story.shtml

Vargarnas Allsvenskan team Avantaia Speedway have signed Thomas Carlsson as Team manager and Torbjörn Håkanssonas deputy-team manager. Avantia have also signed 17 year old Polish rider Szymon Wozniak.

Ikaros Smederna's Robert Henderson have decided to leave Ikaros Smederna since he wants to focus on ice racing. http://ekuriren.se/sport/speedway/1.935291-henderson-byter-bana

Hotel Lorensberg is also a nice Hotel, http://www.hotel-lorensberg.se/index_eng.php http://kartor.eniro.se/m/IzK8J

it depends on your budget. here are some nice hotels. The tinyurl links are to hotel info at hotels.com but i would recommend to book directly via the hotel websites. Hotel Odin http://www.hotelodin.se/ http://tinyurl.com/6ht6ch9 Hotel Poseidon http://www.hotelposeidon.com/en/ http://tinyurl.com/6eungy6 Grand Hotel Opera http://www.grandhote...e/uk/start.aspx http://tinyurl.com/6fun6gx

former Team Bikab and Dackarna manager Jerker Eriksson have accepted the offer to be Valsarnas new Team Manager, http://folket.se/sportfolket/1.923706

Smederna says that they are interested in signing Daniel King if Birmingham's fixtures will allow it. http://folket.se/sportfolket/speedway/1.920813

Västervik have managed to sell the name rights to their track. The new name of the track is Stena Arena. Named after the Stena Group. http://www.nyheterna.net/sporten/nytt_namn_foer_speedwayarena

AS said in first post. In 2011 its mandatory with two Swedish riders in the 7 rider lineup for Elitserien of which one have to be a Swedish U21 rider and that rider. In Allsvenskan there have to be minimum 3 Swedish licensed riders in Allsvenskan lineups one of them has to be a Swedish U21 rider. The u21 riders can only be replaced once per meeting which means that they have minimum three rides/meeting.

A company called Avantia have bought the name right to Vargarna's Allsvenskan team Ulvarna. Ulvarna will therefore change name to Avantia Speedway. http://www.nt.se/sport/artikel.aspx?ArticleID=6539243

Adam Shields have signed with Västervik which means that one rider in their squad have to be removed. http://www.wmsk.se/speedway/Lokala_Nyheter.aspx?id=2432

the Venue will be G&B Arena in Målilla again but currently no decisions have been taken about what weekend it will be held on. However i would guess that it will be sometine during the second half of the summer? information will be available at this website http://www.speedwaysm.se/ (it still shows info for 2010).

hmm tigrarna already have three guestriders so i think they need to put him in Tigrarnas squad and then use him as guestrider for Hammarby?

Griparna has been granted a reconstruction and elitlicense by Svemo which means that they will be allowed to participate in Allsvenskan 2011. http://www.svemo.se/ImageVault/Images/id_4610/scope_0/ImageVaultHandler.aspx

@ Jacqueline Henderson is spelled with one S

first practice at Brovallen in Avesta: