Ghostwalker

Two news: 1. Valsarna have decided (perhaps a bit surprisingly) to give Elitserien another go. Valsarna have managed to lower their debts with half (approx 400'00SEK~ £36'000GBP). Despite that they still have 500'000SEK (~£45'00GBGP) they have decided that they goal is to be in Elitserien next season. source. IMO its not a wise decision, the problem is not the debts itself but the reason to why they have the debts in first place which is due to the lack of specator and sponsor interest in Hagfors town and in the province of Värmland. 2. Indianernas Russian rider Renat Gafurov have decided not to ride for Indianerna in Indianerna's reaming quarterfinal. Renat have a meeting in Russian in the day after but Indianerna have found a connection that would work (a quite expensive one though). Apparently Indianerna tried to negotiate with Renat to see if he could agree on a slightly less paylevel due to the expensive plane ticket. Renat replied with that he now wanted a pay level five times higher then contracted. source.

nr 7 for Gnistorna is Daniel Gunnestad (Ikaros Smederna) nr 6 for Team Värmland Donald Jensen (Indianerna Junior) http://www.speedway.nu/2010/VisaNY.asp?div1.JD

two highest scorer goes to heat 16 and then the team manager can nominate two riders of his choice for heat 15. In case two or more riders end up on the same amount of points the team manager can choose who goes to heat 15 and 16. Also reserves are allowed in heat 15 but not heat 16. However reserves are only allowed to ride 6 heats which opens up for different tactics. Either do what Lejonen did y-day and use up all the 6 heats before the nominations or save one heat and use the reserve(s) in the nominations.

actually i've heard the direct opposite that Britain in general are more expensive to live in then in Sweden.

Hot Dogs, hamburgers, coffee... yes, but beer no. Itss not allowed to sell beer anyhow you wish. Some sort of restaurant kitchen is needed to be able to sell beer or any other alcohol i think.

I don't think Piraterna will manage to win the title especially not without Jonas Davidsson. I'd reckon that Vetlanda and Lejonen har the primary contenders with Dackarna as 3rd and Piraterna as 4th.

JSM is on Friday and SM+USM is on Saturday. Jonas Davidsson is listed as a participant but he will not ride and his place will be taken by Robin Törnqvist. It is held at G&B arena in Målilla which is Dackarnas hometrack. For more info see : http://www.speedwaysm.se/ it will NOT be shown on Canal+ so i doubt that there will be any streams from it.

http://speedwaylive.eu/volne-zavody/praha/memorial-lubose-tomicka/2010-09-06/

satellit picture: http://www.dmi.dk/dmi/index/danmark/satellit.htm http://www.smhi.se/vadret/nederbord-molnighet/satellit-norden-rgb radar picture http://www.smhi.se/vadret/nederbord-molnighet/norden according to the radar it doesnt look like it has rained in Vojens since this morning.

According to Ekstrabladet, Nicki is guaranteed a wild card next season if he does not make the top 8. http://ekstrabladet.dk/sport/anden_sport/motorsport/speedway/article1408184.ece

live updates from Vargarna Riders Championship: http://www.aktuellspeedway.se/liveupdate/0_1_Live_I-20-16.php?id=5&liveid=5

latest weather forecast: http://www.dmi.dk/dmi/index/danmark/regionaludsigten/ssjylland.htm http://www.yr.no/sted/Danmark/Syddanmark/Vojens/helg.html

start list Vargarna Riders Championship 2010: Friday September 10th, 18.00 (5pm UK time) at Kråkvilan, Norrköping. Adam Skornicki Vargarna Andreas Westlund Masarna Oliver "Vispen" Berntzon Lejonen Timo Lahti Finland Ty Proctor Australia Victor Bergström Vargarna Mikkel b Jensen Denmark Andre Hertzberg Vargarna Joe Hains Great Britain Simon Gustafsson Indianerna Robert Henderson Ikaros Smederna Victor Palovara Sollkatterna Rasmus Eklöf Ikaros Smederna Daniel Gunnestad Ikaros Smederna / Norway Henka Gustafsson Solkatterna Kasper Lykke Denmark

live updates from Avesta MASters: http://www.masarna.nu/resultat.cgi?id=21370 riders: 1. Eric Andersson 2. Pontus Aspgren 3. Andreas Bergström 4. Timo Lahti 5. Alexander Söderholm 6. Robin Törnqvist 7. Linus Sundström 8. Maksim Bogdanov 9. Anton Rosen 10. Leigh Adams 11. Joel Nyström 12. Andreas Westlund 13. Andreas Messing 14. Alexander Liljekvist 15. Antonio Lindbäck 16. Andreijs Lebedevs

i just read that Tony Rickardsson will be attending in this meeting but not riding it seems (except for a few demo laps).

pretty decent weather forecasts for Saturday; http://www.smhi.se/vadret/vadret-i-varlden/ortsvader/fiveDaysForecast.do?geonameid=2610075&redirect=false http://www.yr.no/sted/Danmark/Syddanmark/Vojens/helg.html http://www.klart.se/v%C3%A4der-vojens-kommun.html

yes that is correct. He have also ridden 8 meetings for Örnarna in Allsvenskan as Örnarna is Lejonen's partner team.

true but a three man team won't win any meetings. Pepe, Zorro and Walasek rode way to poorly. They scored 5p together from 12 rides. However Elit Vetlanda looks very very strong. And i think it will be very hard to stop them. Now Elit Vetlanda will race Lejonen at home next week and i think that Vetlanda will win that one too which means that Lejonen will have Indianerna the week after that at Lejonen's track which i predict that Lejonen will win.

so tell me you dont have evenings and night skies in America or what?

not really when you look at the status of their Riders, Lindgren out, PK injured, Hans injured, Ricky Kling not Elitserien material. Howver 2 0's for Holta is quite shocking. Dackarna is harvesting the fruits of their type of team building. When you have a team like their were they put all the eggs in the same basket this is what happens if one or two riders doesn't ride or doesn't deliver. They don't have any other riders to put in now when Hans/Lindgren are injured.

Eklöf replaces Gafurov. live links: Indianerna - Elit Vetlanda http://www.speedway.nu/2010/reportNY.asp?ElitF.CB Dackarna - Piraterna http://www.speedway.nu/2010/reportNY.asp?ElitF.AE

yes

they will use R/R for Davidsson. So all of the 6 others can take one ride each from JDs 4 scheduled heat.

yes its beeing discussed here http://www.speedway-...dpost&p=1788113

i really hope Svemo can see now that there is a need for Allsvenskan. as you mentioned Solkatterna have had huge problems this season and i don't know hat will happen with Valsarna or Västervik in Elitserien. Both Valsarna and Västervik have or have had financial problems this season so they are bot quite uncertain. Then today news were released that Piraterna have to take huge loans to pay for their expenses. From Div1 Smederna have already decided to be in Allsvenskan next season i don't know about Gnistorna i hope that they will follow Smederna to Allsvenskan. The difference between Smederna and Gnistorna is that while Smederna have used their own riders Gnistorna have shared several of their riders with Örnarna and Lejonen. Since Svemo want to remove the partner team system and replace it with an individual guest rider system i think that Gnistorna might have some problems with finding enough riders. Both Hammarby and Örnarna have expressed there wish/aim to be in Elitserien. So a possible (if its likely or not i don't know) scenario is that Valsarna and Västervik are demoted while Hammrby and Örnarna are promoted. Its starting to become quite a rush now for Svemo to take a decision about next seasons league system since all teams entry notifications have to be ready at November 1st instead of December 31st as it have been earlier. I think that is one of the worst decisions Svemo has taken the past years because it will leave to little amount of times for teams to find sponsors and riders they should rather have put it somewhere in the late winter like the end of February or something like that Then i would like to see: That they kept the current series system with automatically promotion and demotion between all three league with promotion being dependent on fianaces. That they lowered that average cap to 40.00 and added a total cap for the entire squad that should be at maybe 50.00 That they changed the rules for how averages work.Currently teams like Vetlanda can put riders like THJ in a Div1/Allsvenskan team to have that rider lower his average to get a lower Elitserien average. All division averages should only be based on the riders performances in that particular division regardless in which division the riders is registered in. Standardized contracts and salaries. Meaning that a riders salaries is based upon a coefficient at Svemo. Like Svemo would decided about a base value for riders with an average of 2.00 and then calculate the other riders salaries with a simple formula like (y * x = z) where y is the average, x is the value and z is the points money. I don't know if it would work but at least that would mean that clubs could stop the bidding every year and some of the best riders would have to find a new team meaning that the series would hopefully be a bit more even.