Ghostwalker

Not sure I agree with that, especially since Aspgren almost qualified this year and we've seen Ljung, Smolinski, Zetterström, Harris and Cook qualify previous years so just because someone has a good day I wouldn't say that it automatically makes them top 15 in the world. A one off meeting also depends on which track it is held at. Different tracks suits different riders. Some tracks suits gaters and some tracks suits racers. IMO there isn't such as a thing as the best 15 in the world. Bartosz, Emil Leon and Tai are a little group of their own in the top. LIndgren, Dudek, Janowski, Vaculik, Janowski, Doyle, Greg and Laguta brothers are in a group behind the top 4. Then there is a large group of riders that are of similar capacity and sometimes some of them might be in the second group and some of them might sometimes be in "group 4". As for Greg he is nowaday IMO, like Hampel, to reliant on his gating and does well when he first from the tapes but not so well when he doesn't gate. Just for the record here is top 15 from Swedish Elitserien (Emil and Leon and Zagar didn''t ride in Elitserien 2019): http://old.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Elitserien2019/Snittlista/ 1. Bartosz Zmarzlik 2. Artem Laguta 3. Tai Woffinden 4. Mikkel Michelsen 5. Maciej Janowski 6. Nicki Pedersen 7. Fredrik Lindgren 8. Maksym Drabik 9. Chris Holder 10. Jason Doyle 11. Dominik Kubera 12. Gleb Chugunov 13. Niels-Kristian Iversen 14. Piotr Pawlicki 15. Jack Holder

Who are the best riders in the world and how do you know that they are the 15 best in the world? How do you do when you decide who the best in the world are?

Laguta, Tai, Lambert and Michelsen would be my picks.

This thread is very old (first post is actually 8 years old) but content is changed from year to year instead of making a new thread every year.

Well is there really a need for two threads about the same thing?

I will try to keep things updated in this thread. I am not sure if it is correct but according to Speedwatpodden new signings (not extensions) aren't allowed to be presented until 15 October (if I heard it correctly). So I'll probably wait a little and do a larger updater once more riders have been presented.

Kim Nilsson extended his contract with Masarna.

Russia have a domestic league but I don't think Slovakia (Vaculik) and Slovenia (Zagar) do.

Gleb Chugnov explains the secret behind his success.

Yep I knew it. Michelsen the new Europeans champion!

A run off it is then. Michelsen will win it I think.

Highlights from the finals: https://www.elitspeedway.com/play/video/Highlights_Eskilstuna_Smederna_Dackarna_-27566?provider=staylive&autoplay=1 https://www.elitspeedway.com/play/video/Highlights_Dackarna_Eskilstuna_Smederna-27629?provider=staylive&autoplay=1

This was also Dackarna's third final loss in the past 4 seasons (2016, 2018 and 2019).

Lindgren have confirmed Poland/GP only.

Fredrik Lindgren have confirmed that he won't ride at all in Sweden next season because there are too much travel and he think that it affects his chances of being world champion negatively. Jack Holder stays with Västervik.

I don't know. He crashed in Poland the past Sunday and was supposed to have injured his shoulder and back. Perhaps nothing major but till enough to keep him away from racing for a little while.

I think you remembering it wrong. in 2018 the first meeting at Eskilstuna was postponed due to rain. Smederna won by 2p in Målilla and then crushed Dackarna at home on Smedstadion the week after. https://ta.svemo.se/Public/Pages/Competition/DrivingSchedule/CompetitionHeatSchema.aspx?Branch=speedway&Season=2018&Resultfilter=APPROVED&Columns=FromDateShort,Name,HeatSchema,HeatResult&pagesize=20&CompetitionId=9615 https://ta.svemo.se/Public/Pages/Competition/DrivingSchedule/CompetitionHeatSchema.aspx?Branch=speedway&Season=2018&Resultfilter=APPROVED&Columns=FromDateShort,Name,HeatSchema,HeatResult&pagesize=20&CompetitionId=9616

Also a big thanks to @racers and royals for being my stand in this season.

A video I made after the gold in 2017, perhaps I need to do an updated version. I also read on social media that there were fans from Wimbledon present at the celebrations. They had travelled here from London and Kent.

We'll see if he will be fit. Had to give the Swedish finals a miss due to injury. Gleb Chugonov would have been an interesting chouice but he is Russian so that wasn't going to happen anyway.

Tai have also declared that he won't ride in Sweden next season. Supposedly it is the extra meetings on Thursdays that they don't like. Too much extra travelling.

Oscar Fajfer stays at Masarna.

Chugonov recently signed with Smederna for another season and I also think that MJJ will stay. Possible Lebedevs and Aspgren will stay too. Pawlicki and Miedzinski are probably uncertain at the moment depending on the average situation.

Officially he was quite unhappy with the current club board, how they treated the fans and etc. If that is the real reason or not I don't know. It has been rumoured that he won't ride in Sweden at all, not sure that is allowed though if he wants to use a Swedish license. I haven't checked the rules yet but previous years racing in the Swedish league system was mandatory.,

Lindgren confirmed that he won't ride for Smederna next season.