Ghostwalker

Raining in Västervik.

Utterly pathetic by Smederna so far. Michelsen have R R 1 so far, Aspgren is R R, Iversen 1+1... front wheel lifts in 5-1 position which turns into 2-4.... This is the 3rd straight meet were we are struggling and struck by bad luck. Things are looking better now, we are back at equal after 10 heats. Lindgren had a really beauty of a pass on Milik in heat 10.

I'm leaving for the track in a few minutes, hold your thumbs for no more rain.

Official cause of death was a blood clot in his leg. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/speedway/verdict-diamonds-ace-matej-ferjans-1400766

@racers and royals started a thread about two hours ago:

Weather update. A rain system is moving up over the country and the three meetings in Småland will probably go ahead as planned. The meeting at Eskilstuna is a bit uncertain though since the rain system just have reached us here.

Round 13 Preliminary line-ups: All meetings are planned to start at 19.00 Swedish time. Lejonen (36) - Dackarna (54) #televised Lejonen Jaroslaw Hampel Rohan Tungate Piotr Pawlicki Chris Holder Maksym Drabik Timo Lahti Kenny Wennerstam Dackarna Greg Hancock Pawel Przedpelski Patryk Dudek Oliver Berntzon Maciej Janowski Joel Kling Hans Andersen Vetlanda (35) - Rospiggarna (54) Vetlanda Artem Laguta Brady Kurtz Leon Madsen Tomas H Jonasson Bartosz Zmarzlik Magnus Karlsson Ricky Kling Rospiggarna Jason Doyle Robert Lambert Andreas Jonsson Jacob Thorssell Max Fricke Samuel Masters Tero Aarnio Eskilstuna Smederna (55) - Kumla Indianerna (35) Eskilstuna Smederna Fredrik Lindgren Mikkel Michelsen Michael Jepsen Jensen Pontus Aspgren Niels Kristian Iversen Krzysztof Buczkowski Linus Eklöf Kumla Indianerna Tai Woffinden Kacper Gomolski Piotr Protasiewicz Anders Thomsen Vaclav Milik Jonatan Grahn Victor Palovaara Västervik - Masarna Västervik Nicki Pedersen Bartosz Smektala Martin Vaculik Peter Kildemand Peter Ljung Mikkel Bech Anton Karlsson Masarna Kim Nilsson Artur Czaja Antonio Lindbäck Joel Andersson Linus Sundström Emil Millberg Jesper Persson Weather forecasts looks really bad for Vetlanda and Västervik tracks, allot of rain expected on both tracks. Gislaved (Lejonen) is expected to get some rain during the day but it should stop before the meeting. Eskilstuna is expected to have overcast but no rain. With 2 rounds to go the standings are: Dackarna 22 points and 1.2085 quota points. (won points divided by lost points) Smederna 20 points - 1.1906 Rospiggarna 19 points - 1.1580 Vetlanda 18 points - 1.0710 Indianerna 11 points - 0.8625 Lejonen 10 points - 0.9411 Västervik 10 points - 0.8588 Masarna 3 points 0.7893 Final round Masarna-Vetlanda Indianerna-Västervik Dackarna-Eskilstuna Smederna Rospiggarna-Lejonen No word on tv-meeting but Dackarna-Smederna could be a very good meeting but so could Indianerna-Västervik be. Line-ups courtesy of www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Elitserien2018/ Live streaming (pay per view) at: https://www.speedwayplay.com/elitspeedway Live results as always at http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/ http://www.elitspeedway.com/liveresultat/ https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/live/zuzel/elitserien Elitserien can also be followed at https://sverigesradio.se/sida/gruppsida.aspx?programid=179&grupp=7514 (web radio in Swedish) Heat schedule: http://www.svemo.se/ImageVaultFiles/id_14025/cf_44/K-rschema_2-15.PDF

Woentin also crashed in Avesta a week ago and got hit by a foot rest in his head. I'd say Woentin is doubtful too.

Filip Hjelmland won't be riding. He is out for the rest of the season due to injury.

I think you misread his post. What Al said was that Cook together with Pawlicki and Holder would be the three riders from this season that would not ride in next years Speedway GP season.

There is a reason to why substances are banned. Some improve the person's stamina/strength and etc. Others affect the person's mind/perception in in a negative way meaning that one shouldn't operate motor vehicles or heavy machinery while taking those substances. Alcohol is one example on the latter, some medicines also have this effect. If he is taking such pain killers he should absolutely not be riding a speedway bike against other rider because he would be a danger to himself and others.

The track is not really called Gröndal though even if some people call it like that. The track name is Eskilstuna motorstadion or Smedstadion. Gröndals motorsportområde is a combined designation for all of the tracks at Gröndal/Eskilstuna motorstadion.

Lindbäck already qualified and I think Lindgren is pretty safe for top 8 unless injury which is the Swedes sorted. For Denmark, we have a qualified rider in Iversen. As for Nicki, I'd think that he would be considered for a wild card if he finishes 9th but not if he finishes 10th or worse. It depends on how much FIM/BSI feel that they need two danes. I personally hope that Nicki finished top 8 but I don't think he will. Both Nicki and Greg received wild cards for this season and I am not fond of giving out wild cards to the same riders two years in a row.

I expect Greg to manage a top 8 but if he doesn't then it has to be it.

It's located north of Eskilstuna along the road (Riksväg 56) to Västerås. https://goo.gl/maps/ojtwrjF9Yw42

I have been there once, quite many years ago. You will find wooden benches on all tracks although Smederna's track have a grandstand along the start/finish straight with foldable plastic seats as well as another roofed grandstand (with wooden benches). Sannahed also has a small grandstand with foldable plastic seats.

Lack of interest from other tracks AND that Målilla MK / Dackarna do a good job with organizing it.

Start time delayed by 30 min at the moment.

You can follow the rain that is approaching on the link below, enter Målilla where it says "sök ort" and click the magnifying glass. https://www.smhi.se/vadret/nederbord-molnighet/radar-blixt#colorblind=false,layerselected=5min

looks better now. As for as I know Dackarna are able to cover the track so I think it will be alright.

I don't know about the level of the 250cc class but Philip Hellström Bängs but he has been very successful in the 250cc class. He is also only 15 years old (born 2003).

So has Berntzon and Berntzon (2nd) was ahead of Ljung (3rd) last Saturday in the Swedish CH final. My opinion is that wild card should be given to up and coming riders and not riders like Ljung who have passed zenit already, especially when the younger rider is having a good season like Berntzon is having.

It is a logiocal choice but I am not sure that he would be a good team manager. He is isn't exactly know to be a "mr fire in the eyes" type of guy but rather the opposite. Is he a guy that could lift a team when being 6-8 points down? I think he might be more suitable as sports director or something like that because he seems like nice guy and quite likely have good connections with other riders.

Rospiggarna's team manager Mikael Teurnberg have announced that he retires as team manager for Rospiggarna. He will also retires as chairman of the board and sports director. He says that he is feeling that his energy is about to run out. It is not know who his successor will be. https://www.svt.se/sport/speedway/rospiggarnas-lagledare-slutar-efter-nio-ar

Boring...