Ghostwalker

That is my impression of the situation as well. Doyle tried to switch to the inside but had too small margins and hit Lambert's back wheel. Lambert was in no way in fault of the situation.

Freddie's issues is the gating. He still rides fast but the gating really dropped the last month or so.

Imo it was the right call.

The referee decision is just the good old monster preference.

Ljung as a wild card is a complete joke. Berntzon would have been the obvious choice since he so far is having a good season, especially at his hometrack in Målilla. Ljung haven't shown anything that warrants a wild card. IMO it's really boring when old has-beens like Jonsson and Ljung are given the wild card.

Fredrik Jacobsen to Dackarna. http://se.aktuellspeedway.eu/2018/07/20/jakobsen-tillbaka-i-elitserien/

Gomolski moves to Indianerna where he replaces Bjarne Pedersen. http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/gomolski-klar-for-ny-klubb/

Valsarna's meeting tonight have been postponed due to the ongoing heatwave/drought. Hagfors municipality have put out a ban against watering. Valsarna therefore have to postpone tonight's meeting since they now cannot water the track. http://se.aktuellspeedway.eu/2018/07/19/vattenbrist-tvingar-valsarna-skjuta-upp-nasta-match/ Tai Woffinden will leave Masarna in the transfer window. I doubt he will find a new team though because the other teams neither can afford him or have space for him. http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/bomben-woffinden-lamnar-masarna/ Kacper Gomolski will also leave Dackarna and have signed with a new team but it is not known which team. http://www.dagenshultsfred.se/sport/speedway/e/24571/avslojar-han-lamnar-dackarna-dansk-kan-ersatta/ --

Officially he was "injured" and couldn't ride in the nomination heats.

Full standings: http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Elitserien2018/Serietabell/

Yeah, he should have been the wild card at Målilla instead of Ljung. Ljung is an abysmal choice.

If Dackarna wins the meeting and the bonus, we will have three teams on 16 points. Smederna, Rospiggarna and Dackarna. Smederna will still be on top due to better points quota.

They're doing Västervik tonight so I don't think they'll choose it again in two weeks again.

Well, I wouldn't say it was big. It was only 2632. Dackarna had just below 6000 and Smederna about 4500.

Smederna won with 54-36

Big hammer time! Smederna 16p up with only the nominations to go. I would choose Lindgren and Aspgren in heat 14 with Iversen and MJJ in heat 15. ForRospiggarna I would choose Fricke and AJ in heat 14 with Doyle and Lambert in heat 15. This victory means Smederna is back on top of the standings.

Smederna are in command after 10 heats. Except for a 1-5 in heat 9 Smederna have looked pretty good. 12 points up with 5 heats to go. Track also looks better than last week but still not great though. Attendance is 4473.

Smederna - Rospiggarna will have a delay after 7 heats due to problems with the start gate operation box in the referee tower. Meeting will resume once it has been replaced.

Everyone except Mlilk.

Round 10 preliminary line-ups Vetlanda - Dackarna Vetlanda 1. Artem Laguta 2. Tomas H Jonasson 3. Leon Madsen 4. Bradu Kurtz 5. Bartosz Zmarzlik (K) 6. Filip Hjelmland 7. Robert Miskowiak Dackarna 1. Greg Hancock 2. Pawel Przedpelski 3. Patryk Dudek 4. Oliver Berntzon 5. Maciej Janowski (K) 6. Joel Kling 7. Hans Andersen Västervik - Lejonen #Focus meting Västervik 1. Nicki Pedersen 2. Bartosz Smektala 3. Peter Ljung 4. Mikkel Bech 5. Peter Kildemand 6. Grzegorz Zengota 7. Anton Karlsson Lejonen 1. Jaroslaw Hampel 2. Rohan Tungate 3. Chris Holder 4. Maksym Drabik 5. Piotr Pawlicki 6. Kenny Wennerstam 7. Timo Lahti Rospiggarna - Eskilstuna Smederna Rospiggarna* 1. Jason Doyle 2. Max Fricke 3. Robert Lambert 4. Jacob Thorssell 5. Andreas Jonsson 6. Kenneth Hansen 7. Samuel Masters Lagledare: Mikael Teurnberg Eskilstuna Smederna 1. Fredrik Lindgren 2. Pontus Aspgren 3. Michael Jepsen Jensen 4. Krzysztof Buczkowski 5. Niels Kristian Iversen 6. Linus Eklöf 7. Mikkel Michelsen Masarna - Kumla Indianerna Masarna 1. Linus Sundström 2. Kim Nilsson 3. Tai Woffinden 4. Artur Czaja 5. Antonio Lindbäck 6. Joel Andersson 7. Emil Millberg Kumla Indianerna 1. Kenneth Bjerre 2. Piotr Protasiewicz 3. Ludvig Lindgren 4. Anders Thomsen 5. Vaclav Milik 6. Christoffer Selvin 7. Adrian Miedzinski

For the first time ever or at least the first time in long time (I can't remember it happening before) there are scheduled back-to-back rounds in Elitserien. There have been postponed meetings before that have been held the day before/after (or even on the same day) as a scheduled meeting and there have obviously been post-season meetings two days in a row but not scheduled league meetings. Round 9 and 10 is the same teams meeting each other on both nights. R9: Dackarna – Vetlanda Lejonen – Västervik Eskilstuna Smederna – Rospiggarna Kumla Indianerna - Masarna R10: Vetlanda - Dackarna Västervik - Lejonen Rospiggarna - Eskilstuna Smederna Masarna – Kumla Indianerna Round 9 Preliminary line-ups: Dackarna – Vetlanda #Focus meting Dackarna 1. Greg Hancock 2. Pawel Przedpelski 3. Oliver Berntzon 4. Patryk Dudek 5. Maciej Janowski 6. Hans Andersen 7. Joel Kling Vetlanda 1. Artem Laguta 2. Tomas H Jonasson 3. Leon Madsen 4. Brady Kurtz 5. Bartosz Zmarzlik 6. Robert Miskowiak 7. Filip Hjelmland Lejonen – Västervik Lejonen 1. Chris Holder 2. Maksym Drabik 3. Jaroslaw Hampel 4. Rohan Tungate 5. Piotr Pawlicki 6. Timo Lahti 7. Viktor Bergström Västervik 1. Nicki Pedersen 2. Mikkel Bech 3. Peter Ljung 4. Bartosz Smektala 5. Peter Kildermand 6. Anton Karlsson 7. Grzegorz Zengota Eskilstuna Smederna – Rospiggarna Eskilstuna Smederna 1. Fredrik Lindgren 2. Pontus Aspgren 3. Michael Jepsen Jensen 4. Krzysztof Buczkowski 5. Niels Kristian Iversen 6. Mikkel Michelsen 7. Linus Eklöf Rospiggarna 1. Jason Doyle 2. Max Fricke 3. Robert Lambert 4. Jacob Thorssell 5. Andreas Jonsson 6. Kenneth Hansen 7. Samuel Masters Kumla Indianerna - Masarna Kumla Indianerna 1. Vaclav Milik 2. Victor Palovaara 3. Piotr Protasiewicz 4. Kenneth Bjerre 5. Anders Thomsen 6. Christoffer Selvin 7. Adrian Miedzinski Masarna 1. Linus Sundström 2. Kim Nilsson 3. Tai Woffinden 4. Artur Czaja 5. Antonio Lindbäck 6. Emil Millberg 7. Joel Andersson Live streaming 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 Weather forceasts Tuesday : Smw-Ros Hot (>30 degrees Celsius) and sunny/partially sunny-cloudy Dack - Vet overcast but warm Lej - VVK overcast but warm Ind-Mas Hot (>25 degrees C) and partially sunny-cloudy Wednesday: Ros-Sme cloudy but warm Vet-Dack thunder showers/rain/clody but warm Vvk-Lej overcast but warm (<25 C) Mas-Ind overcast but warm (>25 C) Smederna and Indianerna tracks might suffer quite allot from the very hot (>25-30 degrees C) the past week(s). Smederna's track was exposed to a very intense rainfall for about 1 hours on the past Saturday. Once the rain stopped the track was back to super dry after less then 30 minutes so.... For the focus meetings, both meetings should provide excellent racing if the outside factors (weather and etc) cooperates.

Ticket prices for the Swedish championship: http://www.speedwaysm.se/sv/biljetter/

Results qualification event for Swedish championship youth (85cc) final. 1. Sammy Van Dyck – 14 (3,3,3,3,2) 2. Edwin Pohjanthähti – 14 (3,3,2,3,3) 3. Ludvig Hamrin – 13 (2,3,3,2,3) 4. Ricky Woss – 12 (2,2,2,3,3) 5. Isak Lundquist – 9 (FX,3,1,3,2) 6. Sofia Zöges Löfberg – 9 (3,2,0,2,2) 7. Liam Olsson Andersson – 8 (1,0,3,1,3) 8. Anton Jansson – 7+3 (3,1,0,2,1) — 9. Alexandra Svensson – 7+2 (2,1,2,1,1) 10. Theo Bergkvist – 6 (2,0,3,0,1) — 11. Ella Pettersson – 5 (0,1,1,2,1) 12. Dante Johansson – 4 (0,2,1,1,0) 13. Eddie Bock – 4 (X,2,R,0,2) 14. Sebastian Öhman – 3 (TT,1,2,0,0) 15. Oskar Larsson – 2 (1,0,FX,1,0) 16. Sebastian Glimfjäll Johansson – 1 (X,F,1,0,0) http://eskilstunasmederna.se/usm-kval-tre-smeder-till-final/

For Sweden, Smederna's Alexander Woentin have pulled out and is replaced by William Björling. Woentin injured his collarbone during the Euro U19 pairs in Zarnovica. http://se.aktuellspeedway.eu/2018/07/13/u21-skada-stoppar-woentin-i-lag-vm/

Smederna released a press release today saying that Barncancerfonden (the Swedish Childhood Cancer Fund) have been given the arrangement partnership for the Swedish individual championship finals in August. BCF will be given exposure in the meeting program, on the big screen and in Smederna's social media. After the finals the rider vests will be up for auction and 50% of the earnings will be donated to BCF. Smederna will also launch a fundraiser on their Facebook page. http://eskilstunasmederna.se/barncancerfonden-tilldelas-partnerskap-under-sm-helgen/