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Mikkel Michelsen injury update. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bj7PA4YFswuCXjFt6TdZS1B7zgWTyWO0vZDU8s0/

Swedish speedway news website speedwaynyheter.se have announced that they will do some sort of webb-tv and the première will be tomorrow.

Attendance tonight Smederna - Västervik 4758 Lejonen-Vetlanda 2580 Dackarna-Masarna 2940 Indianerna - Rospiggarna ? Standings after 5 rounds: http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Elitserien2018/Serietabell/ Smederna, 4 wins, 1 draw 9p Dackarna, 3 wins, 2 losses, 6p Rospiggarna, 3 wins, 2 losses 6p Indianerna, 3 wins, 2 losses 6p Vetlanda, 1 win, 2 draws, 2 losses, 4p Västervik, 2 wins, 3 losses, 4p Lejonen, 1 win, 1 draw, 3 losses, 3p Masarna, 1 win, 4 losses, 2p Next round (19 June) Västervik-Eskilstuna Smederna (30-60) Vetlanda-Lejonen (45-45) Masarna-Dackarna (34 - 56) Rospiggarna-Indianerna (43-47)

50 heats on the same track in one day sounds a bit much imo and then there is the risk off rain off. If I could choose I'd do OneSport's Best Pairs as a Pairs world championship with national teams in 3 events on different tracks. I wouldn't mind having semi-finals and finals in all three events but they should. like in the SGP, only count for the points. Then have a proper SWC sometime in June/July/August.

4758 at Smedstadion tonight. Col, as I said earlier the Gislaved track is usually very poor.

Smederna have had large crowds so far this season. Some of the teams have had slightly less i think, not sure though.

I am at the track,, looks like a decent crowd again, it is probably somewhere between 4000-5000.

IMO there is no need to waste a wild card on Hampel but I am all for a wild card each to Lambert and Milik.

Elitserien starts on the first or second Tuesday in May. I also don't think there is room for Best Pairs, SON, SGP, SEC and SWC. I would personally promote best pairs to a world championship and let BSI stick with the regular SWC formula with 4 rider teams. There is neither need or room for 3 team events each season.

Such a shame. Gislaved is an awful track. RR is right though it did say Dackarna - Masarna at first but I do think this will be closer in terms of score.

Smederna have announced that Mikkel Michelsen will be replaced by Pontus Aspgren.

Good, I knew you would know.

Preliminary line-ups for Tuesday's round 4. Meetings starts at 19.00 CEST (6pm BST ). I don't know which meeting will be shown on Premiersports but hopefully RR or Dave knows. *edit RR says it's Dackarna v Masarna . *edit 2, it has been changed to Lejonen - Vetlanda Dackarna - Masarna Dackarna Greg Hancock Hans Andersen Oliver Berntzon Patryk Dudek Maciej Janowski Joel Kling Pawel Przedpelski Masarna Antonio Lindbäck Kim Nilsson Tai Woffinden Linus Sundström Przemyslaw Pawlicki Emil Millberg Adrian Cyfer Lejonen - Vetlanda Lejonen Piotr Pawlicki Maksym Drabik Jarek Hampel Chris Holder Timo Lahti Rohan Tungate Viktor Bergström Vetlanda Artem Laguta Szymon Wozniak Tomas H Jonasson Brady Kurtz Bartosz Zmarzlik Filip Hjelmland Robert Miskowiak Eskilstuna Smederna - Västervik Eskilstuna Smederna Fredrik Lindgren Krzysztof Buczkowski Michael Jepsen Jensen Mikkel Michelsen* Pontus Aspgren Niels Kristian Iversen Andzejs Lebedevs Alexander Woentin Västervik Peter Ljung Grzegorz Zengota Matej Zagar Mikkel Bech Peter Kildemand Bartosz Smektala Daniel Henderson *Michelsen dislocated his shoulder in Poland today and will not ride. Smederna have not decided yet what they will do. Pontus Aspgren have been given all clear by the doctors to resume riding and he will do a test tomorrow. Smederna will wait until after Pontus' test to decide on what they will do. If Pontus' test goes fine I think he will ride on Tuesday oherwise I think they will use R/R (Buczek, Lebedevs & Woentin one of the last two can be used twice). Edit* update 11 June. Smederna have confirmed that Pontus Aspgren will replace Michelsen. Indianerna - Rospiggarna Indianerna Vaclav Milik Kenneth Bjerre Piotr Protasiewicz Ludvig Lindgren Anders Thomsen Victor Palovaara Bjarne Pedersen Rospiggarna Jason Doyle Samuel Masters Robert Lambert Jacob Thorssell Andreas Jonsson Max Fricke Tero Aarnio 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) Heat schedule : http://www.svemo.se/ImageVaultFiles/id_14025/cf_44/K-rschema_2-15.PDF

Does anyone know which team Lebedevs moved to?

Smederna will do a FB live broadcased q & a with team manager Stefan Jarl at 20.40 CEST (10 minutes from now). https://www.facebook.com/eskilstunasmederna/videos/1741256792634468/?hc_ref=ART-0-wf9_fXNA4e3ptALIYiGDNEMuZgZvHHruTg0J1GEieWE_zBE73E2ex_378xW0M

Michelsen with a shoulder injury but Iversen is back and seems to do well.

It has been mentioned that Cook had a warning and that it would be risky to use him because of that.

The difference is that in SWC 3 out of 4 teams in each semi are pretty good (if you would remove seeding); Swe, GB, DK, Pol, Rus & Aus. These teams primarily fight for first place to avoid race-off and there are usually quite tight results.

Vetlanda replaces Rasmus Jensen with Robert Miskowiak. http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/vetlanda-gor-forandring-i-truppen/

Hougaard have been signed by Västervik as a replacement for Maksim Bogdanovs who is injured. http://se.aktuellspeedway.eu/2018/06/05/hougaard-till-vastervik/

Smederna's track has been equipped with a 35m long LED sign on the inner field.

Some transfer rumours based on this article. Smederna, Indianerna and Rospiggarna will not make any changes. Dackarna might have to replace Gomolski since he is rumoured to want to leave. Joel Andersson at Masarna might be available. Vetlanda might not make any changes unless a special riders becomes available (Emil?) they might also be interested in acquiring a rider from another team. Lejonen will put Hampel into the team, it's unknown who they'll kick out, possibly Frederik Jakobsen. Masarna unknown. They might let go of one of their expensive riders since they said before the season that the sponsorship income was lower the needed for this season. Västervik, unknown if they will keep Nicki or if they replace him with Zagar.

I don't think there is a lack of tracks but lack of clubs being able to pay the fees that BSI demands. I know Smederna were interested in hosting a SWC event because Smederna's club president said so to the local newspaper last summer.

All heats can be found here: http://eskilstunasmederna.se/tv-ungdomsmatch-och-intervju-med-lagledare-lundqvist/