Ghostwalker

There is something very fishy about MJJ getting chance after chance despite his abysmal performance for Smederna. Last week he scored 4p from 4 rides against a quite week opposition. He have ridden every meeting despite abysmal performances while other riders have been side stepped several times. I don't get it.

Tai's biggest advantage is that he doesn't have the same pressure to win the title as Janowski, Dudek and Doyle have. Next round will be very crucial for the current top 5.

The Return, both Tony Rickardsson (5) and Ivan Mauger (6) have more titles then Greg though.

So Cigelski seems to want a rule change; All 4 back even if it is not in the first corner. https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=sv&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/707329/kontrowersje-podczas-grand-prix-polski-wraca-temat-zmiany-regulaminu&usg=ALkJrhjClgR8o76P-YCIWKfxaU7kTFBf7g I say forget it. There is enough silliness with the current all 4 backs. We don't need another one because it will end up with no rider getting excluded at all because of "racing incident, all 4 back" regardless of the situation.

Allsvenskan is mostly Swedish riders with some Danish riders and 2-3 Polish riders. A Swedish rider who signs a contract with an Allsvenskan team will have to ride in Sweden since it is written in the rules that Swedish riders racing abroad is not allowed to interfere with the rider's racing in the Swedish league system.

It was first thought that he had broken his leg but the injury wasn't as serious as first thought. IIRC, it's something with his foot.

Lebedevs have signed for two more seasons with Smederna.

There is nothing questionable about what Smederna or Indianerna did. Both clubs found a way to survive Which surely is better then folding leaving the league crippled? Both teams showed this season that they made the right choice, Smederna and Indianerna were predicted to finish last this season but Smederna have done very well and several of their losses were close defeats. Smederna also must have done something right because their attendance for the series rounds ended up on 3615 which is second best of the Elitserien teams in 2017. Smederna only had 2 meetings with less then 3000 in the attendance this season, against Dackarna which was a re-run of a postponed meeting and against Vetlanda which everyone expected a big defeat beforehand. Smederna invested some money into their stadium to this season and it resulted in a better racing quality on the track which together with the team's good results helped increase the attendance average from 2750 last season to 3615 this season. That is an increase by 30%.Surely that is better then to fold? Piraterna's problem is due to pure stupidity. I think they were on red figures before the season started and that (hey have had below 3000 on average for several seasons now before 2017) but the board and team manager somehow thought it was good idea to sign two new top riders for this season; Emil S and NK Iversen. They somehow thought that it would solve the problems with red figures. The team didn't perform as expected and the attendance fell. However Piraterna will rise again, just like Smederna, Masarna and Lejonen are back in business after previous problems. They issue isn't the money itself but that team managers and club boards are too short sighted, too much "win now" attitude and not enough long time thinking strategy. Like Piraterna deliberately side stepping Fredrik Engman to the point that he retired, Rospiggarna who deliberately brought in Timo Lahti first on a Swedish license and then on a Swedish passport to be able to use him as a token Swede. Team in general are very poor at grow their own riders and instead prefer to import talents from other countries. Valsarna have announced that they are returning to Allsvenskan next season.

Both meetings are shown live at the same time but on different channels. Smederna-Dackarna are shown on Cmore sport and Lejonen - Rospiggarna are shown live on Cmore live Smederna - Dackarna will be the focus meeting but as I said they will cut in with action from the other meetings as well when there are grading breaks and etc.

I think that is correct. IIRC, they have done so previous years. They have had one focus/main meeting and then shown some of the action from the other meeting in the main broadcast as well.

A Laguta to GKM Grudziądz‏ https://twitter.com/GKMGrudziadz/status/900741845847863297

Kim Nilsson is the wild card according to Elitspeedway.com http://www.elitspeedway.com/nyheter/e/437/ http://www.speedwaygp.com/news/article/6079/

Swe build 2018 is now available https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0iRCjlrrTG1OXA4U3d5TXlNMDg Blank race card: http://www.mediafire.com/file/03s0s7pjyh1yviz/Blank_Heat_schedule_ES.AS.pdf The spreadsheet will automatically calculate the sum of the line up towards the average cap (10.250). Each line up needs to have at least 2 Swedish riders. * after the averages means that I have checked/verified the average. Also do not manually change the contents of the cells to the right of total and remaining since that will break the autocalc function.

Statistics for the 2017 season: http://www.aktuellspeedway.se/sverige/elitserien/elitserien-statistiksammanfattning-av-grundserien-2017/

I still am of the very firm opinion that the SGP is over and out for Greg and Nicki. 1. a dane 2. Milik 3. Lebedevs 4. 9th placed rider. I still believe Lebedevs and Milik would be a better choice then Mr Gating Grin. They would add allot more to the SGP-series then a gating grin. Like overtaking (which Greg isn't very good at). But this forum is very conservative and very afraid of changes (just like BSI) so everyone wants the same riders just for the sake of it. You are way too sentimental. Let go of the old and welcome the new young guns.

The attendance league so far: http://www.aktuellspeedway.se/sverige/elitserien/publik/ https://ta.svemo.se/Public/Pages/Serie/Audience/AudienceStatistics.aspx?SerieId=992 The average attendance is 2877 which is slightly less then last season but last season provided a very good weather for almost all rounds with no rain offs for Elitserien.

A few pics of the tifo + some clips from tonights meeting: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=270733016757761&id=100014631943404&pnref=story (public post).

https://twitter.com/speedwaystarmag/status/900086663212302336 I think if Milik does good here and in the GPs after that (if he will ride there). He will be seriously considered for a wild card.

Quarter finals: Next week; Smederna - Dackarna and Lejonen - Rospiggarna. The week after: Dackarna - Smederna and Rospiggarna - Lejonen.

Heat 12 Jonsson warned for unsatisfactory start. Jumps in re-run and is excluded. Heat 12 Jonsson warned for unsatisfactory start. Jumps in re-run and is excluded. Piraterna in last place.

Matej Zagar!!!

https://imgur.com/gallery/LaXZr

True but sometimes it is because the rider they replace are injured for longer period of time like Hampel last (?) season.

I don't think Miedzinski will ride either, From what what I've read he will likely not ride more this season.

I had a look and there is no information available that suggests that Porsing is not riding. I think we can assume for the moment that Porsing is riding,