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I imagine once the new stadium at Belle Vue is finished it will get a GP.But who knows whether the track will be a good one for racing or not

Sounds promising for Niko.Hope all goes well.Track sounds bad though.Never been there to know if it is always like that,but it does sound par for the course with German tracks.Güstrow being the exception(although i have heard good things about Teterow lately)in the North.

Forgot to mention Jan.Was very good + willing to admit when he saw things wrong.Hope we get him a few more times through the season

Yeah.There was some interest in the meeting.It wasn't good,but it was far from the worst GP we have suffered in the last 4 or 5 years.And it was no worse than some of the other meetings such as EL or Polish stuff.Watched a few dreary Swedish meetings as well this week.And i thought it was Ermolenko that said it doesn't matter if it is slick or grippy at Prague it is still usually first out of the gate wins.You know what you are going to get at Prague,which is why i wouldn't bother going to a GP there

That makes more sense. I said it was a surprise last place.Good performance from the guys.And must have done Michael Palm Tofts chances of a place in the PL a lot of good if any promoters look at the scores

Result from Diedenbergen from sportowefakty Australia 63 pkt. 1. Josh Grajczonek - 14 (3,3,3,2,3) 2. Richard Sweetman - 10 (2,2,3,2,1) 3. Sam Masters - 13 (3,2,3,2,3) 4. Justin Sedgmen - 11 (2,3,0,3,3,) 5. Darcy Ward - 15 (3,3,3,3,3) 2. Dania 56 pkt. 1. Michael Jepsen Jensen - 13 (2,3,3,3,2) 2. Mikkel B. Jensen - 10 (3,2,2,3,0) 3. Michael Palm Toft - 11 (2,2,2,2,3) 4. Jonas B. Andersen - 10 (3,2,1,2,2) 5. Lasse Bjerre - 12 (2,3,2,3,2,) 3. Finland 21 pkt. 1. Kalle Katajisto - 3 (1,0,0,1,1,0) 2. Jari Makinen - 6 (1,1,1,1,1,1) 3. Niko Siltaniemi - 0 (u/-,-,-,-,-) 4. Mika Loppi - 5 (0,0,1,1,1,2) 5. Timo Lahti - 7 (1,1,1,1,1,2) 4. Germany 9 pkt. 1. Kai Huckenbeck - 3 (0,1,2,t,u,0) 2. Friedrich Ruf - 0 (0,0,0,-,0) 3. Danny Maassen - 4 (w,1,2,0,1) 4. Michel Hofmann - 1 (1,0,0,0,0) 5. Andre Mochner - 1 (0,0,0,0,1) Good win for Australia + Denmark look to have done it despite making hard work of it after a surprise last place for Mikkel B there.All kids i have seen since they were about 13 or so.Saying that Ward,Masters and Sedgmen all made their European debuts on 80cc in Denmark i think.Also nasty crash for Siltaniemi and he has been taken to hospital.Sure f-s-p will update us on how he is.Hope just a precaution

Very good win for Sweden.And the way it is going in Diedenbergen Poland might not make it through.Doesn't look like there is a Loktaev among the German or Finnish riders who will take some points off the top two teams.So it will all be down to not getting excluded ect.Will be very close by the looks of it Results from sportowefakty Szwecja 58 pkt. 1. Dennis Andersson - 14 (3,3,3,3,2) 2. Simon Gustafsson - 10 (2,2,3,1,2) 3. Ludvig Lindgren - 7 (1,2,2,2,w) 4. Kim Nilsson - 12 (2,2,3,2,3) 5. Linus Sundstroem - 15 (3,3,3,3,3) 2. Polska 54 pkt. 1. Patryk Dudek - 11 (2,2,2,3,2) 2. Przemysław Pawlicki - 13 (3,2,3,3,2) 3. Maciej Janowski - 11 (2,3,2,1,3) 4. Bartosz Zmarzlik - 9 (3,3,0,2,1) 5. Piotr Pawlicki - 10 (2,3,d,2,3) 3. Ukraina 23 pkt. 1. Kirył Cukanow - 3 (0,w,1,0,2,-) 2. Andriej Kobrin - 4 (1,0,1,1,1) 3. Aleksandr Łoktajew - 12 (3,1,1,3,3,1) 4. Wołodymir Tejgał - 3 (1,0,2,0,0) 5. Stanisław Ogorodnik - 1 (0,1,-,0,0) 4. Czechy 14 pkt. 1. Michael Hadek - 7 (1,1,2,1,2) 2. Roman Cejka - 1 (0,0,1,0,0) 3. Jan Holub - 1 (0,w,0,0,1) 4. Vaclav Milik - 3 (0,1,1,0,1) 5. Michal Dudek - 2 (1,0,0,1,0)

Just wanted to re-quote myself as what we were talking about has now come out into the open.So it has been said,Hefenbrock and Kroner both didn't want to qualify into the next round last year and what i heard at Stralsund that Haupt didn't want to go to Austria as reserve has also been mentioned in the press.Now with young Marcel Helfer not wanting to qualify as reserve in the U21s,so team manager Schäfer dropped him "in case we were in a position to qualify for Russia and it was too far for him to travel....".And it also quoted many riders who dropped out of a meeting in Togliatti as it was too far away.Think Smolinski was mentioned in that one.It is a pity riders don't use these meetings as experience as it always seems those riders from Russia,Latvia and Ukraine travel to the west.There was even 3 Ukraine riders riding last night in the Danish Superliga.

Depends.It will be the winner from both semi's and then the highest scoring second placed team also goes through

Thanks again Anders. Best meeting of the week at Eskilstuna

Thanks Anders.And apparently Linus Eklöf is to ride for both Eskilstuna teams??? How can this happen? First time i have heard of a rider that rides officially for two teams in the same league

While talking about Div 1.What is the story behind the "other" Eskilstuna team, Tigrarna?Who is behind this and i guess they ride at Smederna's track

Yes it has been a poor week.Didn't include monday as it wasn't in Sweden.But i think you can include belle Vue in that list as well.Every meeting i have seen online has been very poor,bordering on farcial when even the home riders were having problems getting round the track

Well we have to cross our fingers that tonight is better than the previous two days meetings

After deliberately letting Austrian rider Lukas Simon pass him in the run-off for the reserve spot in the U21's German manager Rene Schäfer has dropped Marcel Helfer from the German team.Team Helfer said it was a sporting decision as he couldn't afford to travel to be a reserve.So rather than qualify and then drop out with a sicknote and not give Simon much chance to prepare he let him pass him just before the finish line M.Helfer

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Stream seems to be ok now the meeting is under way.That was very close for second there

Ha ha.Just as i said we live in hope of seeing some good racing the meeting improves quite a bit

It took until ht 9 last week before anything of note happened.Fingers crossed we can still have some good racing tonight

That is a helluva meeting to take a look at your new rider.If he manages to stay on the pace and get a couple of points amongst that lot he would have done well.If he gets more than 4 points then he will probably be a heat leader in a few months

Oh dear they were talking about.......no

Well Ipswich + the other witches of Neuenknick in Germany were areas where witches were hunted i think.The Essex and surrounding areas were quite well known for witches and witch hunts.The famous or infamous Witchfinder General,Matthew Hopkins did live in Ipswch at some preiod in his life .Same goes for middle Germany.So you are saying the Mickey Mouse has some significance to Zielona Gora?This seems to be what they are saying on their homepage.But not speaking Polish and the translation isn't conclusive it is hard to work out what that significance is.It is obviously not something just plucked out of the air

Didn't go.There was a weather warning for the German/Denmark border region with high winds,thunder,lightning and some heavy rain with the possibility of branches falling from trees etc.And as Vojens is just over the border i didn't think it worth the risk.As it was,it wasn't too bad here in Hamburg.We had a bit of rain and it was windy at times.About half 6 it got very dark.....

Had a look and it seems the mouse hasn't always been on the jacket.It started in 1961.Not sure of the translation,but something to do with Walt Disney/Mickey Mouse and a sponsor or the club

I imagine we all know that ZG have had the mouse on their jackets as long as we can remember.But the original question is quite a good one.Why?What significance does it have?Or was it just picked out of thin air?