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Any predictions about how this weekend will go? I think the top 5 will be: 1) Bulankin 2) Krasnikov 3) Baseev 4) Zorn 5) Serenius with Antti Aakko making headway in the top 10. With Franky and Posa in a top 5 position, the Assen weekend should be brilliant. The only problem will be that Franky has had no luck in Russia for a few years now.

Malcolm - make sure to introduce yourself to me I'll be there on the Friday taking pics. Say hello to Mark for me too! I thought he may have come along as a supporter. Good point - last years Berlin Crowd was down on previous years I understand simply because Bauer wasn't riding.

Malcolm (Toonarmy084) posted elsewhere on the forum that Robert Eibl, Slava Nikulin and Tommy Flyktman had withdrawn from the GSS. I can see why in the case of Slava and Tommy being in the World Championship, but as Eibl is reserve, doesn't make much sence to me. Unless the DMSB don't want another situation where their top rider is injured (as with Bauer last year) and robs them of a fighting chance of having a German World Champion. Either way, with those three out of the running, it moves everone up a few places - In Graham's case he moves to 7th position, which is even better for him. A top 5 place is not unrealistic at this stage! (BTW Malcolm - are you and your dad going to be there too?)

Ice Racing meeting 18.2.06 - looks like Klabo is on a roll this year, pity he can't transfer this sort of form to his World Championship rounds. From Inspeed.de Complete Results: Heats: 01. Antonín Klatovský, CZ (3 3 3 3) 12 02. René Stellingwerf, NL (2 3 3 2) 10 03. Jan Pecina, CZ (3 2 2 3) 10 04. Franz Zorn, A (E 3 3 3) 9 05. Jan Klatovský, CZ (3 E 2 2) 7 06. René Verhoef, NL (2 1 2 1) 6 07. Jiøí Petrásek, CZ (2 2 1 1) 6 08. Vladislav Kunc sen., CZ (1 1 1 2) 5 09. Jan Klauz, CZ (1 2 1 R) 4 10. Vladislav Kunc jun., CZ (1 1 0 0) 2 11. Martin Bìhal, CZ (0 - 0 1) 1 12. Josef Šiška, CZ (E - - -) 0 Semi Finals: 1: 1. Jan Klatovský, CZ 2. Vladislav Kunc sen., CZ 3. René Verhoef, NL 4. Jiøí Petrásek, CZ 2: 1. Antonín Klatovský, CZ 2. Franz Zorn, A 3. René Stellingwerf, NL 4. Jan Pecina, CZ Final: 1. Antonín Klatovský, CZ 2. Franz Zorn, A 3. Jan Klatovský, CZ 4. Vladislav Kunc sen., CZ

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I know I've asked this in the International Section, but with the Assen Ice Speedway meeting less than four weeks away, I was wondering who else was going to be there apart from myself and the Edinburgh contingent? I'm staying at the Mercure Hotel at the Martiniplatz in Groningen, so if you are there with Eurorider or Travel Plus you are staying at that Hotel. Failing that I'm the photographer with the glasses and my new Russian Fur Hat so i'm easily spotted. The bar under the home straight is a good place to meet (where I met Midnight Lady, Pammie and King Jamie last year) so if a Forum get together is planned I will try and pop in to see you inbetween getting kicked out of the Pits and blagging a bib for the centre for the first few races. If you are going for the Friday Night, remember that Graham Halsall is flying the flag for GB in the Golden Spike Racing that night, and has had his best season ever so far with a 5th place on Saturday in Divisov. We should get behind him give him that boost to score well.

Result of the Czech Championship (from Inspeed.de) 1 Antonin Klatovsky 15 2 Jan Klatovsky 14 3 Johann Brückner (A) 11 4 Jiri Petrasek 11 5 René Stellingwerf (NL) 10 6 Josef Siska 10 7 Martin Posch (A) 8 8 Claude Gadeyne (F) 8 9 Dimitri Tschatschin (D) 7 10 Graham Halsall (GB) 7 11 Vladimir Kunc 6 12 Jan Pecina 5 13 Josef Kreuzberger (A) 3 14 Thomas Cavigelli (CH) 2 15 Jan Klaus 2 16 Martin Behal 1 Looks like they ran a championship and invited all those who rode in the Golden Spike to make up the numbers

Forgot to add - the next Round of the Golden Spike is FRIDAY 10th March in Assen, where the riders will compete for the Roelof Thijs Bokaal whilst scoring GSS points. If you are going to Assen and are able to get to the Friday Meeting, then we should give Graham Halsall the most support he has had the entire series. He has improved as the GSS has gone on, and currently lies in ninth place. I'm sure with a large number of British fans behind him, he will do even better!

Result from Round 4 at Divisov, Czech Rep. (from Inspeed.de) Edited post with result from Speedway.org 1. Antonin Klatovsky (CzR) 15 2. Jan Klatovsky (CzR)14 3. Sebastien Gegenbauer (D)12 4. Johnny Tuinstra (NL)11 5. Graham Halsall (GB) 10 6. Rene Stellingwerf (NL) 10 7. Josef Siska (CzR)9 8. Reinhard Greisel (D) 8 9. Heinz Göldi (CH) 6 10. Markus Skabraut (A) 6 11. Jiri Petrasek (CzR)5 12. Jan Pecina (CzR) 4 13. Dmitri Tschatschin (D) 3 14. Thomas Cavigelli (CH) 2 15. Claude Gadeyne (F) 1 16. Jan Klaus (CzR) 0 17. Vladimir Kunc (CzR) 0 u 21 1. Martin Posch (D) 8 2. Sven Holstein (NL) 8 3. Mario Schweiger (A) 8 4. Simon Gartmann (CH) 5 Great result for Graham Halsall who goes into 9th place overall. Looks like the Klatovsky Brothers want a family 1-2 as they dominate again. No Eibl, Nikulin, Flyktman or Leitner again. Overall (After 4 Rounds): 1 Antonin Klatovsky Cz 52 2 Jan Klatovsky Cz 43 3 Rene Stellingwerf Nl 36 4 Marcus Skabraut A 32 5 Johnny Tuinstra Nl 29 6 Sebastian Gegenbauer D 28 7 Robert Eibl D 27 8 Viatcheslav Nikulin D 27 9 Graham Halsall GB 26 10 Dmitri Tschatschin D 25 11 Tommy Flyktman SF 22 12 Stefan Pletschacher D 20 13 Martin Leitner A 15 14 Heinz Goldi CH 15 15 Thomas Cavageli CH 12 16 Josef Siska CzR 9 17 Claude Gaydene F 8 18 Phillip Weiss CH 8 19 Hans Weber D 6 20 Jiri Petrasek CzR 5 21 Sven Holstein NL 4 22 Jan Pecina CzR 4 23 Johan Bruckner A 3 24 Martin Posch A 3 25 Mario Schwaiger A 3 25 Turli Carigiet CH 2 26 Josef Kreutzberger A 1 27 Jan Klaus CzR 0 28 Vladimir Kunc CzR 0 29 Simon Gartman CH 0

From Inspeed.de the Saransk Starting line up: 1.Anti Aakko 2.Dimitri Bulankin 3.Vladimir Lumpov 4.Jonny Tuinstra 5.Andrey Shishegov 6.Viatcheslav Nikulin 7.Franz Zorn 8.Maksim Zakharov 9.Tommy Flyktman 10.Younir Bazeev 11.Ilya Drozdov 12.Per-Olof Serenius 13.Mikhail Bogdanov 14.Stefan Svensson 15.Nikolaj Krasnikov 16.Harald Simon Reserve 17.Robert Eibl 18.Antonin Klatovksy If the series runs as in previous years, Eibl and Klabo will replace the bottom two scorers on day 2.

With the meeting about three weeks away, maybe they'll make the draw next week. You may find out more from the Assen organisers if you give them a call. They usually know what's going on. Unless Iris123 has been testing his Russian again on the forums there....

Looks like I'm going to give Berlin a miss this year, combination of looking for a new job (part time) and lack of funds for the flight. I'd love to be there, but not this year I'm afraid

Inzell Day 2 Result (from Speedway.org) 1. 15 Younir Bazeev MFR 11 + (3.3,1,3,3) 24 Final: 1. 2. 10 Franz Zorn ÖAMTC 14 + (1,2,A,2,3) 22 Final: 2. 3. 2 Per-Olov Serenius SVEMO 13+ (3,3,3,3,2) 27 Final: 3. 4. 8 Maksim Zakharov MFR 12 + (2,2,2 2,3) 23Final: 4. 5. 1 Dmitri Bulankin MFR 10+ (2,3,3,2,2) 22 6. 3 Viatscheslav Nikulin DMSB 10+ (3,2,2,3,D) 20 7. 14 Nikolai Krasnikov MFR 9+ (0,3,3,3,2) 20 8. 13 Tommy Flyktman SML 10+ (1,1,2,2,2) 18 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. 6 Robert Eibl DMSB 8+ (0,2,3,1,3) 17 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10. 4 Jan Klatovsky ACCR 7+ (2,1,1,1,D) 12 11. 9 Fredrik Olssen SVEMO 3+ (3,0,2,0,1) 9 12. 11 Tommy Björklin SVEMO 5+ (2,0,1,0,1) 9 13. 7 Per-Anders Lindström SVEMO 3+ (1,1,0,1,,1) 7 14. 5 Jouni Seppänen SML 2 + (0,0,0,1,1) 4 15. 12 Anton Weber DMSB 2+ (1,T,1,0,0 ) 4 16. 16 Josef Kreuzberger ÖAMTC 1+ (0,0,0,0,0) 1 17. 17 Sebastian Gegenbauer DMSB 0+ (1) 1 18. 18 Martin Leitner ÖAMTC DNR I think that Posa and Franky Zorn are looking good for the top five this year, but Baseev looks a good bet too. Roll on Saransk in a couple of weeks!! I look forward to Paragon's report on Day 2 with interest ( and I'm not a bit envyous of him at all!!!!! ) FULL FINAL LINE UP: AUSTRIA: Franz Zorn, Harald Simon NETHERLANDS: Johnny Tuinstra FINLAND: Antti Aakko, Tommy Flyktman GERMANY: Viatcheslav Nikulin RUSSIA: Dmitri Bulankin, Ilya Drozdov, Maksim Zakharov, Vladimir Loumpov, Mikhail Bogdanov, Nikolai Krasnikov, Andrey Shishegov, Younir Baseev SWEDEN: Per-Olof Sernius, Stefan Svensson Reserves: Robert Eibl (Germany) Antonin Klatovsky (Czech Rep.)

Thanks for that - I was using the German-English section of my son's dictionary which he is using for GCSE. My German is somewhat lacking and I do refer to that when I'm stuck. Mind you I can order beer!

Inzell Day 1 Result (fromSpeedway.org) 1 10 Franz Zorn OAMTC 14 (3 3 3 2 3) 2 2 Per-Olof Serenius SVEMO 13 (3 2 3 2 3) 3 8 Maksim Zakharov MFR 12 (3 3 2 3 1) 4 15 Younir Baseev MFR 11 (3 3 2 3 0) 5 1 Dmitri Bulankin MFR 10 (f 3 3 2 2) 6 13 Tommy Flyktman SML 10 (2 2 2 1 3) 7 3 Viacheslav Nikulin DMSB (10 2 2 1 3 2) 8 14 Nikolai Krasnikov MFR 9 (f f 3 3 3) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9 6 Robert Eibl DMSB 8 (2 1 2 2 1) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10 4 Jan Klatonsky ACCR 7 (1 2 1 1 2) 11 11 Tommy Bjorklin SVEMO 5 (2 1 1 0 1) 12 7 Per-Anders Lindstrom SVEMO 3 (1 0 0 1 1) 13 9 Fredrick Olssen SVEMO 3 (0 1 0 f 2) 14 5 Jouri Seppanen SML 2 (0 0 1 1 0) 15 12 Anton Weber DMSB 2 (1 1 0 0 0) 16 16 Josef Kreutzberger OAMTC 1 (1 0 0 0 0) R 17 Sebastian Gegenbauer DMSB DNR R 18 Martin Leitner OAMTC DNR Good start for Franky Zorn, dropping his only point to Slava Nikulin, but a brilliant second place for Posa. Krasnikov did well to recover from his opening rides where he fell. Zakharov having a good meeting too, as is Baseev. They do it all again tomorrow to get to the Final. On this form, Franky looks good for the Final in Russia, but Eibl needs to do something special to make the Final to give Slava some company.

Ice Racing World Championship 2006 Semi 1 in Krasnogorsk RUS 04./05.02.2006 Day 1 (From Speedway.org) 1. (16) Vladimir Lumpov MFR (2,3,3,3,3) 14 2. (11) Ilya Drozdov MFR (3,3,2,3,3) 14 3. (14) Mikhail Bogdanov MFR (3,3,2,3 ,2) 13 4. (8) Andrey Shishegov MFR (2,1,3,2,3) 11 5. (3) Antti Aakko SML (3,2,1,F,3) 9 6. (4) Stefan Svensson SVEMO (A,2,3,3 ,1) 9 7. (17) Antonin Klatovsky ACCR (2,3,0,2,1) 8 8. (2) Johnny Tuinstra KNMV (1,2,2,1,2) 8 ----------------------------------------------------------- 9. (7) Markus Skabraut ÖAMTC (3,1,2,F,1) 7 ----------------------------------------------------------- 10. (15) Kaj Lehtinen SML (1,0,3,1,2) 7 11. (13) Harald Simon ÖAMTC (0,2,1,0,2) 5 12. (6) Torleif Burman SVEMO (1,1,1,2,A) 5 13. (5) Marian Kreklau DMSB (0,1,1,2,0) 4 14. (10) Tomi Kirilov SML (2,0,0,1,0) 3 15. (9) Andreas Roth DMSB (1,0,0,0,0) 1 16. (18) Heinz Göldi FMS (1) 1 17. (12) René Verhoef KNMV (0,0,0,N,F) 0 18. (1) Jan Pecina ACCR (N,N,N,N,N) 0 DNR Just a small point - Klabo qualified as reserve, whilst Jan Pecina was nominated by the Czech Federation. Pecina doesn't ride, Klabo gets a good score and could be in the final after the second days racing. There is nothing to indicate that Pecina was injured so can anyone enlighten this point?

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I remember Max the first couple of years I began going, and was impressed by him. If his son is this good in his first meeting, then look forward to seeing him in the future. Please, don't rub it in that I can't go!!

German Championship - Final result (from Speedway.org) 1. Viatscheslav Nikulin (3,f,3,3,3) 12 Final: 1. 2. Robert Eibl ( f,3,3,2,3) 11 Final: 2. 3. Sebastian Gegenbauer (3,2,3,f,3) 11 Final: 3. 4. Max Niedermaier Jun. (0,3,2,3,2) 10 Final: 4. 5. Dmitri Tschatschin (1,3, ,1,3 ,2) 10 6. Anton Weber (3,2,1,1,3) 10 7. Reinhard Greisel (3,2,2,2,1) 10 8. Helmut Weber (2,2,0,3,2) 9 9. Franz Mayerbüchler (1,3,3,1,1) 9 10. Jochen Reischmann (0,0,2,2,1) 5 11. Johann Weber (1,1,1,0,) 5 12. Lucas Rösti (Res) (CH) (0,2,2) 4 13. Günter Kirchner (2,,1,T,1,0) 4 14. Simon Gartmann (CH) (2,1,N,f,f) 3 15. Thomas Cavigelli (CH) (2,,N,1,N,0) 3 16. Georg Kötzinger (1,0,0,0,1) 2 17. Ulrich Büschke (0,1,0,1,0) 2 18. Mark Riedle (res) DNR Well done to Slava Nikulin - possibly a return to the form he showed in the mid 1990s. Also being old is remembering Max Neidermaier ride then seeing his son has started riding 22 years later!

The line up for the German Championship Meeting at Inzell on Thursday- Practice at 10.00, meeting at 19.00 (Pitwalk from 17.00Hrs) taken from the Inzell Site 1. Ullrich Büschke 2. Reinhard Greisel 3. Günter Kirchner 4. Georg Kötzinger 5. Sebastian Gegenbauer 6. Robert Eibl 7. Andreas Lang 8. Johann Weber 9. Viatcheslav Nikulin 10. Jochen Reischmann 11. Dmitri Tschatschin 12. Helmut Weber 13. Franz Mayerbüchler 14. Alexander Unruh 15. Anton Weber 16. Max Niedermier Jnr. 17. Mark Riedle (Res) Defending Champion Stefan Pletschacher won't be riding due to a broken collar bone. Interesting that Helmut Weber is riding again - not seen him ride for a few years and I thought he'd given up, to coach his sons (who he will race against).

I'll miss these guys on the Circuit this year - and I'm sure I'm not alone. The dispute between the federations has robbed the fans outside Russia!

Day 2 Result from Penza: From :Inspeed.de 1. Bulankin 12+15 = 27 2. Schischegov 11+11 = 22 3. Archipov 12+8 = 20+3 4. Antonin Klatovsky 10+10 = 20+2 5. Aakko 12+8 = 20+1 6. Polikarpov 10+8 = 18 7. Kreklau 7+9 = 16 8. Samorodov 9+6 = 15 9. Baltatchev 5+10 = 15 10. Tschapalo 5+8 = 13 11. Kononov 7+5 = 12 12. Stellingwerf 5+5 = 10 13. Simon 6+2 = 8 14. Koji 2+5 = 7 15. Gegenbauer 0+4 = 4 16. Tschatschin 3+0 = 3 Originally from: Russian Speedway Forum Good win for Bulankin, with an unbeaten second day. Nice to see Klabo and Aakko splitting the Russians, but no surprises with a Russian 1-2-3 on a Russian Track. Good result for Marian Kreklau, which may signal a change in his fortunes The full results for all three meetings (Semi and 2 day Final) with heat details are HERE.

Ist Day results from Penza (from Inspeed.de) 1) Stanislaw Arkhipov (RUS) 12 2) Antti Aakko (FIN) 12 3) Dimitri Bulankin (RUS) 12 4) Andrej Schischegov (RUS) 11 5) Antonin Klatovsky (CZ) 10 6) Juri Polikarpov (RUS) 10 7) Artjom Samorodov (RUS) 9 8) Marian Kreklau (D) 7 9) Igor Kononow (RUS) 7 10) Harald Simon (A) 6 11) René Stellingwerf (NL) 5 12) Wladimir Tschapalo (RUS) 5 13) Sergej Baltatschev (RUS) 5 14) Dimitri Tschatschin (D) 3 15) Peter Koij (S) 2 16) René Verhoef (NL) 0 17) Sebastian Gegenbauer (D) 0 18. Paul Johansson (S) 0 Originally on Forum. Russia

European Semi Final Result: 1) Schischegov, RUS 2) Arkhipov, RUS 3) Samorodov, RUS 4) Tschapalo, RUS 5) Kononov, RUS 6) Polikarpov, RUS 7) Stellingwerf, NL 8) Tschatschin, D 9) Gegenbauer, D (Reserve 1) 10) Johansson, S (Reserve 2) 11) Kreuzberger, A 12) Kirilov, FIN 13) Pecina, CZ 14) Jansson, S 15) Göldi, CH 16) Carigiet, CH Mark and Roger didn't ride as the Russian Embassy failed to grant their Visas after all, and they were forced to cancel their trip. It also looks like a couple of the riders had to ride in the Semi to cover for them from: http://forum.speedway.ru Revised Final Line up (from Speedway.org) 1 René Stellingwerf KNMV 2 Andrej Shishegov MFR 3 Antti Aakko SML 4 Juri Polikarpov MFR 5 René Verhoef KNMV 6 Harald Simon ÖAMTC 7 Stanislav Arkhipov MFR 8 Igor Kononov MFR 9 Dmitri Tschatschin DMSB 10 Artjom Samorodov MFR 11 Peter Koji SVEMO 12 Sergej Baltashev MFR 13 Antonin Klatovsky ACCR 14 Dmitri Bulankin MFR 15 Marian Kreklau DMSB 16 Vladimir Chapalo MFR 17 Sebastian Gegenbauer DMSB (Res) 18 Paul Johansson SVEMO (Res)

At the moment - no, but things have been known to change.