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Me too. Got my compensation tickets as promised without any problems. Maybe you should contact Matlock if he's ready to take your case to court and contact Matula or Derrick from the German police to do the digging for any dirt to escalate your demands so that you end up well off with all this.

From apparently yesterdays Ekstrabladet, Olsen's comments on yestarday. Klap i Nicki Ole Olsen er træt af verdensmesteren Nicki Pedersens brok over baneforholdene Print Send Poul Ferdinand - 05:38 - 13. okt. 2008 Annonce GELSENKIRCHEN (Ekstra Bladet): ’Amatøragtigt og pisseuprofessionelt’. Så skarp var speedway-verdensmester Nicki Pedersens dom over forløbet, som førte til, at han sidste lørdag måtte udskyde den forventede guldfest, da det tyske Grand Prix på Veltins Arena i Gelsenkirchen blev aflyst på grund af en drivvåd og ubrugelig bane. Ansvaret for at underlaget på det overdækkede stadion mere lignede Europas største badesvamp end en racerbane ligger hos Ole Olsen, men trods den pinagtige aflysning vil løbsdirektøren ikke finde sig i Nicki Pedersens angreb. Skuffet og ked af det - Nicki tjener mange penge, men han kunne tjene endnu flere, hvis han selv kunne bygge baner. Jeg er skuffet og ked af, at han kalder vores arbejde amatøragtigt. Han skal huske, at tingene også går galt for ham selv ind i mellem. Vi troede jo, at han skulle være verdensmester nede i Italien, men der lavede han jo kun seks point. Det er måske også lidt amatøragtigt, lyder det skarpt fra Olsen. Efter lørdagens pressemøde mere end antydede Nicki Pedersen, at skandalen burde koste Olsen jobbet, og løbsdirektøren siger lige ud, at han er klar til at gå, hvis en egnet afløser melder sig. - Der er ingen, som har sagt noget til mig, men hvis de kan finde en anden, så er det fint. Jeg gør jo ikke det her for pengenes skyld, siger Ole Olsen, der til gengæld afviser de massive forlydender om, at den rædselsfulde bane skyldes, at de tyske værter valgte at blande belægningen under åben himmel i regnvejr. Tager det fulde ansvar - Det er ikke korrekt. Problemet opstod, fordi det regnede mens vi læssede belægningen. Men man skal huske, at materialet, der er identisk med det, vi bruger i Parken, skal have en fugtighedsgrad på mindst syv-otte procent – ellers kan man ikke pakke banen. Desværre kunne det ikke tørre tilstrækkeligt bagefter på grund af vejret og temperaturen på stadion. Så vi har lært, at vi skal bygge banen anderledes til næste år, forklarer Ole Olsen, der blankt erkender, at han må tage skraldet for den største fiasko i GP-serien siden aflysningen i Gøteborg i 2003. - Jeg tager selvfølgelig det fulde ansvar, for det var min idé, at vi skulle ind på de store stadions. Jeg kan godt forstå, at publikum ikke fatter, at det kan gå så galt, men man skal altså huske, at der kan ske uforudsete ting. Selvom NASA har verdens bedste forskere og ingeniører og kan sende folk til månen, så sprænger deres raketter altså også på rampen engang i mellem, siger han. Anyone have the time to translate?

Two big knocks on the head and then murdered his confidence by riding on the tight UK tracks for any team that asked? EDIT: How was the playoffs organised in Polish 1 league? Same with 2nd league?

It was over before it started. I thought Rico said they were 30 points behind after 1st leg from the start and without Nicki.

I still have people telling me that there was a meeting at Kumla yestarday and Anders Mellgren won. Anyone know more about this?

You are joking... Right?

Which is correct here: Track material got wet the week before? or Track got wet last night after they left the roof open? This was said in another thread...

Olsen only has a week to get the track sorted now, can he pull it off for the danes? I know the feeling as I was one of the few that were in Gothenburg when it was postponed. Bought a shirt on that trip for 500sek after spending 350 € for flights and hotel. Was pretty expensive! Honestly, there are a lot of pissed off people at a place that spiegal has described as not so nice. And on top of that Mateusz has promised a riot! Honestly, there is now a realistic 1,8% (this was 111th, 2 have been postponed) chance of Bydgoszs to be postponed too. Have William Hill opened on this yet?

HAA HAA HAA!! made my day with this one...

Some of the grapevine that gets down my way... As reliable as a rumour as any of my stuff

Which will surely mean that there would be no Allsvenskan at all? One of the few rumours I've heard is that Allsvenskan has to have eight teams next season or Svemo will integrate it with the 1st division...

Dont know anymore... I've got Jari saying he's gonna ride in the Jensen Cup at Kumla tomorrow (nobody else seems to know about this meeting) and Indianernas kansli telling me they'll only have organized practise on saturday... Dont care anymore... Only 7 hours until the weekend!

Vetlanda's meeting was the only one I could find in the calendars I looked at... speedwayresultat.com is an excellent site... Got to dig deeper then...

Apparently Kumla will be hosting an open meeting this saturday and Målilla will host a U21 open a week later. Any info on these two meetings? EDIT: Jensen Open at Täby / Örebro!

Anyone heard anything about a match between Stal Gorzow and Zielona Gora that is supposed to happen within a week or two? Could be a junior challenge but these were the teams given to me...

Working from 7 to eleven, at least they are trying!

The track was 385 metres long?!

How wet was it then? It was wet in my books for the Team Bikab vs Finnish U21 meeting but it turned out ok...

Nothing much to cheer about for Jari Mäkinen. Katajisto and Siltaniemi apparently made an impression. Mäkinen is also in sundays lineup according to his comment on his website. Eric Andersson Vargarna 3333 12 Antonio Lindbäck Vargarna 3333 12 Kim Nilsson Hammarby 3331 10 Jonas Andersson Vargarna 2133 9 Robert Johansson Vargarna 3023 8 Robert Hendersson Filbyterna 1322 8 Robert Pettersson Lejonen 2123 8 Andreas Bergström Team Dalakraft 2302 7 Fredrik Johansson Filbyterna 2212 7 Kalle Katajisto Suomi T222 6 Marcus Andersson Vargarna 2022 6 Mikael Max Piraterna 3200 5 Niko Siltanemi Suomi T131 5 Daniel Hendersson Team Bikab 1201 4 Christian Agö Dackarna 1201 4 Dennis Fagerkrantz Vargarna 1110 3 Sebastian Carlsson Vargarna 1110 3 Dennis Dahlborg Griparna 0010 1 Jari Mäkinen Suomi 00R1 1 Erä erältä: 1. Johansson, Bergström, Fagerkrantz, Katajisto T 65,6 2. Lindbäck, M.Andersson, Hendersson, Dahlborg 61,3 3. Nilsson, Pettersson, Carlsson, Siltaniemi T 62,2 4. Max, J.Andersson, D.Hendersson, Mäkinen 62,4 5. Andersson, F.Johansson, Agö 63,0 6. Hendersson, D.Hendersson, Pettersson, Johansson 63,4 7. Lindbäck, Agö, Carlsson, Mäkinen 60,1 8. Nilsson, Max, Fagerkrantz 61,6 9. Bergström, F.Johansson, J.Andersson, Dahlborg 63,4 10. Andersson, Katajisto, Siltaniemi, M.Andersson 61,9 11. Siltaniemi, Johansson, Dahlborg 63,3 12. Lindbäck, Katajisto, F.Johansson, D.Hendersson 59,6 13. Nilsson, M.Andersson, Bergström R, Mäkinen R 62,2 14. J.Andersson, Pettersson, Fagerkrantz, Agö 61,7 15. Andersson, Hendersson, Carlsson, Max *** 16. Johansson, M.Andersson, Agö, Max 64,0 17. Pettersson, Katajisto, Mäkinen 61,4 18. Lindbäck, F.Johansson, Siltaniemi, Fagerkrantz *** 19. Andersson, Bergström, D.Hendersson, Carlsson *** 20. J.Andersson, R.Hendersson, Nilsson, Dahlborg *** Semifinaali: Johansson, Petterson, Hendersson, Andersson 63,0 Finaali: Lindbäck, Andersson, Nilsson, Johansson 60,4 Katsojia 520, *** ei aikaa

They are

What about the people at Vargarna, are they any good with online results? Good luck to Kalle and Niko today, hopefully they both have a good night out!

True... OK, Cheers. Hopefully the results will be online asap .

Riders for saturdays meeting at Eskilstuna?????? Katajisto, Siltaniemi.... ?

"Blaming" his engines and missing the Kim Jansson benefit meeting according to worldspeedway.com.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING! What an anticlimax after the second semi at Vetlanda. Holta was crap, Dryml was crap, Crump was crap, Ljung wasn't even crap enough and the others were crap too. Something that a friend mentioned on tuesday night... Well done David Ruud. After the crash in Poland two years ago to come back and wipe the floor with Jason Crump is absolutely magnificient. And on that perspective for Ales Dryml to come back and even ride in the finals is worth a mention too.