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You working for them too? Thats a lot of money. Shame though that they went belly up. Kauko Nieminen had nothing bad to say about the team or their fans.

Article here, translated by poltran: For 15. Group had wanted for forestalling (contesting) on message for main commission of sport about license on starts in season march time (sometimes) 2008 lublin all document TŻ-u Żużlowego. It is already certain, that it will not start in this year's contests (matches) 2 club lubelski. Leagues. We will not go in this year. Sponsor has receded , but it has not appeared in principle, though there was motive power of our operation it offered on season 70-80 thousand -, but as that has come for that, it has passed away. Damage, because many serious firms has declared, that as we will move, it will lean us. We counted on certain amount from part of city too, but as yet, calm here too and we do not know even, there would be money that row. have handled (have settled) even if it (them) we today, we have handled (have settled) it (them) if today, it on time for creditors not manage they (their) send. So, from forestalling (contesting) about license decide resign. It has said for gazeta wyborcza -, former chairman lublin jaroslaw gray horse TŻ-u. Authorities have signed contracts before end of transfer period with (from) just several foreign sportsmen lublin TŻ-u. As jaroslaw of gray horse assures (provide) have been hire for other teams all. So Laukkanen and Katajisto without a polish team this season?

I guess it doesn't matter how much water you put on it, if only the ice is below zero and the air is above zero. Usually the best ice is achieved when the water is warm. Then it first melts the ice and creates a very smooth surface. Nothing to do with ice racing though...

Re-run of 2004? That was a nice weather with the thuderstorm and lightnings on saturday night...

I was just watching the pics from Assen by DGT. One of them showed the track absolutely flooded with water and in the next there was a tractor scraping all the excesswater off. Did they really do this? or did I misunderstand something crucial... Heard a rumour about the price that the organizers are paying for a day. HUGE!

Was it a qualifier (a real one/advertised as one) or are you just assuming it was?

http://www.espeedway.pl/index.php?co=newsy&id=20515

Extraliiga calendar should be out during the next week with teams and riders listed as well. I just spoke with KMMK (Keittiöpiste last season) and they have entered the league with Teemu and Timo Lahti, Toni Stenberg and Tero Aarnio. That group will keep itself away from my probaple medalists list, but they've always found good foreigners when ever needed. Also I heard that Joonas Kylmäkorpi is listed with the Lahti team, Haukat.

I've created a mini league in to the Speedway Star Fantasy league. The league is called Speedwaysanomat and the password is Speedwaysanomat. You're welcomed to join. Winner of the mini league will receice 6 months subscription of the Finnish track racing magazine Speedwaysanomat. It's now occasionally in colour! Well the covers anyway When I win this, I'm keeping the prize.

The spring conference regarding league racing next season was held at the same time as the ice racing final yesterday. For what I've heard the rules and formats will stay the same. What ever failures have been noticed in the rules in the past couple of season have now been put straight so there should not be situations ahead like there was last season. At one meeting the ref came from the ref box to the pits and asked me for a rulebook... No official info regarding the teams, riders or calendar. The calendar should be out in a week or two.

Finnish Individual Ice racing Champion 2008 is Antti Aakko! Antti Aakko 33333 15 Kai Lehtinen 23333 14 Mika Kastren 33222 12 Kai Ilkka 22132 10 Henri Malinen F3231 9 Jouni Seppänen 312F3 9 Jussi Hytönen 11313 9 Joni Kontoniemi 3F32R 8 Janne Vilponen 2212R 7 Jussi Nyrönen 20122 7 Jarmo Malinen 11012 5 Tommi Suolammi 10201 4 Timo Kankkunen 120FN 3 Markku Weckman 02001 3 Ari Tuomisto 00111 3 Mikael Lillkåll 01010 2 Sami Hassinen 0 0 Heat by heat: 1. Kastren, Nyrönen, Suolammi, Weckman 60,06 2. Aakko, Lehtinen, Kankkunen, Tuomisto 60,00 3. Kontoniemi, Ilkka, Hytönen, Malinen d 60,01 4. Seppänen, Vilponen, J.Malinen, Lillkåll 63,99 5. Lehtinen, Vilponen, Hytönen, Nyrönen 63,00 6. Aakko, Weckman, Lillkåll, KOntoniemi d 64,05 7. Malinen, Kankkunen, Seppänen, Suolammi 65,24 8. Kastren, Ilkka, J.Malinen, Tuomisto 65,32 9. Aakko, Malinen, Nyrönen, J.Malinen 62,16 10. Lehtinen, Seppänen, Ilkka, Weckman 63,46 11. Hytönen, Suolammi, Tuomisto, Lillkåll 66,82 12. KOntoniemi, Kastren, Vilponen, Kankkunen 65,82 13. Ilkka, Nyrönen, Lillkåll, Kankkunen d 66,78 14. Malinen, Vilponen, Tuomisto, Weckman 65,91 15. Lehtinen, Kontoniemi, J.Malinen, Suolammi 63,26 16. Aakko, Kastren, Hytönen, Seppänen d 65,38 17. Seppänen, Nyrönen, Tuomisto, Kontoniemi R 68,63 18. Hytönen, J.Malinen, Weckman, Hassinen 63,93 19. Aakko, Ilkka, Suolammi, Vilponen R 63,93 20. Lehtinen, Kastren, Malinen, Lillkåll 63,91 A couple of pictures! Unfortunately Aakko and Lehtinen met in heat two with Aakko winning. Lehtinen was first from the start to turn one but Aakko was on the outside and was first exciting turn two. Lehtinen followed close all the way to the finish. Joni Kontoniemi had some bad luck puncturing a tire and then shedding a chain. He was well on the pace but bad luck took away his chances. Henri Malinen was good also but fell in his first heat giving away a point or two. 332 payed to get in combining free tickets the total was around 450 spectators. Quite impressive!

I wouldnt go berserk or anything if you did... I'll post Norwegian news next year. Elgane has been given the U21 Scandinavian qualifier for 2009.

He's wearing the yellow jacket by then

Yep. And when I feel like it, I'll call Poshbloke and tell him I'm organizing one by myself here.

Inzell has it.

My "mole" at the conference said that Hugary has been dropped completely from the lineup. So I was a bit surprised that they still had one meeting in the FIM calendar. Daugavpils has done it's homework as an organizer and are getting the reward. Alltough they are a bit like Finland, on the edge of the map... Hungary will get their share of the UEM meetings for sure.

It was discussed about six months ago and someone said Rye was gonna maybe get it. Maybe they should do things a bit better. Daugavpils in Latvia has three FIM meetings next season...

I've just been told that there are 16 riders interested in the Finnish Individual title next sunday. They include Antti Aakko, Tommy Flyktman, Kai Lehtinen, Jouni Seppänen and probably Joni Kontoniemi on his "hometrack". Should be interesting enough as the weather seems to be playing in favour of us this time too.

Lets hijack this thread to announce that Lezsno will host the SWC round one and UK has been given round two with a tba as the location.

The 4by4 inch concrete that keeps the fence up. Nothing major...

Dont they just love that fence. I've linked it before but the pic was taken away later. They actually rode a WC-qualifier with that fence back in 2004. I think the meeting was even stopped once or twice to get some extra trackwork done.

I spent some time translating some of the Russian forum reply's, and the people there seemed to think that Aakko has been doing really well. Some excellent photography can be found there also, including this site. I just pointed and pushed some buttons, found some excellent stuff!

The Finnish Ice Racing Individual Championship final has once again emerged in to the calendar. It's supposed to be staged at Kuortane next sunday. It will be ridden (if it's gonna happen) on a frozen lake. Apparently the spring conference for league racing in Finland is supposed to take place at the same time at Tampere. It will be very interesting to see what they come up with. I've heard that five teams have entered the league with Seinäjoki, Kauhajoki, Lahti-Forssa, Kuusankoski and Pori. I dont have any specific info about the teams other than Katajisto has signed for Kauhajoki, Hautamäki has returned to Seinäjoki and Mäkelä is at Lahti. That leaves only the Lahti brothers for Kuusankoski as definate starters. Seinäjoki looks like the favourite at this time.

I said the big leagues... Sometimes you just kill me!

Hopefully yes, naturlich! Come to think of it I had a phone conversation with a fellow Finn who was at the Team World's, he said that there has definately been something positive going on at the Aakko camp. I just got back home, I was at Varkaus to see Kalle Katajisto and we had a chat. Alltough I'd say Doug understands nothing about good ice hockey , I saw a good game today between JYP and Kärpät at Jyväskylä's Hippos arena. It's (the site of the arena) now occupied by a Finnish baseball court and an ice sports complex, but as I've been led to understand they had better purposes for it in the 50's and 60's. Even if it was just longtrack.