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Basically, yes.

If you are licensed by your national federation, then you are also under FIM. So in that case FIM could ban you through your own federation. If you are not licensed, then you can do what you want. For example get insurance where you want (or can get it) and so on. But then you cant compete with the licensed guys, you can kiss all your championship dreams good bye... But on the other hand you can create your own! If the FIM would issue an amendment to the APD rule, we then would have tools to create a 2nd hand market for APD's. I'm told from FIM via grapevine thats why the homologation runs out on them, to make them 2nd hand and available. They've just forgotten to give the tools for us (FMN's) to make the scrapped APD's legal again...

One way of getting airfences in to Finland is to adopt the British way. Make riders ride for free and put that money in to the fences. This is a good idea, yes? Well the reality is that we would need 4 seasons of free speedway to get four tracks "fenced". Thats with the current "godfathers" of Finnish speedway putting their money in to fences/organisations they have no control or say over. No one even knows if there's a league in Finland next season! And the riders then... Ride for free... Even if and when the money is not that great, the whole idea stops there.

No one gives a crap when I say making airfence's mandatory would kill speedway in Finland. Well, what about what this bloke says on that Facebook site: Dave Parker: Same here in Aussie Nick, the 3 main bike tracks have Airfences, but there are so many car/bike tracks around Australia, it would be impossible to have all tracks use Airfences. Also and not for one moment say it doesn't happen, but Sidecars are as big or bigger in Australia than Solo's and they "normally" don't spear off into the fence. If we banned all tracks that didn't have an Airfence, we would have 3 tracks in Australia which is about 4 times the size of Europe. That would crucify Speedway in Australia Nick Mallett says on the same site that there should be a recycling program of fences to make them available second hand. Yes there should be one. One question though: There is no absolute way of checking the airfence, if it's good or not. They have the homologation stamp and they are useless after seven (5+2) years. How can any national federation give them a new homologation stamp for more years, when the reason why they are scrapped isn't even available. The whole process is based on visual inspection! Now if I bought 10 second hand fences and install them on Finnish tracks... Someone hits the fence, turns out it's out of date, what will the insurance company say? I'm pretty confident they wont pay, thats for sure. EDIT: Niels-Kristian Iversen went on top of my hero-list when he said in his column on a Kings Lynn local paper, that there's no sense in making new rules, forcing suits and such if the tracks are crap. Prepare the track for speedway and the safety in our sport will increase considerably!

I actually meant that if he rides in the challenge, it's something he's achieved on his own...

Wake up! This is not given, It's taken, something he has achieved!.

Yes it is. The fans were so much more clever and PC ten years ago when I found this place by googling a certain Billy Janniro (my almost hero back then) incident in a motel in California. The level of discussion was SO MUCH better... And actually as I've recently found out, "Wheels on the bus" is a killer, almost compares to Thriller!!!!

So in your opinion, the changed engine design in the same time period ( shorter stroke for instance) has no role in it?

I disagree, but English is not my native tongue. This is from the rule book: 15.3.4 Riders must be either “ready to race” or provided the Rider is in the correct Gate Position and is “under the control of the Start Marshal” within the permitted Time Allowance. Failure to comply is a Starting offence.

Well, actually every single time it goes over two minutes is a problem. The time allowance is exactly 2 minutes (dont know or care why), so the ref allowing to go over is therefor favouring some riders over others By not exluding them. For the meeting as a whole, that seems not to be a problem. But with a ref that at times goes By the rules, goes By the rules if the riders do and then once in a blue moon actually knows what he's supposed to do... What to do with that ref is the question?!?

Erik Riss DE, heat 14.

MJJ is the last name on the declared list of riders for this years series. After him it's an open game again.

Whats the rule though, or is this under the fact that a Speedway referee's can pretty much do what they want?

Without seeing it... I've read about two red cards over past two years. The other was Miedzinski finishing Emil in polish league and the other one was someone else. Consistency between refs world wide is the problem here.

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LOL they've been around for over 4 years now, DEAL with it! The dB rule will change over the winter, but the constructure design of the new silencers will remain the same. So DEAL with it now and get it over with.

The clock is not a necessity. The ref and speaker working together and announcing 1 minute left mark and 30 second left mark is enough. Then the start Marshall takes care of the rest. Start this next monday: 1. Two minutes on everytime! 2. Exclusion if not obeyed ( or - 15 m, whatever the rule) 3. All this through talk between the ref, speaker and start Marshall. 4. Continue it for two weeks, it's sorted for the rest of the season... It sounds easy, doesnt it. It took me three years to make the Finnish refs to understand this. And there's only 4 of them.

Jiri Nieminen, Nike Lunna and Henri Ahlbom will travel to Elgane.

I've been in enough correspondence with them in the past few weeks... I would not know nice enough way to ask anything at the moment. Though I have to say that Grecory Ricci fellow seems OK. Hope they dont burn him out.

WOW!

And thats all down to the incompetent ref.

This current system has been in place for years now, if I say six I'm not lying too much. Everyone knows how it works from January, it's not a surprise on race day. It's just something they decided to do and it will stick.

The last set I had back in January says 6+1 from both + top 3 from SEC. Then the basic fmnr wild card. That would add up nicely to 16+2. Just that I have a feeling that sectopthree has been scrapped earlier this year already, they have just not announced it.

First thing that crossed my mind was that the rider in question was German.

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