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So the qualifier from Zarnovica has been removed from fim-moto tv. After paying for their GP Challenge season pass, which had that race included last month 😠

Danish Final line-up announced today. It has been decided to not give anyone a wildcard. Riders: 1. Anders Thomsen 2. Rune Thorst 3. Villads Nagel 4. Andreas Lyager 5. Tim Sørensen 6. William Drejer 7. Mikkel Andersen 8. Benjamin Basso 9. Niels-Kristian Iversen 10. Mads Hansen 11. Matias Nielsen 12. Jonas Knudsen 13. Michael J. Jensen 14. Jonas Jeppesen 15. Mikkel Michelsen 16. Frederik Jakobsen 17. Rasmus Jensen 18. Michael Thyme Substitutes: 1. Jonas Seifert 2. Nicolaj Heiselberg

7+1 yesterday. The national team coach have the option of giving one wildcard to the final, which would mean the lowest ranking rider already qualified would move down to first substitute. So for now the riders are: Riders: Mikkel Michelsen Anders Thomsen Frederik Jakobsen Michael Jepsen Jensen Mads Hansen Benjamin Basso Mikkel Andersen Andreas Lyager Jonas Knudsen Villads Nagel William Drejer Niels Kr. Iversen Tim Sørensen Rune Thorst Matias Nielsen Jonas Jeppesen Substitutes: Michael Thyme Rasmus Jensen

Madsen not in the qualifiers because he didn't participate in the Danish Final last year which gave spots for this years qualifiers.

The track was fine. I hope they'll never participate in Danish speedway again.

Zmarzlik quali drama... here we go again

That is true.. but still great considering five of the seven teams are located in the same area of Denmark thus having to fight for the same spectators

The streaming product, including the commentators, is indeed not good. Go a few years back and watch when it was sent on Danish national TV. They knew how to make it entertaining. About the crowds, I don't think it's too bad considering it's the danish league. In Vojens the attendance today was around 2600. Last week there were 3300 in Grindsted, 2600 in Holsted, 1800 in Slangerup and 1500 in Esbjerg. All on the same day and time.

A little late but Kergel is apparently showing all three matches. So he's probably doing that for the rest of the season. http://kergel.ucoz.lv/index/live_stream_2/0-12

Now this is interesting.. somebody posted on X "It is compulsory for each rider to always wear their riding number jacket or race jacket design on race suits during TV interviews, draws, free practice, qualifying, opening ceremony, press conferences, racing, prize giving ceremony and in the pits area." Many of the riders were not wearing their race suits.

From af TV viewer perspective I don't see what Zmarzlik did wrong. As soon as the four riders came into the pits after the Sprint Race finished, you could see the other riders beginning to gather around podium. Then they put on the replays of the Sprint on TV. After that they go straight back to the podium where Zmarzlik is standing and waiting with the other riders for a few minutes before they decide he was late. Even the commentators were confused since we were just waiting for nothing. I understand that there is a clock for the riders in the pits area and maybe he was late according to that. But from a TV perspective, he was right on time.

Yes, it was a huge let down. Both matches were unwatchable for most of the time. JFM received a lot of criticism and today they sent out apology letters to the subscribers, saying they simply didn't do their job good enough but promise to fix it until next week. The two matches from yesterday has been reuploaded to their platform today. The days up to, we were promised a much better product than previous years - and for less money. So they'll have to really step up their game next week, otherwise they'll lose subscribers.

So at the moment there is no plan to allow viewing outside of Denmark. You can use a VPN though, worked fine yesterday.

Unfortunately you'll now need to use a VPN to access the content on JFM Play. &nbsp I've contacted their support today in hope they'll remove the geo-blocking.

Why is a run-off heat in a pair meeting not done as pairs? 😂