DutchGrasstrack

Henry van der Steen and Henk Bos are presenting The Netherlands in the Wiener Neustadt (AUT) quali. Lars Zandvliet (Dutch rider) will race for Belgium in the Lonigo (ITA) quali.

Pocking: Theo Pijper (France), Frederik Lindgren (Sweden), Antonio Lindback (Sweden), Martin Smolinksi (Germany), Richard Speiser (Germany), Max Dilger (Germany), Niels K Iversen (Denmark), Filip Sitera (CZ), Matej Kus (CZ), +2 Poland, +2 UK, +1 Australia, +1 Latvia.

The FMB (Belgian Federation) got a few places in the UEM/FIM meetings: Speedway GP Qualification 06.06.09 - Quali 2 - Lonigo (Italy) - Lars Zandvliet Speedway U21 World Championship 17.05.09 - Quali 3 - Rye House (UK) - Wim Kennis European Championship Speedway 09.05.09 - Quali 2 - Stralsund (GER) - Eddie Turksema European Championship Speedway U19 04.04.09 - Qualification - Teterow (GER) - Wim Kennis Note: Zandvliet and Turksema are both Dutch riders with a FMB license.

The B Group riders are weaker then the A Group. 2 (or 3) from the B Group will promote to the A Group and 2 (or 3) from the A Group wil degrade to the B Group for the next Round of the Dutch Championship (based on the result of the previous round).

Well only a few months left till the first practice sessions.. Roll on Season 2009/2010 .

Blijham isn't going to stage any of the rounds this year. Speedway.org got it wrong on their website.

NEWS FLASH Well... yesterday was the first round of the Dutch Championship 2009... staged in Moorwinkelsdamm (Germany). Results are below: 500cc Group A 1. Jannick de Jong, 15 2. Henk Bos, 14 3. Kai Huckenbeck, 13 4. Thomas Sörensen, 12 5. Ramon Stanek, 10 6. Henry van der Steen, 9 7. Erik Eijbergen, 9 8. Sjoerd Rozenberg, 8 9. Dirk Fabriek, 7 10. Nick Lourens, 6 11. Benjamin Borgers, 5 12. Mark Stiekema, 5 13. Jeroen van der Veen, 2 14. Pascal Swart, 2 15. Berry de Vos, 2 16. Roy Klaassens, 1 500cc Group B 1. Jeffrey Woortman, 16 2. Lars Zandvliet, 14 3. Henkie Koonstra, 14 4. Dennis Noordman, 12 5. Maurin Vochteloo, 11 6. Randy Oldenziel, 10 7. Bernd Dinklage, 10 8. Kejio Bünning, 8 9. Jan Meijerink, 8 10. Ramon Steenbergen, 5 11. Jesper Veldhuizen, 3 (me lol) 12. Priscilla Wolgen, 2 13. Richard Koppies, 2 14. Kelly Velda, 2 15. Nico Eijbergen, 2 125cc Youth 1. Romano Hummel, 15 2. Andre Majewsky, 10 3. Mark Beishuizen, 12 4. Michel Wendels, 11 5. Roberto Slot, 12 6. Niklas Thien, 10 7. Roelof Postema, 7 8. Nicolien van der Kant, 8 9. Fabian Wachs, 7 10. Mack Struyk, 5 11. Desiree Korvemaker, 3 12. Dirk Meier, 1 13. Kasper Woudberg, 2 14. Luuk Woudberg, 2

Just added a few videos of todays racing in Assen to my website (Heat 17, D, C, B, A) .

Another awesome day! Another impressive day from Sven Holstein, and well done to Nikolaj Krasnikov on his 5th World Title. Very bad day for Austrian Franky Zorn, 2 engine failures and 1 spectacular crash in the first bend . Also very nice to finally meet up with Ian (after 4 years ) lol! Results: 1. Nikolaj Krasnikov RUS (3 3 3 3 3) 15 2. Juunir Baseev RUS (3 3 3 3 2) 14 3. Daniil Ivanov RUS (2 2 3 3 3) 13 4. Dmitri Khomitsevich RUS (3 3 3 2 0) 11 5. Antti Akkoo FIN (2 1 1 3 3) 10 6. Pavel Tsjajka RUS (2 1 2 2 2) 9 7. Gunter Bauer GER (0 2 2 2 2) 8 8. Vitaly Khomitsevich RUS (2 3 X 0 3) 8 9. Franky Zorn AUT (3 X X X 1) 4 10. Markus Skabraut AUT (1 1 2 0 1) 5 11. Antonin Klatovsky CZ (1 1 2 1 1) 6 12. Johnny Tuinstra NL (1 0 1 1 2) 5 13. Tommy Flytkman FIN (0 2 0 1 1) 4 14. Sven Holstein NL (1 0 1 2 0) 4 15. Hans Olov Olsen SWE (0 2 0 1 0) 3 16. Harald Simon AUT (0 0 1 - -) 1 17. Per Anders Lindstrom SWE (0) 0 18. Kaj Lethinen FIN (X) 0 Edit: Photo's

What a great night of racing! Wow . Just added some photo's to my website (smiling Krasnikov ).

I've made a couple videos of yesterdays' racing, sound is abit knackered sadly (taken with my phone).

Been to the Roelof Thijs Bokaal practice yesterday... it all looks good . Only been there for 20 mins, but great to see some ice racing again. The Russians were looking very good. Made a couple of photos... Bit pitty that the organisation didn't gave me the permission to make pics on the inside, or even giving me acces to the paddock . Oh well. Ian; please send me a pm with your mobile phone number, we have to meet up this time lol, I'm going tonight and Sunday .

Lineup for the Norwegian Iceracing Challenge in Olso (Norway) on the 21th of March 1. Stefan Pletschacher GER 2. Johan Lundkvist SWE 3. Per-Anders Lindstrøm SWE 4. René Stellingwerf NED 5. Miroslaw Daniszewski POL 6. Ketil Skarpnord NOR 7. Heinz Göldi SUI 8. Jouni Seppanen FIN 9. Peter Koij SWE 10. Peter Jansson SWE 11. Espen Berglund NOR 12. Christoph Kirchner GER 13. Jan Klatovsky CZE 14. Jo Sætre NOR 15. Mark Uzzel GBR 16. Antonin Klatovsky CZE

Great pics Looking forward to Fri/Sat/Sun .

Doug, are you also going to Assen this weekend? And Ian.. yeah we have to meet up this time haha ! Maybe we can meet up at somewhere in the stadium?

Thanks for all the info Ian! . Are you also going to Assen this weekend?

Just heard that this meeting (in Skarnes) has been cancelled (again) .

Oh dear, no words for this rubbish .

"25.09.2010 - Challenge - Forssa (Finlandia) " Brilliant! Finally a longtrack meeting in a other country .

Lineup for the "Roelof Thijs Bokaal" in Assen on the 13th of March: Florian Fürst Christoph Kirchner Max Niedermaier Stefan Pletschacher Henri Malinen Jussi Nyrönen Sven Holstein René Stellingwerf Jo Saetre Josef Kreuzberger Martin Leitner Mario Schwaiger Grzegorz Knapp Miroslaw Daniszewski or Michal Widera Stanislav Arkhipov Andrej Gavrilkin Eduard Krysov Andrej Diviš Jan Klatovsky Tobias Åström Hans-Olov Olsén Gösta Sundelin Simon Gartmann Heinz Göldi

Kartoffelrennen - Skövde (Sweden) - 3th of March 1. Stefan Svensson (SWE) 2. Renè Stellingwerf (NL) 3. Grzegorz Knapp (POL) 4. Kai Lehtinen (FIN) 5. Tommy Flyktman (FIN) 6. Stanislav Archipov (RUS) 7. Stefan Pletschacher (GER) 8. Per Bruhn (SWE) 9. Eduard Krisov (RUS) 10. Andreas Forsell (SWE) 11. Sven Holstein (NL) 12. Peter Koij (SWE) 13. Per-Anders Lindström (SWE) 14. Per-Olof Serenius (SWE 15. - 16. - Reserves: 17. - 18. - Quali Heat: 19. Fredrik Johansson (SWE) 20. Hans Weber (GER) 21. Jo Saetre (NOR) 22. Mark Uzzel (GB)

11.07.2010 - tbc (POL) 7.08.2010 - Daugavpils (LAT) 18.09.2010 - Pardubice (CZ)

Looks like the Osecna organisation did runned a meeting yesterday.... only CZ riders though: 1. Andrej Diviš (3 3 2 3) 11 +3 2. Jan Pecina (3 3 3 2) 11 +2 3. Petr Klauz (2 1 3 2) 8 +1 4. Lukáš Volejník (1 2 2 3) 8 +0 5. Jan Klauz (2 2 1 1) 6 6. Radek Hutla (1 1 0 1) 3 7. Martin Běhal (0 0 1 X) 1

Results of Day 1; EC Juniors SARANSK (Russia) 1. Andrej Gavrilkin RUS (3 2 3 2 3) 13 2. Roman Akimedo RUS (2 3 2 3 3) 13 3. Nikolai Ryabokon RUS (3 3 2 2 3) 13 4. Michael Zelepukin RUS (3 3 3 3 X) 12 5. Maxim Korchemaha RUS (3 2 3 0 3) 11 6. Nikita Alexeev RUS (2 1 2 3 1) 9 7. Dmitri Koltakov RUS (2 1 2 2 2) 9 8. Alexander Rodin RUS (0 3 1 3 1) 8 9. Sven Holstein NL (1 0 3 1 2) 7 10. Alexander Kochetov RUS (2 1 1 1 2) 7 11. Dmitri Karpuhin RUS (1 2 X 0 2) 5 12. Anton Smaga RUS (1 1 1 2 X) 5 13. Vyacheslav Aznaurov RUS (X 2 1 1 X) 4 14. Daniel Belonogov RUS (0 0 0 1 1) 2 15. Dmitry Tikhonov RUS (1 0 0 0 0) 1 16. Henri Malinen FIN (0 - X 0 1) 1 17. Eugene Kosov RUS (0) 0 18. Eugene Dydykin RUS ns

Lineup for the Junior European Championship today (and tomorrow) in Saransk (Russia) 1. Andrej Gavrilkin 2. Dmitri Koltakov 3. Anton Smaga 4. Vyacheslav Aznaurov 5. Sven Holstein 6. Roman Akimedo 7. Michael Zelepukin 8. Henri Malinen 9. Nikolai Ryabokon 10. Dmitry Tikhonov 11. Daniel Belonogov 12. Alexander Kochetov 13. Nikita Alexeev 14. Maxim Korchemaha 15. Dmitri Karpuhin 16. Alexander Rodin 17. Eugene Kosov 18. Eugene Dydykin