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Stadium is too big for Ice speedway. I think the crowd was quite okay, think the same numbers are Shadrinsk. The BSI crew was also in Togliatti, hope they got a good impression of the stadium

Yes the points on this Grand Final Heat decide the World Champion. I think this is quite cool because the this Final heat was absolutely amazing with Haarahiltunen giving everything. Now time to go home after three weeks in Kazakhstan and Russia. Great trip where we joined the Ebner team on a roadtrip from Almaty to Shadrinsk and finally to Togliatti. Amazing experience The roads in Kazahkstan are shocking though, from Almaty towards Astana. Day 2 Togliatti pics: https://www.baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/1726/rusland-ongeslagen-winnaar-ice-speedway-of-nations-in-togliatti.html

Photo's from day 1: https://www.baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/1725/rusland-na-eerste-dag-ice-speedway-of-nations-met-maximale-punten.html

Practice pics from Togliatti Ice Speedway of Nations today: https://www.baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/1724/ice-speedway-of-nations-in-togliatti-van-start-met-vrije-training.html

Practice pics: https://www.baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/1720/wk-ijsspeedway-in-shadrinsk-van-start-met-de-vrije-training.html Pretty poor not to have a proper replacement for Zorn. Reserve rider Borodin will take his place. Tani and Bauer are in Russia. Iwema was proposed as a replacement as well. Nothing happened.

Zorn is home. Tani told me that he was not called by FIM yet.

Is he not interested to replace Zorn in Shadrinsk?

Just seen Zorn here at the border. He will fly home from Russia because otherwise he would have problems with his car at the border.

Photo's from Almaty , final 1, day 1: https://www.baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/1714/dinar-valeev-zorgt-voor-verassing-tijdens-opening-wk-ijsspeedway-in-almaty.html

Servov won a qualifier event earlier this year, so that's why he's the wildcard. Pletschacher hopes to be back in Shadrinsk. Tuinstra was called on monday, but it's not possible for them to get to Kazakhstan in time.

FIM confirmed it as 'injury'. @Conkers FIM will take live updates for their app from my live update page

Live update links for Almaty next weekend: 1.1: https://live.baansportfansite.nl/event/341/wk-ijsspeedway-finale-1-1-almaty.html 1.2: https://live.baansportfansite.nl/event/342/wk-ijsspeedway-finale-1-2-almaty.html

Jasper Iwema will race in the Major league this weekend for CSKA.

Super League round 3: Togliatti 36 9. Daniil Ivanov RU (3,1,1,2,1) 8 10. Nikita Toloknov RU (1,2,3,3,3) 12 11. Evgeny Saidullin RU (1,2,0,3,1) 7 12. Igor Saidullin RU (2,0,2,2,3) 9 19. Vadim Svinukhov RU Ufa 33 5. Nikolay Krasnikov RU (1,3,3,1,0) 8 6. Dinar Valeev RU (3,2,3,d,3) 11 7. Ivan Chichkov RU (3,2,0,2,0) 7 8. Nikita Bogdanov RU (1,1,2,1,2) 7 18. Nikita Shadrin RU Shadrinsk 27 1. Franky Zorn AT (0,0,1,N,N) 1 2. Konstantin Kolenkin RU (2,1,2,2,2) 9 3. German Khanmurzin RU (0,1,N,0,N) 1 4. Dmitry Borodin RU (0,N,0,1,1) 2 17. Dmitry Koltakov RU (3,3,3,3,2) 14 Kamensk Uralsky 23 13. Evgeny Sharov RU (2,3,1,d,2) 8 14. Dmitry Khomitsevich RU (3,3,2,F,1) 9 15. Martin Haarahiltunen SE 16. Dmitry Solyannikov RU (2,0,1,3,0) 6 20. Vasiliy Nesytykh RU (d,0,0,0,0) 0

Seems like Nawrocki tried every track/club to stage his Diamond thingy. Belgian club Heusden-Zolder was also asked lol.

My pics from today: https://www.baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/1705/jimmy-tuinstra-sterkste-nederlander-tijdens-wk-kwalificatie-in-kauhajoki.html

Oh yes. Friends and politics.

Lineup: 
 1 106 Dmitry Koltakov ru 2 919 Dmitry Khomitsevich ru 3 114 Dinar Valeev ru 4 333 Daniil Ivanov ru 5 383 Nikita Toloknov ru 6 58 Stefan Svensson se 7 199 Martin Haarahiltunen se 8 88 Max Niedermaier de 9 192 Niclas Svensson se 10 97 Ove Ledström se 11 181 Andrei Shishegov ru 12 665 Charly Ebner at 13 33 Johann Weber de 14 99 Stefan Pletschacher de 15 100 Franky Zorn at 16 Local wildcard -- 17 Local reserve 18 Local reserve 
 Reserve: 
 16 273 Jimmy Tuinstra nl 17 72 Tomi Tani fi 18 22 Gunther Bauer de

Ovik: 1. Dinar Valeev RU (3,3,3,3,3) 15 2. Nikita Toloknov RU (3,3,2,3,3) 14 3. Martin Haarahiltunen SE (3,3,1,3,3) 13 4. Niclas Svensson SE (2,3,3,2,2) 12 5. Andrey Shishegov KZ (2,2,2,2,3) 11 6. Johann Weber DE (1,2,3,2,2) 10 -- 7. Franky Zorn AT (3,2,2,1,1) 9 8. Tomi Tani FI (1,0,1,3,2) 7 9. Jonas Andersson SE (2,1,3,T,1) 7 10. Timo Kankunnen FI (0,2,2,2,0) 6 11. Luca Bauer DE (2,1,1,0,0) 4 12. Jussi Nyrönen FI (0,1,d,1,2) 4 13. Bart Schaap NL (1,1,1,Fd,1) 4 14. Jiri Wildt CZ (0,0,0,1,1) 2 15. Robert Ruzicka CZ (1,0,0,0,0) 1 16. Albin Lindblom SE (1) 1 17. David Lizák CZ (0,0,0,0,0) 0 Kauhajoki: 1. Dmitry Khomitsevich RU (3,3,3,3,3) 15 2. Daniil Ivanov RU (3,3,3,2,1) 12 3. Stefan Svensson SE (2,2,3,2,2) 11 4. Max Niedermeier DE (2,3,2,3,1) 11 5. Ove Ledström SE (3,3,Fd,2,2) 10 6. Charly Ebner AT (0,2,2,3,3) 10 --- 7. Stefan Pletschacher DE (1,1,3,2,3) 10 8. Jimmy Tuinstra NL (1,1,0,3,3) 8 9. Tobias Busch DE (3,2,1,0,0) 6 10. Vladimir Cheblokov KZ (2,R,1,1,2) 6 11. Matti Isoaho FI (2,1,2,1,N) 6 12. Jasper Iwema NL (1,2,2,Fd,1) 6 13. Josef Kreutzberger AT (0,1,0,1,2) 4 14. Christer Biskop FI (1,0,1,0,0) 2 15. Jan Pecina CZ (0,0,0,1,0) 1 16. Martin Běhal CZ (0,0,1,0,0) 1 17. Tomi Kirilov FI (1) 1

Replaced by Jonas Andersson.

Weber his team will do it on Facebook.

Bauer senior is out according to someone on the German forum.

Any predictions? Both look realy tough. Sweden: M.Haarahiltunen, N.Svensson, F.Zorn, H.Weber, N.Toloknov, D.Valeev, A.Shishegov... maybe G.Bauer? Finland: O.Ledstrom, S.Svensson, D.Ivanov, D.Khomitsevich look certain... then S.Pletschacher, M.Niedermaier, T.Busch, J.Iwema, C.Ebner?

Part of the game indeed. Makes the wildcard nominations quite interesting though. Regular boys Simon and Klabo missing out due to injuries.

He is actualy replacing Philip Lageder. Andrej Divis is already replaced by Robert Růžička. Lots of changes in the lineups this year. The Czechs replaced 4 riders already.