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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.

Now confirmed by FIM.

Dinar and Nikita to Sweden Daniil and Dmitry to Finland

Koltakov was ill, that's why he wasn't as strong as usual. Makarov was already in the Ice Finals in 2014. I was hoping that he would qualify as well.

Live updates: https://live.baansportfansite.nl/event/338/russisch-kampioenschap-ijsspeedway-finale-4-kamensk-uralsky.html

- Koltakov - 6 from each Qualifier - 2 FIM wildcards - 1 local wildcard

There will be some kind of Euro championship hosted by DTRA with events hosted in Holland, Spain and the UK. Not associated with FIM Europe for as far as I know.

It's not a World Championship, it's a World Cup. It doesn't mean anything. It's only partly organised by FIM, the same as the track racing youth meetings. Except the 250’s speedway which is a World Championship since 2 years.

Live updates: https://live.baansportfansite.nl/event/335/russisch-kampioenschap-ijsspeedway-finale-1-togliatti.html Live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnF0AS7n7i8

Police report: The fatal accident occurred on Sunday, December 16, in the Satka district of the region. According to the regional UGIBDD, at about half past seven in the evening, at the 1713th kilometer of the Moscow-Chelyabinsk highway, the 32-year-old truck driver MAN did not cope with the snowfall and allowed the semi-trailer to drift into the oncoming traffic lane. The oncoming Volkswagen Crafter van crashed into the trailer, which was driven by a 54-year-old driver. Unfortunately, the man died on the spot from his injuries.

This is confirmed now sadly. Igor broke his ankle and will need an operation to fix it. His dad died on the spot. Other riders (Solyannikov) quickly arrived to help on the scene. It all happened in a split second with limited visibility, and an overtaking car. So sad

Live update links for the Finals in Togliatti: https://live.baansportfansite.nl/event/335/russisch-kampioenschap-ijsspeedway-finale-1-togliatti.html https://live.baansportfansite.nl/event/336/russisch-kampioenschap-ijsspeedway-finale-2-togliatti.html I will link to live streams as well from there.

It's actually a GM NX. Most tuners test with it these days.

Mellgren retired so Fienhage jumps in as permanent rider. Meijerink joins the reserves.

The same guy who streamed last weekend should stream again. Just keep an eye on his channel.

Yes this is changed. No more wildcards, unless a Croatian rider failed to qualify (which is likely). Then only 3 from Abensberg. Pavlic will start in Abensberg, so he will have 2 chances to qualify for GP.