DutchGrasstrack

Wildcards have been announced: - Jesse Mustonen / FI - Chris Harris / GB - Anders Mellgren / SE Substitute list: - Lukas Fienhage / DE - Hynek Stichauer / CZ - Jorg Tebbe / DE - Gaetan Stella / FR - Zach Wajtknecht / GB

Any travel recommendations? Fly to Tampere I guess?

Provisional by FIM: 12.01 - Quali 1 - Örnsköldvsik 12.01 - Quali 2 - Kauhajoki 02.02 / 03.02 - Finale 1 - Almaty 09.02 / 10.02 - Finale 2 - Shadrinsk 02.03 / 03.03 - Finale 3 - Berlin 16.03 / 17.03 - Finale 4 - Inzell 30.03 / 31.03 - Finale 5 - Heerenveen 16.02 / 17.02 - Teams - Togliatti

Open meeting Marmande in France for example. Vechta in Germany is a good one as well. They used to stage FIM meetings, now open meetings. Full house every year.

Not great these days. There are a few events with good money. Winning a Long Track Final round will get you for example 2500 euro.

Nicki Pedersen tried longtrack today. Anyone seeing a wildcard coming up?

I was there a few weeks ago but it looks the same as a few years back. It all felt a bit old though.

Hoping the SON will be there. Stadium will be sold out for sure.

Calendar: May 18: PZM Warsaw FIM Speedway Grand Prix of Poland (Warsaw) June 1: Slovenian FIM Speedway Grand Prix (Krsko) June 15: Czech Republic FIM Speedway Grand Prix (Prague) July 6: Swedish FIM Speedway Grand Prix (Hallstavik) August 3: Wroclaw FIM Speedway Grand Prix of Poland (Wroclaw) August 17: Scandinavian FIM Speedway Grand Prix (Malilla, Sweden) August 31: German FIM Speedway Grand Prix (Teterow) September 7: Danish FIM Speedway Grand Prix (Vojens) September 21: Adrian Flux British FIM Speedway Grand Prix (Cardiff) October 5: Torun FIM Speedway Grand Prix of Poland (Torun) TBC October: Australian FIM Speedway Grand Prix (TBC)

Few practice pics: https://www.baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/1673/speedway-grand-prix-van-torun-van-start-met-vrije-training.html

Krsko round not happening due to conflict between club and the organizers.

Amazing day of longtrack racing yesterday in Muhldorf. Both Smolinski and Berge scored 104 points after 5 final events. Atmosphere was amazing when Smolinski won the final. Pics and full results here: https://www.baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/1672/martin-smolinski-tijdens-laatste-heat-wereld-kampioen-langbaan.html

Togliatti will host the teams and Heerenveen the final two individual rounds.

#7 will be Patrik Mikel

First/second bend in Berlin is nice. FIM can’t announce the dates yet. Teams might not be in heerenveen.

#5 is now Daniel Spiller.

Looks like QR1 will be held in Ylitornio.

Prague got a new multi year deal. Next year: 15.06.2019

They like long meetings as well. BBQ, friends, some racing. Few years ago we had a speedway meeting in Blijham which ended in like 2 hours. Result was that everybody was moaning that it was such a short event.

This format is for sure on purpose to drag the meeting. For French people it's normal to attend meetings that end after midnight.

Very wierd heat schedule. I put it all together here: https://live.baansportfansite.nl/event/326/diamond-cup-ronde-1-lamothe-landerron.html

Yes looks like it. What a joke.

Doesn't look like it.

There will be live stream + live updates as usual as well. Hummel was included in the lineup at first, but decided to drop out after all. He made a come back last week in Uithuizen, only 8 weeks after breaking his femur. Wasn't the best idea, and now he decided to come back in 2019.

This should be the draw: 1. Becker 2. S.Tressarieu 3. Hancock 4. Gapinski 5. Tarasenko 6. Zengota 7. Iversen 8. Pieszczek 9. Jamrog 10. Bellego 11. Jepsen Jensen 12. Sundstrom -- 13. Vicentin