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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

Updated lineup: Niels Kristian Iversen (DK) Linus Sundstrom (SE) Grzegorz Zengota (PL) Jakub Jamróg (PL) Vadim Tarasenko (RU) David Bellego (FR) Krystian Pieszczek (PL) Edward Mazur (PL) Timo Lahti (FI) Norbert Kościuch (PL) Michael Jepsen Jensen (DK) Tomasz Gapiński (PL) Luke Becker (US) Ondrej Smetana (CZ) Greg Hancock (US) Zdenek Simota (CZ) --- Nicolas Vicentin (IT) Stéphane Tresarrieu (FR)