DutchGrasstrack

Lineups Denmark: Niels-Kristian Iversen, Kenneth Bjerre, Michael Jepsen Jensen. Sweden: Fredrik Lindgren, Antonio Lindbäck, Peter Ljung. Russia: Andrei Kudriashov, Grigori Laguta, Emil Sayfutdinov. Australia: Jason Doyle, Chris Holder, Max Fricke. Germany: Martin Smolinski, Kai Huckenbeck, Erik Riss. Poland: Bartosz Zmarlik, Maciej Janowski, Patryk Dudek. UK: Craig Cook, Robert Lambert, Steve Worrall.

Lineup for the qualifier in Riga: Italy: Paco Castagna, Daniele Tessari, Guglielmo Franchetti and Alessandro Milanese. Latvia: Maksims Bogdanovs, Kasts Puodzuks, Andzejs Lebedevs, Jevgenijs Kostigovs. France: David Bellego, Mathieu Trésarrieu, Stéphane Trésarrieu, Jordan Dubernard, Dimitri Berge. Germany: Martin Smolinski, Mark Riss, Kai Huckenbeck, Erik Riss. France is the only country riding with 5 riders.

Lineup for the qualifier in Marianske Lazne announced today: 1. Gaétan Stella 2. Stephan Katt 3. Josef Franc 4. Anthony Chauffour 5. Paul Hurry 6. Anders Mellgren 7. Dirk Fabriek 8. Andrew Appleton 9. Jérôme Lespinasse 10. Bernd Diener 11. Hynek Stichauer 12. Henry van der Steen 13. Andreas Bergström 14. Christian Hülshorst 15. Gabriel Dubernard 16. Jesse Mustonen 17. Martin Malek 18. Romano Hummel 19. Marcel Dachs 20. Dave Meijerink 21. Edward Kennett 22. Sebastian Alden 23. Alexandre Dubrana 24. Aki Pekka Mustonen 25. Michal Dudek

No Russians in Pocking. 'Germany 2' will ride. Pocking lineup: http://www.fim-live.com/en/library/download/62969/no_cache/1/ Esbjerg lineup: http://www.fim-live.com/en/library/download/62958/no_cache/1/

The Polish rider is Mateusz Szczepaniak.

Live updates: http://online.speedwaylive.eu/mistrovstvi-evropy/dvojice/liberec/2017-05-27/ They didn't signup at first but replacing Sweden or Austria who both dropped out.

My photo's can be seen here: https://www.baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/1345/14-000-fans-zien-jannick-de-jong-de-eerste-langbaan-wk-finale-winnen-.html Results final 1: 1. Jannick de Jong (4,4,2,2,4,4,4) 24 2. Mathieu Tresarrieu (2,3,4,4,3,4,3) 23 3. Michael Härtel (3,2,3,4,2,3,2) 19 4. Stephan Katt (3,1,3,4,4,2,1) 18 5. Theo Pijper (4,2,1,3,3,3,0) 16 -- 6. Hynek Stichauer (3,3,2,2,4,2) 16 7. Josef Franc (2,4,4,3,1,R) 14 8. James Shanes (4,4,2,1,2,d) 13 9. Jörg Tebbe (0,3,4,0,2,1) 10 10. Richard Hall (2,Fd,3,1,1,1) 8 -- 11. Max Dilger (1,1,Fd,1,3) 6 12. Chris Harris (1,1,0,3,0) 5 13. Glen Phillips (0,2,1,2,R) 5 14. Dirk Fabriek (1,0,1,0,1) 3 15. Theo Di Palma (0,0,0,0,0) 0 Semi final 1: de Jong, Pijper, Stichauer, Tebbe, Franc (retired). Semi final 2: Tressarieu, Härtel, Katt, Hall, Shanes. Final: de Jong, Tressarieu, Härtel, Katt, Pijper.

Harris was very disappointing. Engine failure during the practice. In his 4th ride he finally looked allright but in his other 4 heats he was not on the pace at all, probably had engine problems again.

Riss retired from longtrack racing to focus on speedway.

The FIM World Long Track Championships starts tomorrow with the first final in Herxheim. 15k fans expected at this first final. Together with FIM I have started a live update platform for all FIM Long Track events: https://www.longtrack-live.com/ Direct link for Herxheim: https://www.longtrack-live.com/event/217/fim-long-track-world-championship-final-1-herxheim.html For the Facebook users: give the FIM page a follow where we will provide live streaming from rider presentation and the final draws. Link: https://www.facebook.com/FIMTrackRacing/ Calendar: 25.05.2017 Herxheim (Final 1) 17.06.2017 La Reole (Final 2) 24.06.2017 Marianske Lazne (Qualifier) 09.07.2017 Mühldorf (Final 3) 20.08.2017 Eenrum (Final 4) 27.08.2017 Berghaupten (Challenge) 02.09.2017 Morizes (Final 5) 24.09.2017 Roden (Teams)

Jack Holder is in the monster team now.

Live press conference: https://www.facebook.com/1389402171085612/videos/1873186632707161/ Wildcards: Patrick Hansen (DK) Alexander Woentin (SE) Max Fricke (AU)

Wildcards to be announced this morning.

This event is now also listed in the FIM rules. Good money in it, the winning nation gets 18k euros.

I think Fricke, Jeppesen and Woentin. Jeppesen and Woentin both just missed out with 5th. No Swedes in yet so that makes Woentin extra favourable for a wildcard. Kaczmarek with 5th no much chance for a wildcard as there are already 4 Polish riders in. Hope they give Chugunov a chance though.

Should be another runoff for third as well.

??? I think it's a pretty ok meeting

He seems to be testing the GTR to improve the new Jawa's.

Fim allocates slots to the semi finals and the federations decide which riders will go.

Yeah he is listed as #16 on the official lineup.

Think they don't wanna risk a GP postponement to the Sunday.

Few pics from practice today: https://www.baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/1334/fotoreportage-loting-en-training-speedway-grand-prix-van-warschau.html

Pavlic as wildcard and Pepe as second reserve.

I believe this event is somekind of an official event (FIM related as they selected the nations), so this has higher priority then domestic leagues.

The Belgian slot will likely be a Dutch rider or no rider.