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It's in Holland, not Altrip.

Could be in Holland. Looks like Herxheim.

I don't agree about the spectator interest. Inzell is sold out every year. Berlin had more visitors then last year. Heerenveen had good figures with 17.000 over three nights (with 8k on saturday). I'm sure an extra GP in Austria or even Sweden would be possible. I was in Togliatti too and it was different there, stadium was nowhere near full. Regarding the Dutch riders: we have three lads going big in the next few years. Ex Moto3 rider Jasper Iwema made huge progress and made Ledstrom and Bauer lifes difficult in only his 3rd race ever. Too bad he got excluded twice due to innerline and a crash. Then we have Jimmy Tuinstra (Johnny his son) and Bart Schaap. I can see a bright future for all three, all they need is the right backing. This is because there aren't enough good Russian kids coming through. Money is a huge problem in Russia. Riders can't afford much these days.

Yes, or have contracts where I could not find info about.

Hope they can fit some more GP's in between. Really annoying for the riders, especially the Russians.

Some rumours for 2018: GP's: Krasnogorsk Togliatti Astana Berlin Inzell Heerenveen Teams: Shadrinsk

Theo di Palma will replace him in the GP's.

Current GP contracts: Gorzow (till 2018) Malilla (till 2018) Prague (till 2018) Melbourne (till 2019) Teterow (till 2019) Torun (till 2020) Cardiff (till 2021) Warsaw (till 2021) Confirmed 2018 dates: 12.05.2018 Warsaw 26.05.2018 Prague 21.07.2018 Cardiff 22.09.2018 Teterow Rumoured 2018 dates: 28.04.2018 Krsko 25.08.2018 Gorzow 06.10.2018 Torun Rumoured places: Sweden 1x ? Denmark 2x ? New country ? ------ Possible calendar: 28.04.2018 Krsko ? 12.05.2018 Warsaw 26.05.2018 Prague -- World Cup -- 23.06.2018 ? 07.07.2018 ? 21.07.2018 Cardiff 11.08.2018 ? 25.08.2018 Gorzow ? 08.09.2018 ? 22.09.2018 Teterow 06.10.2018 Torun ? 27.10.2018 Melbourne ?

Live update will be available here: http://live.baansportfansite.nl/event/205/roelof-thijs-bokaal-heerenveen.html We will also provide Periscope livestream again

One Sport bought the rights for U21 and run it together with FIM. So it's not like One Sport ran the whole show in KL.... still a FIM event

My photo's here: http://www.baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/1298/fogo-power-winnaar-eerste-ronde-speedway-best-pairs-cup.html

You really have nothing to do.

Hello from a very cold Torun. Racing indeed not very spectacular but it's good to have the speedway season back

Me

Torun also got the extra padding.

SWC and U21 are both promoted events, so that's a little different Australia is a different thing

It's all about loyalty from federations to the FIM I think. ACU doesn't do much in hosting events (like FSP said) or sending riders to FIM Europe events. And yes, FIME might be a different department but in fact most of the same people are involved in both parties in some way.

Who cares if it's meaningless? I realy don't understand these comments all the time about this competition. Top riders, best track in the word, tv coverage, what more do you want?

2 for Slovakia indeed, missed it.

Esbjerg regs now online which confirms just one spot for ACU. http://www.fim-live.com/en/library/download/60858/no_cache/1/

I think it has also something to do with the UK completly ignoring the European championships.

Moravec and Castagna made sure their countries got enough spots haha.

Country - Requested - Obtained Argentina 2 - 1 Australia 5 - 4 Austria 3 - 2 Belgium 1 - 1 Croatia 1 - 1 Czech Republic 6 - 5 Denmark 8 - 6 Finland 2 - 2 France 2 - 2 Germany 5 - 5 Great Britain 6 - 2 Hungary 3 - 2 Italy 4 - 4 Latvia 4 - 3 New Zealand 1 - 1 Norway 2 - 2 Poland 8 - 6 Russia 2 - 2 Slovakia 2 - 2 Slovenia 4 - 3 Sweden 8 - 6 Ukraine 3 - 1 USA 1 - 1

1 in Esbjerg. ACU requested 6 spots by the way. Funny that the Czechs requested 6 and got 5.

Cool video from One Sport: https://youtu.be/LR4sbngH90E