DutchGrasstrack

Looking forward to watch this back tonight For me it was good it was held on the sunday rather then the saturday, so I could go as well haha. Seems like it came across TV just as good as live at the stadium. Great racing and a good atmosphere at the stadium, although after heat 19 it got a little subdued

He was indeed towed from Vilnius to Dauavpils (2.5 hour journey) due to a broken fuel pump. https://www.facebook.com/Lagutaofficial/photos/a.1503720166569025.1073741828.1503694083238300/1599038590370515/?type=1&theater

I think it was more a matter of 'running out of time' then getting a rental van sorted. He broke down in Vilnius and then got towed (?) to Daugavpils (his Mercedes dealer I guess, his van is on LV plates). Daugavpils to Vojens is a 17 hour journey...

Grigory Laguta now posted evidence of his broken down van on his Instagram account: https://instagram.com/p/31CY-7hAz7/?taken-by=grigorii_laguta

The Russian suspension (Sayfutdinov, Laguta 2x, Kulakov, Tarasenko, Borodulin and Chalov) is now official: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pl&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sportowefakty.pl%2Fzuzel%2F527795%2Foficjalnie-rosjanie-zawieszeni-przez-fim&edit-text= They are suspended untill 14.06.2015 24:00. Grigory Laguta also received an additional 1200 euros fine.

The FIM has suspended the Russians for not competing in the SWC (except Gafurov, Kudrashov and Belousov ofcouse): http://www.przegladsportowy.pl/zuzel/ekstraliga,fim-zawiesza-rosjan-gwiazdorzy-nie-pojada-w-pge-ekstralidze-,artykul,577276,1,984.html

BSI streams all their events on https://livestream.com/SpeedwayGP/

No offense but the Lagutas make enough money to ride these few meetings on their own cost.... Surely riding for your country and possibly winning it is worth it.

German grasstrack sidecar racer Imanuel Schramm will also use a GTR engine this saturday at the Euro sidecar semi final in Loppersum.

Little piece from the BSI press release: "Russia race with just three riders in tonight’s meeting – captain Renat Gafurov, Vitaly Belousov and Andrei Kudriashov. The FIM has been informed that Grigorii Laguta has broken down en route to Vojens in Lithuania and cannot make it to the event in time. Medical certificates have been received for four members of the Russian squad, including Artem Laguta and Emil Sayfutdinov. The FIM is taking this matter very seriously and are investigating the events that have led to this disappointing situation."

Lineup: USA: 1. Gino Manzares, 2. Ryan Fisher, 3. Greg Hancock, 4. Max Ruml. Poland: 1. Maciej Janowski, 2. Przemyslaw Pawlicki, 3. Krzysztof Buszkowski, 4. Bartosz Zmarzlik. Russia: 1. Renat Gafurov, 2. No rider, 3. Vitaly Belousov, 4. Andrei Kudriashov. Great Britain: 1. Daniel King, 2. Tai Woffinden, 3. Robert Lambert, 4. Chris Harris.

Reports from Poland suggest that Russia will ride with only 3 riders.... Artem is ill and Grigory his van broke down.

Practice not compulsory anyway

Oops, ofcourse, changed it. Draw has also been made: 1.Martin Vaculik #54 2.Martin Smolinski #84 3.Nicki Pedersen #3 4.Antonio Lindbaeck #85 5.Tomasz Jedrzejak #79 6.Tomasz Gollob #20 7.Hans Andersen #34 8.Peter Kildemand #25 9.Przemysław Pawlicki #59 10. Paweł Przedpełski 11.Grigory Laguta #7 12.Emil Sayfutdinov #89 13.Janusz Kołodziej #27 14.Piotr Protasiewicz #151 15.Artem Laguta #222 16.Vaclav Milik #13 -- 17.Adrian Miedziński 18.Kacper Gomólski

Miedziak and Ginger are the reserves for Round 1 in Torun

Lindback and Smoli confirmed

Here are my pics from Gniezno: http://www.baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/737/speedway-world-cup-van-start-zweden-wint-event-1.html OveFundinFan results are correct according to the official results which came in this morning.

Challenge results: http://live.baansportfansite.nl/event/103/ek-speedway-challenge-torun.html SEC lineup after tonights challenge: Nicki Pedersen Emil Sayfutdinov Martin Vaculik Peter Kildemand Janusz Kolodziej -- Tomasz Gollob (wild card) tba (wild card) tba (wild card) -- Artem Laguta Hans Andersen Tomasz Jedrzejak Piotr Protasiewicz Vaclav Milik Grigory Laguta Przemyslaw Pawlicki My money is on Piotr Pawlicki a Swedish rider and Martin Smolinski for the remaing wildcards. Looks like a great lineup :)

Latest lineup news: Andrej Karpov steps in to replace Piotr Pawlicki. No number 15 today as David Bellego is not in Poland today to replace Leon Madsen.

Any predictions? I'm going for 2x Laguta, Bjerre, Lebedevs, Protasiewicz, Przemek and Milik.

Smoli will very likely get the other wildcard..

Piotr for a wildcard then

Bad news friends https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=302462319877667&substory_index=0&id=198889610234939

I guess we can also use this tread for the U21 teams.... the calendar has been updated: 22.08 - Semi final 1 - Gustrow 22.08 - Semi final 2 - Grudziadz Opole 31.10 - Final - Mildura

The PESEL number is calculated by your DOB, your gender, some random number and another number to make it 'calculatable'. I have made a little tool a while ago to create a PESEL number based on your DOB and gender: http://www.baansportfansite.nl/pesel.php