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FOGO and NICE have pulled the plug out of their SGP (rider) sponsorships, according to Sportowefakty ....

Ah, the letter is here: http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/416996/znamy-tresc-pisma-fim-kierowanego-do-federacji-krajowych This seems to be only about SGP/SEC, and not the FIM (Europe) meetings in general.

"The FIM decision is also an obvious attack on the One Sport company, whose conflict with the organizer Grand Prix - BSI has been known for a long time." Typical Sportowefakty propoganda.... FIM and BSI are bad boys bla bla blaaa. I'm not to sure about this, does anyone have an official FIM statement?

The second part of all the tools/bikes arrived today, so looks all good for this weekend

According to Sportowefakty the FIM made a new rule wich says that FIM riders can't compete in FIM Europe meetings .... More here: http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/416908/fim-po-cichu-ograniczyl-zuzlowcow-fim-europe-nie-bedzie-miala-racji-bytu

Zorn is out for 12 months at least Probably the end of his career as this injury also delays the start of his 2014-2015 season. More here (in German): http://www.speedweek.com/eisspeedwaygp/news/51264/Franz-Zorn-faellt-12-Monate-aus-Karriereende.html

Yep he's nominated with Bauer and Pletschacher

Zorn hopes to be back in Assen as he also broke his pubic bone. Will be interesting to see wich rider is going to replace him Blagoveshchensk... Niedermaier is first in line, then Tani, Holstein, Posch and Haring. Live stream link for today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8gjcXxkAuQ (riders presentation starts in 45 minutes) Live results link: http://live.baansportfansite.nl/event/35/wk-ijsspeedway-gp-2-krasnogorsk.html

Yep, Zorn is on his way home where he will get checked up in a Austrian hospital tonight. He seem to have some problem with his hip after crashing twice. GP 1 result: 1. Daniil Ivanov (2,3,3,3,3,3,3) 20 2. Dimitry Koltakov (2,3,3,2,3,3,2) 18 3. Dimitri Khomitsevich (3,2,2,3,2,2,1) 15 4. Vitaly Khomitsevich (3,2,2,2,3,2,0) 14 --- 5. Igor Kononov (3,3,3,1,3,1) 14 6. Sergey Makarov (3,3,1,1,2,1) 11 7. Antti Aakko (1,1,3,3,1,0) 9 8. Stefan Svensson (1,1,2,0,2,0) 6 --- 9. Per-Anders Lindström (1,0,2,2,1) 6 10. Vasily Kosov (2,1,2) 5 11. Harald Simon (0,2,0,2,0) 4 12. René Stellingwerf (2,1,1,R,0) 4 13. Jan Klatovsky (1,1,1,d,1) 4 14. Stefan Pletschacher (0,0,0,3,0) 3 15. Günther Bauer (2,0,0,1,0) 3 16. Evgeny Kosov (1,1) 2 17. Grzegorz Knapp (0,0,0,0,N) 0 18. Franz Zorn (d,N,N,N,N) 0

The GP season starts tomorrow with the first Grand Prix in Krasnogorsk (Moscow). The club will do a live stream through youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrUBQjnv8oQ (currently showing a replay of todays training). I will post the results into the following race schedule: http://live.baansportfansite.nl/event/33/wk-ijsspeedway-gp-1-krasnogorsk.html Racing starts at 15:00 Moscow time, so 11:00 UK time.

Is there racing on any other tracks then Walkerville?

Bunyan is the wildcard again. Track reserves will be selected after the NZ championships next month

The numbers: 1. Tai Woffinden (GB) 33. Jaroslaw Hampel (PL) 88. Niels-Kristian Iversen (DK) 45. Greg Hancock (US) 5. Nicki Pedersen (DK) 89. Emil Sayfutdinov (RU) 55. Matej Zagar (SI) 43. Darcy Ward (AU) 507. Krzysztof Kasprzak (PL) 66. Fredrik Lindgren (SE) 23. Chris Holder (AU) 100. Andreas Jonsson (SE) 91. Kenneth Bjerre (DK) 84. Martin Smolinski (DE) 37. Chris Harris (GB) 16. Wildcard --- 17. Reserve 1 18. Reserve 2 --- 19. Troy Batchelor (AU) 20. Michael Jepsen Jensen (DK)

Lol Bavarian, have you ever seen iceracing? OK there aren't many young riders getting through, but I don't call it boring to be honest. Had an amazing weekend in Sanok. The saturday was not the best racing because the lineup was a bit wierd and unfair (Kononov racing against Birn for example). BUT the sunday event was realy good. Saturday pics: http://www.baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/285/sanok-cup-zaterdag-.html Sunday pics: http://www.baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/286/sanok-cup-zondag-.html And yes; on one of the sunday pics you will see Krasnikov having a go on an speedway bike!!!

Anyone from this forum going to Sanok? I'm heading there tonight... Will provide live updates on the following links: Saturday - http://live.baansportfansite.nl/event/31/sanok-cup-kwalficatie.html Sunday - http://live.baansportfansite.nl/event/32/sanok-cup.html

Lol, this is a much bigger event, including live coverage on Eurosport in loads of countries .... win win for the speedway fans, surely they can move their meetings

Kasprzak with 507

Official calendar and teams: Poland Russia Australia Denmark Sweden Germany Latvia 28.03 Torun (PL) 10.05 Landshut (DE) 23.05 Eskilstuna (SE)

Holstein has given up on the grasstrack sidecars

2014 Grand Prix startinglist: 1. Daniil Ivanov (RU) 2. Dmitri Koltakov (RU) 3. Dmitri Khomitsevich (RU) 4. Franz Zorn (AT) 5. Harald Simon (AT) 6. Stefan Svensson (SE) 7. Günther Bauer (DE) 8. Grzegorz Knapp (PL) 9. Jan Klatovsky (CZ) 10. Stefan Pletschacher (DE) 11. Sergey Makarov (RU) 12. René Stellingwerf (NL) 13. Antti Aakko (FI) 14. Per-Anders Lindström (SE) 15. Igor Kononov (RU) 16. Wildcard Riders on standby: 19. Max Niedermaier (DE) 20. Tomi Tani (FI) 21. Sven Holstein (NL) 22. Martin Posch (AT) 23. Ronny Häring (CH)

It's in this years edition as well lol. But it's not going to happen, there are not alot of clubs who want to stage a FIM meeting due to their demands. One of the members of the Ice Speedway UK group on Facebook made a very sensible post a few days ago (after the pathetic news of the challenge cancellation): "a real pity but do not understand that the FIM does not have a back up available, every normal thinking person already saw this problem coming up a couple of weeks ago. Why not try to arrange something with for example with Sanok they have organized a qualification earlier and have an artificial ice track available in that weekend. If the FIM have a little bit less demands and supprt the organizers financially than I think that Sanok was willing to organize the qualification together with their Sanok Cup. Again, to my humble opinion, the FIM does not do the sport a favour." I think he's spot on.

Probably because an amateur meeting with 100+ heats has much more riders and classes. With an league meeting with 15 heats you have just a few riders who do need some time between the heats... with an amateur meeting this is no problem, because there is always some other racing going on to fill the gap.

What a shame... quite easy to make up the draw now Koltakov, Khomitsevich, Ivanov, Kononov, Makarov, Zorn, Simon, Bauer, Pletschacher, Svensson, Lindstrom, Knapp, Klatovsky, Aakko and Stellingwerf.... plus one wildcard each GP weekend.

The challenge in Sankt Johann is cancelled, and guess what... the FIM has no backup.... They are now going to seed the 15 GP riders

Hmm yeah lol, strange that Google translates Zlotys into Dollars haha.