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Yes, four teams will compete. Blijham, Lelystad, Veenoord and Heusden-Zolder. Four meetings in total haven been planned (see above), should be good.

Bauer got his broken arm fixed with a plate and seven screws... he plans to ride again in Inzell in less then two weeks.

Yeah Bangma was not happy, he only did half of the practice as well. To keep him going, a big ice speedway fan (Fedde de Boer) started a crowd funding page on Facebook. Bangma invested alot of his own money to buy his own bike which was completly written off after his crash. At the moment a total of 800 euros has been collected plus he will get support from a few companies (including the Dutch federation and Icespeedway Assen). Hope to see Dirk in Berlin (I did hear though that he could not go, but not 100% sure)!

Both still need to get their own bikes though. They used to ride on Tuinstra's bikes, but he sold one of them. Therefore de Jong had to race on a 'show model' from the Assen club which is not entirely setup for todays icespeedway racing. Ruben had a go in the thursday practice, but after he crashed he thought it would be better to stop riding on it... Robert-Jan Bangma crashed his (own) bike in practice when he tried to avoid Ruben. Bangma therefore used the show model for the race on friday eve, did not race as good as his won bike he admitted....

I'll provide liveupdates from both GP's Will post links later.

The WTC semi is in Teterow 06.06 Gustrow - Junior challenge (speedway) 07.06 Teterow - Bergring rennen (longtrack) 07.06 Teterow - WTC semi (speedway) 08.06 Teterow - Bergring rennen (longtrack) 08.06 Gustrow - pfingspokal (speedway) If you go by car (from Calais for example) you can also go to Blijham/NL on the 9th for an international speedway meeting. It's only an 45 minute drive extra

The ban is postponed till January 1st 2015. So Nicki, Emil and AJ can do both this year

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)