DutchGrasstrack

Statement here: http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/397501/oswiadczenie-organizatorow-sec-prawnicy-sa-gotowi-do-podjecia-natychmiastowych-d And in English: http://speedwayeuro.com/news/n/171/official-statement.html

Bydgoszcz is now confirmed for both SGP (26/04) and SWC (31/07, 02/08) according to Sportowefakty.pl

Riga confirmed (and Daugavpils in 2015): http://speedwaygp.com/news/article/2997/latvian-sgp-set-for-riga

BIG changes in the Longtrack GP's next year: Riders are down to 15 (from 20). Heats are down to 15 (also from 20). Top 10 of 2013 plus the top 5 of the challenge are qualified for next years events. There are NO wildcards. Prize money goes down by 25% to 21K per event. No GP's in Vechta and Forus. Also no GP in Forssa, but they are staging the team event. Joachim Ohmer from the DMSB said that he is 'happy' that there will be something atleast next year. Ohmer thinks that there will be 5 GP's; probably Morizes, Marmande, Eenrum, Herxheim plus another one somewhere. The challenge will be held in Marianske Lazne. The whole longtrack series look more dead then alive I believe, maybe time to go back to the good old times with one big final?

The first European GP is going to be held in Bydgoszcz after all according to espeedway.pl.

Official FIM (and FIM Europe) calendar: 25.1.2014 - GP Challenge - St. Johann 1./2.2.2014 - GP1+2 - Krasnogorsk 8./9.2.2014 - Teams - Togliatti 15./16.2.2014 - Euro - Kamensk-Uralski 8./9.3.2014 - GP3+4 - Assen 22./23.3.2014 - GP 5+6 - Inzell

I created the new topic because it will also be used for the other European championships in 2014, plus it has already some info in it which has nothing to do with this so called 'war' between the various speedway parties ..

SEC just posted this on their facebook page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzW4Tel8Px4 .... Some new info has been posted on the German speedway forum: it seems that the FIM is allowing one SGP rider per SEC event and also the top three of the SEC is automaticly qualified for the SGP challenge.

It's now official: Speedway GP riders are not allowed to race in the SEC next year: http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/395289/sec-starty-zawodnikow-z-gp-zablokowane-co-dalej-z-cyklem EDIT: Also confirmed by Janek Konikiewicz on Twitter: Official: SGP riders are forbidden to start in SEC. How fair is that?

Riga stadium aerial shot: http://binged.it/1giGZCA

The Latvian GP will be held in Riga

The challenge in Sankt Johann, Austria, will now be held on january 25th.

Tampere track looking good: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=444537505667807&set=a.425397074248517.1073741827.269976823123877&type=1&relevant_count=1&ref=nf

Weissenbach january 6 will be a nice weekend with Steingaden on the 5th.

What do you wanna know mate? I'm a regular visitor of many races in Germany :-) @f-s-p, Interesting that the Europe part of the FIM is planning their meetings earlier then the FIM meetings.. Do you know if the FIM has released a 'provisional' calender? I know they did it for the last few years, but can't seem to find anything for 2014 lol.

Don't think there will be a GP in Vechta, the organisers said that 2013 was the last GP they will stage because they are not happy with the FIM.

They are making good progress on the Tampere track: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BXQiRLSIIAAEdpI.jpg:large

No he came in as a late 'replacement'. Strange though as I believe a German rider was next in line. Daniel King was the wildcard. Chris Harris got knocked out the qualifiers in the first round in Sankt Johann in Austria with a 13th place...

Confirmed according to Sportowefakty ... 1 Tai Woffinden 2 Jaroslaw Hampel 3 Niels Kristian Iversen 4 Greg Hancock 5 Nicki Pedersen 6 Emil Sajfutdinov 7 Matej Zagar 8 Darcy Ward 9 Krzysztof Kasprzak 10 Kenneth Bjerre 11 Martin Smolinski 12 Tomasz Gollob 13 Fredrik Lindgren 14 Chris Holder 15 Andreas Jonsson

They also posted the full calendar... 05.04 - Auckland 26.04 - Bydgoszcz 17.05 - Tampere 31.05 - Prague 14.06 - Malilla 28.06 - Copenhagen 12.07 - Cardiff 16.08 - Gorzów 30.08 - Daugavpils 13.09 - Vojens 27.09 - Stockholm 11.10 - Toruń

Interesting: speedwayracing.se is naming Bydgoszcz as the first event of the SWC, any info on this ??

The Dutch Championship race in Lelystad which was scheduled for last sunday has been called off due to a problem between the club and the federation. Therefore there will be no 2013 Dutch speedway champion ...

2013 Tai Woffinden GP gallery (Auckland, Bydgoszcz, Prague, Cardiff, Gorzow, Torun): http://www.baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/276/fotoreport-tai-woffinden.html

Bydgoszcz is confirmed as the host for the Race-off and Final. http://www.bydgoszcz.sport.pl/sport-bydgoszcz/1,130845,14752841,Bydgoszcz_stolica_zuzlowego_swiata__DPS_2014_na_Polonii.html

A few photo's from practice can be found here: http://www.baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/274/fotoreport-speedway-gp-torun-training.html