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The all new Dutch Speedway League is going to start in less then two weeks. It took a while to get it all sorted but there is finally a start to this project which will hopefully save the speedway in The Netherlands. The normal Dutch Open championship doesn't work anymore and therefore is decided to run only 1 race which will end up with a new Dutch speedway champion. For this year there are four teams confirmed: Veenoord Rams, Groningen Lions, Blijham Eagels and the Helzoldstars. Lineup for round 1 in Veenoord on the 3rd of August has been confirmed and is as follows: Veenoord Rams 1. Henry van der Steen 2. Pascal Swart 3. Maurin Vochteloo 4. Mark Beishuizen Groningen Lions 1. Mark Stiekema 2. Raymon Woortman 3. Erik Eijbergen 4. Andy ter Schuur Helzoldstars 1. Jannick de Jong 2. Henk Koonstra 3. Sjoerd Rozenberg 4. Anne Spaan Blijham Eagels 1. Dirk Fabriek 2. Lars Zandvliet 3. Nick Lourens 4. Niels Remmelts More info (in Dutch) can be found here: http://www.baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/248/de-start-van-de-dutch-speedway-league-in-veenoord.html

Seems like that Bydgoszcz has given up for this season by withdrawing Hancock and Loktaev. Both internationals will be replaced by Mateusz Szczepaniak and Bartosz Bietracki. http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/372970/skladyweglapl-polonia-pogodzona-ze-spadkiem-hancock-i-loktajew-wycofani

Thanks Ghostwalker, I've edited my post. Just found out that Gorzow is on next year calendar too as they are on a contract till 2015. Edit: Torun is a yes for next year too (last year of their contract)

2014 05/04/2014 - Auckland/NZ 26/04/2014 - Bydgoszcz/PL 17/05/2014 - Tampere/FI 31/05/2014 - Prague/CZ 14/06/2014 - Malilla/SE 28/06/2014 - Copenhagen/DK 12/07/2014 - Cardiff/GB --- 26/07/2014 - SWC Event 1 - Kings Lynn/GB 29/07/2014 - SWC Event 2 - Västervik/SE 31/07/2014 - SWC Race-off - Bydgoszcz/PL 02/08/2014 - SWC Final - Bydgoszcz/PL --- 16/08/2014 - Riga/LV 30/08/2014 - Gorzow/PL 13/09/2014 - Vojens/DK 27/09/2014 - Stockholm/SE 11/10/2014 - Torun/PL On contract future events: 2015 Stockholm/SE Daugavpils/LV Gorzow/PL Tampere/FI Warsaw/PL Torun/PL 2016 Stockholm/SE Tampere/FI Torun/PL 2017 Stockholm/SE Torun/PL

I don't know what kind of website 'zapaday' is but it doesn't seems to make any sense lol. Date has been published on 16 Nov 2011. Plus if you look to the 'related events' on that website you will find that this years World Cup is in Gorzow this weekend

The crowd pretty good for Belgian standards, think there were about 500 people there.

1) MSC Diedenbergen - 50 Punkte 1. Michael Hadek (2,2,3,3,2) - 12 2. Valentin Grobauer (3,1,1,1,3) - 9 3. Marcel Helfer (0,3,2,2,3) - 10 4. Michell Hofmann (3,1,1,2,2) - 9 5. Michael Härtel (3,X,2,2,3) - 10 2) Team Veenoord - 40 Punkte 1. Sjoerd Rozenberg (0,2,1,6!,2) - 11 2. Pascal Swart (X,2,2,X,0,0) - 4 3. Henry van der Steen (3,2,3,1,2,3) - 14 4. Lars Zandvliet (2,2,X,-,-) - 4 5. Niclas Nielsen (2,3,0,0,2) - 7 3) Team Great Britain - 34 Punkte 1. Ashley Birks (3,3,3,X,6!,3) - 18 2. Lee Geary (1,0,1,1,0,0) - 3 3. Brendan Johnson (1,3,3,1,3,1) - 12 4. Kevin Teager (0,0,-,0,-) - 0 5. Sam Woods (1,0,0,-,0) - 1 4) Helzoldstars - 33 Punkte 1. Roman Cejka (1,3,3,3,2,2) - 14 2. Randy Oldenziel (2,X,-,-,-) - 2 3. Thomas Sörensen (2,1,0,2,1,1) - 7 4. Nick Lourens (1,0,2,1,1,1) - 6 5. Santiago Martinez (X,1,1,2,X,-) - 4 Photo's: http://www.baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/240/msc-diedenbergen-wint-in-heusden-zolder.html

Pavlic, Simota, Madsen, Andersen, Larsen, Karlsson, Busch, Bodganov, Puodzuks, Ulamek, Zengota, Miskowiak, Laguta, Povazhny, Vaculik, Karpov plus Janowski and Hefenbrock as reserve. Porsing and Milik have both resigned because they are doing the World U21's in favour of this Euro championship.

And Esbjerg: 1. Thomas Jonasson 2. Peter Kildemand 3. Timo Lathi 4. Niels Kristian Iversen 5. Ales Dryml 6. Edward Kennett 7. Kenneth Bjerre 8. Krysztof Kasprzak 9 .Viktor Golubovskiy 10. Andzejs Lebedevs 11. Oleksandr Loktaev 12. Przemyslav Pawlicki 13. Dakota North 14. Tobias Kroner 15. Piotr Pawlicki 16. Daniel Nermark -- 17. Linus Sundström 18. Kevin Wölbert

Lineup for Lonigo: 1. Hans Andersen 2. Cameron Woodward 3. Max Dilger 4. Michael Jepsen Jensen 5. Norbert Magosi 6. Roland Benko 7. Matej Zagar 8. Martin Smolinski 9. Guglielmo Francetti 10. Maciej Janowski 11. Jurica Pavlic 12. Matic Voldrih 13. Jacub Jamrog 14. Krzystof Buczkowski 15. Troy Batchelor 16. Vaclav Milik -- 17. Scott Nicholls 18. Tomas Suchanek

Photo's from today's practice: http://www.baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/234/fotoreport-speedway-gp-gorzow-training.html Or see our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/baansportfansite

Wildcard: Michael Jepsen Jensen Reserve 1: Peter Kildemand Reserve 2: Kenni Larsen

Any info on the crowd numbers? Looks busy on the pics !!

Photo's: http://www.baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/229/sayfutdinov-breid-leiding-in-gp-tussenstand-uit.html

I was talking about the 2013 Dutch speedway topic I created a while ago (in this forum) Baansportfansite.nl is the website I work for... That's why I post the Dutch news on here too.

For some reason I can't find my current Dutch Speedway news topic, probably because of the lack of updates. BUT the speedway season finally kicks of on saturday in Blijham with a International meeting. The club contracted a good lineup for Dutch standards so hopefully a good meeting is in sight. Because of the date clash with Cardiff I will not be there, but I will try to get some info from the meeting (results etc..). Lineup: Jannick de Jong (NL) Mark Stiekema (NL) Randy Oldenziel (NL) Maurin Vochteloo (NL) Henry van der Steen (NL) Pascal Swart (NL) Henk Koonstra (NL) Thomas Sörensen (DK) Jörg Tebbe (GER) Keijo Bunning (GER) André Mochner (GER) Marcin Sekula (POL) Remigiusz Perzynski (POL) Stanisław Burza (POL) Marcin Rempala (POL) Tomasz Rempala (POL) Stanislav Melnickuk (UKR) Practice starts at 15:00 and the first heat should be around 18:00. Maybe some of you noticed the announcement of a Dutch speedway league earlier this year, but at the moment nothing official has been announced. There will be a few 'league' meetings this year, but I do not know how this will be set up. Meanwhile in Lelystad they still run their clubmeetings, for those who are interested: results can be found here (first two rounds).

The draw will be made at 13:00 at the 'Queens Arcade' on the friday.

Photo's from todays practice here: http://www.baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/224/fotoreport-speedway-gp-praag-training.html ALSO on Facebook:

Now confirmed... http://www.speedwaygp.com/news/article/2446/czech-trapper-back-in-prague

Nicklas Porsing is replacing Peter Kildemand in Debrecen...

Josef Franc won the Marketa Open meeting at Prague tonight and therefore he is chosen as the wildcard rider for the Prague GP. Reserves: Václav Milik and Zdeněk Holub. Subject to confirmation by the FIM...

Full results and photo's: http://www.baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/218/spannende-heats-tijdens-het-helzold-kampioenschap.html

https://www.facebook.com/SpeedwayEuro

The organizers are having meetings with the BSI tomorrow and friday :)

Photo's from todays practice: http://www.baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/215/fotoreport-speedway-gp-bydgoszcz-training.html They are also on our new Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/baansportfansite