DutchGrasstrack

There are a few expensive hotels and a few hostels available on booking.com ....

Danny King didn't even take part in the qualifiers so he should not be allowed to race at all in this challenge imo .... would have been 'fairer' to pick a British rider who did take part (Nicholls, Harris or Kennett). Even beter would be to scrap this rule Oh well, will be a great meeting though, can't wait :-)

Photo from Prem his flying crash:

No offence but this Rzeszow longtrack 'GP' is a big joke. These boys should be riding on tracks like 600 meters or longer, but not on a 400 meter speedway track. Polish riders have no interest in longtrack at all, so that's why they come up with Stanislaw Burza as the wildcard and two Czech riders as reserve (one talented girl, but also a 50 year old veteran) ....

Tampere is now fixed according to http://www.aamulehti.fi/Urheilu/1194831273823/artikkeli/ratinan+stadionilla+ajetaan+speedwayn+mm-osakisa.html The GP will be in May and the official date will be published in 2 weeks.

There is some confusion about the qualifiers ..... many websites got 8+1 from Lonigo and 7+1 from Holstedt (like me on the post above). BUT according to the DMU it's 8+1 from Holstedt and 7+1 from Lonigo which means that: - Piotr Pawlicki is not a reserve anymore, instead he's in the 1-16 lineup - Jurica Pavlic is now a reserve instead of in the 1-16 lineup - Timo Lathi is now a reserve - Krzysztof Buczkowski is not riding at all

This should be the lineup ..... Daniel Nermark Thomas H.Jonasson Hans Andersen Kenneth Bjerre Michael Jepsen Jensen Niels Kristian Iversen Jurica Pavlic Krzysztof Kasprzak Maciej Janowski Przemyslav Pawlicki Piotr Pawlicki (res) Krzysztof Buczkowski (res) Martin Smolinski Matej Zagar Oleksander Loktaev Troy Batchelor Vaclav Milik Wildcard

For this year they are just going to try this new system out. I think there will be another league meeting later this year in Blijham. Next year the meetings will be held in Lelystad, Blijham and Veenoord. The meeting was a great success! I think there were around 1000 spectators. The racing was realy good, never seen so much passing on Dutch tracks. Most of the rirders do grasstrack and just a bit of speedway during the year. Photo's from the race can be found here: http://www.baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/250/speedway-weer-terug-op-de-kaart-in-nederland.html Result here: http://live.baansportfansite.nl/event/12/speedway-veenoord.html There was also some spectalair racing in the 125cc kids class, the final (great race !!) can be seen here:

I heard that Lonigo is replacing Terenzano, can anyone confirm that ??

For those who are interested in the results from tomorrow's race at Veenoord; we will provide LIVE updates here: http://live.baansportfansite.nl/event/12/speedway-veenoord.html

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.