DutchGrasstrack

Qualifierd riders, sorted by country: ARGENTINA: Emiliano Sanchez (reserve) AUSTRALIA: Sam Masters Davey Watt Troy Batchelor AUSTRIA: Daniel Gappmaier (reserve) CROATIA: Jurica Pavlic CZECH-REPUBLIC: Filip Sitra (reserve) DENMARK: Leon Madsen Patrik Hougaard Mikkel Bech Jensen Mads Korneliussen Peter Kildemand Kenneth Hansen Niels Kristian Iversen Hans Andersen Kenni Larsen FINLAND: Joonas Kylmakorpi Tero Aarino Timo Lahti (reserve) GERMANY: Martin Smolinski Kevin Wölbert GREAT-BRITAIN: Ben Barker Chris Harris Daniel King Oliver Allen (reserve) HUNGARY: Norbert Magosi Joszef Tabaka Laszlo Szatmari ITALY: Nicolas Covatti LATVIA: Kjastas Poudzuks POLAND: Adrian Miedzinski Przemyslaw Pawlicki Krzysztof Buczkowski Piotr Protasiewicz Grzegorz Walasek Janusz Kolodziej Grzergorz Zengota Krzystof Kasprzak RUSSIA: Renat Gafurov SLOVENIA: Matej Zagar Alexander Conda SLOVAKIA: Martin Vaculik SWEDEN: Thomas H. Jonasson Peter Ljung Denis Andersson Linus Sundstrom Antonio Lindback Simon Gustavsson (reserve) USA: Ryan Fisher UKRAINE: Andrej Karpov Kyril Tcukanov

How many meetings do they stage this year? Do you have a calendar?

Yes it was the Grasstrack Youth Gold Trophy, apparently the word 'grasstrack' or 'longtrack' means nothing if you look at the tracks they use in these meetings. It just has to be bigger then a speedway track... The 250cc is going to be held on the same track in Vechta, the bikes they use are just like the 'normal' grasstrack/longtrack bikes but with a smaller engine. The kids on the 125cc bikes usually use their same bike(s) on speedway or grasstrack/longtrack tracks. They don't use brakes. Please see the link below for a report plus pics from the 125cc meeting at Vechta: http://baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/134/veel-talent-voor-de-toekomst.html

Practice has been cancelled.

Woffy is indeed not riding at Berwick according to: http://speedwaygp.com/news/article/1428/woffy-out-of-sgp-race.

Lineup: 1. Sam Masters, Australia 2. Emiliano Sanchez, Argentina 3. Krzysztof Buczkowski, Poland 4. Chris Harris, Great Britain 5. Guglielmo Franchetti, Italy 6. Christian Hefenbrock, Germany 7. Henry van der Steen, The Netherlands 8. Kenneth Kruse Hansen, Denmark 9. Ryan Fisher, USA 10. Matěj Kůs, Czech Republic 11. Tero Aarnio, Finland 12. Davey Watt, Australia 13. Tai Woffinden, Great Britain 14. Linus Sundström, Sweden 15. Facundo Leonel Albin, Argentina 16. Kenny Ingalls, USA 17. Reserve Lee Complin, Great Britain 18. Reserve Danny King, Great Britain

Photo's: http://www.foto.espeedway.pl/main.php?cmd=album&var1=86_czerwiec_2012%2F2012_06_02_gn_ch/&var2=1

The 14 qualified riders for the U21 series: Patrik Dudek (PL) Bartosz Zmarlik (PL) Tobiasz Musielak (PL) Maciej Janowski (PL) Przemyslaw Pawlicki (PL) Damian Adamczak (PL) Piotr Pawlicki (PL) Mikkel Bech Jensen (DK) Micheal Jespsen Jensen (DK) Mikkel Michelsen (DK) Sam Masters (AUS) Ritchie Worrall (GB) Oleksandr Loktaev (UKR) Vaclav Milik (CZ) There will be two wildcard riders every final round.

Just for the info; the calendar of the U21 Final series: 21/07 Lonigo (Italy) 04/08 Lendava (Slovenia) 17/08 Coventry (UK) 15/09 Tarnow (Poland) 13/01 Pardubice (CZ) 03/11 Bahia Blanca (Argentina) 10/11 Bahia Blanca (Argentina)

Richie has qualified for the World U21 series according to Phil Morris on twitter!! Great news for him and Speedway UK!

Mathias Thörnblom isn't in Terenzano, Nikolaj Busk Jakobsen is replacing him.

For live updates from Sankt Johann see the following link: http://www.speedway-forum.de/board51-live-updates/board53-live-aus-dem-ausland/6993-live-update-von-gp-quali-in-st-johann/#post104418

Well the surface is speedway-ish, but it called a longtrack indeed, the track is about 550 meters long. The trees have been removed a couple years ago I believe, no sign of trees anymore on Google Earth.

Two riders will represent Great Britain in this years 125cc Youth Gold Throphy (ie World Championship) which will be held in Vechta (Germany) next saturday on the 8th of June. This meeting also features riders from Germany, Czech Republic, The Netherlands, France and surprisingly Poland got also a place. Last year Dutch rider Romano Hummel won the meeting which was held in Saint Macaire (France). Jack Cornes was the best Brit with a 13th place. 1. Sandro Wassermann (GER) 2. Patrik Mikel (CZ) 3. Buddy Prijs (NL) 4. Jordan Dubernard (FRA) 5. Michaela Krupičková (CZ) 6. Jack Cornes (GB) 7. Gaétan Stella (FRA) 8. Richard Geyer (GER) 9. Romano Hummel (NL) 10. Enzo Dubernard (FRA) 11. Roman Mády (CZ) 12. Dave Meijerink (NL) 13. Lukas Fienhage (GER) 14. Darrel de Vries (NL) 15. Michal Škurla (CZ) 16. Baptiste Comblon (FRA) 17. tba (PL) 18. Zach Wajtknecht (GB) -- 21. Fabian Wachs (GER) 22. Nils Oliver Wessel (GER)

The Veenoord meeting was indeed cancelled due to lack of riders. Strangly this is because there are some important FIM/UEM grasstrack meetings on the same weekend, so infact they could know this months ago. Anyway; the next round of the Dutch championship will be held on the 15th of July at Lelystad.

Well I'm a bit late with the speedway news from The Netherlands this year. Anyway, the first round of the Dutch championship was held on sunday 13 may in Lelystad. Results: A group: 1. Jannick de Jong (3,3,3,3) 12 2. Henry van der Steen (3,2,3,2) 10 3. Pascal Swart (1,3,3,3) 10 4. Nick Lourens (2,2,2,2) 8 ---- 5. Randy Oldenziel (3,2,1,2) 8 6. Jeffrey Woortman (2,1,2,3) 8 ---- 7. Raymon Woortman (2,1,2,1) 6 8. Lars Zandvliet (1,3,0,X) 4 9. Erik Eijbergen (1,1,0,1) 3 10. Henkie Koonstra (0,0,1,1) 2 11. Sjoerd Rozenberg (0,0,1,X) 1 12. Robert-Jan Bangma (0,0,0,0) 0 B group: 1. Andy ter Schuur (2,3,3,2) 10 2. Mark Beishuizen (3,3,3,3) 12 3. Maurin Vochteloo (1,1,2,2) 6 4. Kelly Velda (2,2,X,1) 5 ---- 5. Roelof Postma (0,1,1,1) 3 6. Erwin Werkman (X,0,X,X) 0 The second round was supposed to be held at Veenoord on the 2nd of June. Sadly this meeting got cancelled, not sure why, but I think it has something todo with the lack of riders. Most riders got important grasstrack meetings on the same weekend...

Well the runoff for the first place was kinda strange... Pawlicki hit Worrall and Worrall fell... Pawlicki thought it would be red flag situation and he returned back to the 'paddock gate' but it wasn't so he rode the 4 laps just to complete the runoff. Should have been a restart... Anyway, it was a very good meeting. Never seen such a good meeting in Holland before. Pics: http://baansportfans...in-blijham.html

Henry van der Steen will ride for The Netherlands.

The news even made one of the Dutch biggest newspapers (with crash photo): http://www.telegraaf.nl/telesport/12125816/__VIDEO-Fatale_crash_coureur__.html. Not happy with this, normally they never post anything about speedway. Still quite a shock by that pathetic heat 11 with Kasprzak and Jepsen Jensen racing eachother while the Zielona Gora boys already had decided to stop racing.

17. Linus Sundstrom 18. Simon Gustafsson.

The Dutch rider can't be Pijper because he is on a French license... not sure if there will be a Dutch rider at Berwick.

What a day! Brilliant weather, massive crowd and overall good racing. Gotta say that it wasn't Emil his fault that he crashed into Nicki. He hit the rut on bend 3 and had nowhere to go... after the crash they also did some work on bend 3 Here are my photo's from today: http://baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/99/hancock-wint-eerste-gp-.html See ya in Leszno!

Photo's from todays official practice: http://baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/98/western-springs-training.html

Glorious day in Auckland! Can't wait for the official practice this afternoon

Best wishes from Guangzhou (China) I'm half way to Auckland now.