DutchGrasstrack

The 2013 provisional FIM calendar has been released today. See: http://www.fim-live.com/fileadmin/alfresco/FIM_Track_Racing_Commission_-_2013_Calendars_-_July.pdf So by the looks of it they have trimmed down the events a bit and they have finally got rid of the scandinavian round in the U21 series. Another interesting change is that the Longtrack Teams event will be held for the first time in the UK, to be precise; 4th of August in Swingfield.

Very impressed my Appe Mustonen last night at Groningen, he came second at the Longtrack GP. Apperently a switch of tuner (now Robert Barth) and 3 weeks holiday turned his chances in the World Championship.

There won't be a rider for Belgium, that's for sure. Wim Kennis is the only Belgian U21 rider and he's currently out with a wrist injusty plus he has turned this focus to MX sidecarracing instead of speedway.

Photo's from Vojens: http://baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/142/sgp-raceoff-in-vojens.html

Yeah that was a big shame, but even more for the club as this rain-off cost them alot of money hope the sun will be out at their Golden Helmet meeting!

The meeting got rained off sadly .

http://www.fim-live.com/fileadmin/user_upload/medias/Speedway/2012/Qualifying/Ballot_Race_Offs.pdf

Just a tip if you're going to Gorzow on saturday, there will be a mini-speedway event (80cc, 125cc) at Wawrow which is about a 10 minute drive from the Gorzow stadium. The meeting starts at 11.30.

Many thanks for the calendar, I'm hoping to visit one of the meetings in August/September. What time do these meetings start?

Darcy broke his wrist

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.