DutchGrasstrack

All info here: http://speedway.org/speedway-wm/2011/index.html

I heard they might run another Dutch open meeting in Blijham later this year haha. See below for the current Dutch Open Championship standings: 1. Jannick de Jong 20 2. Dirk Fabriek 19 3. Henry van der Steen 18 4. Lars Zandvliet 17 5. Erik Eijbergen 16 6. Jeffrey Woortman 15 7. Pascal Swart 14 8. Randy Oldenziel 13 9. Nick Lourens 12 10. Thomas Sorensen 11 11. Dennis Noordman 10 12. Wim Kennis 9 13. Raymon Woortman 8 14. Jesper Veldhuizen 7 15. Nico Eijbergen 6 16. Kelly Velda 5 17. Jack Drenthe 4 18. Richard Koppies 3 19. Andy ter Schuur 2 20. Robert-Jan Bangma 1 21. Siebe van Dekken 0 22. Kasper Woudberg 0 23. Roberto Slot 0

Results from the first round of the Dutch championship in Blijham today: Speedway A: 1. Jannick de Jong (2 3 3 3) 11 2. Dirk Fabriek (3 3 2 2) 10 3. Henry van der Steen (3 3 3 3) 12 4. Lars Zandvliet (1 1 3 0) 5 ------ 5. Erik Eijbergen (1 2 1 3) 7 6. Jeffrey Woortman (3 2 1 2) 8 ------ 7. Pascal Swart (x 2 2 1) 5 8. Randy Oldenziel (2 1 x 1) 4 9. Nick Lourens (2 0 1 2) 5 10. Thomas Sorensen (1 1 2 0) 4 ------ 11. Dennis Noordman (0 0 0 1) 1 12. Wim Kennis (0 0 0 0) 0 Speedway B: 1. Raymon Woortman (5 5 x) 10 2. Jesper Veldhuizen (5 4 5) 14 3. Nico Eijbergen (4 3 4) 11 4. Kelly Velda (2 2 3) 7 5. Jack Drenthe (5 5 5) 15 ------ 6. Richard Koppies (2 2 3) 7 7. Andy ter Schuur (4 4 3) 11 8. Robert-Jan Bangma (3 4 4) 11 ------ 9. Siebe van Dekken (1 3 2) 6 10. Kasper Woudberg (3 1 1) 5 11. Roberto Slot (x - -) 0 Quite good meeting, beside the rain lol . Good crowd too. The club decided to use the small track instead of the long one (see google maps to understand what I mean) which was cool .

17.10.82 Golden Helmet in Veenoord 1 Mitch Shirra (NZ) 2 Fin Thomson (DK) 3 Kevin Hawkins (GB)

Provisional lineup for the Team meeting in 19.06 in Heusden-Zolder (Belgium) Team Helzoldstars: 1) Jannick de Jong (NL) 2) Thomas Guido Madawan Sørensen (DK) 3) Nick Lourens (NL) 4) Wim Kennis ( 5) Randy Oldenziel (NL) MSC Diedenbergen: 1) tbc 2) Denis Wienke (D) 3) Valentin Grobauer (D) 4) Mateusz Borowicz (PL) 5) tbc Team Viking: 1) Jonas B Andersen (DK) 2) Lee Geary (GB) 3) Steve Jones (GB) 4) Anders Vad (DK) 5) Jez Pestell (GB) Team Veenoord: 1) Henry van der Steen (NL) 2) Sjoerd Rozenberg (NL) 3) Pascal Swart (NL) 4) Jesper Veldhuizen (NL) 5) Sjors de Jonge (NL)

By the way; if any riders are interested in taking part in this meeting (or any other Dutch meeting), please let me know .

Update to the lineup: 15 Jeffrey Woortman 16 Raymon Woortman 30 Henk Koonstra (Netherlands, DMSB)

Lineup for the first round of the Dutch Open championship, which starting this sunday in Blijham. 1 Thomas Sörensen (Denmark, DMU) 3 Jannick de Jong 4 Dirk Fabriek 5 Henry van der Steen 7 Randy Oldenziel 8 Pascal Swart 9 Nick Lourens 10 Erik Eijbergen 11 Kelly Velda 12 Nico Eijbergen 17 Siebe van Dekken 18 Richard Koppies 21 Kasper Woudberg 22 Robert-Jan Bangma 24 Dennis Noordman 25 Lars Zandvliet 26 Andy ter Schuur 27 Wim Kennis (Belgium, FMB) 28 Jack Drenthe 29 Jesper Veldhuizen (Netherlands, DMSB) All riders on Dutch license unless other stated. Also riding are the 125cc kids, the 250cc and flattrack.

Yeah I agree with you there. Nico and the club did a great job with putting together another awesome meeting, I was realy impressed with them getting Max Dilger contracted for just a Belgian 'Open' meeting, awesome . I like it when they put riders like him in my class because you learn alot from them . See you in June and in September .

Ahh I do know now; Randy Oldenziel was supposed to represent Holland in Gustrow but he as no engines for speedway. Apparently no other Dutch rider was able to take his spot.

I don't know mate . Lars Zandvliet has also dropped out of the Krsko GP quali today.

That's right, there are some changes in the lineup because there will be no riders from Holland, Belgium and only 1 rider from Italy instead of two. 1. Kai Huckenbeck 2. Ashley Morris 3. Oskar Feijfer 4. Piotr Pawlicki 5. Michele Castagna 6. Szymon Wozniak 7. David Bellego 8. Brendan Johnson 9. Danny Maaßen 10. Kacper Gomólski 11. Roman Ceijka 12. Andre Mochner 13. Xavier Muratet 14. tba 15. Jaroslav Hladky 16. Matic Ivacic ----- 17. Nils Hesse 18. Steven Mauer

Results from the Belgian championship: 1. Max Dilger (D) 15 2. Henry van der Steen (NL) 14 3. Michell Hoffmann (D) 12 4. Maik Hoffmann (D) 11 5. Benoit Lorenzon (F) 9 6. Jez Pestell (GB) 8 7. Wim Kennis ( 8 8. Steve Jones (GB) 7 ------------------------- 9. Thomas Sörensen (DK) 7 10. Randy Oldenziel (NL) 7 11. Mateusz Borowicz (PL) 7 12. Sascha Stumpe (D) 5 13. Lars Zandvliet (NL) 3 14. Jesper Veldhuizen (NL) 3 15. Jack Drenthe (NL) 2 16. Nick Lourens (NL) dns Semi-final 1: 1. Max Dilger (D) 2. Maik Hoffmann (D) 3. Benoit Lorenzon (F) 4. Steve Jones (GB) Semi-final 2: 1. Henry van der Steen (NL) 2. Michell Hoffmann (D) 3. Wim Kennis ( 4. Jez Pestell (GB) Final: 1. Max Dilger (D) 2. Henry van der Steen (NL) 3. Michell Hoffmann (D) 4. Maik Hoffmann (D) Rider of the meeting was ofcourse Max Dilger. He was absolutly flying and nobody had a single chance to his man. This also created some talking that a rider like Max shouldn't be racing in this meeting (too good). The Polish rider, Mateusz Borowicz, also did very well. He did quite impress me, I was told this was only his 3 meeting. Did crash hard in his last, in the wooden fence, but stood up and was okay. Danish rider Thomas Sorensen was the unluckly rider of the day, 2 flat tires. The track wasn't very cool, it was very very hard and slick. If you mess up your gate you are no where. Which was a shame because there wasn't any overtaking. Very good to see that there was a big crowd once again!

Lol thats even worse Haha I deleted it because it had some spelling errors in it and I hate that 'edited' thing under the message lol . So I wanted to post it again .

Shame that both Dutch riders didn't rode in this meeting...

German star Max Dilger is the new 2011 champion, full results later.

Hmmm lol. My bad, sorry .

The Blijham club is very busy with getting the track 'safe' before the 15th of may. The track is currently boarded by a metal fence, now they are putting a layer of rubber on it and that will do according to the KNMV as airfences are still not compulsory in Holland. Photo's: http://speedway.org/renntermine/2011/blijham/index.html

It was pronounced as the Belgian open championship a few months ago but it's now changed to the 'Open Helzold Championship'. So I'm not sure if it's a official Belgian championship or just a open meeting.

Next week will be the first meeting in Belgium, lineup: 1) Michell Hoffmann (D) 2) Robert-Jan Bangma (NL) 3) Kevin Teager (GB) 4) Nick Lourens (NL) 5) Mateusz Borowicz (PL) 6) Lars Zandvliet (NL) 7) Wim Kennis (BEL) 8) Jesper Veldhuizen (NL) 9) Jez Pestell (GB) 10) Benoit Lorenzon (F) 11) Andy Braithwaite (GB) 12) Sascha Stumpe (D) 13) Steve Jones (GB) 14) Thomas Sörensen (DK) 15) Randy Oldenziel (NL) 16) Bernd Dinklage (D) National class: 17) Bert Berckmans (BEL) 18) Roberto Slot (NL) 19) Matthias Flick (D) 20) Jack Drenthe (NL) 21) Maik Hoffmann (D) Rookies-classic class: 22) Kristof Ceusters (BEL) 23) Rob Eding (NL) 24) Mike van der Maas (NL) 25) Henk de Jonge (NL) 26) Jarig Bangma (NL) 27) Willy Kennis (BEL)

Well I've got some suprising news . The Blijham club is now 'friends' with the KNMV again and they are going to stage the first round of the Dutch speedway championship on the 15th of May . Yesterday was the kickoff from the Dutch season with a clubmeeting in Lelystad. Haven't got any results yet because I was racing in Germany.

Can't believe that there is no topic about this lol. ANYWAY today was the first qualifier in Herxheim (Germany). Results: 1. Josh Auty 14+3 (3,3,2,3,3) 2. Dennis Andersson 14+2 (3,3,3,3,2) 3. Richard Sweetman 13 (3,1,3,3,3) 4. Justin Sedgmen 11 (3,2,1,2,3) 5. Jerran Hart 10 (2,3,2,1,2) 6. Nejc Malešič 9+3 (2,2,2,2,1) ---------------- 7. Kyle Newman 9+2 (2,1,1,2,3) ---------------- 8. Joe Haines 8 (1,2,3,1,1) 9. Kai Huckenbeck 7 (EX,2,3,0,2) 10. Andriej Kobrin 7 (2,0,EX,3,2) 11. Wladimir Tejgał 6 (1,3,1,0,1) 12. Lasse Bjerre 5 (0,0,2,2,1) 13. Michel Hofmann 3 (1,1,0,1,0) 14. Marco Gaschka 3 (1,A,1,1,0) 15. Matic Ivačič 1 (EX,1,0,0,0) 16. Patrik Nagy 0 (0,0,0,0,0)

See below for the Dutch riders for the EC and WC meetings this season: EC Speedway QR1 - 30 April - Stralsund (Germany) (11) Pascal Swart EC Speedway SF1 - 25 June - Pilsen (Czech Republic) (8) Henry van der Steen EC Speedway Juniors (U19) SF1 - 7 May - Gustrow (Germany) (15) Randy Oldenziel WC Speedway QR1 - 7 May - Krsko (Slovenia) (6) Henry van der Steen (15) Lars Zandvliet WC Speedway Juniors (U21) QR1 - 17 April - Herxheim (Germany) no interest WC Speedway 250cc - 10 July - Norrkoping (Sweden) Roberto Slot

FIM provisional 2012 calendar here: http://www.fim-live.com/fileadmin/alfresco/Communiques_de_presse/FIM_Championships_without_Promoter_-_2012_provisional_calendars,_12_April.pdf.

2012 Provisional calendar: 29.04 - Qualifying Round - Neustad Donau - Germany 19.05 - Qualifying Round - Gorican - Croatia 19.05 - Qualifying Round - tbc 19.05 - Qualifying Round - tbc - Finland 19.05 - Qualifying Round - tbc 02.06 - Semifinal - tbc - Italy 02.06 - Semifinal - Balakovo - Russia 21.07 - Final 1 - Lendava - Slovenia 04.08 - Final 2 - tbc - Italy 15.09 - Final 3 - tbc - Poland 29.09 - Final 4 - tbc- United Kingdom 06.10 - Final 5 - Pardubice - Czech Republic November - Final 6 - Bahia Blanca - Argentina November - Final 7 - Bahia Blanca - Argentina