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But why did they allow to chose a rural country track like Wolfslake in the first place to host a "prestigeous" FIM event such as this World Speedway League ? The choice of this venue was all wrong from the start. It may be located NEAR Berlin, but it is not Berlin. Not more like for example Armadale isn't Edinburgh. It is an out of town speedway track in rural country, and the Wolfslake track does not have anything, no grandstands, no floodlights etc. - this is, and never was, a secret.

Let's hope so. Next year's WSL final is in Dubai or Qatar and that should be live on tv.

How stupid is this? Do the Russian MFR really think that the Laguta's will ride for them in the SWC, when they treat them like that?

Why is Smolinski allowed to ride for Munkebo, a team he never rode for and has no affiliation with?

Meeting rained-off, Denis Stojs is likely to get teh wild Card (tbc)

I thought it was very boring to watch, because it was totally meaningless. No nation or club teams/pairs to get behind and support. I could not care less if Monster, Nice or City Team wins this series. I don't even know for which teams most of the riders turned out last night. Who cares? I see it as a well paid practise session for the riders before the SGP and Polish Ekstraleague gets under way.

Ah ok then Monster Joe will be a happy dude tonight.

Can anyone tell us who won this meeting?

The 2016 FIM Oceania Speedway 1000cc Sidecar Championship has been won by the title defending champion of last year, Darrin Treloar. The final of the first round at Gillman last Sunday was won by Treloar, and today's second round final at Undera was won by Warren Monson. Overall top 3: 1st .... Darrin TRELOAR (& Blake Cox) - AUSTRALIA 2nd ... Trend HEADLAND (& Darryl Whetstone) - AUSTRALIA 3rd .... Mark PLAISTED (& Darcy Risstrom) - AUSTRALIA

I'd bet for the next round of this tournaent, the composition of the pairs/teams will look different again. Seems this has been transforemd into an event to put the sponsors in the spotlight and on tv. Just which rider is in which team seems totally irrelevant. An absolute nonsense competition in my eyes.

Australia's Darrin Treloar has won a crash marred final of the F.I.M. Speedway Sidecar World Cup at Gillman Speedway in Adelaide read more: http://www.gillmanspeedway.com/news/darrin-treloarblake-coxwin-crash-marred-world-cup-championship-final/

True "Wack" hofmeister was a teenage sensation in teh early 1950's. He was our German (Bavarian) version of Ronnie Moore. An extremely popular "baby-face" speedway rider. He quit the sport in the early 60's, havign reached four consecutive Wembley World Finals and he was still young and riding at his peak when he called it quits.

The official FIM Speedway Sidecar 1000cc World Cup will take place at Adelaide’s Gillman Speedway Stadium on Saturday night (26 March). The World Cup will be the highlight of the weekend, but it is just one part of a three day speedway carnival. On Good Friday the promoters will open the stadium with free entry to a “festival of speed” which will see over one hundred classic and current day speedway bikes and cars on display. There will also be interviews throughout the day with riders and drivers, including the visiting overseas sidecar riders here for the World Cup, plus a rock band and activities for kids – and repeating, all for free entry. The festivities will run from 10am until 4pm and then it will be time to shut up shop and start the final venue and track preparations for the World Cup 24 hours later. Gates will open at 4pm on Saturday with racing starting at 7.30pm. Spectators arriving early will have free access to the pits to get a close up look at the bikes and their riders/passengers, and then the action begins, when seven of the best Australian riders, as determined by last season’s Australian Championship results, will take on riders from Great Britain, New Zealand and the United States of America. The World Cup will be decided over 20 qualifying heats with the top three point scorers going into a final to decide the meeting winner. They’ll be joined in the final by the winner of a “last chance” semi-final for the next four highest scorers. Favourites to win the World Cup will be Darrin Treloar/Blake Cox (NSW), Mick Headland/Jesse Headland (SA), Mark Plaisted/Darcy Risstrom (SA/Vic) and Warren Monson/Matt Morgan (Vic/Qld). These riders are the best of the best. Treloar is the most successful rider in Speedway Sidecar history, Headland is a former World Track Racing Gold Trophy and World Championship winner, Plaisted is a former Oceania Champion and Monson is the current Australia #2, so the rest of the field will have their work cut out just to reach the final ahead of any of these riders. Fellow Aussies Trent Headland (and British passenger Darryl Whetstone) and Damien Niesche/Mitchell Spear have been two of the most in-form riders this season however, so it would not be a shock if either, or even both, qualified for the final. Being able to put together five good rides to consistently beat the top four will be the key, and likewise with the overseas riders. They showed in trials last meeting that they are going to be very competitive and entertaining against each other, but can they take enough points off the Australians to be in contention for a place in the semi-final? The Kiwis Andrew Buchanan/Denny Cox, Derek Ramsay/Matthew Ramsay and Aiden Thwaites/Shane Twiss, and Americans Joe Jones/Tom Summers looked to be the best chances. All You need to know http://www.gillmanspeedway.com/news/fim-speedway-sidecar-world-cup-at-gillman-speedway-on-saturday-night/

Past winners of the FIM Oceania Sidecar Speedway Championship: 2014: Mark Plaisted / Brian Anthony (South Australia) 2015: Darrin Treloar / Blake Cox (New South Wales) 2016: ???

The best Swiss speedway riders I ever saw (during the 1980s and early 90's) were Marcel Gerhard and Jessy Inauen. Certainly miles better than these two grass-trackers Reutermann and/or Kaspar, which you have selected. I would also question some of your other smaller nations' selecions. For example, Austria's greatest speedway riders ever were Fritz Dirtl and Josef Kamper, no doubt about it. Old-timer Leopold Killmayer certainly the best of the pre-war era (1930's), but Adi Funk wasn't really something special. I would rate even Josef Boessner higher than Funk.

On German Eurosport this year there will be absolutely no speedway coverage anymore. No more SEC and no more Best Pairs Cup, even though some German Sponsors have invested in teams to enter the SBPC, expecting to get live tv presentation, with a SBPC round held at Landshut, and a SEC round at Güstrow, plus the SEC Challenge at Olching. German Eurosport have stated that tv audience figures for live speedway were disappointing last year, compared to MotoGP and Superbikes coverage. Since there is still no tv coverage of the SGP and SWC here in Germany, this decision is a major set back, with once again no speedway to be seen on tv in our country.

The 2016 FIM Speedway Sidecar World Cup is held this week on Easter Saturday at Gillman Speedway, Adelaide, South Australia. Four nations are represented - Great Britain, United States, New Zealand, and Australia. SIDECAR WORLD CUP Starting list below in alphabetical order: Dylan Blain / Hamish Golding (Aus) Andrew Buchanan / Denny Cox (NZ/Aus) Mick Cave / Sam Heath (GB) Dave Gannon / Raymond George (NZ) Mick Headland / Jesse Headland (Aus) Trent Headland / Darryl Whetstone (Aus/GB) Joseph Jones / Thomas Summers (USA) Warren Monson / Andrew Summerhayes (Aus) Bryan Motis / Cody Brant (USA) Damien Niesche / Mitchell Spear (SA) Mark Plaisted / Darcy Risstrom (Aus) Derek Ramsay / Matthew Ramsay (NZ) Aiden Thwaites / Shane Twiss (NZ) Darrin Treloar / Blake Cox (Aus) Paul Whitelam / Damian Egan (GB/Aus) Rob Wilson / Liam Brown (GB) Reserves: David Bottrell / Christopher Bottrell (Aus) Rob Patterson / Don Morris (Aus) http://www.ma.org.au/index.php?id=12&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=15610&cHash=acf4e1ad6d

This year's FIM Oceania Speedway Sidecars Championship is over two rounds in Australia, at Gillman on Easter Sunday, March 27, and at Undera, on Saturday, April 2. http://www.motorcyclingvic.com.au/undera-to-host-2016-fim-oceania-sidecar-cup-in-april/

It would be a shame if the League ceases to exist because of one such incident.

Charly Ebner went flying when leading in the B final - he seems unhurt, though. Great stunt. Now Bauer jr. should win the re-run against Jetsonen and Saetre no luck for Bauer jr he stopped with an engien problem in the B-final Now for the A final with Krasnikov vs Simon vs Klatovsky adn vs the second Russian Krasnikov untroubled, but a good fight behid him until Klatovsky fell.

The top four or five excepted, the quality of the riders is very poor. This is just too easy for Mr. Krasnikov The run D, C, B , and A finals.

Point scores of day 1 of the European Championship in Ufa can be found here: http://nicesport.pl/live/199293/ice-racing-final-ime-dzien-1-ufa-rosja-21022016-godz-1000 After 20 heats, Austria's Harald Simon with 13 points is runner-up to the unbeaten Nikolai Krasnikov This TV coverage is much better than what we have seen of the world championship rounds so far this season. Good crowd in Ufa, too. Seems to me that the "Night Wolves" are doing a very good job. coming-up next: the finals of day 1 of the European Ice Racing Championship from Ufa in Russia, now live on Youtube, here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUFq8LUZZTM

The F.I.M. could not even find a venue in one of the four competing teams' home countries, so why would any of the "better" tracks in Germany want to take this one on? I wonder what tempted the Wolfslake speedway club to do it ? Surely, it will be bigger and better next year when they stage it in the Arabian Emirates !

Wolfslake is not even a village, it is a few farm houses 20km northwest of the Berlin City boundary - very rural, and speedway track there is on a flat field, not in a "Stadium" Here is what the German Wikipedia says about Wolfslake: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfslake

Actually no, this island's name is not usually translated into German. It is known and referred to only by the name "Ascention" here, too. But this is not so with the Easter Island, which is generally refered to as the "Osterinsel" in German.