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Hans N will ride, AJ is not... But WHO cares as long as Smederna wins tonight against The Pigs from Hallstavik!

41,247 souls was there live according to speedwayworld.tv

41,247 souls was there live according to speedwayworld.tv

A Sheer racer has finally won a gp round and in very good style then overtaking Hancock. My whole family screamed and cheered for Chris Bomber Harris in the final.. Iam not a brit but I love then a real speedwayracer is winning from the back. Very Well DONE Bomber!

Alright Mikael now im going to disagree with you again the 2003 season was the best season every according to the stats at smederna.nu this is top13: 1) 4207 2003 Smedstadion League Victory 2) 4047 2001 Snälltorpet 3) 3876 1974 Snälltorpet 4) 3733 2004 Smedstadion 5) 3718 1975 Snälltorpet 6) 3688 1973 Snälltorpet League Victory 7) 3568 2005 Smedstadion 8) 3534 1953 B-plan 9) 3500 1951 B-plan 10) 3500 1952 B-plan 11) 3202 2002 Smedstadion 12) 2931 1999 Snälltorpet if you look at this only 2001 and 1999 is the seasons of Snälltorpet the past 10 years that had attendances at todays level and 2001 was the last year with alot of extra arrangements (according to smederna.nu). So with this i claim that the location of the arena isnt the biggest reason for lower attendances <{POST_SNAPBACK}> If Smederna had not been forced to leave Snälltorpet the attendance figure for 2002 and 2003 had been HIGHER than the attendance figure 2002 - 2003. The attendance figure for 2002 is poor compare to 2001 the last season at Snälltorpet. I have always belived that the attendance figure out in Gröndal for the first years should be higher than at the old track Snälltorpet had as Smederna did have a real bonebreaker team from 2002 to 2005 with some good results these year. Last year 2006 the attendance started to get poorer and the last match home in Gröndal was witnessed by the smallest crowd since Smederna moved out to Gröndal and I are doomed to belive the crowd will be even smaller the last remaing matches out in Gröndal. Hopefully Iam wrong, but the average crowd wants to see a sucessful team and the team is very good in my meyes but not for joe public. And Ghostwalker..... In the Allsvenskan league the crowd is very very poor for Team Bikabs matches and Iam very strongly belive at Snälltorpet that the crowd should have been at least over 400! Then Smedernas was in Division 1 1992 Smederna had always a crowd of over 500 and what do you have today? If Team Bikab has a attendance of over 200 it is good nowadays so I truly belive that the location is a very important factor. Cheers... / Mikael

Through are: Damian Balinski POL 12 Mikael Max SWE 12 Kenneth Bjerre DEN 11 Fredrik Lindgren SWE 11 Tomasz Gapinski POL 11 Kaj Laukkanen FIN 11 Jonas Davidsson SWE 10 Reserve: Kauko Nieminen FIN 9 Semifinals are being held Lonigo (7/7) and Ljubljana (8/7).

Yes the booming years are over for some clubs in Sweden but not all. I belive that with no tv transmission from a elite match later on tuesdays nights after the elitemeetings has brought down peoples awarness of speedway. And the clubs are usually very poor with PR and the swedish motor federation (SVEMO). If you not are showing up your product at the track region ( + 10 miles around the city holding elitespeedway) people will not know of that there is elitespeedway in their municipality only the hardcore fans know.. I are a member of Smedernas organization group and we have LOTS of ideas of how to promote the product speedway, but we are sadly very short of people who wants to work for it. It means to be out in the schools with a bike, a rider and a video of the product and do the same at shopping centras, youth recreation centres, give away free tickets to schoolkids to name a few things. We have been to one school and the reception was tremendous, but you cant stop there. You must have a vision of what to do with intrested kids ( such as speedwayschool) and if the kid or kids shows potential the club must help with bike, protection clothes, helmet and the other stuff you need to have riding a speedwaybike and of course trainers. / Mikael

Kenny Carter Seriously I belive that the rider who is the best from the tapes in his 6 rides wins

Only Tommy Rander knows the actual situation regarding Kaparnas economical situation. It is not enough that Kaparna are stonelast, at every match they have a team under the minium teamaverage and they get fines for it every match, I dont recall the sum though. Rander has said that they need a average attendance of 1500 to row it allaround. And that attendance figure has only been reached one time and it was at their 'homematch' staged in Nässjö against next door neighbours Elit Vetlanda that drew a attendance of 2464 peoples. Their other homematches has drawn: At 'home' in Eskilstuna against Hammarby: 708 At 'home' in Hagfors against Masarna 1295 At 'home' in Linköping against Piraterna 1460 At 'home' in Karlstad against Rospiggarna 509 At 'home' in Gislaved against Västervik 1013 / Mikael

Looks and sounds very intresting. Just hope Speedway can be a hit in Malaysia and not convert to tarmacspeedway as in japan. Good luck to the involved. / Mikael

Okay, then its Ghostwalker then.

I belive there will be liveupdates on the Pirates homepage: http://www.piraterna.se Dont know if I will be there.. Iam working on it.. If I go I can talk to Ghostwalker or Liverstam who can bring you the updates from me..

This is a meeting many times better than a GP. So strong minds, so many emotions from the young future stars. Damn that Poland is a bit away from Sweden.

result 1. Thomas H. Jonasson (Szwecja) (2,2,1,2,3) 10 2. Maksim Bogdanov (Łotwa) (0,1,1,2,1) 5 3. Emil Saifutdinov (Rosja) (3,3,3,3,3 )15 4. Marcin Jędrzejewski (Polska) (1,1,1,0,1) 4 5. Andrew Bargh (Nowa Zelandia) (1,0,0,0,0) 0 6. Martin Vaculik (Słowacja) (0,2,0,2,0) 4 7. Paweł Hlib (Polska) (3,0,3,3,2) 11 8. Ben Barker (Wielka Brytania) (2,0,0,1,0) 3 9. Ricky Kling (Szwecja) (1,3,2,1,3) 10 10. Karol Ząbik (Polska) (3,3,w,2,2) 10 11. Patrick Hougaard (Dania) (0,1,2,d,3) 6 12. Robert Ksiezak (Australia) (2,2,2,1,1) 8 13. Lubos Tomicek (Czechy) (2,1,2,3,2) 10 14. Krzysztof Buczkowski (Polska) (w,w,1,-,2) 3 15. Kjastas Puodżuks (Łotwa) (3,2,3,3,1) 12 16. Danił Iwanow (Rosja) (1,3,3,1,0) 8

Örnarnas track is a few miles from Mariestad which is the nearest town. Griparnas track is also a bit from the city centre of Nyköping. Dont know the actual distance.

Bryn.. The engines start 17.30 Updates here: http://www.espeedway.pl/live2_.php

Its not ME Its the latvians

World U21 Daugavpils 17:e Juni http://www.latvijasspidvejs.lv/index.php?cat=1&subrubid=400 1. Thomas H.Jonsson 2. Maksim Bogdanov 3. Emil Saifutdinov 4. Marcin Jedrzewski 5. Andrew Bargh 6. Martim Vaculik 7. Pavel Hlib 8. Ben Barker 9. Ricky Kling 10. Karol Zabik 11. Patrick Hougaard 12. Robert Ksiezak 13. Lubos Tomicek 14. Krzysztof Buczkowski 15. Kjastas Podzuks 16. Daniil Ivanov 17. Andri Karpov 18. Hynek Stichauer Come on the swedes

Örnarna road direction: http://www.ornarna.nu/default.asp?sida=116 GPS: * Lat: N 58º 45' 37.37" * Long: E 13º 58' 18.83" Eldarna road direction: http://www.eldarna.nu/karta.htm GPS: * Lat: N 59º 10' 11.20" * Long: E 17º 58' 53.90" / Mikael

But you cant blame all on Rickardsson either. There was many good years for Masarna with the riders: Antonin Kasper, Brian Andersen, Mirek Kowalik, Gary Havelock, Fredrik Lindgren, Bjarne Pedersen, Leigh Adams and of course Rickardsson. They are spoilt to been having the absolute world stars for many years and being up in the top of the table for long. Now Masarna are going through a generationchange and will have som dull years. Masarna had the biggest follow by 'success supporters' now then the success is gone the crowd is down in a bad way to. And maybe people got satisfied by the enormous success Masarna had over a short period with Swedish team gold as the icing on the cake. Just my thoughts! / Mikael

Crisis?? For Smederna it is looking good for once. The expensive riders have left Smederna one after one. For this year Smederna has building the team around the attendance figures last year and so far the attendance has been ok and then Smederna has a cheaper team than last year. It is better to survive than not. Masarna has counted on 2300 people at every match to break even but the attendance has been poor, just around 1600 per match.. So they are making heavy losses. But the chairman in Masarna says it is no worry on the economical side. Masarnas chairman says that the sponsors are pushing in money in Masarna so there is no problem. Västervik, expensive team bad attendances. Dont know how the economical side is there but I suspect it isnt the best. Kaparna Are loosing money big time. In 2005 they had a attendance of about 1400 each match at home and now the attfigure is lower counting on the matches they have raced and not to be forgiven are that Kaparna has had a team a couple of times beneath the teaam average and has been handed with fines for it in access of around 200.000 Swedish Crownes total. Rospiggarna I know that they had problems with money for a time ago but how it is this year I dont have a clue. Bajen A very expensive team, heavy losses in the two past years and their boss Hans Nelen has ploughed down more than 2 million swedish crowns to clear rider debts, but the debt is still there for Bajen to pay to Hans. I belive the actual attendance is not paying for the expensivest team? in Elitserien. Dackarna One of the clubs that are showing up a good capital of around 1.8 millions if I remember right. Elit Vetlanda Another club from Småland that are going good on the economical side. Don know the actual sum though. Indianerna It is quiet from the Indians. They has had debts dont know how it is today. Piraterna A club with mystery economical side. No news about their situation at all. In general the attendance is down on the golden years except Dackarna and Elit Vetlanda. / Mikael

Thanks for sharing the videoclips! Polonia won!!!

Kenny 'Starfighter' Olsson as I remember him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d16wWmUvroQ A very much cheerful person, always with a smile on his lips.. I will always remember the night after JSM Finalen 1997 at Vetlanda then we was having a few beers and so and we missed some music at the camping..... Kenny disappered and came back with his van with a very good stereo in it and jumped out of the van and said now we have music and it began not so loud but in the end the van almost jumped then the volume was almost on max. People who was sleeping at the camping werent happy and some of they fled from the camping and we was all laughing at Kennys BIG smile then some of the other campers fled...... It was a lovely evening / night with the company of Kenny and his father Börje. Damn Kenny you are badly missed. / Mikael