From: marianb@amedec.amg.gda.pl
To: "Internet Speedway Fan Club List"
Subject: 03.06.2000, Linkoeping SWE, Grand Prix of Sweden
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 22:35:41 +0200 (MET DST)
Heat winner runner-up third fourth
1: 8 Ryan Sullivan 24 Rune Holta 20 Brian Andersen 6 J.Crump - T
2: 15 H.Gustafsson 4 Joe Screen 22 Rafal Dobrucki 23 Nicki Pedersen
3: 7 Greg Hancock 9 Stefan Danno 5 Leigh Adams 17 Andy Smith
4: 3 Jimmy Nilsen 14 Brian Karger 19 Peter Karlsson 18 Antonin Kasper
5: 18 Antonin Kasper 5 Leigh Adams 20 Brian Andersen 23 Nicki Pedersen
6: 6 Jason Crump 22 Rafal Dobrucki 19 Peter Karlsson 17 Andy Smith
7: 8 Ryan Sullivan 7 Greg Hancock 4 Joe Screen 14 Brian Karger
8: 3 Jimmy Nilsen 24 Rune Holta 15 H.Gustafsson 9 Stefan Danno
9: 18 Antonin Kasper 4 Joe Screen 9 Stefan Danno 22 Rafal Dobrucki
10: 6 Jason Crump 5 Leigh Adams 15 H.Gustafsson 14 Brian Karger
11: 8 Ryan Sullivan 13 C.Stonehewer 11 Billy Hamill 24 Rune Holta
12: 16 Mark Loram 12 M.Karlsson 7 Greg Hancock 3 Jimmy Nilsen
13: 1 T.Rickardsson 10 Chris Louis 5 Leigh Adams 18 Antonin Kasper
14: 6 Jason Crump 2 Tomasz Gollob 21 Todd Wiltshire 4 Joe Screen
15: 5 Leigh Adams 3 Jimmy Nilsen 11 B.Hamill - F 4 Joe Screen - X
16: 21 Todd Wiltshire 24 Rune Holta 18 Antonin Kasper 7 Greg Hancock
17: 1 T.Rickardsson 2 Tomasz Gollob 8 Ryan Sullivan 12 M.Karlsson
18: 6 Jason Crump 16 Mark Loram 13 C.Stonehewer 10 Chris Louis
19: 5 Leigh Adams 8 Ryan Sullivan 24 Rune Holta 10 Chris Louis
20: 21 Todd Wiltshire 3 Jimmy Nilsen 13 C.Stonehewer 12 M.Karlsson
21: 1 T.Rickardsson 16 Mark Loram 3 Jimmy Nilsen 5 Leigh Adams
22: 6 Jason Crump 21 Todd Wiltshire 8 Ryan Sullivan 2 Tomasz Gollob
23: 3 Jimmy Nilsen 2 Tomasz Gollob 8 Ryan Sullivan 5 Leigh Adams
24: 6 Jason Crump 16 Mark Loram 21 Todd Wiltshire 1 T.Rickardsson - X
Final standings
Pos No Rider GP Classic scoring
1 6 Jason Crump AUS 25 T333333
2 16 Mark Loram GBR 20 3222
3 21 Todd Wiltshire AUS 18 13321
4 1 Tony Rickardsson SWE 16 333X
5 3 Jimmy Nilsen SWE 15 3302213
6 2 Tomasz Gollob POL 14 2202
7 8 Ryan Sullivan AUS 12 3331211
8 5 Leigh Adams AUS 10 12213300
9 13 Carl Stonehewer GBR 8 211
10 24 Rune Holta NOR 8 22021
11 10 Chris Louis GBR 7 200
12 12 Mikael Karlsson SWE 7 200
13 11 Billy Hamill USA 6 1F
14 18 Antonin Kasper CZE 6 03301
15 4 Joe Screen GBR 5 2120X
16 7 Greg Hancock USA 5 3210
17 9 Stefan Danno SWE 4 201
18 15 Henrik Gustafsson SWE 4 311
19 14 Brian Karger DEN 3 200
20 22 Rafal Dobrucki POL 3 120
21 19 Peter Karlsson SWE 2 11
22 20 Brian Andersen DEN 2 11
23 17 Andy Smith GBR 1 00
24 23 Nicki Pedersen DEN 1 00
From: anthonymcguire@dingoblue.net.au
To: "Internet Speedway Fan Club List"
Subject: RE: overseas final
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 07:20:34 +1000
Thanks for the correction on the location Andrea, I was about to repost it
actually after it was pointed out to me by some of my illustrious colleagues
down under, much appreciated anyway, sorry about that!!!......Cheers Anthony
-----Original Message-----
From: Maiser@ksinet.univ.gda.pl [mailto:Maiser@ksinet.univ.gda.pl]On
Behalf Of a.geatti@xnet.it
Sent: Saturday, 3 June 2000 5:47 AM
To: Internet Speedway Fan Club List
Subject: R: overseas final
a small correction.
The Grand Prix Challenge will be held at Abensberg (Germany) on 8th october
(not at Lonigo)
Regards.
Andrea
-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Anthony McGuire
A: Internet Speedway Fan Club List
Data: venerd=EC 2 giugno 2000 14.12
Oggetto: overseas final
>The riders list for the 2000 Overseas final has been released and their is
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>Australian riders with a real chance of progression through to the
>Intercontinental Final. The winner of that meeting progresses automatically
>to the G.P. for 2001, whilst the other qualified riders go through to the
>final stage of qualification the toughest of them all, The G.P. Challenge
>held in Lonigo, Italy later this year.
>
>1. David Howe
>2. Nathan Murray
>3. Paul Hurry
>4. Mark Lemon
>5. Sean Wilson
>6. Mike Faria
>7. Scott Nicholls
>8. Josh Larsen
>9. Jason Lyons
>10. Sam Ermolenko
>11. Lee Richardson
>12. John Cook
>13. Craig Watson
>14. Steve Johnston
>15. Shaun Tacey
>16. Martin Dugard
>
>At a look, one would have to say that the Aussie band should all qualify
>going on current form. But Craig Watson who is returning from serious
injury
>could struggle. He has been practising at Newport in recent weeks in
>preparation and what he may lack in fitness he may get through on his
>natural skill alone. Out of the Englishmen, Martin Dugard has been in
>sparkling form for his Yang Eastbourne Eagles and he could do a "Stoney"
>this year and go all the way. Scott Nicholls, Lee Richardson and perhaps
>Sean Wilson should be specials as well to progress. Out of the Americans,
>Sudden Sam Ermolenko and Josh Larson could force their way through. A
>sentimental favourite, Sam Ermolenko at 40 would be a popular fans choice
to
>force his way back to G.P. qualification status.
>This years meeting should prove to be another cracker event as usual as the
>European speedway calendar starts to really swing into action with the
>G.P.'s already underway and the world under 21 final, World Team Cup
Finals,
>Golden Helmet and G.P. Qualifiers to come, a spectacular feast of topflight
>speedway for fans across Europe and the rest of the Speedway world is
>assured.
>Anthony McGuire
>
>
From: anthonymcguire@dingoblue.net.au
To: "Internet Speedway Fan Club List"
Subject:
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 10:52:03 +1000
In what must go down as Australian's speedway greatest triumph in the G.P
series since its inception in 1995, Australia's riders led by an emphatic
victory to Mildura's Jason Crump, followed home by Brit Mark Loram and
Hunter Valleys own Todd Wiltshire finishing an impressive 3rd place. Ryan
Sullivan finished a creditable 7th with Leigh Adams not far behind in 8th
overall. Crump after a disastrous start in his first heat came back and
reeled off a string of impressive heat wins to book his place in the final
along side Todd Wiltshire after a brilliants 1,2 victory in the semi-final
over Polish rider Tomaz Gollob who was relegated to yet another Consolation
Final. Nth Arm's Ryan Sullivan had one of his normal consistent nights
without being to enterprising finishing 3rd in the consolation final and
Leigh Adams was having his usual slow start, but gained momentum as the
night when on and to finish 4th in the consolation final. In a night of
mixed fortunes for alot of the riders, Swedish rider and current no.3, Jimmy
Nilsen bounced back to form with a win in the consolation final and improved
his chances in the G.P. listing. Swedish World No.1, Tony Rickardsson
looked impressive going into the A-final only to crash with Brit Mark Loram
and then have the misfortune of being disqualified after a brave decision by
the match referee considering it was the home G.P.of the the triple world
champion. Mr Excitement, Mark Loram of Great Britain failed to repeat his
victory last year in Sweden but still finished 2nd ahead of Todd Wiltshire
to still stake his claim for a world title, the last Brit being Poole's Gary
Havelock back in 1992. British surprise packet Carl Stonehewer still managed
to finish 9th against his more fancied opponents and continues to outshine
some of his more illustrious opponents. Chris Louis had a disappointing
night finishing 11th and Joe Screen continues to struggle finishing 15th. As
for G.P.1 winner Billy Hamill, his bullet was definitely astray tonight and
finished a dismal 13th place, but all is not lost and a strong showing will
be needed in Poland to ensure his navigation for his 2nd world title stays
on course. Greg Hancock has also seen better nights and continues to
struggle after finishing 16th, one would hope that better things are to come
for the 1997 world champion. Norway's Rune Holta had a good night finishing
10th overall, this rider continues to be one of the most under-rated riders
in Europe and he has the majority of Elite League clubs lining up for his
signature. When he was riding in the last Tapp series, for my mind he was
one of the most exciting riders in the troupe. As we look forward to G.P. 3
in Poland all eyes once again as will be on Polish hero Tomaz Gollob he must
win here to ensure his claim for a world title and the Patriotic and
volatile Polish crowd will let him forget it if he fails. Tony Rikkardson
will need to win as well in order to get his world title defence going and
march onto a 4th world title. Mark Loram perhaps the most consistent rider
to date in the G.P. should with a win in Poland set up a maiden world title,
he is for my mind still the firm favourite for this year. Out of the
Aussies, Todd still looks the best chance out of the Aussies. He will need
to though string together a few wins in the remaining G.P.'s to enure a
world title or at least finish in the top 3. Jason Crump, he knows what he
has got to do win and win again to have any sort of hope of resting the
world title from Rikko. He can do it, there is know doubting his world class
status, its just a matter of consistency for this hard charging Aussie.
Leigh Adams will continue to improve as he gains momentum as the series
progresses and perhaps a G.P. win or 2 is all he needs to really fulfil his
potential. Ryan Suvillan is another Aussie who needs the taste of a G.P. win
to really kick on. Either way this years G.P. is the most wide open since
its inception and one really can not pick a clear winner until the final
heat is run at G.P. 6 at Bydgoszcz. Aussie speedway devotees will know doubt
be waiting impatiently to see their handlebar heroes go around yet again and
perhaps for the first in time in decades an Aussie will stand on the top
step at Bydgoszcz and be crowned World Champion.
Anthony MCGUIRE
From: marianb@amedec.amg.gda.pl
To: "Internet Speedway Fan Club List"
Subject: Correction: 03.06.2000, Linkoeping SWE, Grand Prix of Sweden
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 10:29:23 +0200 (MET DST)
Heat winner runner-up third fourth
20: 21 Todd Wiltshire 3 Jimmy Nilsen 12 M.Karlsson 13 C.Stonehewer
Final standings
Pos No Rider GP Classic scoring
9 12 Mikael Karlsson SWE 7 201
10 24 Rune Holta NOR 8 22021
11 10 Chris Louis GBR 7 200
12 13 Carl Stonehewer GBR 8 210
Current GP standings
Pos Rider 1 2 3 4 5 6 Tot.
1 16 Mark Loram GBR 20 20 40
2 21 Todd Wiltshire AUS 16 18 34
3 11 Billy Hamill USA 25 6 31
4 1 Tony Rickardsson SWE 14 16 30
5 6 Jason Crump AUS 5 25 30
6 2 Tomasz Gollob POL 15 14 29
7 10 Chris Louis GBR 18 7 25
8 3 Jimmy Nilsen SWE 6 15 21
9 8 Ryan Sullivan AUS 8 12 20
10 12 Mikael Karlsson SWE 12 7 19
11 13 Carl Stonehewer GBR 10 8 18
12 5 Leigh Adams AUS 6 10 16
13 18 Antonin Kasper CZE 7 6 13
14 7 Greg Hancock USA 7 5 12
15 15 Henrik Gustafsson SWE 8 4 12
16 4 Joe Screen GBR 5 5 10
17 WC Rune Holta NOR - 8 8
18 9 Stefan Danno SWE 3 4 7
19 22 Rafal Dobrucki POL 4 3 7
20 20 Brian Andersen DEN 4 2 6
21 14 Brian Karger DEN 2 3 5
22 19 Peter Karlsson SWE 3 2 5
23 17 Andy Smith GBR 2 1 3
24 WC Michal Makovsky CZE 1 - 1
WC Nicki Pedersen DEN - 1 1
WC Bohumil Brhel CZE 1 - 1
Pos Rider 1 2 3 4 5 6 Tot.
From: r.blackwell@virgin.net
To: "Internet Speedway Fan Club List"
Subject: A Final
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 12:56:16 +0100
To raise a slightly different point from the A final debacle, without taking
anything at all away from Jimmy Nilsen who I assume was the riders
representative in the situation and did a very good job without being seen
or heard to be shouting and swearing. Would it not be a good idea to
approach Hans Nielsen to be the riders representative in the GP's after all
for example Jason Crump did an awful lot of moaning and yelping, now was
that because he thought it was wrong to overturn the referee's decision or
was it because he had a good idea that had Tony been reinstated there was a
good chance that Tony would not have made the same mistake twice and won the
A final, now if Hans had been arguing the point with Ole Olsen then no one
would have been able to accuse Hans of doing anything to his own ends. Hans
has been there seen it done it and owns the t- shirt factory :-) and if as
it is quite possible something like this occurs again then the riders would
know that Hans would be able to argue the point without trying to benefit
himself and therefore and go for the right decision instead of for example
Mr Crump arguing to make life easier for himself and stuff what is right or
wrong.
Bye 4 Now
Ray
From: anthonymcguire@dingoblue.net.au
To: "Internet Speedway Fan Club List"
Subject: reply to Ray Blackwell
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 23:41:46 +1000
Ray Blackwell wrote: To raise a slightly different point from the A final
debacle, without taking anything at all away from Jimmy Nilsen who I assume
was the riders representative in the situation and did a very good job
without being seen or heard to be shouting and swearing. Would it not be a
good idea to approach Hans Nielsen to be the riders representative in the
GP's after all for example Jason Crump did an awful lot of moaning and
yelping, now was that because he thought it was wrong to overturn the
referee's decision or was it because he had a good idea that had Tony been
reinstated there was a good chance that Tony would not have made the same
mistake twice and won the A final, now if Hans had been arguing the point
with Ole Olsen then no one would have been able to accuse Hans of doing
anything to his own ends. Hans has been there seen it done it and owns the
t- shirt factory :-) and if as it is quite possible something like this
occurs again then the riders would know that Hans would be able to argue the
point without trying to benefit himself and therefore and go for the right
decision instead of for example Mr Crump arguing to make life easier for
himself and stuff what is right or wrong.
To raise a different point of view???. Hey man, if Jason was so supposed to
be out of line where the hell does race director Ole Olsen get off
interjecting yet again this time on behalf of Tony Rikko who i agree should
not have been disqualified after being chopped by Mark. But the point is
Wolfgang Blass is the match referee and right or wrong his decision must
stand or Whats the point of having him their in the first place if race
directors, riders representatives and aunty Marge sitting in the stands have
the right of trying to undermine the sole authority of the F.I.M. referee.
F.I.M. are running this at the end of the day remember not Ole Olsen, or
William Hill The Bookie, Benfield or even LECH. This is not the first time
that Ole Olsen has interjected on behalf of a rider when it surrounded
controversy. The last time being at Coventry when Ole once again interjected
on behalf of Gollob and yet again Crump was also involved. There was some
talk then it had something to do with one time major sponsor LECH who also
happened to be Gollobs major sponsor as well. This time he has interjected
on behalf of the Swedish world champion held in home country and also
remember this is the first G.P. where booking is allowed by William Hill who
has the naming rights for G.P. and also Tony Rikko was short listed at 9/4
favourite. If Ole Olsen wishes to keep trying to overturn a sanctioned
F.I.M. referee at G.P. meetings he is going to find himself and also the
entire G.P. concept open to criticism and scrutiny. As they say CHUM, "its
just not cricket" and lets hope it does not go down that same path. Oh yes
as for your little quip about Jason, Crumpie would have still wiped the
floor with Rikko regardless if he was reinstated to A-Final or not. Either
way it was a great race, best in years and lets try and focus on that shall
we.....
Anthony McGuire
