From: esseciem@tin.it
To: "Internet Speedway Fan Club List"
Subject: WTC : QF Lonigo 03.06.00
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 17:47:47 +0200
Hi all,
results from Lonigo
World Team Chanpionship - Quarter Final
1st ITALY 50 points
6 Andrea MAIDA 3 3 3 2 2 3 16
7 Stefano ALFONSO 2'2'0 1' 0 2' 7+4
8 Alex DALLA VALLE 3 3 1' 3 3 1 14+1
9 Simone TADIELLO 2'2' 4+2
10 Armando CASTAGNA 2'2 2'3 9+2
2nd SLOWENJA 39 + 3
11 Ales DOLINAR 0 2 1 0 3
12 Gerhard LEKSE 2'E R 2+1
13 Izak SANTEJ 1 2 3 3 2' 2 13+1
14 Jernej KOLENKO 0 1 3 0 4
15 Matej FERJAN 3 3 X 3 2' 3 3 17+1
3rd HUNGARY 39 + F
1 Sandor TIHANYI 1 1 3 3 0 8
2 Zoltan ADORJAN Fx 3 2' 0 1' 6+2
3 Attila STEFANI 2'1' 2 1 2' 8+3
4 Robert NAGY 3 2 1'0 1 3 10+1
5 Laszlo SZATAMARI 3 2'2 7+1
4th FRANCE 16
16 Sebast. TRESSARIEU R 1 2 3 0 F 6
17 Steph. TRESSARIEU 1 0 1 1 1 4
18 Jeremy BARRAUD 1 1 1 0 1 4
19 Fabrice OSTYN 0 F 1 0 1
20 Christop. DUBERNARD 0 M 1 0 1
Matej Ferjan beat Robert Nagy in run-off for second place.
Regards
Mauro Cavazzana
From: r.blackwell@virgin.net
To: "Internet Speedway Fan Club List"
Subject: Re: reply to Ray Blackwell
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 19:31:16 +0100
You TOTALLY miss the point, No where in my mail did I say that Crump, Jimmy
Nilsen or anyone was out of line. From the tone of your mail you are
obviously a Crump fan and I suppose someone has to be :-). BUT the point I
was making was that if someone along the lines of Hans Nielsen or another
none GP competitor was to be the riders voice in these matters then no one
could level an accusation to Crump or anyone else that their argument was
solely aimed at their own advantage, as for What you term my little quip
again try reading the point fully before jumping out of your pram I said
"Hans would be able to argue the point without trying to benefit himself and
therefore go for the right decision instead of for example Mr Crump arguing
to make life easier for himself".... meaning some people could say that
Crump only did it for that reason, if I wanted to accuse Crumpy of that I
would not skirt the issue I would come right out and say it!
I agree that someone has to be alert to Ole Olsen's power trips and if the
ref makes a decision whether it is right or wrong then the only person who
should be able to change the refs decision is the ref himself if for
instance he used video playback and saw that he had made the wrong decision,
better still make the decision after viewing the video if there is any
doubt, So as I say "CHUM" try reading the whole thing and think first before
spouting your C**P at me. the point was LET SOMEONE UNCONNECTED WITH THE GP
BUT WHO KNOWS WHAT OLSEN IS CAPABLE OF BE THE SPOKESMAN AND BE ABLE TO STAND
UP TO HIM WITHOUT BEING ACCUSED OF SERVING ONLY HIMSELF and prevent people
like you jumping to unfounded conclusions!!!!!!
Bye 4 Now
Ray
----- Original Message -----
From: Anthony McGuire
To: Internet Speedway Fan Club List
Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2000 2:41 PM
Subject: reply to Ray Blackwell
> 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
>
>
From: swaalen@online.no
To: "Internet Speedway Fan Club List"
Subject: =?Windows-1252?Q?Lindk=F6ping_exclusions?
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 21:50:00 +0200
Safely back from Lindkoping after watching a good meeting and consuming a lot of
beers afterwards, I would like to send this message before I even start reading
through my mails, and not having the benefit of TV-replays, only on-site view.
Exclusions:
Heat 1: Jason Crump wrongly excluded. Rune Holta moved slightly, causing Brian
Andersen to go into the tapes.
Heat 15: Jimmy Nilsen should have been excluded bringing down Billy Hamill. I was
standing just where it happened, and it was a desperate move by Jimmy, and he should
have been out.
Heat Heat 22: Veeeeery difficult to judge as it all happened very fast, and right in
front of me, but it looked to me that Tomasz just took Jasons line, giving him
no-where to go.
Final: Wrong decision. Mark took Tony`s front-wheel away going way off his line.
Now onto my messages...........
Stein
From: Sideways31@aol.com
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Subject: Costa Mesa Results - June 3, 2000
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 16:27:48 EDT
Charlie "The Edge" Venegas benefited from Josh Larsen's misfortune to win his
second consecutive Scratch Main at Costa Mesa in front of a large crowd at
the annual Orange County Harley Davidson/Buell Blowout.
Larsen, just one week removed from his qualification into the Overseas Final,
took the lead from the pole. Larsen had Venegas planted on his back tire for
the first lap. As he exited turn two, Larsen found too much grip and the
front wheel lifted the entire length of the back straight. Larsen managed to
save it, but Venegas went underneath as they entered turn three. Larsen went
down in turn four as the rest of the pack went by. Venegas was then chased
by 16 year old former Junior National Champion Ryan Fisher, but he couldn't
close the gap as Venegas was victorious for the third time at Costa Mesa this
year. Fisher finished second in his first Scratch Main appearance of 2000,
Chris Manchester, who is beginning to rediscover his form at Costa Mesa,
finished third, Dukie Ermolenko was fourth, and Larsen was fifth.
Robbie Sauer led the charge into turn one of the eight-man Handicap Main from
his position on the 20 yard line. However, Shawn McConnell and Brad Oxley
came together in turn one forcing a red flag. Before the rest of the riders
could see the red flag, though, there was a four rider pileup in turn three
involving Larsen, Fisher, Randy DiFrancesco, Eddie Castro, with Venegas
barely avoiding the mishap. Venegas was so excited about getting around the
crash that he got off his bike and playfully did a cartwheel, much to the
delight of the turn one crowd. McConnell was banished to the penalty line,
but was so displeased with the decision that he didn't take part in the
restart.
On the restart, Sauer took the lead and Larsen was hot after him. As they
exited turn four on the second lap, Larsen lifted and Castro was able to get
by for second. Sauer held Castro at bay for two laps before "Fast Eddie" as
able to get underneath for the lead. Castro held Larsen off until the
seventh lap when DiFrancesco knocked down Sauer as they entered turn three.
This brought out a red flag and the race was declared complete and the
referee made a bad decision by deeming Sauer as the cause of the incident.
Castro was credited with his first Handicap Main Event victory of the season,
Larsen second, Venegas third, and Oxley fourth.
The Support Class reverted back to a system that was used for several
meetings last season in which the Support riders competed in scratch races
with the winner qualifying for a spot in a First Division Handicap Heat,
while second and third qualify for a Support Scratch Semi, where first and
second qualify for the Support Main. Gerry Duttweiler took the start of the
Support Main and never looked back to get the victory. Mark Hitchcock took
second, Billy Lyons finished third, and Frank Pecce finished fourth.
Pat Dwyer grabbed the lead at the start of the Support B Main and rode a very
smooth four laps to win his first-ever main event in his first year of
speedway. Hector Quevado finished second, and Johnny Lupo finished third.
There was a very large crowd at Costa Mesa no doubt helped by the fact that
it was Harley Night which features people racing on their street legal
Harleys as well as some flattrack bikes. This year the main event featured
10 riders on Harleys of different varieties. The crowd was thoroughly
entertained as a couple of riders highsided their beloved machines. In the
main event, former speedway rider Jimmy Raymond, who has reached Harley Night
icon status, thrilled the crowd with another victory aboard his Harley
chopper. Support B rider Mike Boyle, who was victorious last year, finished
second.
RESULTS
Support B Consolation
160 - Jeremy Toepfer 10
178 - Eloy Medellin 20
143n - Kevin Fereira 10
269 - Ed Martinez 20
293 - Rick Valdez 10
148 - Chris Metoyer 20
Support B Main
231 - Pat Dwyer 10
161 - Hector Quevado 20
125 - Johnny Lupo 10
336 - Bill Green 20
147 - Winston Williams 20
123 - Chad Newlee 20 (fell, remounted)
Support Main
200 - Gerry Duttweiler
177 - Mark Hitchcock
321 - Billy Lyons
234 - Frank Pecce (fell)
Handicap Main
14 - Eddie Castro 40
4 - Josh Larsen 40
43 - Charlie Venegas 60
1 - Brad Oxley 60
36 - Ryan Fisher 40
12 - Randy DiFrancesco 50
23 - Robbie Sauer 20 (fell, excluded)
6 - Shawn McConnell 60 (non-starter)
Scratch Main
43 - Charlie Venegas
36 - Ryan Fisher
130 - Chris Manchester
15 - Dukie Ermolenko
4 - Josh Larsen (fell)
Ryan Evans
sideways31@aol.com
From: a.geatti@xnet.it
To: "Internet Speedway Fan Club List"
Subject: WTC Q.Round 2 - Lonigo 3.6.2000
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 23:03:56 +0200
Lonigo 3rd June 2000
Italy joined Norway as second qualifier for the World Team championship
semi-finals after winning round 2 held at Lonigo on Saturday.
The home team, captained by Armando Castagna was the pre-meeting favourite
but had to wait until heat 21 to be certain of the top spot on the rostrum
and consequently qualify, with 50 points, for one of the two semi-finals
scheduled at Czestochowa (PL) and Lanshut (D) later in July.
A run-off between Slovenia and Hungary both on 39, was needed to decide the
finishing order on the rostrum while the French team was never in contention
collecting ten 1-5 defeats in twelve outings.
For the winners Andrea Maida was in brilliant form and top scored with 16
out of 18 dropping his only points to Tihany and Ferjan. But it was the
Slovenian champion the real hero of the meeting, never beaten by an opponent
and stopped only once by an engine failure during heat 8. After his 6 wins
(5 full and 1 paid, behind team mate Santej) he went on to win the run-off
for second place against Hungarian Roby Nagy.
In such scintillating form, given he qualifies for the continental final,
Ferjan will certainly be one of the main contenders for a top place in the
Lonigo meeting on 8ht July.
Scorers
Italy 50 (Maida 16, Alfonso 7, Dalla Valle 14, Tadiello 4, Castagna 9)
Slovenia 39 (Dolinar 3, Leksé 2, Santej 13, Kolenko 4, Ferjan 17)
Hungary 39 (Tihany 8, Adorjan 6, Stefani 7, Nagy 11, Szatmari 7)
France 16 (Seb. Resarrieu 6, Step. Tresarrieu 4, Barraud 4, Ostyn 1,
Dubernard 1)
Regards.
Andrea Geatti
From: gary_rob@ix.netcom.com
To: "Internet Speedway Fan Club List"
Subject: Fast Fridays Speedway Auburn CA - June 2 2000
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 09:37:22 +0200
Fast Fridays Speedway, Auburn, CA -June 2, 2000
Following last week's world championship qualifier it was back to the
regular program at Fast Fridays Speedway in Auburn, CA, with 3 divisions
of Speedway and 3 divisions of Junior Speedway. It was a good evening of
racing, with some very close finishes. The track as always was well
prepared, but with less dirt on it than last week. Nobody seemed to want
to use the outside. The weather was hot. I got so thirsty I had to drink
a Budweiser. Not a pleasant experience!
Scratch Main
1. Billy Janniro
2. Tommy Hedden
3. Bobby Hedden
4. Charlie Venegas
Really not the race that anyone was expecting. Charlie Venegas did not
get one of his lightning starts. Tommy Hedden took the lead, with Billy
Janniro in second. Bobby Hedden and Charlie were both working on getting
past Billy, while he was focusing on closing the gap between himself and
leader Tommy Hedden. On the last lap, Billy moved up closer and pulled
along side on the race to the flag. It was very close, with the referee
giving the race to Billy. Although he has won a number of handicap mains
at Auburn and Scratch Mains at Livermore and Chico, this was Billy
Janniro's first Auburn Scratch Main Win. Full credit to him, because the
field was not lacking in any way. A returning rider this week, after a
four year absence, was Dustin Schroeder.
Scratch Consi
1. Mike Faria
2. Bart Bast
3. John Cook
4. Bob Hicks
Handicap Main
1. Mike Faria
2. Ryan Fisher
3. Bart Bast
4. Bobby Hedden
5. Tommy Hedden
6. Robert Curry
Another good close race. Early leader, Robert Curry was moved over by a
surprising shove from Ryan Fisher. Whether intentional or not, it looked
a bit heavy handed. Mike Faria managed to get past Ryan to take the win.
Handicap Consi
1. Paul Orlandi
2. Bob Hicks
3. Billy Janniro
4. Chad Felicio
5. John Cook
Charlie Venegas also qualified but was a non starter.
Veteran Paul Orlandi made his first appearance of the season and his
first appearance on a laydown. John Cook from the 50 yard lane had
worked his way up to third and was battling for second, but mistook the
white flag for the checkered. His excuse was a busy week, having
traveled from Auburn last Friday to Poland for Sunday, Sweden for
Tuesday and back to the US on Thursday.
Div 2 Main
1. Jon Curry
2. Ivan Sevart
3. George Snodgrass
4. Rachelle Kerr
5. Tom Adams
6. Derek Silva
Jon Curry started his first week racing a 500 by demonstrating the value
of several years in the Junior program. The lead he built up in his heat
was sufficient to allow him to maintain the lead, despite making a few
mistakes. He was more confident in the main. Ivan Sevart worked his way
up to second but could not catch Jon.
Div 2 Consi
1. Mark Thomas
2. Matt Browne
3. Scott Olney
4. Shawn Eldridge
5. Mike Browne
6. Don Chipman
Div 3 Main
1. Bruce Baker
Sorry, I didn't get the rest of the results. By my account, the other
riders in this race were Robert Mellor, Les Veale, Geno Bellino, Vince
Bertolucci, Din Blankenbiller, and David Quick.
Dino Blankenbiller lead the race until the last turn on the last lap
when he ceremoniously fell down in the middle of the turn.
Div 3 Consi
1. Ron Woodsford
2. Mike Douglass
3. Dave Baker
4. Bill Warnock
5. Mike Achilles
Also in the race were Mark Woodward, Devin Devreece, and Mark Blassey
Junior Div 1
1. Greg Hooten Jnr.
2. Eric Carillo
3. JJ Martynse
4. Bryan Yarrow
5. JT Mabry
6. Chris Kerr
Greg Hooten took the Division 1 Junior Main event despite hard pressure
from Junior National Champion Eric Carillo. Greg has come along way in
the past 12 months.
Junior Div 2.
1. Chris Olney
2. Mark Carillo
3. Danny Easley
4. Josh Newby
5. Alex Marcucci
Junior Div 3
1. TJ Fowler
2. Amanda English
3. Tom Fehrman
Also in this race were Paul and Mitchell Johnson, Jay Rickets, Jeff
Butler and Bruce Bast.
Even the Junior Div 3 race had a close finish with TJFowler working his
way up as the only 20 yard handicap rider and leaving it to the final
straight to pass Amanda English.
Next week there is again Speedway at Auburn on Friday, then Saturday
June10 is Sideways Saturdays opening night at Cal Expo in Sacramento.
Gary Roberts - groberts@iee.org
From: karl.iat@dial.pipex.com
To: "Internet Speedway Fan Club List"
Subject: Swedish GP
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 12:03:11 +0100
Just a few thoughts on P.R. suicide that was the Swedish GP: I was
finally able to persuade the landlord of my local pub to change the TV
to the GP on Saturday, despite calls from other customers to keep the
over 60s live snoring contest on, but I don't think he will do it again!
A few comments were made about years gone by when they went to watch and
I managed to get them interested enough to start making saying "I'll
pick yellow/black for this race" etc. and then the refereee decides to
lose any future interest from these people and doubtless lots of other
armchair observers. First a rider is out, then in, then out again
-which was clearly a totally wrong decision. As to the meeting itself,
Tony Rickardsson was undoubltedly the pick of the bunch, winning his
races by some distance and full marks to the consistency shown by Loram,
Wiltshire & Crump. The Nilsen/Hamill incident was not an easy one to
call from watching on TV although it did seem that Billy did'nt have
much track left going into the bend. With the Crump/Gollob crash, yet
agin we witness the Jason dive as accepts he's been passed and wants a
re-run chance- only this time his lay-down went wrong as his leg caught
Tomasz's back wheel and caused a bigger fall than intended. (We at
Ipswich have seen him use this tactic twice this year, both when there
was clearly no contact with the rider on the inside.) It was clear that
Golob was in front and there was plenty of room for Jason to move
outside. (that should cause some reaction!) Then onto the A final when
Tony is run into by Loram and has his front wheel hit but strangely gets
excluded - could the ref be trying to make-up for the Gollob incident by
this time excluding the outside man.
The only way to try and get fairer decisions is for the referee to not
be too hasty with the exclusions and watch the video evidence and
perhaps speak to the two riders involved before making the decision ( or
the independant expert as Ray Blackwell points out).
Anyway, after all this the general view in the pub was that Speedway is
disorganised and clearly laughable and unfortunately I'll have to make
do with Internet updates for the next GP.
Cheers
Karl
From: sboz@vtown.com.au
To: "Internet Speedway Fan Club List"
Subject: Oz GP Comp. results.
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 21:57:46 +1000
Hi all,
Some interesting results from the Oz GP Comp with most tipsters
gaining some points. Top scorers were Krystian Goralski of Poland and
Lee White of Oz with 15 points. Lee White heads the table with 17 after
two rounds. Results are posted on the web site.
Round three tips can be sent in anytime from now. Sorry, competition now
closed for newcomers.
Cheers,
Peter Henderson
Gold Coast, Queensland
'Speedway Bikes of Oz'
http://plhenderson.tripod.com/index.htm
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