Round up 2009.

The last race for the season 2008 is behind us and we already long for the coming winter. It has been a pleasure this far to work with this blog. We wish to continue with material from our readers. Please send us stuff at info@icespeedwaymovie.com. We will be happy to publish it on our site. The more it spreads the merrier for the sport and it´s followers. Don´t hesitate sending videoclips, pics and shortstories.

Video from SM in Uppsala 2009

IRW made a small reportage with Posa before, during and after the individual Swedish Championships that took place in Uppsala, saturday. Enjoy!

Swedish version: Posa won his 20th individual Swedish Championship.

English version with subtitles.

Posa, undisputed champion 2009!

Posa in triumph at Uppsala, Studenternas IP after having won his 20th
Swedish individual iceracing championship.

The amazing Posa Serenius did it again. The taste of revenge is sweet and after the first heats at Studenternas in Uppsala there was no doubt who was going to be the winner. Posa was radiant eventhough his left hand was swollen, sore and heavily reduced in capacity. In fact he was so determined and focused on winning his 20th Swedish championship that he had put Russian champagne on ice back in his van. Stefan Svensson couldn´t make it and we missed out on the annual classic fight between the two. However, motorsport history was written once again and IRW bow their heads in admiration. Also we would like to thank all the spectators who came and talked to us about the film and gave us praise. It means more than a lot! 7000 showed up and we hope that Icy Riders contributed a bit to that number.

Uppsala tomorrow!

IRW will attend the Swedish championships tomorrow. You can meet both Bengt and Andreas by the grand stand at Studenternas. Please feel free to come and talk to us, ask questions about Icy Riders and such. We hope the weather Gods are watching and that the crowd will be huge! Here is the staringlist for tomorrows event...

1 Robert Gjersvold Strömsunds MC
2 Posa Serenius SMK Gävle
3 Ulf Ledström ÖMK Rundbana
4 Peter Koij SMK Gävle
5 Tobias Åström Bollnäs MK
6 Gösta Sundelin Njurunda MK
7 Per Bruhn SMK Gävle
8 Fredrik Johansson Linköpings MS
9 Magnus Lundgren Njurunda MK
10 Johan Lundkvist Jämtlands MK
11 Mats Svensson Bollnäs MK
12 Patrik Sohlberg ÖMK Rundbana
13 Torleif Burman Funbo MS
14 P-A Lindström Jämtlands MK
15 Lars Ringbert Strömsunds MC
16 Hans-Olov Olsén Strömsunds MC
Subs:
17 Leif Bertilsson SMK Hedemora
18 Roger Nordmark SMK Hedemora

Posa for # 20!

Posas left hand when in Assen.

Posa is off the hook as the national sportscommitee allow him to compete in the Swedish Championships in Uppsala on saturday. IRW didn´t expect anything else as the reprimand was on an international basis and only for 11 days for a missing medical application. It feels good that the Swedish commitee show some pondus as they actually are a part of the situation Posa was in. It is there duty to check all the drivers papers necessary. Posas hand seems ok for driving and the table is set for the legend to capture his 20th swedish championship title. IRW wish the arrangers great weather and lots of audience and above all, a great event!

German bike magazine writing to IRW...

A journalist at one of the biggest European biker magazines, PS Das Sport-Motorrad Magazin,

wrote to IRW after having seen the film and asked if he could come and try himself. The paper would do a kind of do-it-yourself reportage on icespeedway. IRW passed the question on to Bollnäs and Njurunda who both invited the German with open arms. Offering as well a place to stay and a bike to lend. Now that´s hospitality!

Posa has been given thumbs up!

Yesterday IRW talked to Posa Serenius about the Swedish championships in Uppsala the 28th of March. He had good news to share. The motor organisation have decided that Posa can participate in the race. With that said it´s up to the motor Gods and Posa himself. He said his hand is getting better by the hours. The only worry is whether the flexibility will recover fast enough. IRW keep their fingers crossed that the grand old man will ride at Studenternas next week.

Who is who?

From the left: Bertil Andersson, Posa Serenius, Sture "Stursken",
Bertil Dedring, Erik Stenlund, Yngve Nilsson, Agnar Stenlund, unknown.

The picture above has become very popular and works like a mascot for ICY RIDERS. Many readers ask for the people on it and its history. Originally we found it in Posas private photocollection and he could not quite remember when it was taken. After having investigated the matter during our European visit last couple of weeks we know as much that it is taken in 1984. Some say in Inzell, others somewhere in Sweden. If you can fill us in on the name of the guy in the red dress and the surname of "stursken" we would be very pleased.

Pics from Örebro yesterday.

Jocke Glimfjäll has provided pics from yesterdays iceracing event in Örebro. Just click on 18th of March in the calendar to the left. If there are others who have pics to share or stories to tell, please send it to us at IRW. Help us keep this site updated with continous good stuff.
The results from the A-finals,

E Kristov, RUS
A Klatovsky, TCH
Stellingverf, HOL
S Arkipov RUS

Hidden blog...

Some of the legendary Posas Pack outside Hotel de Jonge in Assen.

Icy Riders Weekly have got some remarks about the difficulties to find the blog. We totally agree and have decided to redesign the website shortly. Tonight there are races in Örebro and Icy Riders Weekly got a phonecall from Posa Serenius. He is there to help us promote the film ICY RIDERS. We love the appreciation and warm comments we get for the film. Also we would like to express our love to the fantastic Posas Pack! Without them the film would not have seen the light. Thanx guys!

The dark season...

Injured swedish icy riders! Tobias Åström,
Posa Serenius, Gösta Sundelin and Stefan Svensson in Assen.

The season of 2008/09 is to be remembered as one of the least successful ones. Everybody got hurt and the finals belonged to the outstanding Nikolai Krasnikov who now have 5 WC-titles in a row. Assen this year was a disatster for the Swedes. At the open race (Roelof Thijs Bokaal) on friday both swedes got their hands injured. Gösta Sundelin who had two straight 3-pointers ran into Tobias Åström. Stefan Svensson who was involved in a serious crash in Berlin (one of several) tried to do some laps during practice on friday morning but gave up. The pain was too great. Other riders who ended up hurt was Vitali Khomitsevich, Harald Simon (rode with both hands in plaster!!), Johnny Tuinstra (broken collarbone). We look forward to the closing events on swedish ice instead and no more injuries.

Icy Riders screening in Slovakia

The Slovakian filmfestival in Kosice has invited director Bengt Löfgren to screen the film about Posa Serenius and the world of Icespeedway. Tomorrow there will be Q&As and hopefully there are many curious people watching.

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Swedish championship qualification racepics

On this site you will find pics from the successful qualification race for the Swedish championships, at Gustavsberg yesterday. It is a guy called Jocke who have shot them. The event was very successful and more than 2000 people came although there ws a snowstorm. Impressive! As always we thank the people at isracing.net for sharing.

Posa goes to Assen!

Posa at Hotel DeJonge signing one of the famous sweatshirts by "Plymen".

Breaking news! Posa Serenius is going to Assen to watch the races from the tribune. He will cross his fingers (at least the five on his right hand...) for his colleauges Stefan Svensson and P-A Lindstrom. After just now having talked to Posa on the phone Icy Riders Weekly also can report that his hand still is plastered but that the doctor gave a good prognosis for him to race in the Swedish championships in Uppsala. We all hope the doctors is correct. Finally we are sorry for not having shared the latest Swedish competition results. Due to us being abroad we found it much more easy to let the superb people at www.isracing.net handle the results.

Icy Riders in Berlin

Bengt and Markus Skabraut
Bengt and Günther Bauer
Bengt and ex. world champion Dragulin.
Bengt and Johnny Thuinstra
Bengt and russian legendary mechanic, Belanogov.

Icy Riders Weekly was in Berlin to promote the ICY RIDER DVD. Unfortunately for the first time in 32 years Posa was not competing. -Schade and -Tut mir Leid was often heard on the tribunes before the race started. Everybody asked about his hand condition and was hoping to see him next year. Some of course also asked about the medical issue that has been blown out of proportions back in Sweden. The races itself was performed in poor weather. The rain and wind and also some bad crashes slowed down the event. Also the Russians are more dominant than ever, something that in the end can kill all interest in the sport. Icy Riders weekly met some legends at the Horst-Dohm Stadion. One of them was Dragulin who sent his love to Posa. Stefan Svensson was injured yesterday and had to spend the night at the hospital. Nothing serious we hope.

ICY RIDERS WEEKLY hit the road...

Icy Riders weekly pack their trunks and head for Berlin and Assen WC-finals. It will be somewhat awkward not having Posa in the line-up but as we know him he will grind this one down and aim for the 20th individual Swedish championship. We hope his hand will recover and that the Swedish committee will be reasonable in this matter. After all it has been a storm in a waterglass.

Black day for Posa Serenius

Life ain´t easy being a legend called Posa Serenius at the moment. We spoke to him this morning as he drove to the hospital getting his injured hand looked after. Not only three hurt left hand fingers but also a major damage to the actual hand needs operation. Later during the day one could read a message from FIM saying that he was excluded from the rest of the WC-tournament due to a medical issue. Posa has a well known history of high blood pressure. He had to cancel a race in UFA two years because of this. He takes medicine ordinated by his doctor, the same medicine he has been taken for years. However a paper necessary was not delivered on time and therefor the FIM executives decided to give Posa a reprimand. People with ill will call for doping and accuse Posa of being a cheat. Total nonsense! Posa gave an interview in Allt om MC/race to Per Gustavsson where everything is made clear. You can read it here in Swedish. Assen and Berlin will have to face an event without Posa...It has never ever happened before. Posa however plays it cool and focus on this years great goal. To win his 20th individual Swedish championship. We keep our fingers crossed!

Russian wins Kartoffelrennen

Attendancy record and 1200 people had come to see Posa and the others compete for the Kartoffelrennen trophy at Billingen in Skövde last night. The oval track is very short and the tempo was intense. Unfortunately Posa had to stop after his first heat as he had a crash. Usualy nothing stops this grand old man but a splintered finger and another one in bad condition put a stop to the evening. Instead Stefan Svensson and Peter Koij had a good night and made it to the A-finals with the russian duo Archipov and Krisow. Krisow won after the second start as Peter Koij was disqualified. The weather conditions were perfect and we also had the pleasure to sell the Icy Riders DVD-edition for the first time. It is great fun to respond and listen to the people who really enjoy this sport.

Skövde, Kartoffelrennen tonight.

Photo: Frisco

After the dramatic finals in the Swedish championships for teams this weekend where Posa and his teammates from Gävle won with one point up to Funbo the time has come for an International open race called Kartoffelrennen. It takes place in Skövde. As Icy Riders weekly spoke to the arrangers last night there was some problems with the red tape concerning the Russian riders. But they were positive everything would settle today. Viola Brattberg, the lady in charge of the practicalities at the race acts translator as well as stand in mother for the Russian guests. She started studying Russian so she can follow the sport more closely. That´s interest for you! Fantastic.

Startinglist Kartoffelrennen 3 march 2009 kl 19.00 in Skövde at Billingens icetrack. 1. Stefan Svensson SWE 2. Renè Stellingwerf NL 3. Grzegorz Knapp POL 4. Kai Lehtinen FIN 5. Tommy Flyktman FIN 6. Stanislav Archipov RUS 7. Stefan Pletschacher GER 8. Per Bruhn SWE 9. Eduard Krisow RUS 10. Andreas Forsell SWE 11. Sven Holstein NL 12. Peter Koij SWE 13. Per-Anders Lindström SWE 14. Per-Olof Serenius SWE Qual.heat: 19. Fredrik Johansson SWE 20. Hans Weber GER 21. Jo Saetre NOR
22. Mark Uzzel

Gävle SMK Swedish champions.

Gävle SMK won the Team Championships 2009. The races was arranged by ÖMK Rundbana and the heats were broadcasted via webradio. The final score...
1. GÄVLE SMK 38p
2. Funbo 37p
3. ÖMK Rundbana 32p

Icy Riders weekly wish to congratulate Gävle to their succeses.

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