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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