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Welcome to the only section on an English site that will keep you updated on what's going on in the Dutch scene. Sean will also keep you up to date with the Dutch grading list's compiled by Himself and Fritz.

Here are the much awaited race dates for the new shale track at Emmen and also the Blauwhuis dirt track

2008 Speedway Track Emmen (shale)

sat19 Apr 5pm opening race

sat 17 May 5pm race weekend +camping
sun 18 May 1pm

sat 21 Jun 5pm race weekend +camping
sun 22 Jun 1pm

sat 23 Aug 5pm

sat 27 Sep 5pm

sat 18 Oct 5pm

Blauwhuis race dates (dirt)

24 Mar eastern mon.

30 Apr Queens day 2 day's event with camping big party

1 May

1 Jun sun

6 Jul; sun

So here we are, just a few weeks away from the World Final at Kings Lynn. Last sunday (9th sept) it was the last chanche for the field boys to qualify for a place on the grid. The meeting was at St.Maarten and although H29 Durk Greidanus had already qualified by being well on top of the points charts, it was the battle for the remaining places. Form 2nd to 7th place was very close in points so it was all open prior to the race. It was an hard afair, especialy the final where cars where al over the place and crashing out, again that man on a mission Durk Greidanus won it and that was his eight final this year! Axel Nijs was flying al day only to be spun out again in the final but he did a good job by going from 5th to 3th in the points and with it securing his place on the grid.

At this moment I don't know weather these drivers will take the invitation or not, rumours are that Easy #3 Ouwe Bijlsma has withdrawn.

Thers is alot of interest from the Dutch fans and drivers this year to come over and my opinion is that it is a shame that only 20 drivers are invited to race on the Friday and Saturday at the Lynn. For such a big weekend i would say at least 30 Dutchies and 60 Uk drivers!

The Dutch National Points

After 40 years of using National gradings in the Uk Frits and I thought it was about time to get it started in Holland for field F1 stockcars. So in 2005 we made a plan and a grading system similar to the one in the Uk and we started the system on paper only for 2006 to see if it could work. We where well happy about the result and decided it was worth trying to make happen in 2007. In the winter prior to this season we tried to convince al the different organisations that this was the way to go for the future, from the 5 big organisations 3 decided to work with the National gradings, others stayed with there own system unfortunately. The good news is that a new shale track is being build at this moment (more on that later) and they go with the "new" system to. So now the season is well underway and the first grading period has come to an end we are well pleased with the way it is unvolving. We hope that after this season the fans, drivers and organisations can all say that this is the way to do it and see that F1 stockcar racing is al about the fast drivers at the back of the grid working hard to get to the front! If not, well . we tried didn't we.. So some people think the points table on here isn't official and maybe there right but we don't have an organisation like brisca in Holland, infact every organisation can do wat ever they want. So I think it's quite official in that way! So this gives you an good indication about the top boyz from Holland, enjoy...
Sean

Redtops & Superstars*

540 Job Honderd*
29 Durk Greidanus*
26 Jan v.d. Iest*
14 Arjan Koorn*
43 Haye Dijkstra
64 Richard Talsma
76 Wierd Gietema
3 Ouwe Bijlsma
17 Bouwe-Arjen Hiddenga
21 Jeroen Wekema
2 Toon Vronik
172 Ron Verkerk
20 Bert de Vries
18 Lieuwe de Vries
35 Fred Hink
32 Axel Nijs
227 Sip Woudstra
11 Onno Pietersma
32 Ernst-Jan Wekema

Bluetops

61 Koen Maris
O33 Wieger Hellema
63 Appie Maris
12 Pieter Dogger
60 Henk Maris
132 Roy van Zuilen
84 Mark Woudenberg
215 Albert Sikkema
94 Age Koudenburg
67 Marco Kandt
38 Bart Koopmans
185 Jaap v.d. Velde
44 Wieger Minnema
179 Sjaak Kentie
223 Jannes Boskma
57 Jan Heysteeg
93 John de Buck
53 Sjors de Jong
42 Andre Neet
97 Martijn de Veij
92 Remco de Buck

Yellowtops

41 Peter Koorn
151 Marco Falkena
840 Bas Stolk
23 Feite Visser
808 Mark v.d. Hoeven
113 Raymond v.d. Hadelkamp
31 Ted Blom
124 Feite v.d. Veen
112 Arjan Ligthart
48 Tjitze Minnema
811 Hans Stravers
88 Willem-Hein de Haan
59 Wim Broere
46 Rob Hink
98 Piet Scholtanus
90 Roelof v.d Veen
393 Gert Elzinga
91 Jitze van den Berg
65 Jan Sparreboom
117 Harm de Ruiter
O67 Ype Elgersma
299 Wietse Hempenius
1 Jeroen Reijms
231 Gerrit Visser
6 Wilco Reijm
81 Richard Uitdeboogerd
454 Johan Tolsma
16 Klaas Pier
58 Joop Veldkamp
51 Pablo Brandenburg
126 Johan Kranenburg
37 Willem Koopmans
383 Gerrit de Vries
111 Ronald van Baren
20 Egbert v.d. Werf
6 Pascal Spigt
5 Sandor Mandje

Remaining drivers will be white tops, unless otherwise indicated or those returning from retirement at grade last held

H29 Acon Points Winner

After round five from the six meetings planned at the St.maarten oval this season mr Durk Greidanus (29) won the ACON points Championship. Durk won the first 3 meeting finals at St.Maarten and by keeping his head cool at the Dutch Open he secured the points championship with some margin over Ouwe bijlsma (3). With a total of 132 points he had 51 points advantage over Ouwe (3) and with a max score of 32 points it was in the bag! So this automatically means we will see Durk back on the World Final grid in september at Kings Lynn. The other two remaining places for the WF is still wide open with the top six drivers all being very close in the points. So it will be a hard battle at the St.maarten remainder again at the 9th september for that last to places on the grid

This will be the first proper shale track in Holland and is being build in Emmen which is near the German Border. It will be an 330 metre long track with steel plate fence. The track will have lights so racing on Saturday nights can be possible. The plan is to do 8 meetings in 2008. Formulas will be F1 plus F2 and a support formula which can be different one each time. The track is build on the inside of a motocross track so as you can see on the pictures a few big tunnels where necessary to get access to the oval.

Top 5 from the ACON:	Top 5 from Venray:
29 Durk Greidanus 3 Ouwe Bijlsma 32 Axel Nijs 93 John de Buck 76 Wierd Gietema	217 Ron Kroonder 240 Henk Jan Ronitz 007 Dave Schaap 247 Gary Castell 22 Louw Wobbes.