It was a great captaining performance from Smederna's Fredrik Lindgren who scored a paid maximum with 10+2 as the Eskilstuna team took their third Swedish championship with relative ease in the cool autumnal weather in Målilla tonight.
For Lindgren is was the second memorable night in Småland this year as here, on the very same track, he won the Scandinavian SGP just over a month ago.
Dackarna also have a SGP winner in their side with Maciej Janowski who won the German SGP less than a month ago. But when the talent Pole came off his bike as he overcooked the third bend of the first heat, the home fans must have groaned inwardly sensing that Lady Luck was not going to be on their side again tonight.
Coming into the match they were already 18 points down and by the time they won their first heat advantage, when Frederik Jacobsen and Piotr Pawlicki took a 4:2, they were already another six points behind the reigning champions.
That is not to say that Dackarna gave up, but that rider for rider over the 30 heats Smederna always seem to have the advantage and never seemed likely to drop the lead but rather just continue to increase their winning margin.
The Målilla club scored slightly better than in the match last night with the final result standing at 37-53 but Gleb Chugunov was excellent again for the visitors with 10 and Michael Jepsen Jensen scored 9+1 for the victors. So, Smederna ran out comfortable winners 109-71.
For the majority of riders this marks the end of the domestic seasons for the year with only the SEC from Chorzow and the SGP from Torun left on the international calendar.
However, Dackarna's Swedish national champion, Jacob Thorssell will have one more chance at domestic victory when he rides for Wolverhampton Wolves against Swindon Robins in the UK Premiership semifinals on 30 September and 3 October.
