As John Ellwood has reported the 'crazy' weather stopped any chance of racing on the ice at Arsunda (which is just south of Sandviken). [One biker went through the ice close to the shoreline, when it appears he failed to heed the organisers warnings].
Having groomed the ice to give over 3km of racing surface the weekend came and with it warmer air temperatures which caused the ice to crack and then become very fragile. The lake water temperature causing fissures from below. Some entrants did not arrive in the pits but many cars, some hot rids, bikes and the very insane pulse jet sledges (Look up Mobacken Racing on the internet) were their. Some of the ice spiked tyres were very impressive!
The Polish biker, who was to make the wheelie speed attempt, was ready but could not get on to the ice although practice runs had been made ealier in the week at about 307kph.
A long way to go to chat about speed and engineering (and fortunately the Swedes do speak good english), but the organisers will be staging an event in 2015. And as can happen at Bonneville, the count down to the next event has started and is probably at 350 days and descending.
Malcolm, Derby, England
ps - a very neat green streamliner ice 'sledge' with electric power was entered called the 'Propster' - as it has a propellor to drive it along.