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I never understood why many regarded the British final mainly just as a qualifying round of the World championship. It is first and foremost the final of the British Championship, in itself a worthy title to aim for.

https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/relacja/144109/tauron-wlokniarz-czestochowa-zooleszcz-gkm-grudziadz

try the kergel stream http://kergel.ucoz.lv/index/live_stream_2/0-12?fbclid=IwAR3VhUjKMTiAWVp9hnoJ55v5l4YLSDgCx3k6IBfv2shCfqCxJ8GFkuYYIzg

Sammy Halbert of the USA is an interesting name in the line-up for Belle Vue on Saturday.

6pm

The first eight heats took just 35 minutes to complet under threatening skies. Very good racetrack, and very competitive match so far. An upset on the cards ?

Tonight is Lukas Fienhage's debut in the Ekstraliga. By the way, Fienhage has been (accidentally) left out of the German SWC squad by our new team managers Dörner and Bartz. Weird story how they messed this up!

https://www.speedwayillustratednews.com.au/2023/07/14/fim-speedway-world-cup-squads-announced/

Ash's Speedway Museum in Bathurst, New South Wales, is to close down at the end of July 2023 https://www.speedwayillustratednews.com.au/2023/07/13/what-a-great-loss-for-australian-speedway/

Just found out the commentary can be activated by clicking on teh icon bottom right - Swedish, Polish, or Engliash. It is there.

without commentary this is indeed a bit of a let down and rather boring to watch.

yes, there seems to be no commentary

and live now on DISCOVERY+

Are there any online streams of the Ostrow v Landshut match ?

Sixteen year old Mario Häusl, who is half German and half a Seychelles-Islander, has been signed by Landshut last week and makes his Polish League debut today.

http://kergel.ucoz.lv/index/live_stream_2/0-12

Last test for the Poles before the World Cup

We don't have a Ladies Championship here in Germany, but we do have a number of girls racing in the 500cc speedway division. And two or three of them are really fast. Next Saturday two of them, Hannah Grunwald and Paddy Erhart, ride in the German Under-21 championship final, and I would not be surprised to see one or both finish among the front runners. Hannah even features on the advertising poster for this meeting (see below).

Interesting topic this. Could it be that "Dirt Track" was more of a general term, and "Speedway" was introduced as a more specific term for the short distance racing on the smaller tracks? A new name, to differenciate the new sport from what the Americans had long known back then and what they still know today as Dirt Track or Flat Track racing? I wonder if the term "Speedway" was chosen to give the teams' league racing it a catchy name, when that got going in 1929. Initially there had been an "English Dirt Track League", but not for long under this name. The term "Speedway"-League was probably more appealing, sounding more modern and exciting. It will have been regarded as more appropriate a term for this new team sport. A concisely desiganted name, just like other sports such as "Cricket" or "Rugby" had. On the continent, where league racing was never established in the pre-war years, the sport remained to be known as "Dirt Track". Here the term "Speedway" didn't catch on until well after the war.

Oh, great, that it is on Supersport, which happens to be a South African TV broadcaster

No problem mate. Last year was a fiasco as well, they had tennis before the speedway and missed most of the heats. Eurosport is useless. I'd rather watch it on Discovery+

Interesting. If so, nobody has made it public that it will be live on EUROSPORT1, which is a free channel here in Germany. We here in Germany were told that the live SGP coverage will be on DISCOVERY+ only.

Is it? I'm surprised and I did not know that.

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