Champion

Well then it should be 11-riders 2011 series as only 11 riders did qualify...

Polish motorsport board authorities (or at least the most important one) are really focused on covincing BSI to give Kolodziej permanent wild card for the next season, and that's why Kolodziej is about to be a wild card at Bydgoszcz; to prove he's worth it. So far he's absolutely on the top of individual Ekstraliga and Elitserien averages. Oh, and SGP Challenge engine protest was not quite his idea, he was just advised to do this, so don't be mad at the guy while he really isn't vicious or jealous type of man.

You're being unfair or just don't remeber what happend just a week before the last GP at Vojens: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aek6k0Y5oT8

EF was because of one very very very little pebble that choked the carburettor

Just wait for that: http://www.sportspromedia.com/deals/_a/gsi_expand_international_speedway_portfolio/

National mourning ends at Friday.

It's because of the rules of Golden Helmet. Basically final line up is: top 10+2R from Ekstraliga top 4+1R from I Liga top 2+1R from II Liga based on ind. averages.

There was some kind of fight between Sullivan and Richardson right after the 3rd heat of 1st semifinal leg at Czestochowa.

Krzyzstof Cegielski told a friend of mine that this meeting is planned for the 23rd august. Lots of top poles will be on show, has anybody in poland heard anymore? Would love to go. Riders confirmed so far: http://www.60latnowejhuty.espeedway.pl/zawodnicy.html Meetings starts at 15:30, entrance free. This is how the stadium used to look like: http://www.zuzelend.com/krakow,151 http://www.zuzelend.com/stadiony-krakow-2,163 And these pictures were taken last month: http://i30.tinypic.com/2yts115.jpg http://i30.tinypic.com/j74877.jpg http://i31.tinypic.com/118evev.jpg http://i27.tinypic.com/qxpjq1.jpg http://i26.tinypic.com/15qal1g.jpg http://i32.tinypic.com/ffa9dx.jpg http://i27.tinypic.com/wwnedj.jpg http://i28.tinypic.com/2jezmux.jpg

http://www.ostrowtv.pl/news/wiemy-ile-zarabiaja-w-kmo That's how much riders have been paid so far. "Foreign riders liabilities are small, domestic riders liabilities are larger". PLN= GBPx5, PLN=EUROx4,25. And it didn't take much time for riders to reply. Zabik admits that club paid him 115k PLN, but also reveals that club still owns him 180k PLN.

There's a lot more than just an unsafe track. First of all - the track condition: http://anna-klopocka.lua.pl/IMG_2258_16.42.JPG http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/2009/07/...erbowy-skandal/ Looks quite good, especially in comparison to what happened in Leszno, but the truth is that Ostrow's coach Janusz Stachyra is a well known agricultural hardware user so the water is sinking in his kind of track very well, instead of staying out making it possible to be washed out of the track like in Leszno. The weather forecast was obvious. So, in result all of riders (or almost all of them - depends on source publicizing the infos) were against of riding. But looks like the referee thought he was smarter and had decided the track was not as bad, announced start of the meeting, no one came out, both sides walk-over granted But there are also financial problems of Ostrow. It is said, that some of riders (for sure not all of them) haven't been paid this season at all (!) and from the very begging they're riding for "free". But looks like it's not the matter of this recent worldwide subprime mortgage crisis - I've read at Ostrow's forum that they are still paying last years obligations (Ostrow was also involved in serious corrupt affair). From what they're writing on their forum I assume also that those "riots" were a bit over-coloured by media.

Today's practice photos: http://mariusz-foto.pl/index.php?go=zuzelgal (IMEJ - Tarnów trening 11 lipca)

It could be very difficult to move anything from Nowa Huta, as the oldest part of this Krakow's section has been included to the monuments register 4 or 5 years ago Wanda's stadium doesn't belong to that monumental part of Nowa Huta as far as I know, but still the whole Nowa Huta is quite uniqe and hard to be moved and replaced There's also track in Swietochlowice. The club Slask Swietochlowice was withdrawn from the 3rd division in 2003 (just before the beggining of season) and the track has been out of use for professional speedway since 2006, but there was some amateur club which won amateur league in 2005, 2006 & 2007. I don't know how are they doing at present but here I've found video from 2007: http://www.speedtube.pl/film,539

The track in Krakow (or Nowa Huta if you want, it's just a section of Krakow) was last time in use in 2003 as far as I remember. But lately the club (Wanda Krakow) has been granted quite big amount of money from the City Office for the stadium repair and they ripped-off the whole track in the end of last year; http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/6/6472/z6472636X.jpg http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/5/6472/z6472635X.jpg and now they are preparing (or already doing it ? I'm not sure) to renewing the whole area and making it useful to speedway, including air fence, etc. Stadion in Machowa (~15km east from Tarnow) is in quite good condition but is out of professional speedway and as far as I know only amateurs are riding there occasionally. Speedway in Warsaw is just a different story; there were even 3 clubs in Warsaw in 50's but all of them have gone in 60's. Finally the Gwardia stadium was built in 90's and some individual and team meetings took place there (including individual polish championship final, domestic speedway grand prix final, etc.) There was also a league team in 3rd division from year 2000 but after beeing promoted to 2nd division in 2003 they were not able to finish the season so the last meeting was in July 2003 when it all ended. Now there's a brand new club called WTS, founded in 2007, but they have no stadium. The old one (Gwardia) is ruined ( http://www.zuzel.waw.pl/index.php?id=2 ) and their efforts to bring speedway back to Warsaw are just resultless so far.

Tarnow is the nearest one to Krakow, there's also Czestochowa and Rybnik (both ~110km, Czestochowa north-west, Rybnik west). There's only one league-weekend between 17th and 25th July; it's 19th (the next one is 26th) and there are meetings in Tarnow (Tarnow vs. Rybnik) and Czestochowa (Czestochowa vs. Wroclaw). There's also Individual Polish Championship Final in Torun, 25th

There are 3 slovenian channels available free at Hot Bird (TV Slovenija 1, 2 & 3) - are they covering any speedway meetings ?

http://sporttorun.pl/galeria_album,66.html http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.p...086&page=54

Looks like there's someone trying to make his money. There was someone else, not so long ago, convincing everyone that deflectors are so damn good for speedway...

As we say in Poland; if you don't know what's it all about - it's all about the money. There's a regulation in Ekstraliga that no more than 2 GP riders are available in match squad. There are also rumours; - Jonsson is in contact with Czestochowa about signing a contract for next season - there will be another regulation in Ekstraliga, that presence of at least 3 POLISH riders in match squad will be obligatory While Ulamek is in GP he is probably out of Czestochowa. Of course Jonsson beeing Polish GP rider is the same as Ulamek beeing Polish GP rider, but still Andreas seems to be much more valuable on the track. It is also possible (what was mentioned in media a few weeks ago) that primary sponsor of Czestochowa isn't going to help them next year (or not so much as so far) so maybe one of the most expensive riders which is Nicky is out of Czestochowa. Having 2 GP riders like Hancock and Andreas is still better than Hancock and Ulamek. Whatever it is, I don't think it's really about conflict with SVEMO. The irony is, that Holta was also made Pole by Czestochowa. It was in 2003 while only 2 foreign riders were allowed, and they didn't want to choose beetwen Rune and... Andreas

And that's one of the main differences between our leagues; when you're on the stadium (or watching via internet, tv or whatever) and there's meeting beetwen Czestochowa and Leszno, then you get exactly CZESTOCHOWA and LESZNO teams on the track. Not Czestochowa + some-other-guys. You know who you support, the Team is not only a bunch of guys gathered a few minutes ago (and riding for some other teams a few minutes later). You saw 2 meetings - well, we care about quality, not guantity. Generally speaking league meetings in Poland are not often than once a week - how often do you have it in England, and who is more impatient, whose appetite for speedway is greatest ? Don't take it personally, there's just enough stupid golden-double-super-duper-tactic-reserves and other regulations in Poland, taken from England to make speedway look more like colorful country circus than breathtaking no-gears, no-brakes motorsport. You haven't seen world class British rider since Mark Loram, we've had problems with that for ages even without messing with regulations every year And dark ages are coming back as Tomek is not getting younger. On the other side what happend in Czestochowa seems to be another example of our domestic speedway-wars, but where's too much money, there's too much pressure. EDIT: There was a training this afternoon in Czestochowa, and it ended with broken rib and blade-bone for Gapinski, what is now a proof for Czestochowa that track is still (as it wasn't yesterday) not ready for serious riding.

Yes, he's in bad shape. In some way even his life was in danger (broken bones, almost ripped artery). His father is very mad at Artur Mroczka and blaimig him for that crash; http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/7136/pawli1it2.jpg http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/2633/pawli2hn0.jpg Pawlicki and Janowski are the greatests talents since Kasprzak & Kołodziej, especially Pawlicki. He is out of speedway for about half a year.

You can always try to watch TVP Info on Astra satellite (it's FTA).

There was more: question: "Rune, will Gorzow przegra or wygra tonight" ? (in english, but with those two words in polish) Rune (after a while): "....przegra" przegra means loose, wygra means win Some time later journalist said that Rune had corrected mistake On the other side great polish by Ferjan.

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/sport/pir...f_faces_axe.php "It's believed, though, he's still down to referee the final round at Gelsenkirchen in October." Does this mean, that he's still going to be Gelsenkirchen's GP referee ?