Grand Prix Challenge 2017

[STEPHEN 333 58]

This years Grand Prix Challenge has been announced for Togliatti in the Soviet Union,

 

Saturday August 19th. according to the GP Website, the week before the Gorzow Grand Prix itself.

[customhouseregular 1,651]

Nice day trip...I must check Ryanair's flight schedules.

[Mark 1,497]

Nice day trip...I must check Ryanair's flight schedules.

Couple of hours from Stanstead. Easy !

[waiheke1 4,295]

Chance of the laguta brothers picking up wildcard spots for this one? Could be their best chance of making the gp series?

[Ghostwalker 1,859]

Chance of the laguta brothers picking up wildcard spots for this one? Could be their best chance of making the gp series?

 

Artem have already done a season in the GP-series though.

[Ghostwalker 1,859]

Andreas Jonsson have attempted to not to try and qualify for the 2018 season due to the poor results the past couple of years.

 

http://www.norrteljetidning.se/motor/speedway/andreas-jonsson-tanker-inte-kvala-till-vm-serien-2018-eftersom-det-gatt-som-det-gjort-de-senaste-tva-aren-sa-avstar-jag

[PolskiZuzel 329]

This years Grand Prix Challenge has been announced for Togliatti in the Soviet Union,

 

 

Soviet Union ? Where have you been for the last 25 years (or so) ?

[Steve Shovlar 10,439]

Easiest route to get there?

[racers and royals 8,723]

Easiest route to get there?

Fly to Moscow and then internal flight to Kurumoch int airport Samara which serves Togliatti -60 km away this is the route Dave Rowe and Sam Ermolenko take when commentating from there. Edited February 25, 2017 by racers and royals

[Steve Shovlar 10,439]

Yes looked at it and its £279 return which isn't bad considering the distance. Finair or Aeroflot. Includes a 2 hour wait at Moscow. Only downside is flight times. Most are over nighters and very early returns. The return is like 6 am from Samara on Sunday. Now if the meeting was rained off its a long trip for nothing so you could put back to the Monday. So you would have the Sunday to kill in a Russian town in the backside of nowhere.

[racers and royals 8,723]

Yes looked at it and its £279 return which isn't bad considering the distance. Finair or Aeroflot. Includes a 2 hour wait at Moscow. Only downside is flight times. Most are over nighters and very early returns. The return is like 6 am from Samara on Sunday. Now if the meeting was rained off its a long trip for nothing so you could put back to the Monday. So you would have the Sunday to kill in a Russian town in the backside of nowhere.

Togliatti 4hours ahead of UK time.

[Mark 1,497]

Good luck if getting an internal Russian flight. Bumpy ride !

[DutchGrasstrack 804]

We flew to Togliatti a few weeks ago for the Icespeedway and the traveling was easy as. Cologne - Moscow Vnukovo - Kurumoch. We used Russias 'Ryanair' Pobeda which is cheap, but they want money for everything else.

 

Make sure you have 2 hours minimum connection time in Moscow. We had less then an hour and missed our connection (also due to a little delay). Passport/visa takes some time.

 

From Kurumoch take an Uber 'taxi' to Togliatti which costs around 15 pounds for a 1 hour 60km journey. Our roadtrip was quite scary in the snow, but it should be Ok in the summer.

 

My experience with taxi's in Russia on a previous trip was terrible as they rip you off guaranteed. Uber solves this problem

 

Kurumoch airport has a hotel on 15 minute walking distance which is expensive but ok.

Edited February 26, 2017 by DutchGrasstrack

[phillipsr 2,053]

Easiest route to get there?

Being seeded straight through I'd imagine

[Ghostwalker 1,859]

Swedish nominations for the qualifiers

 

VM kval 1 Esbjerg, Danmark den 6 maj:

Peter Ljung & Jacob Thorssell

 

VM kval 3 Lonigo, Italien den 6 maj:

Linus Sundström & Pontus Aspgren

 

VM kval 4 Abensberg, Tyskland den 5 juni:

Joonas Kylmäkorpi & Ludvig Lindgren

 

Reserver GP kval:

Oliver Berntzon

Victor Palovaara

 

http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Nyheter/NomineringavforaretillVMochEMKvaliSpeedway2017/#.WMlrLXhU8kk.facebook