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The entire speedway community is following the latest news regarding Patryk Budniak's health. As we've learned, the Gniezno rider has already undergone another surgery. This time, it involved his lower limbs. Importantly, the surgery went according to plan, and the patient's condition is slowly stabilising. Today (Wednesday) mark three days since the horrific accident in Gniezno. The young rider was airlifted to a hospital in Poznań. There, he underwent complex spinal surgery the very first night. The first, somewhat more optimistic news began to emerge on Tuesday. A series of further tests revealed no further injuries beyond those previously diagnosed, which involved the spine, pelvis, and legs. "The patient's lower limb surgery has been completed. It lasted three hours. Doctors say it went according to plan, with no complications. This is good news. The patient's condition is slowly stabilising, but he is still in the intensive care unit and placed in a medically induced coma. The timing of his awakening will be determined by doctors, who are constantly monitoring his condition," Zuzanna Pankros, spokesperson for the Poznań hospital, told po-bandzie.com.pl

just lifted too much to the line. looked a decent crowd, from what ive seen before.

1715 at Kumla? Fair play to them... It looked absolutely Baltic!!! Something quite "British" with their camping chairs, fur lined hats, gloves, scarves, blankets, and big coats, watching Speedway nearly into mid May...

Ones changed track (Kileen at Sheffield instead of Oxford, Cairns been at BV with Colts for 2 seasons) and one in main body of Championship team the other not got out of reserve position yet so can’t really compare points scored as not 100% comparable

Behind the Scenes of the Speedway Grand Prix of Germany 2026 with DJ Karlito

Mathias Pollestad, …is emerging as a young new star in the Polish PGE Ekstraliga. In his debut season in the elite league, the Norwegian has absolutely no respect for his higher-ranked opponents and currently averages nearly two points per heat! (which translates as: “nearly 8.00 CMA”) At Czestochowa , he scored nine points with two bonus points, once again becoming the best U24 player of the round. Position Rider matches heats points bonus pts heat average CMA 1 Matthias Pollestad 4 21 35 6 1.952 7.81 2 Mateusz Cierniak 4 17 21 5 1.529 6.12 3 Keynan Rew 5 26 36 2 1.462 5.85 4 Norick Bloedorn 5 20 23 5 1.4 5.60 5 Bartłomiej Kowalski 5 20 23 4 1.35 5.40

I don't doubt you're right about following the money, but Cairns should be there over Killeen regardless, imo. There isn't much between them on scores this season, and one has a lot more potential than the other.

"philwhitewasmad" and "in the fence" doesn't sound like someone who shies away from discussing hard riding ...

Thank you

Money talks, simple. Out of the initial 5 man GB squad William Cairns is the weakest with Cooper Rushen the form guy, so just shows that it’s a #ClosedShop #BoysClub. Know Prague will be slick as and not pay to Cooper Rushen’s style but he knows how to battle and his rider/bike weight must help him out similar to Killeen

It is Luke's Dad, several on here could vouch for that. Also discussing it is fine but its gone on and on and on and got a bit silly (in BSF style) now so you can understand riders and their families getting fed up with it.

With the deadly duo LBW and Shovvy whipping up the Pirates fans to make an intimidating atmosphere. The Oxford boys will crumble under the pressure and Poole will nick an away win.

In a trap

If you rent a stadium, as Poole do, then the costs of putting on any event on any day of the week are the same as for a Pirates meeting on a Wednesday. Poole don't get any income from the stadium. No parking fees, no food and Beverage revenue. Their only revenue comes from admissions, programme ads and sales, sponsorship and banner ads, so they have to be reasonably confident of the meeting being popular enough to get a decent crowd even with a reduced entry fee because its NDL-level. The Pairs on a Saturday in August can be planned well in advance to ensure most of the stadium staff (stewards, bar staff etc)are available and not committed to working at/attending AFC Bournemouth as several do,

I though you kept up with all the Polish league stuff? Fraser travelled over to Krakow with Richard Lawson for track practice on Saturday and a chance of making the team on Sunday. Michael West had better race times on Saturday so secured the final team spot (scoring 2x 3rd places) Krakow drew 45-45 so maybe could have won if Fraser had been included?! We shall never know...........

Not sure how injuring your eye while working on your speedway bikes is not a speedway-related injury!! As for Oxford being allowed a heat leader guest for a non-speedway related illness?!

A couple of things here: a) how are we to know who you are? 2) fans discuss incidents, it's part and parcel of the sport. I don't think it was done deliberately, but this is an occasion when a lot of people (including Jan Staechmann) think the rider ahead should have been declared as the cause of the stoppage. Obviously we all feel for the injured riders. That shouldn't prevent fans from discussing what happened.

Final line up:

Far too sentimental and loyal at times. I'm not sure it's gone under the radar, but Rushen just seems to be getting on with scoring points + winning races at both levels, having barely turned 16. Him, Cairns and Harrison should be the 3.

07.05.2026: Brązowy Kask, Bronze Helmet Qualifier, Krakow, : https://youtu.be/XV9YMkzZywc?si=JwSVP0DKTOLUszsE

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He’s back tomorrow for Northampton, can’t see him stopping a drubbing at Sheffield