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This new contract for coverage of the Extraleague from 2019 to 2021 is reportedly worth 60 million PLN as against 25 million PLN for the period 2016-18. Phil Rising recently wrote a piece in the Star regarding the FIM and BSI are very unhappy at the Extraleague scheduling matches now on Friday`s-including those friday`s which are practice days for the GP the following day It didn`t register at the time of reading it why the Extraleague would want to do this. The FIM/BSI could easily scupper this plan by insisting that all riders must be present at the draw on practice day.( even getting them to pull their own draw number out) In this weeks Star(excellent edition) it becomes clearer when it says that N Sport have lost the exclusive rights and are from next season sharing the Extraleague coverage with Eleven Sports. I have subsequently found out that the intention is all matches are now being televised live- 2 on Friday`s on eleven and 2 on Sunday`s on N Sport- happy days for us Polish TV and internet watchers !!!!! I`m not sure how this is all going to resolve itself- I can`t see that the GP riders will be happy missing practice to ride in an Extraleague match- surely with only 14 round matches to fit in over the regular season there must be dates available that don`t encroach on GP weekends.

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Gorzow Zmarzlik Czestochowa Madsen,Lindgren,Zagar Wroclaw Woffinden,Janowski Torun Doyle,NKI Grudziadz Lindback,Laguta Zielona Gora Dudek,Vaculik Unaffected Sayfutdinov,Kolodziej,Hancock so 31st may 5 riders August 1st 7 riders

31st May Wroclaw v Lublin Torun v Gorzow 1st August Lublin v Czestochowa Grudziadz v Zielona Gora

I see all the promoters have pledged a £1 - see the PDF link

And get allocated the draws no one wants- Woffinden etc are going to be well pleased at that thought !!!

Who do we know that may have software that could tell us the stats from the 2018 comp as regards the most successful draw over the series down to the least successful ?

It will be interesting to see what the riders percieve to be the best draw. Hopefully this move by the FIM/BSI will mean the riders collectively ask the Extraleague to move the fixtures scheduled which clash with GP qualifying

46000 tickets sold

Official FIM film of opening round in Almaty with commentary by the excellent Alex Raby

Some great news in today`s " star" regarding Eleven sports Extraleague league coverage this season. Marcelina Rutkowska is their new presenter

Report in today`s " star " that Rye House owner Warren Scott has been declared bankrupt.

Glorified challenge match - can’t see Leszno turning up with their full 1 to 7.

looks like the Polish Pairs MPPK is now at Ostrow on Saturday May 11th

Polish pairs championships MPPK ( 6 Extraleague + winners of Nice Polska league pairs )is at Ostrow on Saturday 11th May. Polish golden helmet final is at Pila on April 20th(Golden helmet is also used for GP qualification places) March 23rd is the super match between Ostrow v Leszno and the following day at Lodz is the Nice league north v South match.

Don`t think we need to worry about a clash for the Finns but Lindback won`t be able to be in 2 places at once !!!

My best suggestion would be to ask Sheffield speedway at office@sheffield-speedway.com I`m sure that between them and the stadium owners discussions and hopefully agreement has been put in place regarding the panorama restaurant Sunday opening.

Looks a different company to me also. Seems to be different people as well.

Saturday`s round 1 world championship video

Hi Magnus not sure. possibly not. Keep an eye on this thread- either me or someone else should post the sale date before the day.

Poor translation and poor track- why oh why can’t the Extraleague put it on at a decent track !!!!

2 latest video`s 26th January 2 27th January

Pretty sure Andy Galvin did.

I was replying to a post from Spl77 who was wondering what caused all the bad feeling between Tungate and Ipswich. He obviously has behaved himself at the other clubs he has ridden for, however i repeat at Ipswich he behaved like a right tw&t.

I believe my info is 100% kosher- just ask yourself why Ipswich had no interest in him riding for them again.