2015 Speedway Gp Challange

[Ghostwalker 1,859]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCPXUwlDOhU&feature=youtu.be

 

Thanks, and to the rest of you, you can skip the first 4 minutes unless you a swimming enthusiast.

[Bavarian 767]

A question with the most sincere thought behind it, absolutely NO bad feelings behind it, but when has an Italian rider won a meeting of this caliber in the past? Armando himself, way back?

 

 

Certainly no Argentinean rider has ever before won a speedway meeting of such caliber. Covatti is born and raised in Argentina, speaks Spanish as his first language, an only has some Italian forefathers, which gives him dual nationality. I know he rides in the Italian SWC team, and holds an international FMI license, but actually he is more Argentinean than Italian, which makes his victory last night even more remarkable.

[Reviresco 708]

Even more remarkable considering that he, Covatti, was knocked out in the qualifying round at Abensberg where he finished 12th on 5pts.

 

Not quite sure how a rider can fail to qualify in a previous round and then be given a wildcard for a later qualification event and be allowed to qualify from that.

[iris123 20,996]

Even more remarkable considering that he, Covatti, was knocked out in the qualifying round at Abensberg where he finished 12th on 5pts.

 

Not quite sure how a rider can fail to qualify in a previous round and then be given a wildcard for a later qualification event and be allowed to qualify from that.

Think this situation must have happened numerous times.Fritz Wallner in the world U21 final for instance was one I recall

[waiheke1 4,295]

Even more remarkable considering that he, Covatti, was knocked out in the qualifying round at Abensberg where he finished 12th on 5pts.

 

Not quite sure how a rider can fail to qualify in a previous round and then be given a wildcard for a later qualification event and be allowed to qualify from that.

Chris Harris!?!

[f-s-p 832]

Even more remarkable considering that he, Covatti, was knocked out in the qualifying round at Abensberg where he finished 12th on 5pts.

 

Not quite sure how a rider can fail to qualify in a previous round and then be given a wildcard for a later qualification event and be allowed to qualify from that.

Local wild card. Approved by CCP.

 

Certainly no Argentinean rider has ever before won a speedway meeting of such caliber. Covatti is born and raised in Argentina, speaks Spanish as his first language, an only has some Italian forefathers, which gives him dual nationality. I know he rides in the Italian SWC team, and holds an international FMI license, but actually he is more Argentinean than Italian, which makes his victory last night even more remarkable.

Thanks. About same with our last similar victory, when Kylmä win in Abensberg a few years back...

[spanner47 336]

FROM what I have heard so far the track in Riga was excellent...

Track was good, whole Evening went very well. 21 heats all over in around 2 hours. But with 3 experienced British refs ( 2 as unpaid volunteers ) running things from the pits, what could go wrong?

[ballinger 32]

FROM what I have heard so far the track in Riga was excellent...

 

Track rode fine, although surface material looked very Terenzano-esque. Racing line very much around the kerb, with most of the entertainment from Leon Madsen on his rocket ship.

 

Won't be making a trip for the SGP though.

[f-s-p 832]

Track was good, whole Evening went very well. 21 heats all over in around 2 hours. But with 3 experienced British refs ( 2 as unpaid volunteers ) running things from the pits, what could go wrong?

Warsaw.

[spanner47 336]

Warsaw.

But Jim L wasn't one of them.

[SPEEDY69 1,260]

Even more remarkable considering that he, Covatti, was knocked out in the qualifying round at Abensberg where he finished 12th on 5pts.

 

Not quite sure how a rider can fail to qualify in a previous round and then be given a wildcard for a later qualification event and be allowed to qualify from that.

 

 

Chris Harris!?!

 

Now now, some will get upset if we go over that one again!

Edited June 29, 2015 by SPEEDY69

[DutchGrasstrack 804]

My photo's from Terenzano are now online: http://www.baansportfansite.nl/nieuws/760/lokale-held-nico-covatti-wint-de-sgp-race-off-in-terenzano.html

[f-s-p 832]

But Jim L wasn't one of them.

I had almost already written that the meeting was practically organised by Finnish people with clerk of the course experience of around half a dozen or more SGP's, years of speedway refereeing and a couple of LT GP's... But that would not have been taken seriously, at all...

[iris123 20,996]

 

. Racing line very much around the kerb, with most of the entertainment from Leon Madsen on his rocket ship.

 

 

Now now,some will get upset if we go over that one again!!!!

[EC Rides Again 143]

 

Track rode fine, although surface material looked very Terenzano-esque.

 

 

 

Reminded me of the winter racing on Mablethorpe beach !

 

The TV coverage looked to be very good.

Edited June 29, 2015 by EC Rides Again