racers and royals

Hopefully the weather will be fine in Gorzow on Saturday to allow the fixtures the following day to go ahead. Strange situation with only 1 hour between televised matches-hopefully we will see more than 6 races from Rzeszow ! 1st up at 4pm (uk time) is Wroclaw v (the mighty) Torun followed at 5pm (uk time) by Rzeszow v Leszno other matches on Sunday are Zielona Gora v Tarnow and Czestochowa v Gorzow http://www.soccer-live.pl/transmisje.php?id=motorsport For the line-ups http://live.sportowefakty.pl/ekstraliga.htm and click on one of the teams

Round 14 matches have been disrupted because of the world u21 final-3 matches put back a week to the 31st July.the only match on the 24th is Leszno v Czestochowa

Indeed can also see that there might be disruption to the round 14 fixtures on Sunday 24th July as they clash with 1st round of the u21 world finals at Poole and some Polish junior riders are in it-eg Dudek of Zielona Gora.

Looks like Tarnow v Czestochowa will now take place on July 22nd-Tarnow suddenly realised the world cup riders would not be released for Tuesday

Only the Poles can get away with it

Rained-off round 12 match Tarnow v Czestochowa re-arranged for next Tuesday 12th July

Total prize money for the tournament-includes travel and hotel expenses are-in us dollars Place Prize money 1st 25’000.– 2nd 20’000.– 3rd 18’000.– 4th 16’000.– 5th 14’000.– 6th 12’000.– 7th 8’500.– 8th 8’500.– Total 122’000.– Hardly generous by the FIM

Get Rune Holta fit and the boys will be un-stopable

What i would do in your situation would be to try and stay nearer Gorzow on thur-sat(i realise you would lose the money on the Poznan hotel)try www.booking.com some hotels available but not in Gorzow itself. Just checked trains for thursday Poznan 16.50 arr Gorzow 19.07 Gorzow 23,13 arr Poznan 01.30

Couple of minutes video of Wednesdays match http://sport.tvp.pl/zuzel/speedway-ekstraliga/druzyny/stelmet-falubaz-zielona-gora/wideo/stelmet-falubaz-pge-marma-skrot/4839061

Canada and the UK united-not only with William and Kate

Looks as if the Polish team have a practice session at Gorzow tommorrow-Friday starting at 3pm (uk time) and its scheduled to be live on the internet. http://www.soccer-live.pl/transmisje.php?id=motorsport

With 12 of the 14 normal season rounds gone and with a 7 day break for the SWC its perhaps a good opportunity to have a look at the play-off situation.Current table 1 Zielona Gora p 12 pts 23 +107 2 Torun p 12 pts 23 +63 3 Gorzow p 12 pts 19 +48 4 Leszno P 12 pts 17 +23 5 Rzeszow p 12 pts 12 -31 6 Wroclaw p 12 pts 8 -54 7 Czestochowa p 11 pts 6 -64 8 Tarnow p 11 pts 5 -92 Last two rounds are on 17/7 and 24/7 the only real doubt left is who will fill the 6th and last qualifying place,However finishing positions are all important to decide who they meet in the play-offs and one fixture really stands out-last week of the season Torun v Zielona Gora which will surely decide top spot going into the play-offs. If my memory serves me right(if not i hope our Polish friends will put me right)the play-offs follow this format 7th aug/14th aug 6 v 1 1 v 6 5 v 2 2 v 5 4 v 3 3 v 4 then a new table is created with the 3 winners and the best loser-then 21st aug/11th sept best loser v 1 1 v best loser 3 v 2 2 v 3 then the two winners meet in the grand final on 18th and 25 th sept So who will win-my pick the mighty Torun and yours ?

The translation via google isn`t great but Gorzow boss Allegerly thinks result was fixed-why ? i havn`t a clue

Great result for Rzeszow tonight drawing at Zielona Gora 45-45. Greg Hancock scoring 6 only for the home team. the other match Tarnow v Czestochowa was rained off again.

2 other GP stadiums have roofs-Copenhagen`s Parken stadium is very similar to Cardiff,and Torun have a new roof covering the track.

5 rides away from the GP

For Denmark here http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=da&u=http://www.speedway-league.com/&ei=ncwRTpbyAYeX8QPL3ZC8Dg&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CCgQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Ddanish%2Bspeedway%2Bleague%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1R2ADRA_enGB423%26biw%3D1366%26bih%3D776%26prmd%3Divns and then "cut list"

For Polands top flight league here http://www.sportowefakty.pl/img/tmp/stat/stateliga2011.htm

Give the Polish youngsters a bit of daylight and they can half shift

Harris doing nothing again for Rzeszow at Torun

3rd-paid 2nd in his 1st ride

Did you have to post that

Polish bookmakers think Leszno will win by 2 pts

Nice evening in Leszno