racers and royals

New format in 2026. Challenge is in Pardubice on Saturday 18th April - which is actually a fancy name for the 2 semi’s at the track in 1 day. Meetings are over 22 heats and teams have 4 riders plus an U 21 rider who ride in heats 9 and 18. Last four heats are nominated( heat 19 lowest scorers, heat 20 3rd highest etc etc The final is on Saturday 9th May at a venue TBC. 2 winning teams in the Semi’s and highest 2nd qualify for the final.

Change for 2026 6 qualify from Challenge final 3 Wild card picks for the final rounds In 2025 it was 5 and 4

Early to mid March at the latest.

1pm UK time start- Bydgoszcz is 3.45pm UK time

Next 2 MJJ Gleb Chugunov

Shaping up to be a really decent line-up Zmarzlik Kurtz Lambert Bewley Janowski Prem Pawlicki

Sweden have named their 3 riders taking part in the Ice European Championships in Varkaus on Saturday 21st February. Niklas Svensson Melwin Bjorklin Isak Dekkerhus

1st Becker 2nd Rasmus Jensen 3rd Flint 4th Doyle( ef)

Doyle Becker Thorssell Flint Rasmus Jensen Dan Thompson Ruml Janniro etc etc

Meeting starts 8.30pm UK time. PPV here https://www.usaspeedwayracing.com/

Smektala signs for Piraterna.

Prem Pawlicki stays at Grindsted.

Fim-moto.TV have a great PPV offer for all 3 finals plus the Ice Speedway of Nations all for 15.90 Euro’s. https://fim-moto.tv/subscribe/products/69e872b7-f841-4114-b034-c09268b2b14d

And the field is complete by Pawelczak Cierniak

Which is the 3 round World Championships. The 16th rider in each round will be the local wildcard rider.

Rospiggarna with another top signing Piotr Pawlicki.

Start time 6pm UK time live on Canal + Sport 5

I can answer my own question- 2 series wildcards and 1 local wildcard to be named. So these 5 are the seeded riders. Haarahiltunen Svensson Koivula Iwema Huusko

Start times for the finals rounds 1 and 2 in Inzell on Saturday 14th March and Sunday 15th March are. round 1 ( Sat ) 5pm local time 4pm UK time round 2 ( Sun ) 2pm local time 1pm UK time ref is Christina Turnbull ! Does anyone know the 8 seeded riders( or 7 plus a German wildcard) ??

Result and qualifiers Zorn 15 Ala-Riihimaki 13 Weber 12 Jager 12 Kramer 9 Hutla 9 Niedermaier 8 Bauer 8

No idea, all Landshut have said is his signing completes the squad in the senior positions.

Landshut have signed Lukas Fienhage.

So it’s a format where 4 teams are in the meeting but it’s not a four team tournament as we know it with 1 rider from each team in every race. It’s 2 riders from 1 team v 2 riders from another.

Full details of new format announced today to follow.

start time 4.30pm UK time. 1st rider announced Bartosz Zmarzlik