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ZAPLECZE KADRY JUNIORÓW RAWICZ Wednesday 30th March https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dakHGGWDMSA

Google translation A new era of the Individual Speedway Polish Championship! The 2022 season will be unique when it comes to playing the struggle for the Individual Speedway Polish Championship. This year, a number of new products will be introduced to make the competition for the title of the best Polish player more attractive. One of the most important changes will be the Individual Polish Championships in the form of several final tournaments. Thus, the best domestic speedway rider will not be known after one final, but three. This will be the first time that IMP medalists will not be selected within one day since 1988, when the two-day final was held in Leszno, and all points were included in the classification. Previously, such a situation took place only in Toruń in the 1987 season. In the years 1953-1956 the Polish champion was selected in several rounds (three, four or five), but then the three best results were included in the final classification. We will know the Individual Polish Champion in the 2022 season after the three finals. For the first time in history, this struggle has gained a title sponsor and the contract is to be in force for five years. Thus, the valid name will be CANAL + ONLINE Individual Polish Championship, and therefore broadcasts from the IMP finals will be broadcast on Canal + at least until 2026. Not only has the formula of the final changed, but also the elimination formula. From 2022, they will consist of four quarter-finals and one semi-finals (instead of two - compared to previous seasons). From each of the first eliminations, the best four will be promoted to compete in the semi-finals. From this tournament, eight top players will advance to the IMP series of finals, with those ninth and tenth placed as substitutes. In addition, a guaranteed place among the finalists is given to the medalists from last year, regular participants of the Speedway Grand Prix series and the Individual Junior Polish Champion from the previous season. The last places will be filled by competitors with "wild cards", in the number and according to the rules established by the Main Speedway Sports Commission. It will be necessary, for example, in the event of a doubling of players, because, for example, Bartosz Zmarzlik and Maciej Janowski are both medalists from 2021 and regular participants of the SGP series for the 2022 season. - I am very happy that people who have been showing great speedway for many years now enter the title sponsorship. Eventually, we will have a champion justly selected. Many times it happened that the judge did not notice who to exclude, etc. and that someone was missing out on the title. Now it will be orderly and fair - said Tomasz Gollob. The three final tournaments will be played on similar rules to those that have been in force in the Individual Polish Championship since 2013. The main series of 20 runs will be followed by a semi-final race and a grand final. The top two from the main part of the tournament will be directly promoted to the latter, and the next two places will be taken by the two best players from the semi-finals. The final order of the single finals will be determined by the last two heats of the day. The first four will be known after the final, the fifth place will be given to the third player of the semi-finals, and the sixth to the fourth. The results of the main series and the final race will be included in the points classification (there will be no points for the semi-finals). The novelty will be the awarding of an additional "eye" to the competitor who will obtain the highest number of wins in each of the final tournaments (including races 1-20 and the final). If two players have the same number of wins, the point will be awarded to the one with the higher final position in the tournament. Thus, a maximum of 19 points will be awarded for each competition - six for race wins and one extra point. The new formula was developed through consultations, which were conducted in a wider group of people closely related to the speedway sport. It included the chairman of the Main Speedway Sport Commission Piotr Szymański, Member of the Main Speedway Sport Commission, Zbigniew Fiałkowski, president of the Methanol Speedway Association Krzysztof Cegielski, the best competitor in the history of the Individual Polish Championships Tomasz Gollob, the current national champion Bartosz Zmarzlik and two-time champion from 2015 and 2020 - Maciej Janowski. - Another thing that opens us up to speedway. I think it's good that you don't have to focus on one minute that will be everything. I think it will catch on quite nicely - added Bartosz Zmarzlik. The new formula and the increase in the number of finals are also associated with a significant increase in remuneration for participation in tournaments for the Individual Polish Championship. The pool of prizes for each final round will amount to over PLN 500,000. The winner of a single final may collect up to PLN 20,000 in this case, and each item will be assigned an appropriate stake (for 16th place - PLN 7,500). The introduction of new rules for the organization of CANAL + ONLINE Individual Polish Championships is also connected with a number of novelties that will make it easier to obtain information about them. A dedicated website will be created devoted entirely to this competition, and in addition, appropriate profiles will be created on social media - on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. These competitions will also receive a completely new logo, which will be associated only with the CANAL + ONLINE Individual Polish Championship. In the upcoming seasons of players and fans, there will be another hand that can be safely called a new era of the Individual Polish Championship. The changes introduced are to make this competition more attractive, and the assumptions are that these rules will apply for the next few years, until 2026 inclusive.

I understand that the organisers are hoping that Sverre Harrfeldt can fly over to attend.

Vetlanda Speedway AB have filed for bankruptcy- Vetlanda motor company have a meeting on April 7th in which more should be known about whether it is the end or not.

Opening meeting SOLD OUT

I will be there- going with Brian Leonard.

From 12-4pm in the museum. more info https://www.pwpark.com/events/west-ham-speedway/

Because right at the outset in the Torun press conference they said so- and why do you think the UK is any more important to them than Poland ?. To be fair apart from when Eurosport had the GP contract for a couple of years when SKY pulled out and BSI were struggling to find a buyer for the UK it has always been on subscription with SKY and BT.

Line-up Ostrow 1 Gapinski 2 C Holder Leszno 3 Doyle 4 Kolodziej Wroclaw 5 Janowski 6 Woffinden Grudziadz 7 Pedersen 8 Prem Pawlicki Lublin 9 Michelsen 10 Lampart Poznan 11 Holta 12 K Golimski Res Seifert-Salk Gorzow 13 Zmarzlik 14 Vaculik

And i suppose your association with Terry Lindon was spotlessly clean

There is no way that all the GP’s will be live on Eurosport- possibly Cardiff on a Discovery free to air channel but that will be it !!

Antonio Lindback on his way back to Gniezno after rehab in Sweden Polish media have reported.

The situation is that Laguta hasn’t a Polish Speedway licence. Wroclaw have said that they/ he is applying for one and the Polish authorities (PZM ) have said no way or put it another way on your bike !!

You must have started the season with a profit- more winning bets than losers !

I think Steve’s point is that Ribeiro’s statement is laughable- the Polish Speedway fans are not mugs and on one hand he talks about how they want everyone to be able to watch it- so they have put 4 home GP’s on free to air( that should help ticket sales- NOT) and the rest they have to shell out another sub to watch them live in addition to the Canal + sub they need to watch all their league speedway on TV. Discovery are going to have to do another special offer to UK viewers to get them to sign up to the player(Discovery + ) and i’m waiting until they do before shelling out.

Now confirmed that the Polish staged GP rounds will be on Polish television station TTV free to air channel( sister channel to TVN) non Polish rounds are to be shown on line. ‘ The management of Discovery Sports Events officially presented how it will be possible to watch the Grand Prix series in 2022 in Poland. The rounds in our country will be broadcast on the open TTV channel. All the rest will be available on player.pl for PLN 15 per month. After purchasing the service, viewers will be able to watch other events organized by Discovery from the 2022 season. The price includes broadcasts from Speedway of Nations, SGP2 and SGP3 (the last two are also available on the Eurosport channel). On other channels of the group, such as TVN, TVN 24 or TVN Turbo, fans of the speedway sport will see more materials about the series, including tournament shortcuts. - Poland has a rich and successful history of speedway, as well as some of the most die-hard fans anywhere in the world, so we wanted the 2022 season, the first of Discovery Sports Events, to reach as many fans as possible. Establishing cooperation with TTV supports our ambitions for the development of speedway by making it available to the widest possible audience, maximizing the involvement and viewing opportunities for many competitions that we will promote - says Francois Ribeiro, head of Discovery Sports Events ‘ that could mean that Cardiff will be on live on a Discovery owned TV channel

Blow for Leszno today- Super talented youngster Damian Ratajczak has broken his collarbone in a crash at Leszno today. Big crowds in Poland today for a couple of Sparing matches - 6000 in Wroclaw and another big crowd at Zielona Gora.

Can’t say the monthly price excites me too much around £16 which is double Sweden/France.- do i like watching Danish league that much to pay that !!!

Bartosz different class

Kosciuch at no 1 replacing Magic wiktor Przyjemski replaces Zagar

Great quality on link i quoted- Carl Stonehewer chatting to Lukasz Benz on at present before live speedway starts.

Bydgoszcz v Torun sparing Wednesday 23rd April. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gFtLVhofhYw

Draw PGE IMME starting list, 02.04, Toruń 1. Martin Vaculik (MY BERMUDA STEEL Gorzów Wlkp. ) 2. Maciej Janowski (BETARD SPARTA Wrocław) 3. Robert Lambert (Torun ) 4. Victor Lampart (MOTOR Lublin) 5. Jakub Miśkowiak (Czestochowa) 6. Leon Madsen (Czestochowa) 7. Bartosz Zmarzlik (MY BERMUDA STEEL Gorzów Wlkp. ) 8. Patryk Dudek (Torun) 9. Tai Woffinden (BETARD SPARTA Wrocław) 10. Dominik Kubera (MOTOR Lublin) 11. Janusz Kolodziej (UNION FOGO Leszno) 12. Jack Holder (APATOR Toruń) 13. Mikkel Michelsen (MOTOR Lublin) 14. Paweł Przepelski (APATOR Torun) 15. Nicki Pedersen (GKM Grudzi ądz ZOO) 16. Jason Doyle (FOGO UNIA Leszno)

Should be a great start to our TV season- struggling a bit as i only have my mobile at the moment- not my laptop. TV comes on air at 4.30pm UK time with 1st race 5pm Uk time. links http://kergel.ucoz.lv/ cannot link Drhtv.pl maniak

Ove Ledstrom is retiring at end of season.