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My thoughts precisely on the night, I wonder if he didn’t get a red card would he ride again that night! Just saw the canal+ interview with Pedersen and my god did he not hold back about not caring about the bonus point and there are no friends in speedway!

Ipswich prospering but are promotion missing a big opportunity? With Ipswich town on a rebuild of the club and a solid future in front of it, albeit taking a step back now to hopefully take two steps forward. Ed Sheeran flying the flag internationally for the town and three sold out shows at Portman Rd. Fabio Wardley pulling in 20k+ last night with a show stopper punch and putting Ipswich on the map globally again. All this being said, are the Witches missing a chance for a major cash in opportunity and riding the towns wave? Witches do normally get a good size crowd in comparison to other teams but how the town has been propelled forward in the last few seasons got me thinking, why aren’t Ipswich witches trying to put any kind of promotion near Portman Rd to capitalise on the chance, after all, the football and speedway have always been close to one another, only last year town had a footballer attend the media day at foxhall. I could be wishing but I think this is a perfect chance to get involved with how the town is moving forward.

Also, for further information. Kowalski & magic received red cards, this means a £1000 (5k zloty) fine. Bangs received yellow card for the crash, this means a £500 (2.5k zloty) fine.

Anyone who is interested about the Friday night controversy with Kowalski… he was actually injured and couldn’t lift his bike to move it. A reoccurring hand issue flared up, he then tried to race for Poland the following day but pulled out after one race as his hand is now back in pain. insert: On the second bend of the inaugural race, Kowalski lost control of his motorcycle and fell onto the track. At that point, the Wrocław team was losing twice, and the rider himself – due to severe pain in his hand – was unable to get up from the surface or remove the motorcycle from the track. The referee, not seeing the rider's reaction, decided to stop the race and exclude the rider from the rerun. But that was not the end of it – the red card meant that the 23-year-old could no longer continue the competition. The day after the match, the athlete appeared in Rzeszów, where he was called up for a test match of the Polish National Team. He took part in one race, but right after the start he left the track, clearly sparing his injured hand. In this way, he confirmed that the health problem is still making itself felt.

Back to Ipswich in 2-3 weeks, not back on the bike. He will ride in Manchester and probably Poland before Ipswich. Chris Louis is relaxed about this type of thing, being a rider he understands the pressure of Poland and importance of SGP. The position witches are in is good so he would rather give Doyle and Thompson all the time they need I’m sure.

That wasn’t the best racing I’ve ever seen but a bloody good meeting for entertainment and talking points

That wasn’t the best racing I’ve ever seen but a bloody good meeting for entertainment and talking points

Ref called it off after handing Magic a red card!

This forum sums up British Speedway and the professionalism. Can’t handle many people or server crashes, and takes 2 minutes to save one post.

Potential red card for Maigc !

Need the 4-2 for the second leg or bonus to keep it closer !!

Agreed. I’d say it’s the track more than anything personally. That was his last race anyway so clearly just yellow card to show they done something about it!! How stupid! Magic going out to get a point for the team

Bangs with a yellow card.

Magic fuming with the track!

His bike was fighting him from the gate

Great analysis, adding to this… next season Poland announced all teams do not need 2 Polish under 24s riders, but they will require 4 Polish riders in each team.

Pedersen has caused a mini scandal amongst Polish speedway riders tonight by not finishing his race and causing Jensen not to get paid his 3rd place point! His own team, away team, commentators, Lebedevz mentioned it on his Instagram story, I’m sure many more riders too spoke about it.

Obviously im all for Gorzów it being my partners home city, but by the sounds of it, if they can stay in the league they can open up funds and build a solid team next year and come out swinging… that’s my hope anyway!

Very interesting listening to my partner translate the studio conversation back to English. They said “this is why every young rider needs to ride in Britain, Lampart rode overseas for a while and learnt how to ride the type of track we have tonight and he is flying, you need to adapt and learn as much as possible whilst young”.

Doesn’t really matter too much, it’s more of a problem for Wroclaw. Bottom four have to go to a play down so whether you’re 5th or 8th you could get relegated. Wroclaw need top 4 to try and win the league. Today in Gorzów good news for the club. As long as they stay in the Ekstraliga they will keep Anders, Vaculik will go the Lublin but Jack holder will go to Gorzów. Financially they are now in very good position with sponsors, they are just blocked from spending money this season hence the poor team. Rumours Tungate will go to Stał also next season.

It’s like comparing premier league to ekstraklasa

I assume that’s the difference from racing for £1000 a points vs £100 a point. Never have the dedication here that they have there. I think Polish teams run the show there, riders run the show here because they are needed so desperately.

Because he laid and then failed to try and move his bike and just walked straight back to the middle of the arena and then to the pits so he wasn’t injured nor did he try to remove the bike from the track whilst the race was still in play. This was classed as a tactical decision to stop the race.

That’s cost him the meeting.

Track making it hard for Wroclaw’s firepower !