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What about the Bomber ? He could and probably would ride !

what's that with 2021, we still have 2020 to run what scoring system did we have in 2019 ? they seem to chage it every year !

We had this system with the D, C, B, and A finals during the 1990s SGP Series. It was also used for a long time in ice racing, but I did not like it. Last year's points system was the best we ever had in the SGP! Every point counted.

hurt possible broken some bones in his hand/wrist/arm ?

Woffinden goes to the Hospital - arm injury that's it all over for Wroclaw

Polish TV station nSport has exactly the same problem as Premier Sport. There's currently no feed coming out of Gorzow. And nSport now show Football, too, as a filler program.

but the big question is: HOW MUCH OF THAT 10-YEAR MEGA-DEAL 100 MILLION DOLLARS GOES BACK INTO SPEEDWAY ?

not so sure about that ! Chugunov has not given up his Russian nationality, he has dual-nationality now, holding two passports now, a Russian and a Polish one. Same as Emil Sayfutdinov and same as Artem Laguta ! And those two still ride for Russia ! Chugunov has so far not been chosen to represent any Polish national team. So why on earth would he not be eligible to carry on riding for his homeland Russia in the SoN ???

well, I wonder why they don't lay the blame on the long-trackers having blowns away the shale from the track last Sunday !

I'm stil nut sure about this. There is contradicting info on the official FIM Website. Initially the meeting results for Heat 18 show Levishyn getting one point, ahead of Fienhage, and both riders finishing with a total of 5 points each. See here http://speedwayu21.com/en/news/n/234/ Then the F.I.M. official score board (on the very same website as the one above) shows Fienhage with 6 and Levishyn with 4 ! See here http://speedwayu21.com/en/results.html I am confused ! Why and when was Levishyn disqualified from heat 18 ?

Thanks, that disqualification of Levishyn in heat 18 explains it, why Fienhage got one more and Levishyn one less than we thought.

what about Dudek ?

what a shame then, the wrong result gets officially approved.

What I'd like to see in Speedway is a three-year rotation of different international team events. Starting with a genuine World Pairs Championship, with as many nations taking part as possible and with two riders per pair/team. This would allow pretty much every speedway nation in the world to enter the preliminary stages of this competition. The following year I'd like to see the top eight, ten, or twelve nations of the previous year's Pairs Championship enter the World 4-Team Championship. The previous year's Pairs competition could be used to decide the respective nations' qualification for the Fours. In the third year of the rotation it would be only the top five nations (these to be the top five of the previous year's World Fours Championship) to compete with full six-man teams in proper Team-vs-Team meetings in a round-robin tournament (run on similar lines as the former five nations tournament in Rugby Union) with two home and two away matches for each nation. The Australians could name an alternative home track venue in either the UK or somewhere else in Europe, as it is unlikely they'd be able to stage their home meetings in Australia. Alternatively for this World Cup tournament, and probably easier to arrange, it could be run as a knock-out tournament with only the top four nations in a couple of semi-finals with the respective winners going into a Grand Final for the World Cup. Three highly attractive fixtures. Such a scheme would give us much more variety with different international team competitions over a three year period, and it would make each tournament more special, compared to having the SWC or now the SoN (acutally a World Pairs in disguise) each and every year. Let's have the three different World Team speedway competitions instead: Year 1 - A WORLD PAIRS CHAMPIONSHIP Year 2 - A WORLD FOUR TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP Year 3 - A WORLD CUP TOURNAMENT and back to the World Pairs in the fourth year and so on with the rotation.

What's going on there? WIttstock refusing to ride ?

Yes, Kvech with 13 points is officially placed 8th ! Hansen with 9 points is fifth, Chlupac with 8 points is 6th, and Miskowiak again with 9 points is seventh, ahead of Kvech with 13 points in 8th place! I am really getting fed up with the F.I.M. and their points system changes in this sport. This is a world of confusion! They can't even publish their own results correctly http://speedwayu21.com/en/results.html Fienhage has 5 points (not 6), Levyshyn has 5 points (not 4), since Levishyn finished third in Heat 18 ahead of Finhage How can Fienhage then officially be placed 9th, above Niklas Säyriö in 10th, when Fienhage only has five points, but Sayriö has six !

Russian may have to withdraw form the SoN, becuase they don't have an u-19 in Poland this year (except Chugunov, who might still be eligible to ride for Russia, though, as Artem and Emil are !). And because of Covid-19 it is not so easy to get an under-21 rider from Russia across the EU border. There will be a 14-day quarantine once he enters Poland, and the same again when he retund to Russia.

I wish we could have a meaningful competition for the full (six or eight man) national teams, a World Cup or World League tournament with team vs team meetings just like this one was. The top five national sides in a round-robin tournament every four years, would be something different and provide the public with top class sport. Don't worry, Poland will not win all the time, they can be beaten, just like the mighty NZ All Blacks in Rugby Union. Tonight the Russians beat Poland in the Speedway Test at Bydgoszcz ! This was a great advert for International Speedway.

Could be enough

but six teams go into the play-offs next year, Torun has a chance to reach it

Wroclaw needs to win tonight at Rybnik, otherwise they are not in the play-offs.

Viktor Trofimov jr. (alias Wiktor Trofimow in Polish writing) has optained a Polish passport. He was one of the most promising Junior speedway riders at Rivne in the Ukraine, but was signed by one of the big Polish League clubs who organised for him to get a Polish passport, so that he could ride for them as a Polish junior. Similar story as what Sparta Wroclaw did this year with the Russian junior rider Gleb Chugunov. His grandfather Viktor Trofimov sr. rode as a Soviet Union (USSR) rider. His father Vladimir Trofimov also rode as a Soviet/USSR rider until 1991 and then after the break-up of the USSR as an Ukrainian. Viktor Trofimov jr. first rode as an Ukrainian until about two or three years ago, when he obtained a Polish passport and since then rides as Wiktor Trofimow jr. for Poland.

The Holder / Fricke 5-1 in Heat 10 must have really hurt - it doesn''t look good for Gorzow now

Janowski is really fast

But Janowski is even faster than Zmarzlik (see SGP) and rides at home today. And the Sparta Wroclaw club have bought loads of ANLAS tyres for their team. Very interesting match coming up.