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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.

Power-packed team or not, due to their very poor first half of the season, Stal Gorzow needs to win today's away match at Wroclaw, or will likely miss out on the play-offs.

Ah, that's what I suspected. Thanks for th info @HenryW

strange ! did they haev any positive Covid-19 test results in the Czech team? Otherwise I can not understand why they even thoght about not playing against Scotland tonight?

Why would it have been called off ?

What's all this talk about the Anlas tyres being banned tonight? Seems that Bartek Zmarzlik has initiated an official protest, backed by eleven other GP riders plus two reserves, against the use of the Turkish product in the SGP series. Last night four riders rode the Anlas tyres. By the way, Anlas is an official sponsor and supplier of tyres for the SGP series, but in the last couple of years hardly any one of the GP riders used their product. Last night, the winner Artem Lagutra, the runner up Maciej Janowski, as well as two Danes, Michelsen and Iversen, rode Anlas tyres, and the rest rode Mitas tyres. Now Zmarzlik has objected to teh use of Anlas tyres and claims that their product is not legal (too soft).

That's it, spot on. Thanks

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yes some took it easy in their last heat races, Emil für example did not take any unneccessary risks when running a last as he had already qualified for the semis. The new scoring system makes it all a bit more like a lottery to win or lose the big points at the end. It somehow reminds me of the "Joker" in the SWC, which I didn't like either.

The change was innovated by a man who has absolutely no clue what speedway really is, by Jorge Viegas, the Portuguese president of the FIM, who told Arando Castagna to get this in order and in line with the scoring of all the other FIM Motorcycle world championship disciplines, because it does look odd to an outsider (him!) when a winner of a GP could end up with less poinst than another rider who placed behind him in the final. Well. the winner of each race gets the most points in speedway, too as we already score each race with 3-2-1-0 points. But a GP does not have just one race, there are 23 of them. The new scoring system only makes it over complicated for the fan to follow the point standings during a meeting, with two different sets of points. Totally unneccasary change.

More people were allowed into the stadium that actually went last night. There were still tickets available, the SGP was not sold out even with a limited crowd capacity. That never happened in the Polish Ekstraliga this year when Sparta Wroclaw rides their home meetings. No tickets left over. It was a disappointing support last night. Perhaps tonight will be better, but the weather could spoil ist all.

No foreign teams allowed in the Ekstraliga. Why should the Poles want the have a British Club in their league anyway? Way to complicated to include one, and not really an attraction for the Polish fans, who love the traditional rivalries between their own clubs and fans. Send a British touring team over there, allright, they could meet some of the Polish club teams in challenge matches, that would be good.