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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.

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Some British riders do come here on the weekends and race as individuals anyway, (they ride in Polish league speedway, in under-21 or under-16 Junior events, and in grass track) so why would this be any different? It would open up opportunities for British riders, those who want to have a go on a tour with their national team. I can't see no harm in that. With no racing taking place in UK it would be the perfect time to sent a British team over to France or to the Czech Republic, if the other federations are willing and able to host them. There are far fewer restrictions on the Continent in some of the Central and Eastern European nations, were the Covid-19 infection rates are far lower than in the UK, and in most of those countries spectators are allowed to attend sports events. Ask the British riders if they want such a tour to go ahead. If not, then forget it, but if they are fond of the idea, the BSPA & Speedway GB should try to make it happen. The unofficial Tests in Australia earlier this year proved to be very popular with the riders and the fans. Why stop there?

Wouldn't September/October of 2020 be the perfect time to organise an outgoing tour for a Great Britain or England team to race on the Continent (France, Germany, Czech Republic)? It would be a great opportunity for some of the currently inactive British riders to race and represent their national team and provide an attraction for some of the lesser speedeway nations here on the continent to ride against England/Great Britain. Could the BSPA / Speedway GB organise something similar to what they did earlier this year with the GB Team riding against Australia in Perth, W.A.?

It will be match between the Czech and the Latvians. Two very evenly balanced sides.

Oh, boy, this is just too much. This is going in the completely wrong direction with the introduction of this doubling up/down and guest riders this year in Poland.

Then he is "saving" himself for the last couple of years for this. No way, he is just not good enough anymore. No chance to make the top three at Gorican.