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The Ukrainians had to replace both of their riders for tonights First round of the Speedway of Nations in Landshut. Karpov was injured on Thursday, and Loktaev for some reason is also not ridign, so in come Rozalyuk and Melychuk, plus the U21 Levishyn. Latest News from the track. Practice at Landshut is cancelled to leave the covers on the track. There were some rain showers this morning and more rain is expected for the evening. Track remains dry under the covers and can take some rain tonight. Meeting should go ahead as planned (Starts at 6 pm UK time).

You can watch the Highlights here on YouTube

IS that concrete kerb showing up only on just one spot or on several around the track, on the straight, or on the corner ? But is that really such a danger to the riders? It's certainly nothing compared to the concrete walls surrounding many of the Australian speedway tracks in the old days. That was really dangerous for the riders! But this ? Come on, why couldn't they simply have covered that part of the Pila track with a fresh load of shale, and get on with the racing? Looks to me like some "Prima Donna" star riders flexing their muscles again, refusing to ride whenever something does not perfectly suit them ! Sorry, but to cancel a Live TV meeting on a beautiful Easter Hoilday with a big crowd already in the stadium, is a serious matter. This is very damaging for the sport. More so when the official say that the track is safe and ready for racing ! It's a scandal !

Andrew Bucahnan in his farewell meeting. Glad to see that he has recovered enough to take his place after the bad crash he had in the World Cup meeting at Gillman

F.I.M. EUROPE 2019 EUROPEAN INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIP 2019 (SEC) 27.04.2019 Semi-final 1 Gorican (Croatia) 27.04.2019 Semi-final 2 Poznan (Poland) 01.05.2019 Semi-final 3 Rivne (Ukraine) 01.05.2019 Semi-final 4 Krsko (Slovenia) 25.05.2019 SEC Challenge Nagyhalasz (Hungary) 13.07.2019 SEC Final 1 Güstrow (Germany) 27.07.2019 SEC Final 2 Torun (Poland) 10. 08.2019 SEC Final 3 Vojens (Denmark) 28.09.2019 SEC Final 4 Chorzow (Poland) EUROPEAN PAIRS CHAMPIONSHIP 29.06.2019 Semi-final Terenzano (Italy) 29.08.2019 Final Balakovo (Russia) EUROPEAN JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIP (U-21) 06.07.2019 Semi-final 1 Grudziadz (Poland) 06.07.2019 Semi-final 2 Nagyhalasz (Hungary) 06.07.2019 Semi-final 3 Holsted (Denmark) 31.08.2019 Final Rivne (Ukraine) EUROPEAN JUNIOR TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP (U-21) 01.06.2019 Semi-final 1 Liberec (Czech Republic) 01.06.2019 Semi-final 2 Glumso (Denmark) 20.07.2019 Final Macon (France) EUROPEAN JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL CUP (U-19) 09.08.2019 Semi-final 1 Pardubice (Czech Republic) 09.08.2019 Semi-final 2 Güstrow (Germany) 11.08.2019 Final Zarnovica (Slovakia) EUROPEAN JUNIOR PAIRS CUP (U-19) 22.06.2019 Final Plzen (Czech Republic) 250cc EUROPEAN YOUTH SPEEDWAY CUP 17.08.2019 Semi-finals 1 & 2 Pardubice (Czech Republic) 18.08.2019 Final Divisov (Czech Republic) 85cc EUROPEAN YOUTH SPEEDWAY CUP 10.08.2019 Final Güstrow (Germany)

The track must be licensed, so how can this be? League racing is regularly takign place there, so far with no complaints, and now this. Such a shame ! Sometimes speedway is its own worst enemy, and not just in the UK, as we can see here !

Featuring the best of Poland's Under 21s This "Silver Helmet" meeting is the Poland's national qualifying round for the up-coming World and European U21 Championship rounds.

The Pardubice semi was cancelled because of a lack of participating nations for the European Pairs this year. May have to do with the venue for the final, which is Balakovo in Russia. Therefore the one semi-final round is enough this year. Three (or four?) nations are seeded directly to the final, and the others have to qualify from the Terenzano semi-final round.

Certainly not. This meeting has been cancelled and will not be held at all !

It's a shame that there is no TV coverage of the FIM sidecar speedway events, not even any YouTube video footage from Gillman of the World Cup or the Oceania Championships. It was also quite sad that there were only four non-Aussie competitors in these two meetings, three Kiwis, and the one American, but no British this year. Headland rerpesenting France is a bit of a joke, really. There is also a rumour that Gillman won't stage these FIM sidecar events next season. Does anyone know, if true, where they will be going, or if they will be held at all ? New Zealand perhaps?

The Wroclaw track was really poor for many a year, but is now pretty good since the Stadium renovations.

The meeting on Easter Monday 2019 at Rzeszow will be the tenth POLAND vs REST OF THE WORLD (POLSKA vs RESZTA SWIATA) Speedway Test Match. Poland has five wins so far, RoW has four wins. All meetings took place in Poland. Dates/Venues/Results so far: 1994, April 30, at Warsaw (Gwardia Stadium): POLAND 36, RoW 72 2001, May 27, at Czestochowa: POLAND 45, RoW 63 2011, October 16, at Torun: POLAND 47, RoW 44 2012, April 14, at Gorzow: POLAND 47, RoW 45 2014, October 12, at Rybnik: POLAND 40, RoW 50 2015, October 10, at Lublin: POLAND 54, RoW 36 2016, May 15, at Warsaw (National Stadium): POLAND 44, RoW 46 2017, April 2, at Zielona Gora: POLAND 46, RoW 44 2018, September 1, at Chorzow: POLAND 46, RoW 44 2019, April 22, at Rzeszow: POLAND vs RoW http://www.internationalspeedway.co.uk/polvrow.htm

Certainly not a "poor" team, they will be a match for the much overrated Poles. By the way, who replaces the injured Hampel in the Poland Team?

but in case of injuries during a match it is a good thing to have a number 8

Way back in 1995 - Sidecar speedway racing at the famous Sydney Showground - those were the days !

Totally unneccessary new gimmick this SGP qualifying. We are not Formula 1. Who cares about riding numbers?

MONSON AND SUMMERHAYES WIN DRAMATIC SIDECAR WORLD CUP Gillman Spedway

Miesiac rode in Argentina this winter. Seems as if it has helped him stay race fit.

Just found out that Victorian Warren Monson is the new Sidecar Speedway World Cup Champion 2019

Does anyone know the results of today's Sidecar World Final ?

"Sportowy Fakty" claims 14,500 at Zielona v Torun and 16,000 at Czestochowa vs Gorzow Massive crowds anyway for these opening couple of league meeting.

Just like Josef Angermüller of Reading, most of the 1970s/80s Germans in the British League are pretty much forgotten now, like Carsten Pelzmann of Middlesbro, Peter Würterle of Reading, Georg Hack of Ipswich, Hans Wassermann of Reading, or Gerd Uhlenbrock of Coventry, and probably some others whom I have forgotten about.

I'd rather say it was a typical Pawlicki fall, like he has performed many times. Certainly nothing to justify Darcy Ward's twitter comment, what's wrong with him? There nothing dirty about Nicki's riding in this race.