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GP Challenge final 2026 Terenzano Saturday 25th July


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9 minutes ago, RacersandRoyals88 said:

I'd say Harris has put himself in contention for one of the 1st reserves 2027! thats a slight win 

Harris still might get in! Woryna, Lambert, MJJ and Lebedevs all top 7 finishers… never say never! 

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3 minutes ago, Maddas69 said:

Hmm, 4 qualifiers, 2 of them will hardly score a point in the GP`s.........but congrats to all!

Kim made the semi finals in MÃ¥lilla this year. I don't think he will be top 6-7 but he will for sure make some good rounds.

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4 minutes ago, ShanoXtra said:

Harris still might get in! Woryna, Lambert, MJJ and Lebedevs all top 7 finishers… never say never! 

Lambert, Woryna and MMJ will very likely make top 7, if Lebedevs makes it aswell Harris is in.

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7 minutes ago, RacersandRoyals88 said:

2ND subsubitue rider behind Jacoksen if WORYNA MJJ LEBEDEVS qualify top 6

Qualify top 7 you mean?

If Lambert, Woryna, MJJ and Lebedevs get top 7 this season in SGP then Jakobsen and Harris are automatically qualified into 2027 SGP.

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Tungate and Nilsson - how enthralling!

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27 minutes ago, ShanoXtra said:

Qualify top 7 you mean?

If Lambert, Woryna, MJJ and Lebedevs get top 7 this season in SGP then Jakobsen and Harris are automatically qualified into 2027 SGP.

Just be glad there wasn't a run-off for 8th - otherwise we could have 10 rounds of Paco!

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Are we saying that the 2027 SGP series could be Zmarzlik, Kurtz, Lambert, MJJ, Woryna, Madsen, Lebedevs, Tungate, Nilsson, Jakobsen, Harris, The European Champion and 3 wildcards from:

Bewley, Holder, Lindgren, Fricke, Dudek, Thomsen, Doyle; Kubera, Kvech etc

Probably not that much worse than the 2026 series tbh 😃

They definitely need to rethink the GP Challenge

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Tungate getting in means Doyle & Fricke won't get a wildcard.  Bewley, Holder will....suspect Lindgren over Dudek.  Although after winning a GP maybe Thomsen rather than Lindgren.  Bewley & Holder will be in.

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Lebedevs isn't finishing top 7 unless he has a stellar Riga and his form improves elsewhere.  Hasn't been as good this year.

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Happens every year an absolute shocker of a rider makes it through 🤣

It's the reason I'll repeat again.

The Speedway Grand Prix Series should be a closed shop.

The best rider's in the world should be hand picked. The top 12 automatically qualify & the best 4 rider's with the highest amalgamation of averages from at least 2 leagues from:-

 •Ekstraliga

 •Elitserien

 •Speedway Ligaen

 •Premiership

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Far better meeting than I expected.  Congrats to all 6 or maybe 7 qualifiers, and to Dave Goddard and commentary team for good coverage.  A pleasant change from Kelvin and his parrot.

The downside of the system of knockout comps that lead to the Challenge is that better riders can left behind due to injury/incidents/mechanicals (or in stronger countries lack of initial qualifying allocations) and thus enable a weak field and lower standard of qualifiers as has happened this year.

Thomsen missed his qualifier due to injury, Piotr Pawlicki had only two rides in his, and Jan Kvech three in his.  They are far better riders than many that made it here tonite.  And for example Lidsey, Becker, and Rohan who all had blinders (for them) in the qualifiers continually prove that they cannot perform consistently at the top level.

To my mind a better system to determine the top 15/16 riders for GP's would be use the seasons top riders from the league comps as the starting point for qualification.  No rider under a 2.0 point heat average in the leagues (maybe 1.8 in Polish extraligue) is going to be competitive for a GP season.

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1 hour ago, Bagpuss said:

Lets have it right, Woryna is a dirty b'stard.

Good to see, Too many riders are far too friendly on the bike these days.

Woryna has that old school ruthless streak in his blood.

58 minutes ago, enotian said:

Are we saying that the 2027 SGP series could be Zmarzlik, Kurtz, Lambert, MJJ, Woryna, Madsen, Lebedevs, Tungate, Nilsson, Jakobsen, Harris, The European Champion and 3 wildcards from:

Bewley, Holder, Lindgren, Fricke, Dudek, Thomsen, Doyle; Kubera, Kvech etc

Probably not that much worse than the 2026 series tbh 😃

They definitely need to rethink the GP Challenge

Easy 4 Wildcard picks as well. Bewley, Holder and Lindgren are rock solid GP riders who always qualify on merit.

Fricke only has 1 good GP a year that puts him into Wildcard contention (Shouldn't be the case) but you can't give him one in 2027 as too many big consistent big hitters need one after missing most of the series through injury.

Doyle's days are numbered at GP level and his GP talking points are the crashes and exclusions tbh.

Kubera is bang average outside of Poland tbh and does nothing in the GP's.

Kvech has had his chance and done nothing.

50/50 between Dudek and Thomsen and you'll have to give the 4th Wildcard to the latter if Dudek doesn't win a GP.

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