The Speedway European Championship will resume this weekend after a four-week break, and Jan Stæchmann caught up with Nicki Pedersen who is currently in second place in the overall standings.
Leon Madsen, who originally was to replace Kjastas Puodżuks ultimately did not go in Gorican. Danish rider withdrew from the tournament SEC as a cause of illness. In view of the absence Madsen, Grzegorz Zengota is entitled to start, and Polish rider will take place under the tenth. The change has already been approved by Frank Ziegler.
September 14 in Gorican will be the third tournament of the SEC. Already draw in the starting numbers for the tournament. Because of the injury to the Millennium Stadium Speedway start several reserve riders. Recall that the wild card for the competition in Croatia was Krzysztof Kasprzak. Reserve will be: Łukasz Sówka (Poland) and Renato Cvetko (Croatia). It's worth to remind that in the tournament for the next season stays only top three riders.
Couple days ago we informed that Robert Miśkowiak will miss SEC final in Gorican.Polish international refused to start in Gorican 'cause the next day he had a league meeting in Daugavpils. In that case he was suspended by the UEM-TRC and because of that he couldn't race in Gorican and in Rzeszów aswell.
From Sunday we know who will start in the great final in the polish Enea Extraleague. Unibax Toruń who eliminated Dospel Włókniarz Częstochowa and Stelmet Falubaz Zielona Góra who eliminated Unia Tarnów.
Krzystof Kasprzak who collected the Wild Card for SEC in Gorican was born July the 18th 1984 in Leszno. Hi is a son of well known in polish speedway Zenon Kasprzak. Speedway license Krzysztof is havin' from year 2000.
Jaroslaw Hampel won the 10th GP round in slovenian Krsko. Second and third were SEC superstars Tai Woffinden and Tomasz Gollob. Tai is very close to the world championship thanks to Emil Sayfutdinov injury in league match in Torun. British international have 20 points advantage before two last rounds and only the earthquake could take gold away from him.
Two round of SEC are after us. Exactly two in front of. Gorican and Rzeszów. Those two cities on September will have two final competitions of Speedway European Championships. Very important case is that only top three riders will stay in SeC for the 2014 season without any eliminations.
This season is full of serious injuries. Unfortunately including SEC riders. At this moment Kjastas Puodzuks and Roman Povazhny will miss Gorican and Rzeszów rounds of Speedway European Championships. Both havin' a really bad injuries.
On Wednesday evening the semifinals in Sweden were finished. In the great final we have Piraterna Motala and Elit Vetlanda. Both of the teams won twice against their rivals in the semifinals.
Elit Vetlanda - Dackarna Malilla 49:41
On Tuesday in Sweden were held first two Elitserien semifinals. In Vetlanda team Elit won by eight points over Dackarna Mallila. Home team were very equal with points scoring by the riders. Two winning heats for SEC rider from Slovakia Martin Vaculik who collected seven from four. Swedish international Fredrik Lindgren, track record from Gorican holder, scored for Dackarna squad only two points from three rides.
After the great sports and organizing succes in Togliatti it's high time to move on the south european direction. Croatian city of Gorican will be the third Speedway European Championships finals venue. This beautiful stadium situated on a great croatian land is changin' the meaning of speedway word. Riders feels there very comfortable thanks to superb and proffesional care from the owner of the venue – Zvonko Pavlic.
