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SEC Speedway European Championship: Qualifying Round 3 in Ukraine QR3 was held on 2nd May in Rivne, Ukraine. The original date was the 1st May, but due to the heavy rain and the bad track conditions, Tuesday’s practice was canceled. Unfortunately, also one race was canceled, because of the wet track, not suitable for a race. Thanks to the good conditions, on Thursday the race took place with no other delay. The classification: Jepsen Jensen Michael Denmark Lebedevs Andzejs Latvia Kildemand Peter Denmark

SEC Speedway European Championship: Qualifying Round 1 in Croatia The organizers were extremely lucky to escape rain as dark clouds threatened to pour rain on the Croatian track of Milenium stadium, in front of 3.500 spectators. The race was a tough battles between 18 riders from 15 countries. Adrian Miedzinski, Vaclav Milik, Dominik Kubera and Jurica Pavlic Top 4 qualified to the challenge which will be held in Hungary on 25th May.Some big names like Chris Harris or MikkelBech Jensen failed to make it into the two heats after regular part, which was spiced by local superstar Jurica Pavlic who raced both in Last chance and Final, which made his home crowd ecstatic! Polish rider proved their dominance in speedway world and took first and third place; it was Kubera’s first appearance at this track, which he will absolutely remember as he loved racing here tonight. Final results: 1. Adrian

SEC Speedway European Championship: Qualifying Round 2 in Poland Photo credit Jarek Pabijan The meeting was run smoothly on a wellprepared track. The weather conditions had been perfect for a Speedway meeting, so 600 spectators saw a fluent and good meeting. The track staff did a great work and so the meeting was finished within 2:15min. There had been good racing action on the track especially the last heats where packed with racing action. Bartosz Smektala, U21 World Champion 2018, from Poland, was unbeaten up to Heat 22, and fighted hard for the win against David Bellego from FFM, who took the win at the end. Third place was taken by Anders Thomsen from DMU, after he won the Last Chance Heat here in Poznan. And the last Qualifyer for the Euopean Challenge later this season was Andrei Kudriashov from Russia, who was close to the podium during the entire

The Semi Final 2 of the Individual Speedway European Championship was held in Mureck (Austria). A very good crowd of 1500 spectators enjoyed a well organised event. The race was thrilling also thanks to the good preparation of the track, which was in doubt after the rain of the morning.Danish rider Michael Jepsen Jensen won the Semi Final 2 and was unbeaten. His compatriot Hans Andersen and Polish Krzysztof Kasprzak showed their abilities to grasp the two remaining steps of the rostrum. Race off for the 4th place decided that Italian Nicolas Covatti will compete in the Challenge as Czech Tomas Suchanek lost important points in heat 17.