Speedway

European 85cc and 125cc Youth Speedway Cup The city of Vissenbjerg, Denmark, hosted the single event of the European 85cc Youth Speedway Cup. Danish dominance with three Danish riders who ruled the race ahead of German rider Janek Konzack, who crashed losing the opportunity to get the podium. Final classification 1. Mikkel Andersen, DEN 2. Dimitri Buch, DEN 3. Andreas Olsen, DEN The European 125cc Youth Speedway Cup was raced in Rivne, Ukraine. The main final was repeated due to a crash. Home hero Roman Kapustin was ruling when Krzysztof Harendarczyk from Poland get the first place. Final classification 1. Krzysztof Harendarczyk, POL 2. Roman Kapustin, UKR 3. Krystian Greda, POL Visit our Track Racing page

European U23 Team Speedway Championship: SF1 First race for the European U23 Team Speedway Championship with the Semi Final 1 in Brokstedt, Germany. The meeting was postponed by half an hour due to the rain, but the organisers got the track in to a very good condition after two days of heavy rain. Team Denmark managed to fend of the local favourites Team Germany in fiercely fought battle that lasted to the final heat. There was only one point between those two teams before the heat no. 20. Team Great Britain was third and the very young team Netherlands fourth scoring one point. Semi Final 2 and Final will be held in the next weeks. Final classification: 1. Denmark, 47 points 2. Germany, 44 points 3. Great Britain, 27 points Visit our Track Racing page

European Pairs Speedway Championship: France gets the title!   Final round of the European Pairs Speedway Championship in Macon, France. The race, opened to the public, delayed three hours because of the weather conditions, but in the evening took place thanks to the efforts of the organization. At the end of a thrilling race, the French team won ahead of Poland and Latvia. Final classification 1. France 2. Poland 3. Latvia Visit our Track Racing page

European 250cc Youth Speedway Cup: Polish rider Oskar Paluch gets the title Thrilling weekend for the European 250cc Youth Speedway Cup in Torun, Poland,with two days of Semifinals and the great Final round. The event began with the promotion of “A moment for nature” project, launched by the Polish Federation environmental project: #PzmIDoCareAboutTheEnvironment spoke about 3R (reduce – reuse – recycle) - important things for our environment. The races took place in excellent conditions and in the last heat of the meeting the best riders met: the fifth win gave the title to home rider Oskar Paluch ahead of Bastian Pedersen and Nagel Christiansen. Final classification 1. Oskar Paluch PZM 2. Bastian Pedersen DMU 3. Nagel Christiansen DMU Visit our Track Racing page

SEC: thrilling final in Poland   For the third time in history the SEC series came to Rybnik, while for the second time the final round took place in this city. Before the competition, the top of the general classification became so tight that from the very beginning you could expect an extremely fierce battle for gold. Mikkel Michelsen and Piotr Pawlicki were ex aequo in the lead, followed by Leon Madsen with a loss of just two points. The fourth Patryk Dudek, who had six points less than the leaders, also wanted to look for a chance to fight for the highest place. It was also interesting to compete for a place in the top five, which was guaranteeing a stay in the SEC series for the next season. The sixth Robert Lambert and the seventh Bartosz Smektała could still attack the fifth Daniel Bewley, to which they lost

European Pairs Speedway Championship: Qualifying Round in Debrecen Qualifying Round for the European Pairs Speedway Championship in Debrecen, Hungary. Great day for Great Britain, who won the meeting scoring 27 points with the team Adam Ellis, Chris Harris and Tom Brennan. Second place for Denmark with 23 (Mads Hansen, Kevin Juhl Pedersen). These both teams qualified to the Final which will be held in Macon, France, on July 24th. Final QR results: 1. Great Britain (Adam Ellis, Chris Harris, Tom Brennan) 2. Denmark (Mads Hansen, Kevin Juhl Pedersen) 3. Slovakia (Martin Vaculik, Jakub Valkovic) Visit our Track Racing page

SEC: Gdansk hosted the next to last round   For the second time in their history, the organizers of the European Championship came to Gdańsk. It seems that this was a sentimental return, because it was in this city, eight years ago, that the event began playing in a new formula, still valid today. The track in Gdańsk did not spoil the fans in recent days, but this time it was not possible to complain about boredom. Already the first series of starts delivered a lot of emotions, because it did not lack hard and impressive driving. In the second heat, Smektała and Madsen first dealt with Pawlicki, and then fought to the very end for victory. The same was true in the third race, where after the start Pieszczek (wild card) was leader, but first he was overtaken by Lambert and just at the finish line was caught by

SEC: Pawlicki won Final 2 in Germany For the sixth time in history, the organizers of the European Championship were guests in Güstrow. It was the first competition to be held outside Poland since the coronavirus pandemic turmoil. The initial runs showed us, that we could face a very fierce rivalry, because after two series of starts no specific favorites were detected and there was a lot of squeeze in the general classification. Lambert, Michelsen, Smektała and Bewley each had five points, Dudek and Logachev four each, followed by a group of four riders with three points in their account (Pawlicki, Milik, Huckenbeck, Madsen). The situation did not change significantly after the third series of starts and was still tight. This only confirmed the belief that on this German track every point is precious, because the final decisions can be decided by tiny details. Polish fans were certainly satisfied that

European U19 Speedway Championship: last qualifying in Divisov The third and last qualifying competition for the promotion to the finals of the new European Under-19 Individual Speedway Championship took place in Divišov, as usual. Sixteen riders from six countries fought for the five places of the final, that will take place in Riga, Latvia, on 7 August. Final results: 1. Bartlomiej Kowalski, Poland 2. Drew Kemp, Great Britain 3. Leon Flint, Great Britain   Visit our Track Racing page

European U19 Individual Speedway Championship: QR3 in Denmark Exciting Q3 for the European U19 Individual Speedway Championship in a sunny and hot day in Holsted, Denmark. The winner Philip Hellström-Bängs (Sweden) dropped only one point and stormed to victory and was also crowned Nordic U19 champion. There was a run-off to decide second and third place, between Marcus Birkemose and Emil Breum, both with 12 points, and the run off was won by Marcus Birkemose. Fourth and fifth place was also a tie on 10 points, which was taken by the 2 norwegian riders Mathias Pollestad and Espen Sola. To decide the last qualifying place for the final, three riders with 9 points. The winner of the run off was Danish rider Esben Hjerrild. Second was Casper Henriksson from Sweden, and last was Silas Høegh from Denmark.   Visit our Track Racing page