Track Racing

Danish star Hans Andersen has been named as the final wild card for the 2012 FIM Speedway Grand Prix series. Under next year’s rules in Poland, the 10 top-flight Ekstraliga clubs are limited to just one SGP rider per team. Andersen was set to sign for Zielona Gora, who already have world No.2 Andreas Jonsson under contract. But when he got the phone call from the FIM, offering him the SGP s...

Sweden have been handed an automatic place in next year’s FIM Speedway World Cup Final after rights holders BSI Speedway and the governing body, the FIM, announced an exciting shake-up ahead of the 2012 competition. The Swedes will bid to win the Ove Fundin Trophy for the first time since 2004 when they stage the SWC decider at Malilla’s G&B Arena on July 14, 2012. But the battle to join S...

Polish star Piotr Protasiewicz and Australian racer Darcy Ward have declined their invitations to participate full time in the 2012 FIM Speedway Grand Prix series.  Sweden’s Peter Ljung will replace Protasiewicz  and the replacement for Ward will be announced at a later date.After his girlfriend Jessica gave birth to their son Eddie on Wednesday, the 29-year-old was over the moon to rece...

Darrin Treloar and Jesse Headland are the 2011 FIM Track Racing Sidecar 1000cc World Champions after they held off the advances fellow Aussies of Glenn O'Brien and Aaron Maynard and Grant Bond and Simon Cox to claim the crown in front of a bumper crowd at Murray Bridge Speedway. A five-time Australian Champion and 2008 World Champion Treloar added another significant piece of silverware to h...

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2012 FIM Speedway Grand Prix World Championship - Permanent Riders Entry list 1. Greg Hancock (USA)2. Andreas Jonsson (Sweden)3. Jaroslaw Hampel (Poland)4. Jason Crump (Australia)5. Tomasz Gollob (Poland)6. Emil Sayfutdinov (Russia)7. Kenneth Bjerre (Denmark)8. Chris Holder (Australia)9. Fredrik Lindgren (Sweden)10. Nicki Pedersen (Denmark)11. Chris Harris (Great Britain)12. Antonio Lindback (Sw...

American legend Greg Hancock is already setting his sights on a third World Championship in 2012 after a golden night at the FIM Enea Gorzow Speedway Grand Prix of Poland on Saturday. Herbie sealed the SGP series crown with his fourth place at the FIM Nice Croatian Grand Prix in Gorican two weeks ago, but collected the trophy at a packed Edward Jancarz Stadium. He was joined on the World Cham...

The FIM Speedway Grand Prix series will launch in New Zealand next year as the brightest stars of the shale collide in the Southern Hemisphere for the first time in almost a decade. Western Springs Stadium in Auckland will stage the first ever FIM New Zealand SGP on Saturday, March 31, 2012.  Tickets will go on sale next month on 04 November.The meeting will be jointly promoted by SGP rights...

World Under-21 champion Darcy Ward admits he may be forced to choose between a place in the FIM Grand Prix series and the Polish Ekstraliga if he is offered a permanent wild card for 2012.The 19-year-old has been widely tipped for a berth in next year’s FIM World Championship and makes his second wild card appearance of the season in the FIM Enea Gorzow SGP of Poland on Saturday.He exploded on to ...

American legend Greg Hancock admits sheer adrenaline soothed the pain of his knee ligament injury and helped him secure a sensational second World Championship in Gorican on Saturday night. The Californian finished fourth in the FIM Nice Croatian SGP with 15 points to clinch the sport’s biggest prize – 14 years after he lifted it for the first time at Vojens on September 20, 1997. At 41 ...