Track Racing

The polish star Krzystof Karspzak was on top form yesterday evening on the Croatian track in the Stadium Millenium Donji Kraljevec, KK won the meeting by cumulating 11 points after his 5 programmed heats. This FIM Speedway GP Challenge was supposed to be run with 5 heats per riders only but 5 riders were equal with 10 points each after the heat 20. So in order to solve that tie, 4 additional hea...

Tonight the 2012 FIM Speedway Challenge will be held in the Stadium Millenium Donji Kraljevec. At 19H20 GMT, the top best speedway riders will try to be selected for the 2013 Speedway Grand Prix World Championship Series. The riders will have only 5 heats in order to be in the top 3 in this high level meeting. The 3 riders who will be on the rostrum will be directly and permanently seeded to the ...

Aki-Pekka Mustonen was THE rider of the 2012 Long-Track GP Challenge in Maranske Lazne in the Czech Republic. Conceding only one heat, he won his three qualifying heats, the semi-final and the final. He even won a run-off against the local favourite, Ales Dryml to determine which of the two riders, tied after the final, would mount the top step of the podium.Czech rider Dryml will be taking part i...

Triple world champion Jason Crump has announced his retirement from the FIM Speedway Grand Prix series. The 37-year-old, who will continue racing in the leagues, makes his final World Championship appearance in the FIM Torun SGP of Poland at the Marian Rose Motoarena on October 6.Crump goes down as the most successful rider in Australian history having lifted the world title in 2004, 2006 and 200...

Danish starlet Michael Jepsen Jensen says he is ready for the FIM Speedway Grand Prix big time after a sensational victory in the FIM Dansk Metal Nordic SGP at Vojens on Saturday. The meeting wild card learned his trade at the legendary Vojens Speedway Center. So it was fitting that he passed Denmark’s triple world champion Nicki Pedersen to win the last SGP round to be staged at the spiritual h...

At the end of FIM Long-Track World Championship, the top seven riders qualified directly for 2013. The riders placed 8th to 13th will have to go through another qualifying process: the Grand Prix Challenge. They will be joined by the top six riders from each of the two qualifying rounds in Müldhorf (Germany) and Tayac (France), making 18 in all.The riders placed 13th to 25th are out of the compet...

FIM Speedway Under-21 world champion Maciej Janowski makes his senior World Championship debut as the wild card in the FIM Torun Speedway Grand Prix of Poland  at the Marian Rose Motoarena on October 6.The Wroclaw-born racer dons the famous No.16 race jacket for his hotly-anticipated arrival on speedway’s biggest stage in the final round of the 2012 SGP series.Janowski lifted last year’s Unde...

Michael Jesper Jensen moved a little closer to his dream of winning the FIM Under-21 title with an emphatic win in Final 4 at Tarnow on Saturday. Beaten only by Ukrainian, Aleksandr Loktaev when they met, he also set the fastest time of the meeting in Heat 7. Local favourite and current champion, Maciej Janowski, encouraged by some 4500 fans finished on 13 points but lost out in a run-off for sec...

Joonas Kylmakorpi came in Vechta with 17 points behind Franc and Pijper. After heat 8, Flying Finn is 2012 World Champion. With 7000 people around the track, he won only one of his 4 heats. Winning the semi final, he made an extreme start in final and fly to a third title. Martin Smolinski was the leader of the whole meeting. He won 2 of his 4 heats, his semi final and was ahead until final. ...

Draw for Final 4,Tarnow, Poland. 15th September. Round 4 takes us to Tarnow on Saturday where the Polish hosts will be anticipating some tough racing, particularly between the Polish and Danish riders who have dominated this competition so far. The situation at the intermediate classification is still very tight with only four points separating the top four riders. Michael J Jensen leads the fie...