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Jason Bunyan has been handed the chance of a lifetime after receiving the wild card berth for the inaugural FIM New Zealand Speedway Grand Prix in Auckland on March 31, the opening round of the 2012 World Championship series.The 32-year-old spends his winters in the land of the long white cloud and has made a massive impact in the New Zealand Championships. He has won the competition six times and...

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...

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...

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 ...

Australian speedway sensation Darcy Ward has been rewarded for his astonishing World Championship debut in Torun with a wild card for the FIM Enea Gorzow Speedway Grand Prix of Poland on October 8.  The double World Under-21 champion dons the famous No.16 race jacket for the last SGP event of 2011 at Gorzow’s stunning Edward Jancarz Stadium.Ward announced his arrival on the Grand Prix stage i...

Slovenian star Matej Zagar has been handed his second FIM Speedway Grand Prix (SGP) wild card of the year after being called-up for the FIM Nice Croatian SGP in Gorican on September 24.Zagar, who dons the famous No.16 race jacket, appeared in the FIM Nice Italian Grand Prix in Terenzano on July 30 and reached the semi-finals with nine points. Having failed to qualify for next season’s World Champi...