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Swedish star Magnus Zetterstrom is dreaming of a Cardiff medal after being handed an eleventh-hour call-up for the FIM Doodson British Speedway Grand Prix at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday.The 39-year-old, who qualified as first reserve for this year’s series at the GP Challenge in Vojens last August, takes Russian international Artem Laguta’s place in the meeting.The Czestochowa and Valsarna ...

Polish superstar Tomasz Gollob admits Copenhagen has a special place in his heart after storming back to the FIM World Championship summit in the Danish capital on Saturday night. Gollob claimed victory in the FIM Dansk Metal Danish Speedway Grand Prix in the PARKEN Stadium. The defending world champion produced the mother of all first turns in the final to shoot around his closest title riva...

Team Great Britain internationals Tai Woffinden and Edward Kennett join wild card Scott Nicholls at the FIM Doodson British Speedway Grand Prix in Cardiff on June 25 as track reserves.Nicholls clinched the prestigious No.16 race jacket for the second year running by winning a record equalling sixth British Championship at Wolverhampton on Monday. Woffinden, 20, finished third in the meeting, despi...

Copenhagen teenager Mikkel B Jensen has been handed a dream ticket into the FIM Dansk Metal Danish Speedway Grand Prix at PARKEN Stadium, Copenhagen, on June 11.The 16-year-old dons the famous No.16 race jacket in his home town and will go head-to-head with the likes of world No.1 Tomasz Gollob, three-time world champion Nicki Pedersen and Danish champion Kenneth Bjerre in the national stadium.Jen...

World Championship leader Greg Hancock declared “I’ve found that love for speedway again” after flying to victory in the FIM Mitas Czech Speedway Grand Prix on Saturday. The Californian may be the oldest rider in the field and celebrates his 41st birthday on Friday. But his younger rivals are still struggling to live with him out of the starts. He left world No.2 Jaroslaw Hampel, world champion ...

Czech Republic international Matej Kus has been handed the FIM Mitas Czech Republic Speedway Grand Prix wild card for the third year on the trot and dons the famous No.16 race jacket for the meeting at the Marketa Stadium in Prague on May 28.Kus, who races for Prague in the Czech Ekstraliga and Redcar in the British Elite League, scored one point as the wild card in 2009 and bagged three in the ro...

Australian champion Chris Holder was delighted to bounce back from being crushed on countback in Leszno by winning a rain-soaked FIM Meridian Lifts Swedish SGP in Gothenburg on Saturday night. The meeting was abandoned after 16 races as the heavy rain which had lashed the Ullevi Stadium all evening rendered track conditions and visibility too poor to continue. Holder was top of the scorechart...

Swedish hotshot Thomas H Jonasson (THJ) has been handed the wild card for round two of the world championship FIM Speedway Grand Prix series, the FIM Swedish Speedway Grand Prix, at Gothenburg’s Ullevi Stadium on Saturday, May 14.The 22-year-old donned the famous No.16 race jacket in the FIM Scandinavian SGP in Malilla last season and bagged a very respectable eight points. This tally would normal...

Danish hotshot Nicki Pedersen won the season-opening FIM Fogo European Speedway Grand Prix at Leszno on Saturday night, and promptly paid tribute to his star-studded pit crew.The three-time world champion triumphed in the final ahead of defending world No.1 Tomasz Gollob, Russian starlet Emil Sayfutdinov and fellow countryman Jaroslaw Hampel. Pedersen scraped into the semi-finals on nine poin...

Polish racer Damian Balinski has been handed the wild card for the FIM Fogo European Speedway Grand Prix at Leszno, Poland, on April 30. Balinski will don the No.16 race jacket for the first World Championship round of 2011. The 33-year-old goes into the meeting with a wealth of experience around the Alfred Smoczyk Stadium circuit, having served as a Leszno rider since 1995. He has also r...