FIM SPEEDWAY TOP 5 MOMENTS | TETEROW

As speedway toasts its 100th anniversary season, FIMSpeedway.com looks back at the top five moments celebrated at each of our 2023 FIM Speedway venues.

Today, we feature Teterow’s Bergring Arena as the FIM Speedway GP of Germany returns on June 10.

1. DOYLE’S DELIGHT IN 2016

Speedway GP launched at Teterow in 2016 – the first time Germany had staged a round since Gelsenkirchen hosted the 100^th SGP in 2007.

The Bergring Arena meeting was also a huge milestone as it was the 200^th Speedway GP event since the series launched in 1995.

A sizeable crowd turned out in the forests of north-eastern Germany, and they witnessed a second straight victory for Aussie ace Jason Doyle, who topped the Gorzow podium just two weeks earlier.

It was the second of three wins on the bounce for Doyle, as he won the next event in Stockholm too. But sadly, his title charge was halted by a crash at the penultimate round in Torun. He certainly made up for that disappointment by finally getting his hands on the Speedway GP trophy in 2017.

 

2. ZAGAR ZOOMS TO VICTORY

Slovenian star Matej Zagar developed a reputation as a man who could deliver a purple patch of form when he needed it most, and he cemented his Speedway GP status with a big victory at the 2017 Teterow event.

Despite recording just one podium that season before he arrived at the Bergring Arena, Zagar showed his skills around one of the series’ tightest and most technical tracks to top the box ahead of Martin Vaculik and Doyle.

It was the first of two straight wins for the Ljubljana-born racer, who also triumphed at the next round in Stockholm before going on to finish seventh in the final standings.

Teterow’s tight turns can be daunting for some of the Speedway GP elite, but Zagar usually comes into his own on a track that tests throttle control more than pure power.

 

3. WOFFY’S TETEROW TONIC

After a stumble in Slovenia, the pressure was on Great Britain hero Tai Woffinden to respond in the 2018 Speedway GP title race.

A costly and controversial starting exclusion saw him leave the previous round in Krsko with just five championship points as Poland’s Bartosz Zmarzlik closed the gap in the title race.

But Woffy took charge when he needed to most, delivering a fine victory at the Bergring Arena ahead of Doyle and Zmarzlik.

The result steadied the ship for Woffinden and allowed him to finish the job by topping the podium at the final round in Torun for title No.3 as he became Britain’s most successful speedway star.

 

4. MAGIC MOMENTS IN GERMANY

After missing the opening round of the 2019 series due to injury, Poland’s Maciej Janowski knew he was unlikely to land the sport’s biggest prize that year.

But he took a giant stride towards automatic qualification for 2020 with a huge win at the Bergring Arena, beating fellow countryman Zmarzlik to top spot.

After a long career racing in the UK and Sweden, Janowski is another rider who frequently proves a tight and technical circuit holds no fears for him.

His Teterow triumph was the highlight of a fairly average season by his high standards, which saw him take sixth spot overall. But automatic qualification may have been in doubt, had Janowski not delivered this vital victory in Germany.

 

5. DUDEK ON TOP AS TETEROW RETURNS

After a two-year absence from the calendar due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Speedway GP action made its return to Teterow as the sport entered a new era with Discovery Sports Events in 2022.

While the track tested the sport’s finest on the night, Poland’s Patryk Dudek was more than up to the challenge as he defied a lacklustre start to the season to take the victory.

After scoring five points at the opening three rounds, there was no stopping Dudek in Germany. It was the highlight of a season, which saw him claim seventh sport overall, just missing out on automatic qualification, but doing enough to earn a permanent wild card for 2023 from the SGP Commission.

But most significantly, Speedway GP was back on German shale. It was also a special night for GB star Robert Lambert, who reached his first-ever SGP final, taking fourth place.

 

What will happen in the 2023 FIM Speedway GP of Germany – Teterow on June 10? Be there and find out! Tickets are available now via: https://bergring-teterow.de/der-vorverkauf/