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ELITSERIEN | ZMARZLIK TOPS LIONS SCORE CHART AS THEY CLOSE ON PLAY-OFF SEMIS

Triple world champion Bartosz Zmarzlik raced to 12 points for Lejonen as they took a big stride towards the Bauhaus Elitserien play-off semi-finals with 47-43 win away to Indianerna in the quarter final, first leg on Tuesday.The Lions delivered a rock-solid team display, with Zmarzlik leading the way, winning three of his five outings, with world No.2 Jaroslaw Hampel also taking three victories on his way to 11 points.Polish star Dominik Kubera collected eight paid 10 points, with SGP2 champion Mateusz Cierniak scoring six.Former world champion Jason Doyle bagged 12 paid 13 points for the Indians, while triple Australian champion Max Fricke tallied 10. Speedway GP 2024 qualifier Szymon Wozniak scored six paid seven.Elsewhere, Swedish star Antonio Lindback racked up 14 paid 16 points for Rospiggarna as they won their quarter final opener 50-40 at home to Piraterna.The Rio Rocket put the Hallstavik side in pole position to reach the last four, with Polish young gun Wiktor Przyjemski racing to 11 paid 12 and American racer Luke Becker adding 10 paid 12. Speedway GP star Kim Nilsson notched nine points.Former Speedway GP star Przemyslaw Pawlicki led the Pirates scoring 11 paid 13, with his compatriot Oskar Fajfer notching nine paid 11. Piotr Pawlicki and Vaclav Milik scored seven paid eight apiece.

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WELSH TWO-WHEELED HEROES JOIN FORCES WITH SPEEDWAY GP FOR CARDIFF EVENT

The FIM Speedway Grand Prix stars will not be the only heroes on two wheels at the FIM Speedway GP of Great Britain – Cardiff on September 2 as Blood Bikes Wales ride into the fanzone as the event’s nominated charity.Blood Bikes Wales volunteers provide a completely free courier service for the National Health Service, relying solely on volunteers and public donations and working around the clock to make crucial deliveries, including vital blood supplies and samples, plasma, donor milk for specialist baby units and essential medication between Wales’ various hospitals. Blood Bikes will be based at the Speedway GP fanzone on Cardiff’s City Hall Lawn from 10am, close to the always-popular Monster Energy Rig, rider autograph sessions, entertainment for kids and so much more.The team will have their own bike on display as well as a children’s version for family fun and photos. The Blood Bikes Wales team then head over to Principality Stadium as a night of nail-biting racing starts at 5pm, featuring 16 of the world’s best riders, competing on 500cc machines with absolutely no brakes.The charity estimates that with every pound donated to Blood Bikes Wales, the NHS saves £5, which can be invested into frontline care. In 2021, the team was presented with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Services and, having been hit hard by the pressures of the pandemic, the charity is bouncing back. 

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HOME ADVANTAGE FOR BRITISH WILD CARD WORRALL?

FIM Speedway GP of Great Britain – Cardiff wild card Steve Worrall believes being on home soil will even the playing field as he takes on the world’s best riders for the first time at Principality Stadium on September 2.Worrall makes his Speedway GP debut after finishing second to triple SGP winner Dan Bewley in the British Championship Final in Manchester on August 14 to earn the wild card for Britain’s biggest indoor motorsport event.The St Helens-born racer, who competes for Wolverhampton in the Sports Insure Premiership and Poole in the Cab Direct Championship, served as a track reserve in the 2016 Cardiff event, but did not get a ride.Now he is guaranteed at least five heats against the best in the world alongside British Speedway GP stars Tai Woffinden, Robert Lambert and Dan Bewley on the 273-metre Principality Stadium track, which tests a rider’s skill and technique rather than their speed and power.Worrall hopes this will level the playing field for the biggest meeting of his career to date and he can’t wait to take on the Speedway GP elite in the Welsh capital. He said: “I get the opportunity to go to Cardiff. There are not many British riders who have that on their resume. What an opportunity, and it’s an absolute honour. It’s one of the best GPs on the calendar, if not the best, so to be going there as part of the whole event is a dream come true. There is no pressure on me. It is a one-off event. I’ll just have some fun and see where it takes me.“My speedway career has been based around riding the small British tracks. One of my strong points is my gating and the way Cardiff is set up, it is a smallish track, and you need to make good starts. When I’m in front, I am just as fast as most people. You don’t really need the super-fast Polish engines that all the guys seem to have.“There are things working in my favour. There are not really any expectations on me. It’s a one-off meeting.“I will just go as far as I can. I don’t really want to put anything on it; I can’t come away disappointed either way. I am against 15 of the best riders in the world. I don’t race them on a regular basis and in reality, I don’t have access to some of the equipment that they have – like engines and whatever else. But Cardiff is a bit of a leveller. It makes things pretty even for everyone. Some of the guys don’t like the smaller indoor tracks, so we will see what happens.”

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EKSTRALIGA | MADSEN LEADS LIONS INTO PLAY-OFF SEMIS

Danish star Leon Madsen starred on 14 points for Czestochowa as they beat visitors Gorzow 50-40 on Sunday to set up a PGE Ekstraliga play-off semi-final showdown with Lublin.The world No.2 dropped just one point over five rides as the Lions roared into the last four with a 99-81 aggregate victory. He was well supported by an 11 paid 12-point tally from fellow Danish racer Mikkel Michelsen and a straight 11 by double FIM Speedway Under-21 world champion Maksym Drabik.Slovak star Martin Vaculik followed up his second place at Saturday’s FIM GP Challenge in Gislaved by scoring 15 points from six races for Gorzow, with fellow 2024 Speedway GP qualifier Szymon Wozniak scoring seven – a figure matched by Oskar Fajfer. Young gun Oskar Paluch added eight paid 10.The Lions now face Lublin in the next round. Triple Speedway GP world champion Bartosz Zmarzlik collected 13 points for the reigning champions as they won 49-41 at home to Torun.With Torun going down 96-83 on aggregate, they registered the best score of the three defeated play-off quarter finalists, which was enough to see them progress to the semis, where they face table-topping Wroclaw.Zmarzlik was backed up by an 11-point haul from former world No.2 Jaroslaw Hampel, 10 paid 11 from Speedway GP star Fredrik Lindgren and nine paid 11 from Monster Energy FIM Speedway World Cup winner Dominik Kubera. SGP2 champion Mateusz Cierniak added five.Polish racer Pawel Przedpelski impressed on 12 points for Torun, with Great Britain ace Robert Lambert notching nine paid 10, Emil Sayfutdinov scoring seven and Patryk Dudek adding six paid seven points.In the other quarter final, Wroclaw cruised into the last four as Dan Bewley scored 13 points in their 53-37 win at home to Leszno, rounding off a 101-79 aggregate victory.Former Speedway GP world champion Artem Laguta weighed in with 12 for Wroclaw, with Maciej Janowski tallying 10 paid 11 and triple world champion Tai Woffinden scoring nine paid 11.Former Polish champion Janusz Kolodziej racked up 15 for the Bulls, with Bartosz Smektala notching nine points.The semi-final, first legs take place next Sunday, with Torun hosting Wroclaw and Czestochowa welcoming Lublin.For full details of the day’s results and scorers, click here: https://speedwayekstraliga.pl/ 

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POLISH STAR WOZNIAK CELEBRATES SPEEDWAY GP GIFT AS HE JOINS DOYLE & VACULIK IN 2024 SERIES

Former Polish champion Szymon Wozniak admits Christmas has come early after realising his childhood dream of becoming an FIM Speedway Grand Prix rider in the FIM GP Challenge at Swedish track Gislaved on Saturday.Current Speedway GP duo Jason Doyle of Australia and Martin Vaculik from Slovakia both guaranteed their places in the 2024 Speedway GP series after topping the score chart in the qualifying showdown on 13 points apiece, with Doyle winning a run-off for first place.Meanwhile, third-placed Wozniak, who made it through on 12, breaks new ground as he makes his Speedway GP debut next year – a result that earns him the chance to face the world’s best riders on the sport’s finest racetracks.The Gorzow rider is no stranger to facing speedway’s biggest names in Poland’s PGE Ekstraliga. And whatever the result as he takes on the biggest challenge of his career so far, he’s determined to enjoy every moment as a Speedway GP rider in 2024.Wozniak, who has made three Speedway GP appearances so far, said:

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ELITSERIEN | ZMARZLIK TOPS LIONS SCORE CHART AS THEY CLOSE ON PLAY-OFF SEMIS

WELSH TWO-WHEELED HEROES JOIN FORCES WITH SPEEDWAY GP FOR CARDIFF EVENT

HOME ADVANTAGE FOR BRITISH WILD CARD WORRALL?

EKSTRALIGA | MADSEN LEADS LIONS INTO PLAY-OFF SEMIS

POLISH STAR WOZNIAK CELEBRATES SPEEDWAY GP GIFT AS HE JOINS DOYLE & VACULIK IN 2024 SERIES