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BEWLEY: MALILLA MOVE MADE TO MASTER TRACK
Great Britain racer Dan Bewley hopes his winter Malilla move will pay dividends as he lines up on his home track for the Holmgrens Bil FIM Speedway GP of Sweden – Malilla tonight.The Cumbrian raced to two championship points in the 2022 Malilla event – his lowest return of a fine debut Speedway GP season, which saw him finish sixth in the World Championship and top the podium in Cardiff and Wroclaw.Bewley helped Smederna win the Bauhaus Elitserien championship in Sweden last season, but he made the switch to Malilla club Dackarna for 2023 and the team is currently second to near neighbours Vastervik in the standings.The Wroclaw and Belle Vue rider admits his Swedish switch was partly made in an effort to master the Malilla track.“That’s part of the reason I signed here,” he said. “Just to try and get a little bit better here. I felt like coming here would make me a better rider. I enjoyed the meeting here in 2022. I didn’t feel like I struggled or anything like that. I struggled with the starts, but I enjoyed the actual track.“I have had a pretty good season here and some pretty good meetings. It’s a pretty fun track and I loved it last year. I thought it was pretty cool. I just didn’t have the result last year, but I am looking forward to it and we will see what we can do. “It has been good for me here so far and as far as the Dackarna team here goes, we are in a really good position for the play-offs.”Bewley is still waiting for his first final of 2023, having reached the semi-finals at each of the first four rounds and fallen just short at the last round in Gorzow, scoring eight championship points. The GB international’s form in the heats has been rock-solid so far this season, and he’s a little frustrated not to have gained the rewards from this. He admits racing under the previous SGP scoring system, which awarded one championship point for every race point scored, would have left him in better shape.He said: “If we had the old point system, or we were going off the heats, I think we would be a bit further up. But we are not, and everyone knows the game. The big points are paid out at the end. You just have to be there at the end and try and turn it around.”STORY: PAUL BURBIDGE
SWEDEN’S KARLSSON CROWNED SGP3 KING IN MALILLA
Swedish sensation Rasmus Karlsson defied the nerves of a dramatic last-heat decider to win the Lantmannen Maskin FIM SGP3 Final - Malilla in front of a delighted home crowd on Friday.Karlsson got the better of a stellar field in the FIM Speedway Youth World Championship – the sport’s under-16 250cc competition – registering two heat wins and two second places in his opening four rides to give himself four laps to become a world champion in heat 20.Despite reigning champion Mikkel Andersen getting the better of him early on, which would have forced Karlsson into a run-off with the Dane, as well as Poland’s Maksymilian Pawelczak for the gold medal, the Swede swooped for the win with an epic move on lap two, bend four.Karlsson celebrated wildly on one wheel in front of his home fans as he became Sweden’s first-ever winner of the sport’s biggest youth competition on 13 points.He triumphed ahead of Pawelczak, who took second spot on 12. 2022 SGP3 champion Mikkel Andersen defeated Poland’s Kacper Mania in a dramatic run-off for the bronze medal after they tied on 11. But the day belonged to Karlsson, sparking big celebrations in Malilla.
POLISH STAR JANOWSKI SEEKS MAGIC MOMENT AT SWEDISH HOME CLUB MALILLA
Polish racer Maciej Janowski says his search for speed is “going in the right direction” as he lines up on his Swedish home track for the Holmgrens Bil FIM Speedway GP of Sweden – Malilla on Saturday.The world No.3 endured a difficult start to his Speedway GP season by his high standards, missing out on the semi-finals at the opening four rounds. But Janowski delivered an upturn in fortunes at the KGHM FIM Speedway GP of Poland – Gorzow on June 24, reaching the semis and scoring 10 championship points.He will hope to go even further on the Skrotfrag Arena circuit where he has raced for Malilla club Dackarna almost every season since 2016 as he bids to improve on his 31 points and 11th place in the Speedway GP standings.Janowski, who finished third in the 2022 FIM Swedish Speedway GP here, faces huge competition from fellow Polish star and World Championship leader Bartosz Zmarzlik, who heads to Malilla with a 21-point lead at the top of the standings. The triple world champion is seeking his fourth victory at the Skrotfrag Arena and his third Malilla win on the bounce.Swedish star Fredrik Lindgren, third on 68 points, is also bidding to extend a fine run of Malilla results, having reached the rostrum on each of his last five Speedway GP visits to Malilla, where he also won the 2023 Swedish Championship on June 27.Second-placed Jack Holder, who is just ahead of Lindgren on 69, will be determined to build on his best-ever start to a Speedway GP season – as will Aussie icon Jason Doyle, who has reached four finals in five rounds, leaving him fourth on 68.While Janowski has work to do to close the gap on the frontrunners, he was pleased to pick up the pace in Gorzow ahead of the Malilla showdown.
SWEDISH LEGEND RICKARDSSON READY FOR FIM SGP4 LAUNCH IN MALILLA ON SATURDAY
FIM Speedway global ambassador Tony Rickardsson hopes the FIM SGP4 project can inspire generations of Speedway GP world champions as the sport’s newest youth category makes its historic debut in Malilla, Sweden on Saturday.As part of their vision to build a clear pathway for young riders to progress to Speedway GP, global promoter Warner Bros. Discovery Sports tasked six-time FIM Speedway world champion Tony Rickardsson with designing a brand-new entry-level bike for the sport’s youngest riders.The SGP4 bike with its Daytona FS Anima 190cc engine was unveiled earlier this year and is now available to order online via www.minispeedway.pl.Rickardsson’s goal was to deliver a machine that should “look like a big bike, sound like a big bike and, most importantly, it should ride like a big bike, but in a small package and for a reasonable sum of money.”Eighteen riders from 12 different nations and four continents compete on the SGP4 bike in Malilla in a bid to be crowned winner of the brand-new FIM Speedway Youth World Cup.After months of painstaking testing and design work, Rickardsson is delighted to see the SGP4 bike debut on the Skrotfrag Arena’s training track at 14:30 CET on Saturday afternoon, ahead of the Holmgrens Bil FIM Speedway GP of Sweden – Malilla that evening.
LEBEDEVS REPLACES NILSSON IN MALILLA
FIM GP Challenge winner Kim Nilsson has withdrawn from the 2023 Holmgrens Bil FIM Speedway GP of Sweden – Malilla due to injury.Nilsson has been forced out of his home event as he recovers from a heavy crash suffered in a Swedish Allsvenskan League match for Griparna in Mariestad on June 29.His absence hands a call-up to Latvian ace Andzejs Lebedevs, who races on his Bauhaus Elitserien home track, where he competes for Malilla club Dackarna. He was named as first reserve for the 2023 Speedway GP series and gets his first chance of 2023 to race on the sport’s biggest stage.According to his official website, Nilsson crashed in his final race in Mariestad two weeks ago after picking up drive while leading, landing so hard on his front wheel that it buckled.Despite being taken to hospital for checks, Nilsson did not require surgery and was discharged wearing a neck brace. He confirmed he is still suffering pain in his ribs, back, chest and shoulder.While he has undergone laser treatment and physiotherapy, the Holmgrens Bil FIM Swedish Speedway GP comes too soon for Nilsson, who admits he may need six to eight weeks to recover fully, although he admits he can choose when he feels ready to return to the track.Former Speedway European Championship winner Lebedevs steps up after impressing in the final round of the 2022 Speedway GP series in Torun, reaching the semi-finals and scoring 10 championship points, winning two heats along the way.He will hope to capitalise on his home-track experience in Malilla and build on a good start to the PGE Ekstraliga season with Krosno, where he is averaging 1.662 points per race.
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