After three tournaments Emil Sajfutdinow had three points of advantage over Peter Kildemand and six over Nicki Pedersen and current European Champion, Martin Vaculik. The track in Częstochowa is said to be one of the best to race in the world and as a result everyone knew that fans would be witnesses of fight for every point on the whole length and width.
The fans present at Moldow Arena counted that Nicki Pedersen would provide himself such advantage over his opponents which would make it possible for him to celebrate gold medal of European championship before the last round in Częstochowa. Unfortunately the weather destroyed all plans because it changed the surface totally.
In 2013 the stadium named Anatolij Stiepanow in Togliatti was full of audience. This time fans also didn’t disappoint although there was some insufficiency connected with the fact not Emil Sajfutdinow but Nicki Pedersen won in Russia.
Speedway Best Pairs Cup and Speedway European Championships, two speedway series organized by One Sport will be inaugurated at Motoarena in Toruń in 2015.
Nicki Pedersen winner of the first round of this year’s Speedway European Championships series – shouted headlines of internet portals and newspapers. Dane started fight for European Champion title in Gustrow perfectly. It was the place where on the 6th July fifteen riders of Europe started the season.
Emil Sajfutdinow became European Champion 2014. Russian finished this what he started last year. Then after the two tournaments he had two victories and he was aiming at the gold medal. Unfortunately he got seriously injured which caused that the season ended for the rider from Bashkortostan.
2014 season was the best in Peter Kildemand’s career. He was really successful not only in Polish league but also during international tournaments. The result of great preparation for the series was the second place and silver medal of European championship.
Nicki Pedersen has been starting in Speedway European Championships series since the beginning of its existence. For these two years he won two medals: silver (2013) and bronze (2014) although it seemed that both in the first and the second season of championship he was able to win European Champion title. However he missed something each time.
Martin Vaculik, European Champion 2013 didn’t repeat last year success and he didn’t manage to win the gold medal in 2014. Slovak had problems with his injured collarbone during the series which definitely had an influence on his scores on a track. To be specific on the tournament in Częstochowa because in Gustrow, as he said, he failed and he lost a lot of important points because of that.
Janusz Kołodziej was fifth in Speedway European Championships series and as a result he has become the last rider who kept up in European championship and next season will start in the series under the auspices of One Sport.
Maksims Bogdanows wasn’t supposed to start in this year’s SEC series. He wasn’t lucky during the final of Challenge in Debrecen and he didn’t manage to qualify to European championship. What is more, wild card was given to Andrzejs Lebedevs, who was more successful in Hungary. However Bogdanows got the chance from fortune and he used it.
Andreas Jonsson had his debut season in Speedway European Championships series. It was really solid year of Jonsson although it should be admitted that his scores were better in the second part of the season.
