Two tournaments of Speedway European Championships, two wins of Nicki Pedersen. The first one convincing, the second quite lucky but also deserved. Nicki Pedersen is seeking the European Champion title, the title which he lost last season at the very last moment.
Nicki Pedersen won the second round of the Speedway European Championships in Togliatti. On the podium were also Emil Sajfutdinow and Patryk Dudek. Dane maintained the leading position of general classification Speedway European Championships. Pedersen has one point ahead of Emil Sayfutdinov.
This is already tomorrow! In Togliatti, Russia at 6 p. m. (CET) the second round of Speedway European Championships will start. Below the official starting list and heat after heat list can be found. The transmission on Eurosport!
On the 16th July bikes of the riders, who are taking part in Speedway European Championships, started long journey to Togliatti, which is almost thousand kilometers from Moscow. It’s already this Saturday, on the 20th July at 8 p. m. (local time) when there is the second round of Individual European Championship.
Stal Gorzów beat Unibax Toruń in a postponed match of the tenth round of ENEA Ekstraliga. Riders from Gorzów won 53:37 but team from Toruń got bonus points. The best rider of the home team was Krzysztof Kasprzak, who lost only once with Emil Sajfutdinow and Niels Kristian Iversen, who lost in the fifteenth heat with Darcy Ward.
Togliatti appeared real hit the jackpot. Full stadium, great atmosphere and fight at each place of the track. Everybody with smile on a face recalls Russian round of SEC so it would be a sin not to come back to this great moments which we experienced last year.
On Tuesday evening there were two postponed matches of Swedish Elitserien. In the most interesting meeting, Piraterna Motala had an away win over Ikaros Smedernę Eskilstuna 47:43.in the second match Elit Vetlanda had a certain victory over Vastervik 53:37.
Martin Vaculik, who is defending the European Champion title, had quite poor inauguration of this year Speedway European Championships series. In Gustrow, Germany Slovak scored only seven points. What is more, during the match of Swedish league he had a dangerous fall which resulted in a leg injury. However Vaculik calms: “I will definitely ride in Togliatti!”.
Betard Sparta Wrocław won on their home track with Polish team champions, Falubaz Zielona Góra50:40 and they improved a little bit their situation in the league table. On Sunday there was only one more match of the tenth round of ENEA Ekstraliga. Fogo Unia Leszno had no problems with Wybrzeże Gdańsk and won 63:27.
Greg Hancock won the seventh round of Individual World Championship. In the capital city of Wales, American was in front of the representative of hosts, Tai Woffinden, Darcy Ward and Krzysztof Kasprzak. Although Hancock won he lost the lead in general classification – he is losing three points to Tai Woffinden. Jarosław Hampel and Krzysztof Kasprzak are having 59 points and they are on seventh and eighth place.
We are just after the emotions connected with the first tournament of Speedway European Championships in Gustrow and it’s already in a week when we will be witnesses of the second round of Individual European Championship. This time the riders will move East, to Togliatti, 985 km from Moscow.
There are only three days left of the first stage of sale of the tickets for the Speedway European Championships tournament in Holsted, Denmark. It is worth to visit the website www.billetten.dk and book a place at Moldow Arena!
