Emil Sayfutdinov became the new European Champion and he won third medal for Russia. Because it is the end the season we would like to invite to have a look at some statistics and curiosities. Do you want to know more? These are Speedway European Championships 2014 essentials!
- Most individual wins had the new European Champion, Emil Sayfutdinov (14)
- Sayfutdinov started 25 times and he never was last. He was excluded because of crash twice.
- The best rider who was riding with a wild card was Niels Kristian Iversen – he scored 10 points
- Grigorij Laguta started in one tournament and he scored more points than Jonas Davidsson, Kenni Larsen and Martin Smolinski in the whole series
- Maksims Bogdanovs started in the whole series as a reserved and was very close to stay in the series. He missed only four points to qualify
- Only one heat of SEC 2014 was won by Martin Smolinski, Kenni Larsen and Adrian Miedziński
- Jonas Davidsson had the same score twice
- The oldest rider of the series was Tomasz Gollob (he is 44 years old)
- The best average has Grigorij Laguta (2,83)
- The worst average from the full – time riders in the series has Kenni Larsen (0,74)
- Last year European Champion, Martin Vaculik was fourth with 41 points
- Two tournaments of SEC were won by Nicki Pedersen (Gustrow and Togliatti)
- Clearly better second part of the season had Jurica Pavlic who scored 31 points in the whole season, 19 in the last two tournaments
- Most points in one tournaments scored Grigorij Laguta (17)
- The only riders who didn’t score any point during this year’s SEC were Kai Huckenbeck (Gustrow) and Artur Czaja (Częstochowa)
- The only rider who started in all last chance heats was Peter Kildemand. What is interesting three times he qualified to the final
- Gold medal of Emil Sayfutdinov is third the most valuable medal in Individual European Championship for Russia
- Peter Kildemand and Nicki Pedersen who won silver and bronze medals increased the achievements of their countries to seven medals
- Poland, with 13 medals, is still the leader of medal classification
- So far Nicki Pedersen is the only rider who scored two medals since the moment when European Championship was refreshed
- Emil Sayfutdinov, Peter Kildemand, Nicki Pedersen, Martin Vaculik and Janusz Kołodziej are sure of riding in SEC 2015
- Adrian Miedziński was excluded the most often (3)
- The highest starting number in SEC 2014 had Kenni Larsen - #313
- After the first round of SEC in Gustrow we had two leaders of general classification. Nicki Pedersen and Janusz Kołodziej scored then 14 points
- Only Grigorij Laguta had the most points while he was winning the tournament. In other cases the winners had worse or the same scores as the best riders
- Jurica Pavlic (in Gustrow) and Martin Smolinski (in Częstochowa) had one tape each
- For the first time in the history there were tournaments in four different countries
- This year’s SEC girls were: Marta, Weronika, Martyna, Marta and Sinem
