Grigory Laguta finished third in last season tournament for the Individual Championship of Europe. This position meant that the Russian secured the maintenance cycle and 2014 fans again will be able to see it on SEC's tracks. "Grisha" shared with us his insights on past season.
Another two riders, who were part of Speedway European Championships, has signed contracts with Betard Sparta Wroclaw. Last two years Maciej Janowski spent in Unia Tarnow. Now “Magic” decided to come back to the club in which he started his career
Fredrik Lindgren is changing the club in Polish Speedway Extraleague. Last season he was riding in Unia Leszno – in 2014 he will be a rider of Renault Zdunek Wybrzeze Gdansk. Last year his scored were not very successful. His average 1,773 was 29th in ENEA Extraleague (Polish Extraleague). His advantage was a fact that he scored similar number of points in home and away matches.
Tomasz Gollob is another rider after Andreas Jonsson and Emil Sayfutinov, who received and accepted a wild card to compete in Speedway European Championships 2014. Those 3 joined Martin Vaculik, Nicki Pedersen and Grigory Laguta who have secured their start in the next edition of SEC thanks to being in top 3 of general classification last season.
Vice European Champion, Dannish rider Nicki Pedersen changing club in Poland. From Rzeszow transferred to Wielkopolska, where in 2014 will race in the colors of Fogo Unia Leszno. Pedersen last season drove in the team of Rzeszow, Podkarpacie region, however, the teamwas relegated of the ENEA Extraleague.
Hans Andersen decided to extend the contract with Polonia Bydgoszcz. A player from Denmark, so spend 2014 in the Polish first division Polonia Bydgoszcz fighting for promotion to the ENEA Ekstraliga. Andersen signed a contract on Tuesday, as already confirmed by local activists.
Small in size and light in weight, the GoPro can be installed almost anywhere. Thanks to the type of true action camera we have had the opportunity in recent years to watch sports events from a different perspective. However, it was the Individual European Championship series that really enabled us to fully exploit its potential. Amazing footage from the rider’s viewpoint, illustrating how beautiful and spectacular speedway is, whilst balancing on the limit of risk.
Emil Sayfutdinov confirmed today that the new season will race in the colors of Unibax Torun. The Russian did not finish last season due to severe suffering an injury on the track in Torun league match. Sayfutdinov admittedly extended by one year contract with Włókniarz Czestochowa, but due to the backlog, Emil left the club for 1 zł. Sayfutdinow is also a full participant in the SEC next year.
Competition in Croatia has been good for Polish Speedway, and in Gorican wildcard Krzysztof Kasprzak came out on top of the pile, whilst Sebastion Ulamek followed in second place. The final place on the rostrum went to Martin Vaculik who used a battle between Gollob and Kasprzak to move into third position.
Individual European Champion of 2013 years extension his contract in the Polish club. Slovakian rider still be racing in the colors of the Unia Tarnow. Martin Vaculik competes in Tarnow in 2010, when he decided to change the club colors after the relegation of the team from Gdansk.
November 17 officially comes into force provision introduced by the FIM - Europe prohibits competing in the European Championships competitors who are regular participants at Grand Prix. Therefore, the company One Sport has released an official statement which clearly underlines the inconsistency of this record with European law.
Emil Sayfutdinov did not finish last season because of an injury suffered in an accident on the track in Torun. The Russian missed two rounds of the SEC, although he was leading the series. In a very honest post-season interview on his official emilracing.com website, he speaks honestly about all current matters relating to him. Interestingly Sayfutdinov is strongly considering withdrawing from the World Championship series.
