Pardubice will host SEC Challenge 2021. The competition will take place on 22nd of May. 16 riders will fight for five places, which will qualify them to the finals of Speedway Euro Championship 2021. The series will take place in Bydgoszcz (12.06), Güstrow (26.06), Gdansk (03.07) and Rybnik (10.07).
The SEC Challenge 2021 lineup include 2017 Individual Vice World Champion, Patryk Dudek and 2017 Individual European Champion, Andzejs Lebedevs.
Five places in SEC 2021 are reserved for the best riders from last year's competition: Robert Lambert, Leon Madsen, Nicki Pedersen (instead of Grigorij Laguta), Mikkel Michelsen and Bartosz Smektala. The next five places will be taken by the best riders of SEC Challenge 2021. The lineup will be completed by the riders who will receive 'wild cards' from the promotors of the series.
Start list for SEC Challenge 2021:
1. Timo Lahti (Finland)
2. Nicolas Covatti (Italy)
3. Vadim Tarasenko (Russia)
4. Andzejs Lebedevs (Latvia)
5. Oleksandr Loktaev (Ukraine)
6. Patrick Hansen (Denmark)
7. Sergei Logachev (Russia)
8. Jakub Jamróg (Poland)
9. Kai Huckenbeck (Germany)
10. David Bellego (France)
11. Erik Riss (German)
12. Jacob Thorssell (Sweden)
13. Josef Franc (Czech Rep.)
14. Dan Bewley (Great Britain)
15. Pontus Aspgren (Sweden)
16. Patryk Dudek (Poland)
17. Eduard Krcmar (Czech Rep.)
18. Hynek Stichauer (Czech Rep.)
