Two new locations will appear on the map of the Speedway Euro Championship series in the upcoming season. Rybnik, Güstrow, Łódź and Pardubice will host the four final rounds of the Individual European Championship 2022. The first round will be held on July 2nd.
SEC is a four-round series of tournaments in which the riders compete for the title of the best speedway rider of the Old Continent and for a permanent place in the FIM Speedway Grand Prix series. Thanks to taking places in TOP 5 of SEC 2021 Mikkel Michelsen, Leon Madsen, Patryk Dudek, Piotr Pawlicki and Daniel Bewley are sure to take part in this year's competition. Other riders will fight for the remaining places during qualifying rounds which will take place on April 30th (Stralsund and Rivne), May 7th (Debrecen) and May 21st (Nagyhalasz). The final qualifying round - SEC Challenge - will be held on June 18th in Krško.
The fight for the title will start in Rybnik. For the fourth time, SEC series will visit the stadium of the local speedway club - ROW. Following up, the riders will appear in Güstrow, where the competition on the short, technical track usually attracts thousands of fans.
- From our side, we didn't have to think long about whether we would host the SEC again. After all, next to the GP, it is the highest predicate in Germany and the cooperation with One Sport has worked great from the beginning. The SEC will be the big highlight in our stadium, next to the classic race at Easter and Whitsun. Apart from that, we are going to concentrate more on youth work and we will only participate in the Speedway Team Cup and the Northern League to promote our juniors – said the head of the MC Guestrow club, Torsten Juern.
The third round of the Individual European Championship will be held in Łódź. For the first time in history, the new stadium, opened in 2018 will host a round of SEC. The Moto Arena can accommodate more than 10,000 viewers and the record holder of the local track is Peter Kildemand. The final round of the Speedway Euro Championship 2022 will be held in Pardubice. The SEC final will be part of the traditional speedway weekend, which will be concluded by Zlatá Prilba - The tournament for the Golden Helmet of the city of Pardubice.
'We have been cooperating with One Sport since they entered the stage of world's speedway. For many years we have organized the Individual Junior World Championships together - always smoothly, with maximum commitment and professionalism. This year will bring many changes. These will also take place in terms of our cooperation. We will "step up" on a higher level. Our club (Zlatá Přilba Pardubice) will take part in organizing the final round of SEC. Thank you for the trust and I strongly believe that this is good news for all speedway fans.' - said the head of the Czech motorcycle federation, Petr Moravec.
This is how the SEC 2022 schedule looks like:
02.07.2022 - Rybnik (Poland)
06.08.2022 - Güstrow (Germany)
03.09.2022 - Łódź (Poland)
23.09.2022 - Pardubice (Czech Republic)
Information about ticket for each round of SEC 2022 will be published in the upcoming weeks.
