Poole duo, Darcy Ward and Kyzysztof Kasprzak – but for how much longer? Picture: EDDIE GARVEY
Freddie Lindgren, celebrates 10 years at Wolves next year. Picture: JOHN HIPKISS
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their money more wisely but the event is heavily sponsored and subsidised and provides a chance for all the top riders, male and female, to socialise together.
THE European Speedway Championship is set to reach new heights in 2013 with a reported €50,000 prize fund that could tempt the FIM Speedway Grand Prix elite to enter.
Swedish star Andreas Jonsson (below) has confirmed his interest,
while the likes of triple World Champion Nicki Pedersen, 2010 World Champion Tomasz Gollob and Russian racer Emil Sayfutdinov have also been linked with the series. This year’s competition was won by 2013 SGP series first reserve Ales Dryml, who triumphed ahead of Poland’s Robert Miskowiak and Ukrainian racer Andrey Karpov. But next season’s championship has been given a shot in the arm after a Polish company bought the rights to the series and secured a three-year television deal. Jonsson is ready to challenge for the
crown. He told
norrteljetidning.se: “I have accepted verbally. I think the whole set-up is good and they are trying to raise the prize money for riders in the future.
“It is good for both riders and the
entire sport with more exposure on television. But the status of the European Championship is not the same as the World Championship. The SGP series is much bigger; a whole different thing.”
COULD British speedway be about to be blessed with not one but two new purpose-built stadiums in the near future? Progress towards a new home for the Belle Vue Aces is painfully slow but is
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heading towards a conclusion. And now we hear that plans to construct a new stadium at Blunsdon for the Swindon Robins are being re- visited. What a terrific fillip this would be for the sport in the UK.
GRAND Prix star Freddie Lindgren celebrates 10 years at British club Wolverhampton when he stages the Fast Freddie Challenge at Monmore Green on Sunday, March 10. The meeting will be contested over the old World Final format – 16 riders battling over 20 heats, with the top scorer triumphing.
A stellar line-up is expected and some of Lindgren’s SGP rivals could be tempted to the Black Country as they warm up for the New Zealand SGP in Auckland on March 23. Lindgren, who first joined Wolves
towards the end of 2003, said: “We’re working on the line-up and I’m hoping to be able to make some
announcements in the not too distant future.
“I'm very pleased with the timing of the meeting – we just need the weather to behave.
“And I'm hoping some of the other Grand Prix boys – including those who don’t race in England – would like to ride in the meeting and use it as preparation for New Zealand.”
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