curtailed after eight races due to an unfit track. This offered proof that JD is ready to mix it with the sport’s top stars again, despite media reports during the winter that his Polish club Zielona Gora had concerns over his rehabilitation efforts. He said: “It’s five months since I crashed in Torun, so if I’m not ready now, I never will be really. “I have worked really hard to get everything back to normal and I have some good people behind me – the same people as last year. I think we can start off where I left off.
“The Zielona Gora people just guessed. I think they were just trying to get answers out of me. By writing in the press that I wasn’t ready and was doing the wrong
Sit back,
things, they were trying to bait me up to say what was really happening.
“I wanted to keep it quiet. I had some really good people behind me – Tim Sheppard from Norwich, who was doing all the physio.
"When I went back to Australia, I had some really good physios there too. I knew it was going to be a long road, but we’re on the bike again and everything seems to be okay.”
FORMER World Champion Chris Holder is still buzzing about his magical Melbourne victory and admitted: “I’ve watched it probably about a thousand times and I still get all excited.” The Sydneysider had gone over four years without an SGP win, but produced one of the performances
BRITISH SPEEDWAY MAJOR EVENTS 2017 SGBP PAIRS: Somerset, March 31: WINNERS: KING’S LYNN BRITISH FINAL: Belle Vue, June 19 SGBC PAIRS: Somerset, July 21 SGBC FOURS: Peterborough, August 6 SGBP RIDERS’ CHAMPIONSHIP: Belle Vue, September 16 SGBC RIDERS’ CHAMPIONSHIP: Glasgow, September 24
OTHER NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP DATES BRITISH UNDER-21 SEMI-FINAL: Peterborough, April 11 BRITISH UNDER-21 FINAL: Poole, April 26
BRITISH SEMI-FINALS: Sheffield, May 4; Newcastle, date TBC
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