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Bewley and Kubera have officially withdrawn from the Manchester GP’s and are replaced by Thomsen and Kvech respectively.

Following on from last week’s debacle over the SON 2 non TV coverage, Richard Coleman of Mayfield Sports has issued a statement which appears in this week’s Speedway Star, out today. There is also a section on the Social media outrage over the meeting. Would he have said anything if a reporter hadn’t contacted him ? Doubtful in my opinion. So thousands of Speedway fans worldwide won’t be able to watch the FIM flagship junior Speedway finals, which we are used to seeing. 3 SGP 2 and the SGP 3 final in 3 weeks. The SGP 3 final in recent years has produced some superb Speedway from the youngsters on their 250cc bikes. If Coleman knew last year that the SON 2 meeting would not be filmed by Mayfield Sports it’s a shame he didn’t have the balls to tell anyone !! I think of the streaming we have currently- BSN, Sweden and Denmark 4 live matches per week and of course Poland where many meetings are on TV, or streamed. One such meeting is this afternoon - the Bronze Helmet produced for the live showing on the Motowizja channel by Sabmar TV. Even the FIM have a streaming channel along with their partner Tapes up TV. So where does that leave the FIM ? I suspect angry and disappointed. There is i would hope time for the powers that be to sort something out for the SGP 2 finals coverage as the 1st final is not until the 10th July.

I reckon they ought to do Saturday’s on Friday’s result - ie the winner 1st pick 2nd 2nd pick etc, however they just do a ballot at the end of Friday’s GP.

Sunday’s matches line-ups Gdansk v Opole start time 3pm UK time Gdansk 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Opole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Swietochlowice v Krakow start time 3pm UK time Swietochlowice 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Krakow 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Gniezno v Daugavpils start time 4pm UK time Gniezno 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Daugavpils 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Sunday’s matches line-ups Rzeszow v Bydgoszcz start time 12pm UK time Rzeszow 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Bydgoszcz 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Rybnik v Krosno start time /.15pm UK time Rybnik 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Krosno 1 Becker 2 Birkemose 3 Doyle 4 Chmiel 5 Musielak 6 R Kowalski 7 Wieszczak 8

Sunday’s matches line-ups Torun v Gorzow start time 4pm UK time Torun 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Gorzow 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Zielona Gora v Lsszno start time 6.30pm UK time Zielona Gora 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Leszno 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Both Belle Vue GP’s confirmed as being on TNT Sports 2 at 6.30pm both nights( 1st race 7pm). qualifying and Sprint on Friday 5th June will be on HBO Max start time 2pm. No qualifying takes place for Saturday’s GP.

Dackarna have signed Andreas Lyager

Sorry didn’t realise Friday was planned.

Go to the SGP 3 on the Friday night in Wroclaw- cracking meeting with the youngsters giving it everything.

All revealed tomorrow.

Round 9 dates and timings announced Thursday 18th June Pila v Lodz start time 5pm UK time Canal + Sport 5 Rzeszow v Poznan start time 7.30pm UK time Canal + Sport 5 Sunday 21st June Ostrow v Krosno start time 12pm UK time Canal + Sport 5 Bydgoszcz v Rybnik start time 2.15pm UK time Canal + Sport 5

Round 9 dates and timings announced Friday 19th June Czestochowa v Leszno start time 5pm UK time Canal + Sport Gorzow v Grudziadz start time 7.30pm UK time Canal + Sport Sunday 21st June Zielona Gora v Wroclaw start time 4pm UK time Canal + Sport Torun v Lublin start time 6.30pm UK time Canal + Sport

Change of dates for 2 Round 11 matches Friday 3rd July now Czestochowa v Zielona Gora Sunday 5th July now Lublin v Gorzow

Round 1 Saturday 2nd January Mildura Round 2 Monday 4th January Gillman Round 3 Thursday 7th January Wodonga Round 4 Saturday 9th January Western Sydney Speedway

2 semi’s on Saturday 20th June Semi 1 Debrecen start time 3pm UK time Semi 2 Plzen start time 2.15pm UK time Final Saturday 5th September Krsko

250cc U 16 Championships 2 Semi’s in Pardubice on Tuesday 16th June - start time 5.15pm UK time - both meetings are running as 1 meeting alternating between the 2 semi’s. Final is in Wroclaw on Friday 19th June start time 6pm UK time.

2 crashes tonight in Sweden which will effect the Extraleague. Kubera broken collar bone Laguta broken wrist

League table after 4 rounds Czestochowa 10 points Zielona Gora 8 Torun 7 Leszno 7 Lublin 6.5 Wroclaw 4 Gorzow 3 Grudziadz 2.5

Today’s R 4 result from Grudziadz Czestochowa 3 Grudziadz 2 Wroclaw 1 Gorzow 0

More right than wrong LOL

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Today’s R 4 result from Leszno Leszno 3 Lublin 2 Torun 1 Zielona Gora 0

Semi in Pardubice on Saturday 6th June. Final is in Grudziadz on Saturday 22nd August Looks like top 2 teams to the final where 2 seeded teams join them.

Friday’s matches line-ups Czestochowa v Wroclaw start time 5pm UK time. Czestochowa 9 Tungate 10 S Szostak 11 Miskowiak 12 M Hansen 13 Lidsey 14 Smigielski 15 Ludwiczak 16 Wroclaw 1 Bech 2 Janowski 3 Kurtz 4 Kowalski 5 Laguta 6 Kowolik 7 Mikolajczyk 8 Lublin v Grudziadz start time 7.30pm UK time. Lublin 9 Vaculik 10 Szymd 11 Woryna 12 Cierniak 13 Zmarzlik 14 Banbor 15 Jaworski 16 Grudziadz 1 Fricke 2 Drabik 3 Miller 4 Tarsenko 5 MJJ 6 Malkiewicz 7 Iwanski-Helt 8