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or Torun, if Emil wasn't banned. Just like Czestochowa, Torun have no injury worries, so they too could win the league this year.

The man is still alive, so somebody could simply ask him or anyone close enough who has contact with Arthur Payne or his family. I guess that Peter White is a reliabe enough source of speedway info Down Under and he gives August 28, 1923, as the date of birth for Arthur Payne. See here https://speedwaypast.com/stories/arthur-payne

so what ? They all know that a win is better than a draw and a draw is better than a loss. Each team has a fair chance to progress to the semi-finals. Just go for the win !

not quite, as Denmark won, Czech came second, and GB only sixth, ahead of Norway.

What is the date of birth for Arthur Payne, I have it as 28/8/23, but here it is 30/8/24 ???

Oh yes he has when the race is stopped, unless the incidend had occured on the first corner after the start. Isn't it annoying in so-called 50/50 situations that the ref has to exclude one rider, even though it would be much fairer to put them both back 15m behind and let them take part in the re-run?

16 riders, 20 heats, and possibly a run-off at the end to decide who becomes world champion - this was just like a good old WORLD FINAL !

Number 17 in this meeting, Mario Häusl, is quite an interesting character. His father is German but his mother comes from the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean, and Mario is quite proud of that fact, and usually he wears the national flag of the Seychelles on his kevlars. In the SGP3 though he represents the DMSB and Germany.

Indeed there is not much overtaking tonight, and Chugunov is off-form - and he got the wildcard for the next Grand Prix !

Anything else coming up this season for the Great Britain speedway team? Challenging the Speeway of Nations champions Australia in a one-off test match would be so tempting !

Sure, and I would watch it, too, but the general tv/stream viewing numbers will be very low for a 250cc youth speedway meeting, even if they now call it the SGP3.

But who would really go to see the kids on their 250cc bikes anyway - no many, that's for sure. How many watched it last year? So does this, just because it is now called SGP3, really need worldwide live TV coverage ?

Amsterdam wasn't a temporary track, it was still in regular use since the late 1940's until 1987, and the 2-day World Final was the last ever speedway meeting held at the Olympisch Stadion.

wrong topic what's that to do with speedway?

Incredibly bad luck for Landshut as now Kai Huckenbeck was injured in a crash riding for Brokstedt in a Bundesliga meeting at Stralsund last night. Huckenbeck has reportedly suffered a cracked pelvis and will be out for quite some time. He will definitely miss next week's second leg of the play-offs, and the the GP Challenge in Glasgow, too.

Don't know exactly, but he has picked up an injury in the rain-affected European U19 qualifyer at Zarnovica, even though he finished that meeting in third place with thirteen points and qualified for the Euro final. He has not ridden since and already missed the first leg of the play-offs at home against Krosno.

Good solution. Landshut would have had real problems to get a complete team for tomorrow, now that Blödorn has to ride in Cardiff. Bachhuber, Nilsson and Riss are injured, and both Härtel and Busch would not be available tomorrow. We would be left with Huckenbeck, Bergé, Hansen, Grobauer, and as juniors Mario Niedermaier and Max Troidl.

The re-staging date for Krosno v Landshut is Sunday, August 14, at 5pm UK time

And Martin Malek also had a bad crash last Sunday at Pfarrkirchen. I doubt that he is fit to take his place.

Max Dilger is injured, too, and won't be able to ride. Who are the substitutes?

and now I'd like to see a GREAT BRITAIN vs AUSTRALIA Test match !

The winner at Ostrava was MALCOLM Craven

This "European Championship" at Ostrava certainly was an unofficicial event. It may have been an attempt by the Czechs to revive the pre-war European Championship meetings that were held at Prague in the late 1930's. https://speedwaychampions.yolasite.com/european-champions.php

NORWAY has a good chance to finish third in this meetign and thus qualify for the Euroepan final in Denmark. They won't beat Sweden or GB, but France and Italy look rather weak.

Polish Championship was on the same day, which ruled out their top sixteen riders.