Bavarian Posted December 14, 2019 Report Share Posted December 14, 2019 There is an interview with Castagna in this week's Speedway Star, and he promises us "big changes" from 2022 on, when Discovery/Eurosport/OneSport take over the sport at world level. It is anyone's guess as to what they are up to! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobMcCaffery Posted December 14, 2019 Report Share Posted December 14, 2019 39 minutes ago, Bavarian said: There is an interview with Castagna in this week's Speedway Star, and he promises us "big changes" from 2022 on, when Discovery/Eurosport/OneSport take over the sport at world level. It is anyone's guess as to what they are up to! Huge changes in 2022 then total reversal in 2023 when the bills come in? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-s-p Posted December 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2019 16 hours ago, Bavarian said: There is an interview with Castagna in this week's Speedway Star, and he promises us "big changes" from 2022 on, when Discovery/Eurosport/OneSport take over the sport at world level. It is anyone's guess as to what they are up to! Five laps a heat clockwise and a one-off final heat for the title after 16 GP’s around the globe with one on each Ekstraliga track in Poland. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted December 15, 2019 Report Share Posted December 15, 2019 36 minutes ago, f-s-p said: Five laps a heat clockwise and a one-off final heat for the title after 16 GP’s around the globe with one on each Ekstraliga track in Poland. Nah, one will be in Argentina. He won’t let that dream drop 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bavarian Posted December 15, 2019 Report Share Posted December 15, 2019 (edited) 8 hours ago, iris123 said: Nah, one will be in Argentina. He won’t let that dream drop Castagna says he will soon go to Argentina to take a look at a potential new track for SGP there, in the remotest of provinces - Patagonia ! Local speedway enthusiasts, including the former rider Claudio Schmit and current rider Mariano Diaz, had built their own track down there about ten years ago. It is located near a small village called Cervantes, several miles east of the town of General Roca, and about 100km east of the region's major city called Neuquén, which has an urban population of 225,000. The city and surrounding area have a population of more than 340,000 making it the largest in Patagonia. See Wikipedia for more information about the City of Neuquén https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuqu%C3%A9n See Google maps for the exact location of the speedway at Cervantes https://www.google.de/maps/@-38.9760665,-67.7428178,34373m/data=!3m1!1e3 The speedway track at Cervantes (Rio Negro Province) is not much more than a dirt oval track with hardly any facilities, and they have not even held any Argentinean national champioship meetings so far. But since Neuquén has hosted a few FIM Motocross World Championship meetings in recent years, Castagna thinks they might want to host a Speedway Grand Prix there, too. That's why he is travelling there to have talks with local polititians. Another nice trip for Castagna, shortly after he and SGP race director Phil Morris had been in Australia. I quote a short passage of what Castagna said in the Speedway Star interview: " [...] In Australia I have been based in Adelaide for three days. We had meetings there and ran an FIM Oceania training school. Phil Morrris and Leigh Adams ran it. I was just there supervising and having meetings. Soon I am going to Argentina and I will visit a completely new Stadium. I am also visiting Bahia Blanca, but I am going to visit a new track very far from Buenos Aires, which is in a state called Neuquén. They are already staging other FIM World Championships there. I am going to have a meeting with the polititians there looking toward the future. My dream is to have a GP there in 2023 or 2024 [...]" The complete interview with Castagna in this week's SS makes interesting reading. Here is a link to the Rio Negro Speedway facebook page https://www.facebook.com/FOXMOTOSCIPOLLETTI/ And this is a YouTube Video of the speedway track at Cervantes how it was five years ago in 2014. They are currently completely re-building their speedway track, so we will have to wait and see what they come up with. But will we ever see a SGP in Patagonia? With the F.I.M. and Castagna You never know! Edited December 15, 2019 by Bavarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted December 15, 2019 Report Share Posted December 15, 2019 Not really gone into depth on that. Just a quick glance showed what seems to be a problem with local weather during the speedway season and it made me wonder when this MotoX GP is held....3rd of March !!! Which obviously makes sense looking at the weather and looking at the GP season it starts earlier in MotoX and even that was the first one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-s-p Posted December 16, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2019 (edited) On 12/14/2019 at 6:10 PM, Bavarian said: There is an interview with Castagna in this week's Speedway Star, and he promises us "big changes" from 2022 on, when Discovery/Eurosport/OneSport take over the sport at world level. It is anyone's guess as to what they are up to! Damn I need to wait another week as my copy today was for Dec 7th! Still it was interesting to read from this one that FIM went for the money big time. Edited December 16, 2019 by f-s-p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bavarian Posted December 25, 2019 Report Share Posted December 25, 2019 (edited) Seems that THIS is the place in Patagonia, where Armando Castanga feels an SGP could take place in the near future. He is already over in Argentna to talk to some influential people in Bahia Blanca and Neuquen. Lot's of work to do at both places. https://translate.google.de/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lanueva.com%2Fnota%2F2019-12-23-21-27-0-speedway-armando-castagna-se-llevo-una-gran-impresion-tras-conocer-la-nueva-pista and https://translate.google.de/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fneuquendeportes.com%2Fel-referente-maximo-del-speedway-estuvo-en-la-zona%2F Edited December 25, 2019 by Bavarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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