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Tomasz Gollob - whilst the likes of Zenon Plech and Edward Jancarz have much to do with the emergence of Polish Speedway riders in to the Western World from behind the then Iron Curtain, it was Gollob who set the World scene alight.

He was the one who identified and developed a different riding style of the modern lay downs more than anyone before him and anyone since, turning the bike less but identifying the option of almost riding 2 short straights on the bands to get his wheels in line sooner and riding the optimum lenghts of the actual straights.

Some of those GP's where he would literally vanish off the camera right up against the air fence and reappear with just incredible speed. He was the fulcrum that made Polish Speedway what it is today and carried the development very much on his back.

That he should have to live a life now in constant pain is an abolute tragedy. 

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