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2025 FIM Speedway GP

Spherical Two – Speedway GP of Poland – Warsaw

The Orlen Oil FIM Speedway GP of Poland in Warsaw noticed Czech champion Jan Kvech win Friday’s Qualifying showdown at PGE Narodowy. The Prague racer triumphed within the Warsaw dash race forward of Aussie ace Brady Kurtz, who collected three championship factors for the second dash on the bounce.

In the primary sport on Saturday evening, nevertheless, it was Kurtz’s countryman Jack Holder who defied his 2023 heartbreak to triumph on the earth’s greatest speedway occasion on Saturday evening.

Holder got here agonisingly near topping the Warsaw podium in 2023, taking a commanding lead within the closing, just for the race to be stopped as a result of a crash, with the Lublin and Sheffield rider pressured to make do with second spot behind Sweden’s Fredrik Lindgren within the rerun.

However Holder took the chequered flag two years on, beating first-time Speedway GP World Championship chief Brady Kurtz within the closing because the pair accomplished an Australian one-two.

Kurtz completed second to maneuver 5 factors away from Poland’s Bartosz Zmarzlik on the high of the standings, with Polish wild card Patryk Dudek taking third place on the evening and his fellow countryman Dominik Kubera fourth.

The evening belonged to Holder, who received 5 of his six races – crushed solely by runner-up Kurtz in his closing warmth. And there’s little question he thrived within the white-hot environment of Warsaw’s PGE Narodowy, as he triumphed in entrance of the game’s greatest crowd.

Jack Holder

“We like these occasions! After all, we like these huge crowds and there’s a roof overhead right here in Warsaw. There isn’t any rain – the roof takes that off your thoughts. It’s additionally one of many greatest crowds and the Polish followers are loopy. It’s an amazing environment. It was a type of nights the place I didn’t change something till the final warmth when Brady beat me. Earlier than my final warmth, I had a extremely very long time as a result of they’d a few crashes. I didn’t contact the bike till I received that second within the final warmth. Then I did one thing to the bike for the ultimate. I took a raffle with the within gate for the ultimate and backed myself. I made the beginning and simply tried to hit each rut as nicely and straight as I might. I might hear folks buzzing round me in all places, however I simply put my head down, tried to not stuff it up and hoped the pink lights didn’t come on. That’s an Aussie one-two – thanks!”

Holder wasn’t the one Aussie celebrating as Kurtz topped the Speedway GP standings on solely his fourth SGP look. Whereas the 2024 FIM SGP Problem winner is aware of he has work to do to remain there with eight rounds remaining, he’s delighted with a superb begin to Speedway GP life.

Brady Kurtz

“It’s wild to suppose that I’m main the entire thing. I’m not going to get carried away with it. It has solely been two rounds, and we now have an extended option to go but. It’s positively the place you wish to be, so it’s a pleasant feeling for positive. I got here into the sequence eager to be world champion – simply as the opposite guys do. I’ve put in loads of work and issues have been going nicely. I’m positive there might be some powerful ones to comply with, and that’s one thing I should navigate when the time comes.”

Third-placed Dudek admits racing as a wild card appears to convey out the most effective in him as he constructed on two semi-final appearances as a No.16 final yr by reaching his first Warsaw podium since 2019.

Patryk Dudek

“Years in the past once I made the rostrum, it was a unique feeling as a result of I used to be racing the entire rounds in Speedway GP. This time, it was only one evening, and I don’t know if I’ll race subsequent time. There wasn’t huge stress for the assembly, so I had huge enjoyable right here. Final yr I had the wild card two occasions, and my outcomes weren’t unhealthy. Possibly I need to race all rounds as a wild card. It will be higher as a result of it isn’t the identical stress as regular.”

Fourth-placed Kubera has endured some nightmare visits to Warsaw in recent times – crashing out of Qualifying with a again harm in 2023 and scoring two factors final yr.

Dominik Kubera

“It was a extremely pleasurable evening for me. I used to be actually blissful to be within the closing at this stadium. It was wonderful. We have been so near being on the rostrum. Earlier than the assembly, if somebody had advised me I’d make the ultimate, I’d have mentioned, ‘sure’ and brought it. I’ve it and 14 factors extra on my board. We’ll combat within the subsequent spherical.”

Subsequent up is the FIM Speedway GP of Czech Republic – Prague on Saturday, Could 31, preceded by FIM Speedway Youth World Championship motion on Friday, Could 30 as the game’s high 250cc, under-16 stars compete within the FIM SGP3 Closing – additionally at Marketa Stadium.

2025 FIM Speedway GP of Poland Outcomes

1. Jack Holder 20
2. Brady Kurtz 18
3. Patryk Dudek 16
4. Dominik Kubera 14
5. Andzejs Lebedevs 12
6. Robert Lambert 11
7. Fredrik Lindgren 10
8. Bartosz Zmarzlik 9
9. Max Fricke 8
10. Anders Thomsen 7
11. Mikkel Michelsen 6
12. Jason Doyle 5
13. Dan Bewley 4
14. Jan Kvech 3
15. Martin Vaculik 2
16. Kai Huckenbeck 1

FIM Speedway GP Standings

Photographs Taylor Lanning