Press Release

Speedway European Championship

at Lublin (Poland)

Krzysztof Kasprzak
won the final round
of Speedway Euro-
pean Championship,
which took place in
Lublin. Andrzejs Le-
bedevs became the
new Individual Euro-
pean Champion. Sil-
ver medal for Artem
Laguta, ahead of Va-
clav Milik (photo2).
Andreas Jonsson and
Krzysztof Kasprzak
earned the right to
stay in the cycle.
The first fight of the
day took place bet-
ween Krzysztof Ka-
sprzak and Mateusz Kasprzak, Laguta, Pawlicki and Lebedevs
Szczrepaniak the two
riders fighting for the
right to stay in the cycle. The latter was quite lucky, because Smolinski, going for the 3rd place
at the moment, had a problem; thanks to that, Szczepan earned one point. The second heat
welcomed Lebedevs, Milik and Laguta, all of them fighting for the highest positions in the gene-
ral standing. The fact that they started to ride very close to each other proves that the riders
took the heat seriously Artem Laguta suffered a fall because of that. During the repeated ride,
the Russian had a great start and easily won the heat. Lebedevs spent three laps riding on the
last position, but managed to pass Andrey Kudryashov in the last lap.
The first two series belonged to Artem Laguta and Daniel Jeleniewski. The Russian representa-
tive and the Speed Car Motor Lublin captain were the only unbeated riders after two starts. Ma-
teusz Szczepaniak, on the other hand, turned out to be very slow. Szczepan was at times very
far away from his rivals, and because of that he lost his chance to stay in the cycle for the next
season.
The heat nr 9 was unlucky for Daniel Jeleniewski. The rider coming from Motor lost against Ka-
sprzak and Kudryashov. Andrzej Lebedevs scored his first win in heat 10. The leader passed from
third to first position. Heat 11 witnessed problems with the start tape. Andreas Jonsson blamed
a judge on that, and eventually gave up on riding at the first lap. However, the heat was com-
pleted. After that, the judges decided to repeat the heat. Then, the fans had a chance to wit-
ness a great portion of speedway. Four laps saw a lot of racing taking place among Laguta,
Smolinski and Jonsson. Eventually, it was the German who took second place, the Russian was
third and the Swede fourth.
A dangerous situation took place in heat 13. Krzysztof Kasprzak, who was third, decided to ride
outside in order to overtake Michael Jepsen Jensen. Unfortunately Kasper hit the fence at full
speed. Luckily he was not injured. In heat 15, Andrzejs Lebedevs snatched another victory. He
lost the start again, but at the second corner he passed his rivals on the outside. That allowed
him to defend 4-points lead.
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The last series was a war of ner-
ves between Vaclav Milik and An-
drzejs Lebedevs. Milik made a
huge mistake in heat 18, finished
in third position and Lebedevs
took advantage of it. The Latvian
won heat 20 with huge advan-
tage, winning the European
Championship. In extra race and
grand final, Milik and Laguta had
to fight for the silver medal. The
Czech had to start in race-off.
The Russian was directly promo-
ted to the final.
In race-off, excluding Milik, Krzy-
sztof Kasprzak and Przemysaw
Pawlicki fought for remaining in
the cycle for next season. Miliks
promotion to the final allowed him to stand in the duel against Laguta. In the first corner Milik
hit Pawlicki: both of them crashed and stood up fast. Unfortunately for the Czech, the referee
decided to exclude him. Laguta needed only one point for the silver. In the repeated heat, Pa-
wlicki won and passed to the final without problems. Kasprzak was second. That meaned that
the two Polish riders had to fight for maintenance in last heat.
Andrzejs Lebedevs, Artiom Laguta, Krzysztof Kasprzak and Przemysaw Pawlicki took part to the
grand final. The gap between Kasprzak and Pawlicki was only 2 points. Finally, Kasprzak won
with huge advantage and secured the start in the Speedway European Championship 2018. The
silver medal in general classification went to Laguta, who was third in last SEC 2017 race.
Full results on FIM Europe website: http://www.fim-europe.eu/events/461

The actual issue of FIM Europe MAG is online and can be downloaded here.

PRESS RELEASE
nr. 289/2017 - October 15th 2017
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Fiammetta La Guidara
FIM Europe Press Officer
Tel + 39 342 9231793
fiammetta.laguidara@fim-europe.com

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