What Royal Wedding?!

What Royal wedding?! Maybe I’ve missed something. This weekend’s all about the first Grand Prix of the season! Very nice of Prince William and Kate to give us an extra bank holiday... That’s less time off work needed for this trip!

Joking aside... back to the very important matter in hand. Leszno; First Grand Prix of the year and the first time we’ll see Artem Laguta and Janusz Kolodziej as fully fledged GP riders and a long awaited return for Antonio Lindback. This is a stadium I have been to before, which was last year for Leigh Adams Polish farewell meeting and I’m sure the atmosphere will be electric as always... this is Poland after all!!

Last time I was here Crumpy and Greg Hancock made the final, along with Leigh Adams and Adrian Miedzinzki, but with the standard higher this time, will that be the case again? Two riders sure to do well are fellow countrymen Hampel and Kolodziej. I find it fascinating how their very different riding styles tend to more often than not produce the same end result... Winning. Both these riders will know the track like the back of their hand, so which one will come out on top?!

Will Gollob start the season as he left off? Can Bomber do us Brits proud? Is Emil back to full fitness? How many times can Greg Hancock be seen to be promoting Monster Energy and likewise Jason Crump with Red Bull? When will we have our first spill? And most importantly, how do the burgers fair compared to home?! All these questions need answers... And we will find them out soon enough, let the racing begin!

I Love The Premier League!

I’ve been to a few Premier League meetings so fat this season and have come to the conclusion that I love Speedway’s second tier. It’s great that we are seeing more doubling up riders, meaning more challenging races at this level of racing. Take Charlie Gjedde for example, he’s definitely capable of scoring some serious points this season, Berwick must have thought their birthday’s and Christmases had all come at once. Taking a doubling up role can only be good for the likes of Charlie, more meetings, more points and hopefully better confidence due to bike time.

It’s interesting how riders talk about time on the bike at the start of a season. It must be odd spending half the year on a speedway bike nearly every day, to the other half of the year next to nothing. Putting in the laps at the start of the season can only boost confidence, efficiency and remind the body what it’s got in store for the season!

I’ve taken trips this season to Newport and Somerset already this season and intend to do a few more. I’ve adopted Somerset as my premier league team, due to them having Travis McGowan at number one alongside Cory Gathercole... That’s nearly halfway to creating my perfect team... Shame I had to do two fantasy speedway teams to have them both in my team!