17:40 – CHASE IS ON FOR AUSSIE ACE HOLDER
The Edward Jancarz Stadium is a special place for Jack Holder, being the venue where he raced for Stal Gorzow in 2020, a season that saw him make huge strides and put him on course to becoming a future Speedway GP rider. Currently third in the championship standings with a deficit of 18 points, the Aussie bids to close the gap to leader Bartosz Zmarzlik tonight:
“I go well around Gorzow,” Holder said. “Hopefully we can start clawing back some points. We are at the halfway stage now, so I need to put my head down and get what I want.
“If one rider misses out in the semi-final and someone goes through to the final, that’s most of the points back right there. We have six rounds to go, and the fat lady isn’t singing yet.”
Reflecting on the previous GP in Malilla, where he finished fourth, Holder said: “It could have gone either way. After the rain we had just before the meeting, it was quite tricky. I started off with a last place and was covered in mud. But I regrouped and was popping out of the starts.
“It came down to the semi-final. I thought I took the right gate, but Max [Fricke] popped out and that gave me third pick for the final. I made a change for the final, but I didn’t go the right way. I am just really happy to have made another final and bounced back from a bad one at Round 4 in Prague.”
17:35 – WHERE CAN I WATCH THE 2024 SPEEDWAY GRAND PRIX?
Eurosport and discovery+ will show live coverage of every round of 2024 Speedway Grand Prix action.
Every meeting, including qualifying, will be broadcast in full and will be accessible live-on-demand on discovery+ and Eurosport’s digital platforms.
Eurosport.com will provide live coverage, reaction and video highlights of every single meeting.
17:30 – HELLO AND WELCOME
Good evening and thank you for joining our live text coverage of the Speedway Grand Prix of Gorzow. We’re back in Poland for the second time this season and, as always, Gorzow promises to be a highlight. The city itself lives and breathes Speedway while, home to PGE Ekstraliga giants Stal Gorzow, the Edward Jancarz Stadium regularly stages world-class racing. Last year’s stop here came with an epic final that saw Bartosz Zmarzlik win on his boyhood track – can the championship leader repeat that feat today? We’re about to find out!