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Do not hesitate to contact us Sign in The FIM is also involved in non-sport activities - tourism or sport-related activities such as women in motorcycling sustainability is linked to both sporting and non-sporting areas as is the educational side we are developing to get the new generation on 2 wheels We inform you about all aspects of the motorcycling world The contest to decide the starting line-up for the 2024 FIM Speedway Grand Prix World Championship Challenge got under way this afternoon with a pair of Qualifying rounds staged at Abensberg in Germany and Debrecen in Hungary   At stake was a place at Pardubice in the Czech Republic on 4 October for the Challenge event that will determine the four riders who will be given an automatic starting place in the 2025 FIM Speedway Grand Prix World Championship (SGP) With four from each Qualifying round going through to Pardubice – where they will be joined by riders who progress via the second set of Qualifying rounds staged this coming Saturday (25 May) in Lonigo in Italy and Žarnovica in Slovakia – competition was intense at both events The action kicked off at Abensberg in Germany in the Wack Hofmeister Speedway Stadium where Denmark’s Rasmus Jensen started his afternoon with victory in the opening Heat race and following the first block of racing he was joined on three points by experienced Australian Max Fricke home hero Kai Huckenbeck and Italy’s Felipe Nicolas Covatti Covatti’s hopes of winning a place behind the tapes at Pardubice ended with retirements in his second and fourth Heats as Poland’s Dominik Kubera took his place in the all-important top four with a victory in his second Heat a three-time national champion who is currently lying eleventh in this year’s SGP series was in fantastic form and the thirty-one-year-old added three more victories to his scorecard His sole defeat came in his fifth and final Heat when he finished second to Kubera but this was easily good enough to secure the top step of the podium and send him to the Czech Republic in October The remaining three transfer positions were fiercely contested Having dropped two points each in their first four Heats Kubera and Fricke – who won an SGP round in 2020 and again in 2022 and was a member of Australia’s victorious team at the 2022 FIM Speedway of Nations – needed to sign off with strong performances and all three rose to the occasion booking their places in Pardubice with wins in the fifth block Tying one point behind Huckenbeck on thirteen the trio then contested a Run-Off to decide the podium places with Jensen emerging on top from Kubera and Fricke the Perényi Pál Salakmotor Stadion in Debrecen was the scene of a titanic battle – although the winner in Hungary was clear-cut with Poland’s Przemyslaw Pawlicki producing an identical scorecard to Huckenbeck After sweeping to victory in his first four Heats the thirty-two-year-old – who made his SGP debut all the way back in 2010 – was second in his final race of the afternoon but his accumulated points were sufficient to place him on the top step of the podium and send him to Pardubice Getting his afternoon under way with a pair of second-placed finishes thirty-nine-year-old Brazilian-born Swede Antonio Lindbäck – who has scored twelve podiums including three victories in an SGP career stretching back to 2004 – then put together a run of three successive wins to claim second overall but behind him it was too close to call with three riders locked together on twelve points following the fifth Heat With the final two Qualifying positions on the line Kacper Woryna from Poland and dynamic Dane Frederik Jakobsen took their places behind the tapes for the deciding Run-Off made no mistake to take the chequered flag in front for third overall with Woryna edging out Jakobsen for the final place in the Czech Republic in early autumn  Focus now switches to Lonigo and Žarnovica in five days’ time where the line-up for the FIM Speedway Grand Prix World Championship Challenge will be finalised You can watch the action live from Lonigo and Žarnovica on www.FIM-MOTO.TV German star Kai Huckenbeck took a giant step closer to guaranteeing his place in the 2025 Speedway GP series after qualifying for the FIM SGP Challenge on Monday. Huckenbeck triumphed in the SGP qualifier at German track Abensberg on 14 points to seal his spot in the FIM SGP Challenge in Pardubice on Friday, October 4. The top four riders there are guaranteed places in the 2025 Speedway GP series as 16 riders compete on the opening night of the Czech city’s famous Golden Helmet weekend. Huckenbeck was joined in making the cut by fellow SGP newcomer Dominik Kubera, Speedway GP first reserve Max Fricke and former Danish champion Rasmus Jensen, who all made it through on 13 points, with Jensen winning a run-off for second place in the meeting ahead of Kubera, who took third spot, with Fricke in fourth place. It was heartbreak for Great Britain star Tom Brennan, who just missed the cut on 10 points, with former SGP stars Kim Nilsson and Martin Smolinski also falling short on nine apiece. Former FIM SGP Challenge winner Przemyslaw Pawlicki has the chance to regain his place in the Speedway GP series for the first time since 2018 after winning the qualifier at Hungarian track Debrecen on 14 points. Swedish star Antonio Lindback, who has featured in 110 Speedway GP rounds, is also in the running for an SGP return after sealing second place on 13.  There was a run-off for the final two qualification places after three riders tied on 12 points. The decider was won by Latvian ace Andzejs Lebedevs, while Poland’s Kacper Woryna finished second to claim the last qualification spot, with Danish star Frederik Jakobsen the rider who missed out. Double Swedish champion Jacob Thorssell exited the qualifiers on 11 points, with Ukrainian racer Stanislav Melnychuk falling short on nine. The remaining two Speedway GP qualifiers will take place at Slovak circuit Zarnovica and Italian venue Lonigo this Saturday. FIM SGP CHALLENGE LINE-UP SO FAR: Kai Huckenbeck (Germany), Rasmus Jensen (Denmark), Dominik Kubera (Poland), Max Fricke (Australia), Przemyslaw Pawlicki (Poland), Antonio Lindback (Sweden), Andzejs Lebedevs (Latvia), Kacper Woryna (Poland), plus eight more TBC. ABENSBERG SCORES: 1. Kai Huckenbeck 14, 2. Rasmus Jensen 13+3, 3. Dominik Kubera 13+2, 4. Max Fricke 13+1, 5. Tom Brennan 10, 6. Kim Nilsson 9, 7. Martin Smolinski 9, 8. Jesse Mustonen 8, 9. Leon Flint 8, 10. Nicolas Covatti 5, 11. Glenn Moi 5, 12. Daniel Klima 4, 13. Valentin Grobauer 4, 14. Andriy Rozaluk 3, 15. Mathieu Tresarrieu 1, 16. Julian Kuny 0, 17. Sandro Wassermann 0. DEBRECEN SCORES: 1. Przemyslaw Pawlicki 14, 2. Antonio Lindback 13, 3. Andzejs Lebedevs 12+3, 4. Kacper Woryna 12+2, 5. Frederik Jakobsen 12+1, 6. Jacob Thorssell 11, 7. Stanislav Melnychuk 9, 8. Benjamin Basso 8, 9. Rohan Tungate 6, 10. Adam Ellis 6, 11. Gino Manzares 6, 12. Jan Macek 4, 13. Marius Hillebrand 3, 14. Norbert Magosi 3, 15. Denis Stojs 1, 16. Roland Kovacs 0, 17. Richard Fuzesi 0. EKSTRALIGA | VACULIK LEADS GORZOW TO DERBY DELIGHT ZMARZLIK LANDS MAXIMUM POINTS IN LANDSHUT AFTER SPEEDWAY GP & SPRINT DOUBLE ZMARZLIK TAKES SPEEDWAY GP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP LEAD AFTER WINNING LANDSHUT SPRINT RACE Leonhard Salleck inherited Kuchlbauer, his family’s wheat beer operation in Abensberg, Germany, but he was no ordinary brewer. He had the temperament of an artist, and it was his lifelong dream to add an artistic observation tower to the grounds of his brewery.  Setting out to make this dream a reality, the brewer approached Friedensreich Hundertwasser, an artist and architect who famously disliked straight lines and was known for his bizarre, free-flowing organic structures. In the late 1990s he began building a tower the likes of which Lower Bavaria had never seen. The whimsical structure looks like a tall robot with a golden head and many colorful appendages sprouting from its body. It stands at 115 feet tall (half of what Hundertwasser and Salleck originally wanted it to be, but the local authorities forbid any tower to be taller than the town church). The tower opened to the public in 2010, after 10 years of planning and construction. The "onion dome," a golden ball at the top of the tower, is one of Hundertwasser’s trademarks. The interior of this bright ball is blue and decorated with colorful mosaics, which can also be found in the tower’s cellar. Each of the oddly shaped rooms within the tower is dedicated to a key ingredient of beer and the brewing process. The different chambers are filled with stained glasswork and bright art displays that tie in with the ingredient being highlighted.  According to local myth, the wheat beer Kuchlbauer is known for is brewed by Weissbier dwarves, and the tower includes a home for these mythical dwarves, a grotto with an installation of animated dwarf statues demonstrating what they do best. The artistic beer tower is also home the largest collection of wheat beer glasses in the world, with around 4,200 on display.   Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings. Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public. Named for the Yoruba word for Lagos, this craft brewery draws on European beer-making and West African palm wine-fermenting techniques. Locally known as the "Onion” and the "Egg Beater,” Casper’s most recognizable buildings are beloved local landmarks to many, and eyesores to others. This unassuimng grain elevator, commonly confused for a smokestack, helped inspire the modern architecture movement. This small stone building, the final work of a renowned artist, offers a peaceful environment with radiant, colorful glass windows . Visitors to this museum will find architectural oddities, an art gallery, and an unlikely bird sanctuary. Though it may look like it’s missing its outer shell, this skeletal cast-iron tower was built to withstand wind and waves. Kuchlbauer's BierweltThe "world of beer" on the grounds of the Kuchlbauer Brewery in Abensberg like a craggy 115ft tower topped with a 32ft-wide gold-plated observation ball that weighs 26,455lbs Kuchlbauer's BierweltThe view from the golden orb is so great you can see the entire (beer) world from its gilded confines Kuchlbauer's BierweltBeer garden and golden-tipped phallus aside a visit to Bierwelt includes a tour of the Kuchlbauer Brewery itself like this wall constructed from actual beer bottles Kuchlbauer's BierweltThe architectural vision of Bierwelt is based on some of the architect's drawings after a few beer flights too many Kuchlbauer's BierweltThose pranksters -- they even went so far as to spell "beer garden" wrong Kuchlbauer's BierweltWhich one is the tour guide and which is the tourist Kuchlbauer's BierweltAs you may have discerned from the pics so we're not entirely sure why you'd need the property's shuttle bus existing just as surely as the hangover after your visit Kuchlbauer's BierweltAnd what would a beer theme park be without a gift shop stocked with snoozing beer gnomes atop beds of hops The SF2 of the European U21 Team Speedway Championship was held at Abensberg | Copyright 2025 FIM Europe | Terms of use - Privacy statement | The last time Otto Kneitinger was profiled by the European Judo Union was in 2009 when he was the acting Marketing Director and Vice President though hard to believe as at the time he had many successes under his belt Many will know the Kneitinger name, Otto was the president of TSV Abensburg, a very successful judo club in the German Bundesliga with an enviable roster including Olympic Champions, Lukas Krpalek Ole Bischof as well as a host of Olympic and World medallists The team had special meaning for him as this is his hometown where he took up judo at the age of 12.  Otto’s goal was to improve the media representation of judo by the EJU and tasked himself with the ambition to make it the most successful continent.  The reigns have now been handed over to Stefan who will continue in this family legacy.  the Kneitingers had a history in gastronomy and so naturally this was the original calling for Otto Most of my projects in judo like the management of the TSV Abensberg Team judo quickly caught his interest and has been a focal point of his life ever since.  I was just fascinated by it being an Asian sport with values that felt so mystic and interesting to me as a European or German back in that time it was simply the excitement for the complexity of the sport itself so I stuck to judo. It was simply more exciting and interesting to me.  With more than 30 years with TSV Abensburg Otto has coached and managed some of the best athletes in judo history there are plenty of memorable moments and successes to reflect upon; Otto was given a lifetime achievement award after building the club up to the esteemed name it is today.  During the whole period I was allowed to meet and work with three generations of athletes It was amazing to see how athletes joined the team at a very young age and left the team as Olympic or World Champions or medallists It is hard to highlight a few but there was for sure the team of the 90s that won the first Championships with athletes like Udo Quellmalz; Henry Stöhr; Roland Schell; Helmut Dietz and Marko Spittka a special time after the fall of the German wall.The next generation became more international with Nigel Donohue; Danny Kingston; Cedric Taymans; Nuno Delgado; Pedro Soares; Alexej Budolin; Bertalan Haijtos; Mark Huizinga; Ludwig Paischer; Patrick Reiter; Oscar Penas; Indrek Pertelson; Sugoi Uriarte; Miklos Ungvari; Kiyoshi Uematsu; Sjeva Zejlonis; Jimmy Pedro; Ernesto Perez; Joao Pina; Joao Neto; Daniel Lascau and Axel Lobenstein Most of them are still active in judo as coaches or managers With a roster like that and the relationships built over a career it would be impossible to say that practising judo and interacting in the international community wouldn’t have an impact on someone.  I taught me to respect everyone and to never underestimate the people you are confronted with It also helped me to process losses or setbacks in a better way and to get back on my feet after literally falling You can only improve if you work on your own weaknesses and never blame others for your mistakes or problems All basics I learned and took from my own judo sensei who was the founder of the TSV Abensberg Judo club in 1963 He told me to never criticise others if you are not ready to take responsibilities I was always a quite straight forward person making my thoughts and opinions clear So I had no other choice and took over the club at the age of 24.   who was an athlete prior to becoming involved in the Ippon Shop and Ippon Gear which is not self-evident in the recent world who always supported me in any project I started and had in mind and then I have three sons I am very proud of. The oldest Sebastian just overtook our hotel and will continue the family history in the gastronomy Stefan shares the same passion for judo like I have my company I started to distribute adidas for almost 15 years we decided to stop with adidas and to launch our own IJF approved Judo brand IPPON GEAR together I fully handed over the company to Stefan last year and enjoy my time focusing on exciting new projects who has many passions and since handing over the companies to his sons I love to be able to spend more time with my family my kids and my grandchildren and friends. Of course After I handed over the TSV Abensberg club management to younger people my lifetime friend Sergey Soloveychik called and asked me to come back to the EJU and to help and advise on some projects for the development of judo in Europe It’s a great honour for me to get this opportunity and of course The EJU was always like a family to me and I am excited to work on a few projects with my EJU friends in the near future I am involved in a great project in Africa as well as improvements of life quality in Africa We are basically creating jobs with conditions respecting human rights and salaries so people can provide food and money to their own families Otto continuously points out the values of judo how these principles piqued his interest and can now state how they have helped us this year tackling a worldwide pandemic.  I think it was mostly the discipline we learn from judo A judoka has to be able to adapt to uncertain and uncomfortable situations you just have to be ready and willing to adjust I think that’s part of every judoka’s life and that helped for sure to handle this pandemic with the necessary self-discipline Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker The fight for a coveted place behind the tapes at the 2025 FIM Speedway Grand Prix World Championship (SGP) gets under way in just a few days’ time when a series of Qualifying rounds are staged in Abensberg in Germany and Debrecen in Hungary this coming Monday (20 May) and in Lonigo in Italy and Žarnovica in Slovakia the following Saturday (25 May)   A total of seventy-two competitors will line up across the four events with the top four riders from each transferring to the FIM Speedway Grand Prix World Championship Challenge event at Pardubice in the Czech Republic on 4 October   In the event of no Czech riders progressing via the Qualifying rounds only the top three finishers from Žarnovica will go through and the final place at the Challenge will be filled by a Czech wild card The top four riders in Pardubice – increased from three in 2023 – will earn their places among the elite riders in the 2025 SGP series   With only the top six from this year’s SGP series gaining a guaranteed automatic place in the 2025 line-up the Challenge has once again attracted a high-class entry with a number of current SGP stars who view the event as additional insurance for the following season opting to compete   Winner of the Challenge in 2023 that was held in Gislaved in Sweden Australia’s Jason Doyle is currently leading the 2024 SGP standings after two rounds with Slovakian Martin Vaculik and Poland’s Szymon Wozniak – who completed the Challenge podium last year – both holding down positions inside the top ten   Among the 2024 SGP riders taking to the shale on Monday is Andzejs Lebedevs who has so far achieved a season-best finish of twelfth which came at the second round of the championship in Warsaw in Poland in the middle of May The Latvian will contest the qualifying round in Debrecen where riders he will line up against include Frederik Jakobsen from Denmark Sweden’s Jacob Thorssell and Polish racer Przemyslaw Pawlicki who all made it through to last year’s Challenge event before being eliminated   The Qualifying rounds are always a truly international occasion and this year’s entry for Debrecen alone features competitors from three continents and thirteen different nations Monday’s action kicks off in the Wack Hofmeister Speedway Stadium with the first Heat scheduled for 14:00 local time Racing in the Perényi Pál Salakmotor Stadion in Debrecen is scheduled to start at 16:00 local time You can watch the action live from Abensberg, Lonigo and Žarnovica on FIM-MOTO.TV. 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Sign up for our daily Newsletter and stay up to date with all the latest news You are receiving this pop-up because this is the first time you are visiting our site You are using software which is blocking our advertisements (adblocker) we are relying on revenues from our banners So please disable your adblocker and reload the page to continue using this site.Thanks they were frequently talked about in and around Abensberg: the foil that is used more and more by asparagus growers And that would become part of the surrounding nature according to the reproaches that have reached the Abensberger city council At the annual general meeting of the Abensberger producer community it was not just chairman Martin Neumeyer who addressed this topic Specialist Simon Schumacher of the Association of Southern German asparagus and strawberry farmers (VSSE) emphasized that it is with good reason that about 90 percent of the asparagus acreage in Germany is covered with foil no harmful substances can be transferred to the vegetables after which these can be removed from the fields without leaving any residues Schumacher's conclusion: Foil cultivation is more environmentally friendly than the import of foreign asparagus FreshPublishers © 2005-2025 HortiDaily.com The qualification process for the 2024 FIM Speedway Grand Prix meetings kick off this coming weekend with a total of sixty-four hopefuls preparing to fight it out in four countries for the three places available in the 2024 SGP line-up FOLLOW IT LIVE Getting under way on Saturday 27 May with events in Slovakia and Italy this first round of races concludes on Monday 29 May in Germany and Hungary The top four finishers from each will then go through to the Challenge event in Sweden on Saturday 19 August where the three riders moving up next year to the elite SGP division will be decided   Zarnovica in Slovakia will get the ball rolling with an afternoon programme followed by evening action at Lonigo in northern Italy before the final eight qualifiers are decided two days later at Abensberg in Germany and Debrecen in Hungary In the event of no Swedes making the cut for the Challenge event only the first three from Debrecen will progress and a Swedish wild card will be brought in to make up the sixteen riders but this is an unlikely scenario given the talent lining up this year from Sweden   Last season’s promoted riders are already making an impact in the SGP ranks – in particular Australia’s Jack Holder and British rider Dan Bewley With two rounds down Bewley has carded a pair of seventh-place finishes but Holder is showing even more impressive form and last time out in Warsaw in the middle of May he ended the night on the second step of the podium   It is too tough a call to start making predictions at this stage and each one of the four entry lists shows great strength in depth but we have already seen a number of competitors in action in the FIM Long Track World Championship Lukas Fienhage was in fine form at Herxheim in mid-May as he powered to third and he will contest the Slovakian event   Germany’s Martin Smolinski won the FIM Long Track World Championship in 2018 and he was blisteringly fast at Herxheim winning his first four heats before he suffered the heartbreak of a sparkplug failure in the Final but will face a stiff challenge against riders of the calibre of Britain’s Chris ‘Bomber’ Harris   Last season Michael Jepsen Jensen came within a few positions of promotion to the sport’s top-flight and the Dane will kick off his challenge at Debrecen   A number of current SGP riders will also contest the Qualifiers – including 2017 World Champion Jason Doyle from Australia who will start in Germany – in case they do not achieve automatic qualification for next year by finishing in the SGP top-six this season The police say officers are still searching the area Police in Lower Bavaria said Wednesday that two people have been arrested in the wake of the shooting, which occurred shortly after 6 p.m. (1600 GMT). 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Zhao becomes China’s first World Snooker champion Rain forces Sunrisers Hyderabad out of IPL playoff race Zilla spinosa: Desert survivor thrives in Saudi reserve Download our app © Al Nisr Publishing LLC 2025 Bavarian minister president and CSU leader Horst Seehofer speaking in Abensberg In what proved to be a debate that at times lacked much by way of engaging conflict between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her opponent in the upcoming election One was Merkel making clear her position on introducing a new road tax -- she categorically stated she had no plans to do so His reasoning, as he explained at the Gillamoos folk festival in the Bavarian town of Abensberg on Monday, is that if the federal government wants to avoid both further debt and raising taxes, then the national problem of transportation  infrastructure can only be solved with such a charge foreigners would pay a levy that German drivers would already have covered in their current car tax This model would thus pay for the country's road network His position has caused some controversy -- but while Seehofer was insistent that the disagreement would not hurt the relationship between the CDU and the CSU he has also faced criticism over his stance Seehofer -- the Bavarian governor -- said of his relationship with Merkel: "We work very well together and that will also be the case with the (road) tax don't worry." He called the chancellor after the debate to make clear he was not seeking an open dispute and later dismissed the conflicting positions as "trivialities" and said he was "very relaxed." told TV station ZDF on Monday: "The German car driver is already the nation's cash cow But it's not only fellow politicians who have questioned the approach of Seehofer and his party The CSU's election slogans have included: "If you pay road charges in Austria then travelers from abroad should also pay road charges here." Critics accuse the CSU of stoking anti-foreign sentiment with the proposal a member of the Social Democrats who is Seehofer's main challenger in Bavarian state elections which are scheduled for one week before the national vote described the road tax as "lies and deception" that are incompatible with European Union law "The CSU has fallen back into clownish populism when it comes to adding at least a touch of anti-foreign sentiment" to the campaign SPIEGEL unfavorably accused the CSU as using only slightly less offensive rhetoric than the extremist National Democratic Party (NPD) which has a new campaign poster that reads "Money for Oma rather than Sinti and Roma," Oma being the German word for granny It is proving once again these days that you need neither to violate the law nor the German language to express skepticism about foreigners," the editorial reads recently spoke of 'boundless parasitism' in reference to the wave of immigration to Germany in recent months by Roma from Southeastern Europe takes a slight detour to offer a similar type of sentiment through its transport policies." die schönsten Hütten und inspirierende Geschichten aus der Bergwelt handgefertigt und mit Liebe ausgesucht: hochwertiges Handwerk aus der Region Servus in Stadt & Land: Über 1.000 Rezepte aus dem Alpenraum was das Leben vor und hinter den Kulissen spannend macht Hier finden Sie alle Informationen zum TV-Programm von ServusTV sowie verpasste Sendungen in der Mediathek und den aktuellen Livestream carpe diem bietet wertvolle Inspirationen rund um Ernährung Wack Hofmeister (li.) mit Martin Smolinski wo 1995 der erste Grand Prix von Deutschland gefahren wurde Im Rahmen eines Vergleichsrennens zwischen einer Auswahl des MSC Abensberg und dem MC Lonigo wurde das Stadion feierlich in «Wack-Hofmeister-Speedway-Stadion» umbenannt Josef «Wack» Hofmeister wurde am 25 Juli 1934 in Abensberg geboren und begann nach Ende des 2 Weltkriegs im Jahr 1949 mit Motorradrennen Anfang der 60er-Jahre war Hofmeister der erste deutsche Bahnsportstar und wurde dreimal in Folge Europameister als es noch keine Weltmeisterschaft auf der Sandbahn gab Viermal fuhr Hofmeister im Speedway-Weltfinale und erreichte 1960 als Zehnter seine beste Platzierung Als sportlicher Programmpunkt lud der MSC Abensberg den befreundeten Club aus dem italienischen Lonigo Dieser entwickelte sich einseitig: Die Abensberger gewannen mit 69:15 Punkten und blieben nur einen Zähler unter Maximum Alle zwölf Vorläufe endeten mit 5:1 für die Gastgeber Lauf konnte Nicolas Vicentin einen zweiten Platz einfahren Ergebnisse Vergleichskampf MSC Abensberg vs Danish star Anders Thomsen took a step closer to regaining his FIM Speedway Grand Prix status after booking his place in the Speedway GP and Speedway European Championship qualifiers at Vojens on Tuesday Denmark’s national qualifier for the SGP and SEC international qualification rounds was won by Andreas Lyager on 13 points tying with 2022 Danish champion Rasmus Jensen before beating him in a run-off for second on the night as both men take their places in the qualifiers Former SGP2 rider Benjamin Basso made the cut on 10 points while Frederik Jakobsen won the fifth and final berth on offer triumphing in a run-off with Kevin Juhl Pedersen and Jonas Seifert-Salk after the trio tied on nine Former Speedway GP regulars Peter Kildemand and Michael Jepsen Jensen both fell short of qualification on eight and seven points respectively It was a tough night for former world No.3 Niels-Kristian Iversen and Jesper Knudsen Basso and Jakobsen will now advance to the Speedway GP qualifiers for the 2025 World Championship which take place in Abensberg (Germany) and Debrecen (Hungary) on May 20 and Lonigo (Italy) and Zarnovica (Slovakia) on May 25.  The top three or four riders in these qualifiers head to the FIM SGP Challenge at Czech track Pardubice on the city’s famous Golden Helmet weekend on October 4 when the top four riders will be guaranteed places in the 2025 Speedway GP series The top five in Vojens will also take their places in the Speedway European Championship qualifiers in early May with the leading riders advancing to the SEC Challenge at Latvian club Daugavpils on May 12 The top five riders there will join this year’s SEC line-up The winner of the SEC series earns automatic qualification for the 2025 Speedway GP World Championship Denmark’s current Speedway GP riders Leon Madsen and Mikkel Michelsen will not contest the SGP qualifiers but both are already certain of places in this season’s SEC field after Michelsen won his third European title in 2023 They are joined in the SEC line-up by fellow automatic qualifiers Janusz Kolodziej and Patryk Dudek of Poland who makes his full-time Speedway GP debut this season Oliver Strümpfel hat 29 Maßkrüge getragen und damit seinen eigenen Weltrekord gebrochen Abensberg - 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