 Well, welcome to the Monster Energy FIM Speedway of Nations Race Off 1 and it is all go here, the fans piling in as you join us in Lanshockville What is expected to be a very exciting Race Off 1? Well, all of the teams in the pit bay is behind us but of course two very familiar faces that you'll know Calvin and Nigel, how you doing Calvin? It's a little chilly It is a little chilly, hopefully it won't get any more rain Certainly at the moment we're all looking like we're going to be going at 7 o'clock We are indeed, now some strong teams here tonight, Nigel Who are you expecting to see go through? I think certainly when you look at Poland they've got an embarrassment of riches when you see the magic crash last night and they're able to bring Patrick Dudek in They're obviously going to be the front runners I think the host nation here in Germany will be powerful, Sweden as well Maybe the Italians, you know, Nico Cavati is a very spectacular rider I would expect the three to be the three that I mentioned first Okay, Calvin agreeing? Yes, you can't really look past Sweden and Poland particularly and the home team with Martin Smilinski, you know, he's going to be fired up It's his local venue, so I'm expecting fireworks from them but it'll be a competitive night Okay, thanks guys, okay, picking up on just a couple of things First of all, Nigel is saying that Patrick Dudek is in tonight Well, yeah, he replaces magic, he had a crash last night and well, we've also got a couple of new riders as well that have been replaced for Ukraine They're replacing rider one and rider two Well actually, I was just wondering over here because I wanted to find our team Sweden team manager Morgan Andersen, but I've lost him somewhere so I'll come back and try and find him in a minute Of course, as you said, we are in the pits here So there are some new rules that come into play for this year The under-21 rider has to go out once So that's going to be some kind of team tactics When's he going to go out? Well, let's just pick back up on what Calvin said as well Calvin talking about the fact that Poland have such a strong team The person that they can bring in as a sub is Patrick Dudek So it is going to be very interesting to see what happens tonight It is Martin Slominski's home track So he knows it well Riders from Sweden like Freddie Linger don't actually know this track at all So there are some riders that have not been here and like Martin know this track very, very well I'll just give you an idea We're just talking about Germany So this is Germany's pit bay All in their uniform there It is very, very, very chilly down here It's a very cold night Mati Zegar asked me if Winter had finished earlier It definitely hasn't finished Okay, so then we've got the Czech Republic Vaclav Milik, you might know him You might have heard of him He's a very strong rider Certainly going to make an impression tonight and then Slovenia as well We were just talking about Mati Zegar So those are some strong riders We've got some Grand Prix riders Some Speedway Grand Prix riders here You heard us talking about Freddie Linger And he's going to make an impact A lot of pressure on him And Patrick, like we said A last minute call-up So it's going to be interesting to see who goes through As you know, seven nations this weekend Seven nations next weekend We'll battle it out And head over to Russia for the final I'm just going to wander background Because everybody was in a riders briefing But there are some team managers Because of course we have our rider one and two And the under-21 as well And then each nation has got a team manager I see him He's got some information in his hands Some paperwork in his hands So before he goes anywhere Morgan, how are you doing? Where do you get that cup from? We can't be talking about fashion when we're live Morgan, how are you doing? Yeah, good, good I try to run a little bit to keep me warm I know, it's kind of freezing here, isn't it? Windy as well, so that's same for everyone All right, ready to race tonight Freddie, you strong man out there Team looking good Yeah, I think so We haven't been on the track They're going to take the cover off now And then we're going to see how it looks like And try to set up the bikes after that Okay, well you said taking the covers off That's because we've had no practice Does that affect you guys much? Because you're a bit of an underdog In terms of not knowing this track As much as say the German team No, but that's four laps And turn left, you know So hopefully we can sort it out somehow But of course the practice would be good But it's nothing we can do anything about And just go out and race Fantastic, thank you That's what you need A team manager that makes it as simple as that Four laps, turn left, it's as easy as that