 night of action. Current world champion Ty Wovenen took an early setback as he crashed in his opening heat and then struggled to the rest of the night bowing out ahead of the semi-finals. The race for the title once again fell down to the leading protagonists Bartosz Marchlik and Sifudinov and Leon Madsen. The three championship rivals would be joined in the final by former champion Jason Doyle. Madsen in blue and from gate two took the lead exiting turn one while Marchlik in red locked up out of the same turn gifting Sifudinov in yellow. An opportunity to challenge for second down the back straight. The order would remain the same for the fall-ups in the final with Doyle a watching fourth but the day who's still suffering from back and ankle pain it was to be his second GP victory of the year. I'm really really happy about this win tonight. I wanted two biggest events on the calendar from here I think in Warsaw and here today in Cardiff and the atmosphere has been amazing. Thank you. So after the penultimate round of this year's world championship the standings look like this. Poland's Bartosz Marchlik on 118 points leech rushes Emil Sifudinov by seven points with Denmark's Leon Madsen and a further two-pointer drift in third. Sweden's Freddie Lingard is fourth on 98. So for the final round of the season we travel to Torren in Poland. All eyes this weekend we'll be on one local patriot Bartosz Marchlik as the young Polish star looks to become the third homegrown individual world speedway champion. Something that has not been since Julie Judges' Accule in 1973 and the great Tomasz Golub in 2010. Come along good evening it's FAM Speedway Gropery qualifying here at the Marianne Rose Motor Arena in Torren Poland here. The Marianne Rose Arena such a wonderful venue and it really is good to be back here. The final round of the series then a reminder that's tomorrow evening. We're really looking forward to that with the world title to be decided. The silver and the bronze medal and a small matter of the top eight as well which guarantees qualification for next year's world championship. We have one absentee who pulled out after the time qualifying a little bit earlier and that was Emil Sifudinov who has a sickness book. His pit bay behind me a little bit earlier. Emil Sifudinov's pit box behind us now you can see is empty. Emil has packed up and left the stadium because he does have an illness which has made him decide that it's better to sit out qualifying as well here tonight. Robert Lambert is the other absentee he's on world under 21 final duty. Right what about the track conditions here? Kelvin Tatum of course is our expert when he comes to track conditions with the dirtometer as well. A little bit earlier just a few moments ago he was on the track. Let's hear from him now. Marina for the last round of the world championship and of course it's all to race for tomorrow night. We're moments away of course from time qualifying for the final round. One of the major characteristics of this track is it's got steep banking and I'm stood in the middle of the first and second corner right at the top of the banking dirtometer in hand. Have a good dig around here and to be perfectly honest there's a fair amount of grip out here and I have noticed that the guys have been actually running up the banking throughout a free practice in the middle of the track here much firmer although you can dig it away a little bit and then right down on the inside once again we have got a reasonable amount of grip but it is much more difficult to get here. This track has got of course the banking it also tightens up as it comes out of the corners and that's something that you have to be very mindful of. Track preparation going on it's all to race for we have as I said before with just a few moments away before when it really matters when you go up against the clock superb surroundings I tell you what we're going to be in for one terrific showdown tomorrow evening. Yes we are indeed and it is going to be a packed house here tomorrow night as well at the Marion Rose Motor Arena here in Torum. We can't wait for that and we're building it up tonight here in qualifying with this one hour show building up to tomorrow's great occasion. Steve Brandon is our pit reporter this evening. Let's see who's got for us now Steve. Thanks Nigel I'm with the reigning world champion as that rain comes to an end. Ty Woffenton what are you looking for out of qualifying this evening? To be fast. We've been pretty pretty average all year so the speed and engine that I rode here last year hasn't been for a service since last year so I'm hoping that'll stand in like make it better but yeah it's tough I've been struggling with my engines all year and this hasn't been working. You mentioned that about winning last year we're here for the next time in a row. Really hard to defend on a really a good racetrack. Yeah 100% the problem when you come to Torum is everybody loves it and everybody can ride fast here it's not like too much of a technical track you can just hold it wide open pretty slick so yeah everyone enjoys coming here so everyone is good here. Thanks for your time we're not far away from qualifying now but I'll take you back to Nigel and Kelp. Thanks very much indeed Steve. Yes it is almost time for qualifying classification here and this is the way the boys will go out Lingwin, Doryunovsky, Smarshlik, Everson, Dashlik, Laguta, Zagar, Linbak, Madsen, Dudek, Kowace, Woffenton and Madzinski. Agent Madzinski who is a previous winner here in Torum and he's the wild card. No Emel Seidruginov and no Robert Lambert so Emel not feeling well Kelvin? No well the timing of it it's not ideal of course but the business end of it of course is tomorrow we're looking at Freddie Lingwin now going for his run and Freddie's the first one out in the first group. It's not actually been his cup of tea really to use that phrase qualifying but certainly in free practice was looking reasonably good but they have just prepped the track of course and a little bit of water has gone on. This first run may be a bit greasy. Interesting to see the sort of times that they come up with. 14.7 was the quickest time earlier so 15.2 is a slower time but the track has slowed down somewhat and because it's cool and chilly here with that little bit of surface water on there's no question that the track is greasy. Freddie Lingwin is chasing a bronze medal in the world championship. His level on 98 points with Leon Mattson after a pretty rock solid year for Freddie scored 15 in Denmark and 11 in Cardiff in the last two rounds and level with Mattson on 98 as we say and then he is five clear of Martin Vashalik who is in fifth place right now. Yeah that's summary of what's been going on for Freddie. He's battling hard. He's desperate for a medal but it's an outside chance for the Swede of course who won in his home country in Malilla in fine style. That dramatic crash that he was also involved with but 15.1 seconds. I'm expecting that to be beaten knowledge because I sense that he probably hasn't got the track at the right time. Jason Doyle of course a Torren rider for not for much longer. I think he will be moving on because Torren have been relegated out of the extra-league. Didn't see that coming. No they've got a smashing line up but that just hasn't been their year. Jason who actually was languishing down in 13th place earlier on and then ended up being second in free practice but knows this place like the back of his hand. Has had an up and down history at this place because obviously back in 2016 he had that awful accident. Cost of the world title in that particular year. Into the second lap this will be the one that really counts. Tars fresh up on the banking chasing the dirt. They're riding wide because the inside is slick and greasy. Very wide indeed from Doyle. 15 flat that puts him in front of Lingren at this very early stage and as I say Jason well he wants to make the top eight. He's just outside it and he's a proud man. He doesn't want to rely on a wild card and he'll be pushing really hard to finish the season with a big performance tomorrow. There's only one point outside the top eight on 73. Matty Zegar is in eighth place on 74. Then you have Patrick Dudek on 75 so a good round tomorrow for Doyle would probably see him in the top eight at the end of the series. He scored 25 points from the last two rounds. That's a good effort because at times this year he's found it difficult but there's no question that he's pushed on really hard. New team in the pits and that seems to be working well for him. So yeah just a fraction quicker than Lingren but I sense that the track could get a little bit quicker and now I mean you're not ski. Now another rider that really has faded after winning in Tetoro. You've got to say that subsequently in boyans and in card if it hasn't really worked out for him and here in his homeland you've got to believe he rides a Velotswav of course where we had the Grand Prix earlier in August but you're not ski now just getting pushed off and the park is fired up and he's being urged to make his way is he missed or not quite sure a little bit of confusion at the moment but a rider that's on his night is a winner. There's no doubt about that but consistency is his nemesis I would say. Yeah well with Matty Nofsky he has faded as you say Kelv he got 15 in Sweden in Malilla he got 16 in Germany at Tetoro and won the meeting and then only six in boyans and seven in Cardiff. Which is strange. Very strange yeah. We've just got the race director there Phil Morris giving some instructions. There is a problem with the clock. Slightly late here so he's now been given the all-clear he bursts onto the arena fabulous arena when I was doing the track report night it really is quite a pleasure to be here. It's a successive year we've been here. Yeah it's a decade now so yeah it was opened in 09 and of course Golov won the first Grand Prix here with a seven ride maximum in 2010. Wow. Nofsky into his work and he's a lovely rider he's got a super style of course and looking like he's pressing on he's looking for a time yet that's half sensible and that puts him to the top as I say the track is just a little slower than earlier on and I do think that some of the later runners may actually get the track with a bit more grip very consistent two laps nigh on identical terrific stuff. Now switching to a slightly tighter line where they've watered it and because it's chilly it will take a long time to dry there so the outside wide up on the banking there heavily banked here and good fun to ride. Yeah and you have done a few laps around here. Yeah I did a track test here a couple of years ago and I must say it was a real thrill to ride. It tightens up coming out of the corner which can actually catch you out so you've got to turn the bike but that's remarkably consistent there from Younofsky would be pleased with that and at the moment after three runs he's out in front. Younofsky Doyle Lindgren in that order right now. Younofsky with that best slap of 15.002 so he leads Doyle. A reminder the bikes have transponders on in 2019 and the higher up the order you finish in timing then that gives you more priority in terms of picking where you want to ride in the one to 16 you study the gate positions how the track may be and more and more riders are porting to it as the year has gone on. Championship leader seven point lead over him or Saiputinov into the last round will we see the third world champion crown tomorrow night from Poland you will champions whatever's going to happen tomorrow night Saiputinov from Neon Madsen of course 14 and a half Wow fast just blows that time away and there's no question that Schmarzlik fast in free practice fast in time practice now that is a spectacular time first he's just caught the track spot on in a wet drying out just got tacky enough for him and with that very eye-catching helmet he's wearing for qualifying I must say he's put in a spectacular time. I love how he just throws the bike into the bend and he just makes it look so easy 14.532 he's on a 118 Grand Prix points Saiputinov is on a 109 so the lead is nine. Yeah so there's no question that that is a better time that's the best time of the day yes and that is really impressive our tracks got slower and the track is slower than it was earlier on so it just shows you how I thought he was only seven points in front of him or Saiputinov he's nine points in front of Leon Madsen but we'll reflect on that in a few moments time but there's no doubt that that was a spectacular effort here we see Niels Christian Everson another rider of course it was part of the Torren outfit that got relegated he's going on to past as new and he's actually riding the latest generation of GM engine that he tested earlier today and we'll keep a close eye on of course his time and see what he can produce he knows this place like the back of his hand there's one here in the past of course and knows what it's all about so Niels into 15 flat now we'll put him fourth reasonable time but when you compare Smalslake at that time from Smalslake I think could be very special and you've got a bit of inside information about Niels of course yeah he's on that latest engine it's called the next generation one they've been around a little while but the engine has been supplied and he tested it in Chester Cova this week and decided to give it a run he's now elected to ride high and wide there but the time just beginning to slip away from Niels so he's going to get a best time of a fraction over 15 seconds which as I say puts him into fourth place as we stand just one in front of Freddie Lindgren who will be relegated to fifth so I think again we can reflect on that time by Smalslake you know 14.5 the best time earlier was 14.7 so a good bit faster than anybody else is done so far today yeah Smalslake Yanovsky Doyle Everson and Lindgren is the order so far the one to five and this man Martin Vashalik ready to get out there and keen to get as quick a time as possible yeah for a while he was looking like a medallist this year I must say but just a couple of poor rounds have sent him slipped down into fifth place in the championship and you've got to believe he's well and truly secure for next year but I can say he's the ultimate professional these days and he'll want to finish with a big result here in Torrent tomorrow so that 15 flat absolutely flat second place and there's no doubt that Martin will be pleased with that still half a second slower than Smalslake and when you consider that there was only about a tenth between the top 10 earlier on it just puts in perspective how good that lap was from Smalslake actually we're getting it confirmed now it's a 14.98 nice work lovely job there for Martin Martin on it going great guns bikes that are good tracks actually improving right now yes very much so Martin Vashalik on 88 points yeah right now just to clarify Smalslake 118 Saifudinoff 111 you were right it's seven points kill not what I've got moved down in front of me and Mattson 109 so he is well clear of Freddie Lindgren as well yeah so it's at the front three it's a shootout between those three riders with Mattson winning in Cardiff of course that really has put him back in the picture and there's no doubt that one of those three are going to be world champion tomorrow this man now Martin Vashalik good effort but still over four tenths slower than Smalslake. Martin Laguta scored 20 points here last year and he's going to need a big performance because he's been on the slide and that battle for the top eight is really tight and he's very much in part of that there's no doubt about his position at this stage well you've got the scores there Laguta's on 69 and there's no doubt that Zago on 74 he's got five points to make up so he's going to need a big performance tomorrow because Zago has been in good form since he qualified through the challenge in Goroshan so second squad Martin Laguta. Yeah he was fast earlier on and that's a time I'm going to say all of a sudden this track's coming to a nudge and it could just well be that that inside line the shorter way it's got drier and Laguta's exploiting that with two 14 sevenths back to back second place from him just two tenths slower than Smalslake but Smalslake's time still holds strong but Artem likes this place this sort of conditions if he's got his trapping hand on tomorrow he's going to be well and truly amongst the points he's desperate he's desperate to be a concrete rider in 2020. Yep well of course it's his time of year where meetings are held about the Wildcard picks for next year's series which four will get it good effort we can we can only assume that by the way Laguta second spot now with that 14 good effort. We can only assume that of course that world champions Ty Woffin and Jason Doyle if Doyle doesn't make the top eight should be offered one. Greg Hancock another world champion subject to his circumstances you know it's all speculation at this time of year. It is speculation and there's no doubt that Greg Hancock certainly didn't come to Cardiff two weeks ago to retire far from it he came to probably just remind everybody that he's still out there and he seemed very keen to get on with it. It's a guy who's been good at qualifying this year at times and he can produce a fast time and another rider that's already in the series for next year having qualified through the challenge he's now underway and beginning to whine it on. As I say now the track is dry they're moving back towards the inside this is the lap that really is going to matter. It's holding a tightline. It locks up a little bit there that may just kill a bit of speed that's reflect on the time. Great time, great time 14-6 all of a sudden the track's really coming on strong. Number eight in the first group I think he's been in the right line still you've got to say Smarslik time is spectacular because he did it early on when the track was still wet but no question it's got quicker. Bartos Smarslik with that seven point lead in the world championship what a story it would be for him if he tops the standings in qualifying classification and has first pick then of what number he would like to race at in the one to 16 tomorrow. Yeah. Mate Zegar great effort second place 14.673. Nice time better than he did earlier on so congratulations to him he's done a nice job there and come up with a decent time and every chance of being able to give himself a decent pick for a little bit later on. So Smarslik leads away Zegar second then Laguta Vashalik Yanovsky Doyle Everson and Lingren is the way it looks. Eight of the riders have done their qualifying classification run and we'll be back with some more soon. Hi there welcome back yes our British broadcaster BT Sport have disappeared for a commercial break but we're still here along with a few others of course yeah we're still here and reflecting on what a wonderful run for Bartos Smarslik. Yeah that was a bit special wasn't it he you know he was out fairly early on and the track was still a little bit greasy but he somehow produced that 14.5 second lap so that tops the charts good effort from Zegar of course coming out in eighth place but the track had dried by then so I think you got to say that Smarslik's time was a bit spectacular. Superb and look how he rides the bike he just gets drives coming out of that banking doesn't he. Now he he elected to go narrow you can see the tracks just listening there a bit but he gets that drive there and somehow gets the bike hooked up and that was hugely important and as I say he then produces this stunning time which is the best time of the day not just in time qualifying when you factor in free practice as well when the track was fresher and of course that 14.5 seconds because the next ones are considerably slower so he did just extract one special lap with the tar being brand new you know that's six tenths slower the next time out so you know fair play to him he just got it spot on. Yeah very much so riding the bike beautifully Matizegar Artem Laguta looking superb riders around the top eight Matizegar under no pressure whatsoever he's a Grand Prix rider next year. Yeah and as a consequence he's been making finals for fun you know and he we're seeing the best of Zegar at the back end of the season we're just seeing how could he can be so you know if he can reproduce that at the beginning of next year then who's those who's to say that he can't really push on. Yeah we rejoin broadcasters. Hi there welcome back here to the Marianne Rose Motor Arena in Torren Poland it's the final round of the FIM Grand Prix Speedway series where the world champion will be crowned tomorrow night Silver and Bronze medals will be finalised and then the top eight as well who become automatic qualifiers for next year's SGP series and with Matizegar already qualified for next year by virtue of his performance in the Grand Prix challenge he's in the top eight right now so that might just open up the door for other riders shall we say to become a Grand Prix rider next year. Well that's very much the case with Martin Vashalic and Everson or Zegar qualifying there's no question that Anders Thompson who was fifth in the in the challenge. Great performance from Anders. It was and he will have every chance of being a fully fledged Grand Prix rider as well so all those permutations of course will be worked out by the end of tomorrow night. Brilliant well we can hear from the man at the moment Bartos Vashalic he's with Steve Brandon now. Well problems with the sound there we apologise for the problems there but Bartos came really with a smile on his face looking nicely relaxed. Absolutely right because he's looking good he certainly has ridden nicely today of course it's going to be a pressurised situation tomorrow full house in his own country and trying to be world champion for the first time it will be a special moment but I think the experience from last year will certainly stand him in very good state. I'll tell you what let's try this one more time. Second chance. Half we got sound Steve Brandon. Thanks Nigel that was a false start for me so I want to start warning a very impressive very quick lap Bartos. Yeah no bad I feel so very nice but today's only practice yeah and must go to the sleep now and we'll see what will happen tomorrow. Only only practice but very important to put down a marker and make a statement about how quick you can be. Yeah of course I'm very like it the practice and for me so you know the very good feeling and I love you my job and I'm a very time practice because I love it. And if you do finish top you have an idea of you don't have to tell me now but do you have an idea of where you might want to pick what what start position you might want to have. I don't looking for the position and I'm focused for the tomorrow and to really see what happened the last year. Thank you. I think you'll have a pretty good idea to be fair. I don't think there's any doubt about that at all. I think we're going to see well how it lays at the moment with Schmarzlik seven points in front of Seifutinoff who is unfortunately a little poorly tonight. So he's going to say that he isn't going to qualify in the second group so there'll be six runners in the second group. We've got a hope for the best Amal. Yeah he'll be fine tomorrow. He'll be fine tomorrow. Leon Madsen on a hundred and nine who was outstanding in Cardiff when he changed his bike he just then absolutely flew and to win Warsaw and Cardiff in the season is a pretty special in itself and he's in with a realistic chance of being world champion tomorrow with just the nine points back. Well I thought it was a wonderful effort from Leon because there were signs that you know he just sort of a few holes in his performances had appeared. Yeah he was nervous in Voins and Voins was a tricky night. The track was a little bit unpredictable. Not you know the weather that week had been awkward for the track and there were circumstances but there's no doubt that to bounce back after that poor performance in Voins showed some real character by Madsen and as I say he hasn't really put a foot wrong this year and he's giving himself every chance. You know he's going to be fast here. There's no doubt that he rides in Poland and he'll be flying tomorrow that's for sure. Great performance on his return to the Grand Prix series and tomorrow night by the way this place is going to be packed. It's going to be some atmosphere isn't it. Yeah and it's it's a special place to be. It's a fantastic place to finish the series. There's no question about that and with the championship that's going to go down to the wild tomorrow night it is going to be a special place to be. Now let's hear from Hans Nielsen who is the brilliant former rider of course former world champion and Danish team manager. He's with Steve Brandon. Thanks Nigel Hans. I see you're busy up and down the pit lane with Leon and Niels. What sort of advice can you give them in this sort of situation? Well I'm just trying to keep track on you know the times where do they ride you know on what time do they get at which ride you know outside inside and stuff like that and yeah we're just talking about things as well you know some bikes set up and stuff and you know that they know pretty well what they're doing but it's you know nice to have something to you know someone to talk about it as well. Now this wasn't a feature of Speedway Grand Prix in your day but had that been in there it's quite important for riders to be able to put down a sort of psychological marker against some of their rivals in this format. Yeah if they if they enter that yeah but but obviously you know they can use it as well to test their bikes you know you've got two or three bikes and you're not quite sure what are fastest on this particular surface so that's certainly a good thing and being able to read it from the times is really good so and of course yeah you can get an advantage you know if you are fairly quick get a good start position. And I have to ask it as it's not a cheeky question but it's a real question nine points was the difference for you in 1996 you know the situation so for Leon it is doable. Of course and that's you know what I told him straight away you know when you know when we realized you know it was nine points after after the Grand Prix in Cardiff so so yeah it is doable anything can happen on the day obviously a lot of pressure on Smartleague tonight or tomorrow for you know with it with it with the public and everything and the spectators and you know that's what I remember as well from Williams obviously whether that was what did it for me I'm not I'm not sure you know I had a couple of bad starts and a bad bad races but certainly anything can happen on the day and we know that and then obviously I don't know Smartleague's been incredible all the year certainly but this is a totally different situation that he hasn't been in before so look forward to see what's going to happen. Thanks for your honesty hands thank you Nigel Kelvin take it away. Yeah thanks very much Steve hands are as brilliant as a rider he had four world titles but he also had a couple that slipped through his fingers I would suggest but I think Kelv knowing hands as we do and remember him as a rider he would have bought into this big time he did he'd have had a pick crew studying the times studying the race card yeah I can't disagree with that I think that he would have embraced it and gone for it there's no doubt about that. Tony Limbeck out on track now the first runner from the second session it'll be interesting to see how the track is there they've obviously braided and watered the track again so he's done a decent time there on 14.7 and actually he's qualified at times very well but unfortunately for Antonio he hasn't always actually been replicated that sort of performance on a Saturday he's looking unlikely to be part of the series next year which is a shame because he's certainly a colorful character. Yeah it's brilliant he's charismatic and he's uh he's great to watch what he's in terrific form and he's got fourth place there good effort he's gone 14.770 Antonio and a great effort well it's a good effort and he'll have a good pick now this is the man of the moment we've just been discussing Madsen with Hans Nielsen of course and Leon you know he only rides in Poland in the league so he'll know these sort of conditions I think they will fancy I think he'll fancy this I think he's the the underdog effectively now and coming on strong with nine points back we saw got it got very close last year of course between Ty Woffenden and Bartosz Schmarzlik it went down to three points and Woffenden came in with a ten point lead so all sorts of things can happen mistakes the pressure will come to bear on Schmarzlik has been the front runner there's no doubt about it and that's what Hans Nielsen was referring to it's not a position that Bartosz Bartosz has found himself in before so Madsen into his first flying lap he's been very good this year and he's been superb in qualifying at times particularly when he had that ankle injury still covering uh carrying that he's going to have to have surgery after the the season finishes but uh interesting to see what's all the time he produced oh wow what a time what a time Niel Madsen means business doesn't he 14.413 and he leads the timing board now ahead of Bartosz Schmarzlik and Matissega 14.413 that's a spectacular time wonderful I wasn't expecting Schmarzlik's time to get beat nice but Madsen who is uh quite clearly a very determined man and he does he's produced really good times and those three times 14.4 that's spectacular and again he has embraced this right from the word go and he has used it as a complete weekend effort and he likes qualifying well and that puts him in the right frame of mind to race well over the weekend you can quite clearly see the reaction down the tunnel there they are delighted with that what about the crowd for qualifying in Cardiff oh it's huge unbelievable and it was a fabulous turnout and I must say that that was very encouraging people beginning to really come to terms with the new format quite a few here on the upper tier going into turn three as well tonight there is indeed now Patrick Dudek inexplicably has just fallen away his form just disappeared and that's a shame because he's uh he's a spectacular rider on his night and former world number two and you've got to believe that he will want to try and salvage his season with a big big meeting tomorrow night 14.8 well that puts him in sixth um not disgraceful at all but you know he's only scored just six points in the last two rounds and that really is very disappointing indeed and as a consequence of that he is now slipping down he's in seventh place and in danger of slipping out of the top eight and that would be interesting that would be interesting because obviously he is a very fancied and a colourful character and certainly a rider that um well he has graced the Grand Prix with pride and he's a winner totally all the way for the world title to ride in Australia he pushed him and kept the pressure on so um times were reasonable 14.803 as quick as time sixth place out of 11 overall a reminder we only have 14 riders Emil Seifu did off packed his gear away or his pit crew did and Emil has gone back to his hotel to relax and try and get himself ready for tomorrow night with that uh with that boat that he's got and Robert Lambert is in the world under 21 finally part of each uh that's a reasonable excuse for not being here um we'll allow him we'll allow him we'll let him off um when you look at do that just quickly before we go into Colodge started the season on a fire 16, 12, 12 subsequently has not made a double figure 14th from the first three rounds yeah so started well but then confidence bikes whatever it is um the form has slipped away Colodge well he's not going to be a top eight runner probably won't be a Grand Prix rider next year but he has been a Grand Prix winner in Prague and that was he's had a good season one way or another but certainly tetro and voyons were not to his liking and that's really when his season slipped away from him 14.8 seventh place not too bad the forgotten man in many ways before coming back into the series this year yeah of course he won the challenge you know and uh he came into the series and uh he hasn't disgraced it at all it's just he's had a couple of poor performances in the second half of the year and as I say he's gone in the last three Grand Prix's he's only scored three points and unfortunately that just doesn't do it of that puts him sixth in it's good effort so good effort six out of twelve now so he's halfway decent effort he'll want to finish well won't see he'll want to finish well in Poland it might be his last ever Grand Prix could be could be and we hope not anymore no he's not no he's mid thirties but uh that's not uh doesn't mean to say you can't do it but uh this man hasn't had the greatest of years the world champion and uh he um just season on the Grand Prix circuit just hasn't really got going this year came out with a no-slide earlier so I said uh season finished after tomorrow then he said my season finished about four months ago well that typical type typical type obviously the the back injury was um really did make life very difficult for him um but he's going to concentrate on riding just in the extra leaguer next year says that's going to give him more opportunity to keep himself in great shape we've been trying to talk him into riding in England yeah we have it seems to have fallen on deaf ears at the moment but we'll have another go tomorrow we'll see how we get on with that I don't I don't know if we're going to be successful I think it's a long shot myself but no um hasn't been this year but uh he's too good to um fade away 14.8 does it for Ty that puts him in eighth just just the first couple of laps and uh feels that that's going to be enough yeah so we've got one more rider to come one once ago yeah and then it will be down to the all important picks so um a couple of riders will be pulled out of the hat we've got Adrian Mazinski back in Grand Prix nudge yeah a winner here in Torrent in the uh Grand Prix as a wild card previously and again another rider that that out of sight out of mind in many ways not so much here in Poland of course but on the international stage yeah but he's uh his career has slipped away he won here of course as you rightly say and he's just been re-signed to this club and we'll ride in the um effectively the second tier of Polish Speedway for Torrent and rode for Chester Cove this year and he actually got they want to come back straight away don't they yeah they're gonna will just hold a sign so they're gonna have a very strong team and they're very determined to put themselves back in big-time speed but this club should be I mean the the stadium the infrastructure you know it's a crying shame that they've been relegated but it's a hugely competitive um uh league these days very competitive indeed 14.89th place for Mazinski and be very fast on his day you know and uh has uh five six years ago was probably in his palm and winning part of the World Cup squad of course really was uh very fast indeed but um since that time um uh just dipped a bit but uh an opportunity tomorrow night to sort of put himself back on the international stage ninth place Ager Mazinski 14.838 nine out of 14 and the two riders that aren't here Emil Seifrudinoff reminder is ill and Robert Lambert in part of it's the uh world under final the final round of that um they will just get what's left in a random draw for the last two positions. Yep. Leon Madsen then tops qualifying classification and it is Leon Madsen who will have first pick of where to go in the one to 16 tomorrow night preparations are underway and we'll be back shortly 20 minutes still to go and preparations behind the camera are well underway now to set up the uh picks the riders will step forward and uh make their picks for tomorrow night. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out here because gate one and gate four have worked well here but there's not a big discrepancy between the stats on all four gates so um that makes uh takes the pressure off a little bit um but uh you know uh over the 10 years we've been coming here gate one has proved to be the better one so I would expect to the early guys to go for that. Here's the top man. Madsen again providing a wonderful lap you know I felt that the 14.5 second lap from Smarslik wasn't going to get beat but Madsen well he surprises everybody once again and uh comes up with a stunning run and Leon hopefully is up here he has missed a pick in Cardiff unfortunately he was uh otherwise uh engaged. Talking to someone. He was having a chat. Yeah a little bit unfortunate but uh this time I'd like to think he will be ready to go because he's the first man up and there we see it lap two comes in with at 14.413. Yeah we we assume that Leon have just decided to miss out. No it wasn't the case he was just talking to someone and didn't realize that it was his time to go up. It was just a little bit late but um I think uh they'll make sure that he's ready to go this time and it will be interesting to see what number he goes for. I think that we have seen him go for the number one position when he was carrying that nasty ankle injury when he wanted the freshly prepared track. When you go out after the track prep each time um be interesting to see which way he goes wouldn't be a surprise at all that he goes for two gate one so um but uh we haven't got too much longer to wait. Welcome back here to the Marianne Rose Motor Arena here in Torren, Poland for the final round of the World Speedway Championship. That's tomorrow night. Seven o'clock Polish time. Six o'clock British time. Join us for that. Uh the whole of the Grand Prix is live. The last one of the year. Leon Madsen has topped qualifying classification and he's here. He's just arrived here with a big smile on his face because he missed his picking card because he was having a bit of a chat in the stands. Yeah. So uh he's got a nice little round of applause. Here he is. Yeah. There you go. Congratulations. Well done. Um uh but um but it was a brilliant lap. There's no question about that. It was a stunning lap and it will be interesting to see which way he goes with the pick. Look at that. That is a spectacular view of the stadium. It is a wonderful place to race and there's no doubt that it's a fitting place to have the finale for the season. Yeah. Another strong season. There we see the uh pecking order for the picking of the gates and the numbers for tomorrow. Yep. So uh Madsen leads away a smart slick in second spot then it's Zagar, Laguta, Limbaq and Yanis Kowate in sixth place. So it is Leon Madsen who will go first here. Phil Morris, the FIM, Grand Prix and Speedway of Nations Race Director will conduct the proceedings of course. It's going to be a big night tomorrow. Yeah. Huge. Three of them going for it. Sold out, isn't it? It's sold out and Leon Madsen obviously coming back into the picture three-way chase. We're going to have a new world champion. You can sense the excitement in the town already. I mean the place is flooded with Speedway fans. It loads of British fans that have traveled over here. They have flown in in uh great numbers. So um it's going to be uh an exciting night of course with Bartosz Smalslik having all the pressure. He's the man that uh Saifutinoff and Madsen are hunting down and this man well he has been uh quite a revelation. Here we go. Not too much longer now Nij and he'll be up. So Leon Madsen is first up uh to make his pick. Just just hesitating a little and uh yeah a little bit too keen there I think. Right. Okay first the pick is Leon Madsen the fastest in qualifying and Leon is selecting start position number thirteen. Good luck Leon. Well that will give him two gate ones but it will mean that he goes back to back. He goes back to back in heat four and five. Let's hear from Steve Brandon with Leon Madsen now. Leon that was relatively quick pick of the gate uh had you you decided that before what you were going to do? I had to be quick you know last time I missed the pick so uh I had to be here on time today but yeah I have two reds and uh and uh I have a feeling what Bartek will choose so I'm thinking I have him on my outside we will see. Just a real quick word. How important was it for you to put down that marker and be quickest in qualifying today? It's very important mate you know it's the last round and it's uh it's very important to have two good start position for tomorrow meeting if uh if you want to if you want to win and uh it's the track is very slick so I think start's going to be very crucial. All right Bartek's up next we'll see what he picks thank you. Very interesting reaction. Next to pick is current championship leader Bartosz Mazik. Here he comes and he's gone for number five. That's a popular pick and that gives him two inside gates. Starts and finishes with a red gate and he is with Steve Brandon. Bartek again lightly on you are pretty quick to pick number five and he actually said what he was watching he's going to pick number five what did he know? Because I like it number five. It's just it's easy to say you like it why what what is it going to give you what do you see is that the start number? Because the number five have the two times gate one and maybe I hope so good gate for tomorrow. Start and finish on the inside good luck thank you. And the other thing about number five is the fact that you get nicely spread races as well. Mattie please select your start position number. Mattie Zagar. Good time for Mattie Zagar he's going to go with. Mattie has chosen start position number nine good luck Mattie. Starts in white in heat number three and then has a yellow but finishes finishes with two gate ones here's Steve Brandon. Mattie already in SGP 2020 but how important is it to put down a big finish to the season? Oh yeah it's very important actually because you know it's one one meeting left and we're there thereabouts for top eight and you know I got racing head on and I want to win every meeting so I'm definitely got focus on the victory tomorrow. Number nine for you good luck tomorrow thank you. Yeah well two inside gates to finish with and that's fair play and say thank you nicely. Yeah we're really well there in number 12. Good luck. Big knife for Artem Laguta. 20 points here last year and there's no doubt that Artem needs a big score tomorrow to make sure of the top eight. Antonio. He's going number one here. Starts in red heat number one and he finishes in red and he finishes with red. He's 17 in red so um please select your start position number. Yana selected stop position number 16. Thank you. All right okay two gate fours. Just two gate fours. Okay four has been the second best gate here historically so um I can understand the thinking there. Patrick Budeck from Poland. Patrick Budeck studying the program before stepping up here. Patrick has selected start position number eight. Thank you very much. Two gate twos and again gate two. There isn't a major difference between the gates here. It's very fair. We have an outgoing world champion, Ty Wuffington. Ty please select your start position number. Ty select your start position number 14. Thank you. So number 14 for the world champion that will give him a couple of gate twos so he quite fences that. Starts with gate two and then an inside gate. Yeah. From Poland Adrian please select your start position number. Finished ninth in qualifying classification. Adrian Midsinski. First time he's had this experience of course with time qualifying and then we are just taking a few moments to get to the decision. He's a wild card. He doesn't quite know. I think he's a little bit confused. Here we go. He's going to go number two. Adrian has picked start position number two. Thank you. Two gate number twos. Next along is Slovakia and Martin Vasulik. Please select your start position number. Martin has selected start position number 15. Thank you. It's two gates three so historically that's the poor of the gates. Next along we have Polish rider Masiek Janowski. Please select your start position number. Yeah well we're rapidly running out of positions. Matej Janowski of course wants to finish strongly. Two poor rounds recently where he's failed to really progress as far as he wants. A winner in tetro. A slow start to the year with injury and then got going. I thought his Kevlar's looked different now. I've just realised he's got changed. Yeah so he's an Australian. He's ready to go home. Jason Doyle of course a local here and knows the place well. And he's going to go for Jason has selected start position number 10. He starts on the inside and he's three. Okay but he does get two gate threes. Yep let's hear from Jason Doyle now. He's with Steve. Jason you just said to me who knows it's a little bit of a lottery but you've made a choice. Number 10 on a track you know very well. Yeah mate it doesn't really mean a lot as you're seen in Cardiff with Madsen being last pick and goes and wins it so hopefully I can come from a good couple of gate gates and we'll see what happens tomorrow. I know the track so we'll go from there. Red blue white white yellow in terms of colours and gate starts. Important for you to get off so a good start and get some momentum into the meeting. Exactly mate that's me I am and hopefully score some points get in the semis and then get in the final we're up. And top eight that's the objective at the end of tomorrow night. Massive goal mate tomorrow I don't want a wild card I want to go straight in obviously I do want to get a wild card but we're going on our merit. Great target thank you. Thank you. Yes yeah nice. He's a proud guy you know. Next to the pick we have Danish rider Niels Christian Everson. Niels a selected start position number 11 thank you. Number 11 for Niels but Jason Dahl quite clearly wants to qualify by right. Niels in. He would hurt his pride if he did. It will do there's no question about that. Freddie please. Here he goes with the iPhone with the race card app on his. I presume it's an app. Well he's just looking at the program I think because that's what I can see. But he hasn't got too many to choose from now so. I think that app fills the scorecard in as the meeting goes along because I could do it want to be quite handy if it does. Yeah I'll be. Well I don't see your hand writing. Yeah not great. But no here we go. That's enough of my handwriting. Thank you very much Freddie's chosen start position number six. So that leaves us with six holes that didn't take part which was Robert Lambert 505 and 89 which is Emile Saifudinoff due to illness. I think we're going to have Mick Possaway here the secretary of the meeting to make the draw. And we will make the draw now for the remaining two start positions. Shaking the bag. Mick Possaway then about to do the draw. Position number three we have Robert Lambert. Robert Lambert goes in heat number one. In position number four. In the white helmet. We will have Emile Saifudinoff. Well he will go from the outside gate in the opening race from gate four. And that concludes the draw for the Torren FIM Redline Speedway Grand Prix. He will finish in heat 20 on gate four as well so he'll be hoping that that's a decent draw for him. Here we can see the lineup now. Confirmation then here with Leon Madsen the fastest in qualifying has picked number 13 that's the draw position that you can see across the grid and Bartosz Marslik goes number five. Zegar nine. Laguta 12. Limbak one. Kowace 16. Dudek eight. Woffenden 14. And then we have Mazinski going from number two. Vashulik 15. Yanovsky seven. Doyle 10. Everson 11. Lingren six. And Lambert. Well there's a relatively important person missing there which is Emile Saifudinoff and he will go from number four and as I said before he will start in the opening race from the outside and he will finish in heat 20 from the outside as well so that's got that all done and dusted we've got that done and we can just sort of begin to reflect on what we've seen and what we look forward to tomorrow and exactly right and the excitement that is just 24 hours away um it is a fantastic way to finish the season this have a new world champion we are going to have a new world champion and this arena is fitting for the showdown there's no question about that we see some really good speedway here don't we and of course the Polish fans are very enthusiastic and there'll be plenty of them but there'll also be plenty of Brits here we've seen a lot of British people in the town already getting into the spirit of things so um it will be an international crowd here tomorrow supporting the speedway yeah I know there's one tour company that have brought over 300 fans from Britain which is fantastic plus everyone from the UK who's made their own way over here to Torren our flight this morning was very busy yes full of British fans desperate to see a terrific meeting tomorrow it is going to be packed absolutely packed solid and uh yep it's going to be a great atmosphere Smarshlik 118 Seifutinov 111 they are the standings with one round to go they are and those top three are the ones that are in the shout of being world champion Smarshlik of course in control but Seifutinov just the seven points back no question that he will be very keen obviously not feeling that well this evening but I'm sure he'll be firing on all cylinders tomorrow Leon Madsen with that stunning time in qualifying 14.4 and he's embraced that and there's no doubt that once he's produced a uh good time and then he generally goes very well on a Saturday as well we nearly had a four-time world champion just joining us in Barry Briggs who was just wandering into the studio the momentarily and his son dragged him back yes um uh a slight uh comical moment good to see Brigel here it is indeed yeah looking fit let's hear from Neils Christian Everson now he's with Steve Neils last qualifying for the year done last Grand Prix tomorrow big finish required you need to make some statements about next year yeah we'd be good to uh to have a good good strong finish to to this season and uh you know it's been it's been really inconsistent so far for me this year you know I had some meetings where it's been been pretty good and I had some meetings where where it hasn't been been working so um yeah it would be nice to uh to end on the box tomorrow a great race track to finish the series yeah it's normally a good track here it was a little bit slick here today on the practice but uh but no it's normally produced some really good racing and uh there's a lot of lines and uh and a lot of good show see you tomorrow good luck see you later yeah Neils of course in the series next year anyway so uh no pressure at all for Neils Christian Everson we've enjoyed the last hour we hope you have as well we are back tomorrow it starts seven o'clock polish time six o'clock in the UK it's the final round of the world championship a new world champion will be crowned and we look forward to seeing you then good night good night