virgivaughn: Five reasons to watch Speedway World Cup

Jason Crump

Legend… Jason Crump steams forward of a domain during a Speedway World Cup in 2011.
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The FIM Speedway World Cup kicks off on Sunday. The tellurian Speedway eventuality pits republic opposite republic in an fascinating conflict for supremacy. In 2011, Australia was curtain adult by a barest domain to Poland.

Time
Event
Draw
Sunday
Jul 8
3am EST
Event 1
Poland
Poland
Denmark
Russia
USA
Tuesday
Jul 10
4.30am EST
Event 2
Great Britain
Australia
Britain
Czech Republic
Germany
Friday
Jul 13
3am EST
Race Off
Sweden

Sunday
Jul 15
3am EST
Final
Sweden

Note: Host republic Sweden progresses automatically to a final.
All times LIVE promote times in Australia.

Speedway was invented in Australia, and while we continue to furnish a satisfactory share of stars, it’s Europe where Speedway has unequivocally taken hold.

So to assistance we get in a spirit, we’ve put together a list of 5 reasons we should watch a 2012 book when it kicks off LIVE on SPEED during 3am EST Sunday Jul 8.

1. Aussie Pride
This is an Olympic year and inhabitant sporting honour has never been some-more heightened than right now. The Aussie patrol kicks into movement on Tuesday, racing a Czech Republic, Germany, and a motherland, Great Britain, in a UK. Cheering on Aussies during a rise of their powers, generally when they’re a large possibility to measure bullion is one of a nation’s favourite things.

2. The Best of a Best of a Best (Sir!)
There are few opportunities to see so many greats in movement during any one event. When a FIM Speedway World Cup comes around we can be certain that stars like Nicki Pedersen, reigning champion Greg Hancock and British-bulldog Chris Harris are all going to fire. Throw in Aussie fable Jason Crump – and a balls-out fad of rising stars Chris Holder and Darcy Ward – and we get a really best riders, racing in a really best arena.

3. The Perfect Blend
Speedway racing is ideal for both a short-attention camber of Gen Y, and a “we wish more” Baby Boomers. You get 25, four-lap heats, giving 3 hours of high-intensity movement dense into eatable bite-size pieces. It’s a best of both worlds as a raging four-lap dashes lift your heart rate, and a 25-heat stretch creates certain we go home satisfied.

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4. Close Racing on a Wildest Bikes Around
How many categories can exaggerate four-wide finishes for a winners? Not many. But in Speedway that arrange of thing happens all a time. It’s not full hit – though nobody seems to have told a riders that. These gladiators competition violent 500cc machines, with no brakes, and no gears. All that during around about 150kph bar-to-bar with their foes in a quarrel for inhabitant pride.

5. Emotion
They contend a design is value a 1000 words, so 60 seconds of relocating cinema contingency be value a billion. The fifth and final reason we should watch a FIM Speedway World Cup is best explained with this:

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