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PHOTOGRAPHY BY MITCH FRIEDMAN
VOL. 50 ISSUE 28 JULY 16, 2013
HEROES OF
HOPETOWN
T
he Hopetown Reunion was
held on Saturday in Simi
Valley, California, to celebrate
the legendary Hopetown Grand
Prix. And the list of attendees
was a who's who of motocross
and off-road legends. (From left
to right) Rick Johnson, Roger
DeCoster, Brad Lackey, Crash
Corrigan, Joel Robert, Torsten
Hallman and Ted Lapadakis enjoy the day.
POLAND ADVANCES
olish team leader Jaroslaw
Hampel knows his side faces
a "10 times tougher" task in the
Monster Energy FIM Speedway
World Cup Final after winning
event one in Czestochowa, Poland on Sunday.
The hosts qualified automatically for the final in Prague after topping the rostrum with 48
points.
Australia was second on 34
to qualify for the race off, which
will also be staged in Prague,
on Thursday, July 18. They are
joined by qualifiers Latvia, who
finished third on 27 to knock
2012 bronze medalists Russia
out of the competition after they
totaled 14.
The day very much belonged
to the Poles. Hampel led their
score chart with a fantastic 14
points from five rides. Krzysztof
Kasprzak and Maciej Janowski
PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOHN HIPKISS
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tied on 13 apiece.
The Monster Energy Speedway World Cup moved to Great
Britain on Monday, July 15 when
Event 2, featuring Great Britain,
Denmark, Sweden and the USA,
took place at King's Lynn.
John Hipkiss
Kryzsztof Kasprzak helped lead
the Polish team to victory in the
first event of the Speedway World
Cup on Sunday. He leads Russian
Vladimir Borodulin and Australian
Darcy Ward.
