VOL. 50 ISSUE 36 SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
(Left) Jaroslaw Hampel leads Tai
Woffinden and Tomasz Gollob en
route to winning the final at the
Slovanian Speedway Grand Prix on
Saturday night.
(Below) Gollob leads American Greg
Hancock in heat 15 inside the Matije
Gubca Stadium.
GP this year, had never scored
more than six points in Krsko before this event.
So he was delighted to leave
with the win, which could make
a monumental difference in his
search for second overall.
"I didn't feel so good on the
track in the middle of the meeting
after getting a third and a last in
my second and third races," Hampel said. "When I sat in the pits I
thought, 'it's going to happen
again here.' But I've got a good
P71
team and the boys told me I needed to be more focused and that I
could do it. They told me I could
race well and that helped me a lot.
"The last few rounds haven't
been bad, but I've always missed
something in the semi-finals. My
situation with the points isn't as
good as it could have been. But
after the middle of this competition, I knew if I wanted to stay in
this position and have a chance to
get a medal, I needed to do something. After my two bad races, I
was much harder on the track and
that was good."
Hampel refuses to give too
much thought to his position in
the World Championship standings. He is simply determined to
get his head down and score well
at the Rockklassiker Scandina-
