ROUND 10/SEPTEMBER 7, 2013
MATIJE GUBCA STADIUM/KRSKO, SLOVANIA
SPEEDWAY
P70
WORLD SPEEDWAY GRAND PRIX SERIES
HAMPEL
MOVES UP
Jaroslaw Hampel won the
Slovanian GP and moved to
third in the championship
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY
JOHN HIPKISS
P
olish hotshot Jaroslaw
Hampel knew he needed
to break his Krsko curse
to maintain his World Championship medal challenge after winning the Doodson Slovenian FIM
Speedway Grand Prix on Saturday night.
The Lodz-born rider collected
his third GP win of 2013 after
heading World Championship
leader Tai Woffinden, Tomasz
Gollob and Niels-Kristian Iversen
in the final.
Woffinden is odds on for World
Championship gold after moving to 134 points and extending
his lead to 20 over the injured
Emil Sayfutdinov, who sat out the
Krsko round due to arm and knee
problems.
The Russian is on 114 points,
but Hampel's haul of 16 in Slovenia moved him to 112 points and
he is now firmly in the hunt to add
to the World Championship silver
he bagged in the 2010 series.
Hampel, who has also won the
Buckley Systems New Zealand
GP in Auckland and the Gorzow
