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DOYLE WINS STOCKHOLM SPEEDWAY GRAND PRIX
A
ussie racer Jason Doyle
admitted "I can't really com-
prehend what I have achieved
at the moment" after racking up
his third straight FIM Speedway
Grand Prix win in Stockholm to
top the World Championship
standings, September 24.
The Newcastle-born racer
was victorious at the Friends
Arena, leading an Australian 1-2
with Chris Holder. Swedish star
Fredrik Lindgren delighted the
home fans by finishing third,
while Slovenia's Matej Zagar
was fourth.
Doyle went into the meet-
ing trailing series leader Greg
Hancock by five points, but the
30-year-old now has a five-point
advantage of his own going into
the final two rounds in Torun
next Saturday and Melbourne on
October 22.
He said, "To win four SGPs
this year is special. I still have a
long way to go, but to win three
GPs in a row is unbelievable.
"When I had gate one in the
final, I knew I had to stick to the
inside. I knew they were going
to try and go around me and it
would be a pretty desperate first
corner. I stuck to my own plan
and it worked again."
Now Doyle can pursue
more ambitious targets, but he
accepts fending off the triple
World Champion and defending
Champion Tai Woffinden will be
no easy task.
Doyle's red-hot form is whip-
ping up a frenzy in his home-
land, as Melbourne's Etihad Sta-
dium stages the season-closing
Australian SGP—a night which
could see him become the first
Aussie to become world cham-
pion Down Under.
Holder scored just a point in
his opening two rides. So he
was elated to produce a terrific
turnaround and score second
place.
"It was a tough day," Holder
said. "It was really tough in the
beginning. But you have to grind
these results out. If you'd told
me after my second race that I
was going to be second tonight,
I'd have taken it there and then."
Third-placed Lindgren was
over the moon with his first SGP
final and rostrum appearance
of 2016. "I'm really happy to get
back on the podium," he said.
"There is no better place than
to do it in front of your home
crowd."
John Hipkiss
1. Jason Doyle 19
2. Chris Holder 13
3. Fredrik Lindgren 14
4. Matej Zagar 15
5. Bartosz Zmarzlik 12
6. Tai Woffinden 11
7. Piotr Pawlicki 10
8. Greg Hancock 9
9. Maciej Janowski 8
10. Niels-Kristian Iversen 7
Doyle enjoys the spoils of victory.
