Eight of the game’s prime under-21 groups will compete over an epic 28 heats for the FIM Speedway of Nations – SoN2 title in Manchester on Friday, July 12.
The FIM Crew Speedway Beneath-21 World Championship is staged as a part of the FIM Speedway of Nations – the game’s world group championship for 2024, which takes place at Britain’s Nationwide Speedway Stadium from July 9-13.
Whereas the FIM SoN was changed on the 2023 calendar by the Monster Vitality FIM Speedway World Cup, SoN2 was nonetheless raced in Riga on August 11 as Poland blazed to an unbelievable tenth straight gold medal and their sixteenth total.
Nice Britain was as a result of sit out the 2024 occasion after ending seventh in Riga. However after being seeded into the competitors as host nation, they are going to now be a part of an eight-team subject, expanded from seven in 2023, that includes Poland, Denmark, Latvia, Australia, Germany, Czech Republic and the returning Swedish group, which missed the 2023 competitors after ending seventh in 2022.
With 28 heats and the game’s under-21 world group crown on the road, René Schäfer, FIM race director for SoN2, is anticipating a dramatic evening of motion in Manchester.
He stated: “We checked out all of the completely different choices. With this being an under-21 occasion, the SoN2 riders are the way forward for our sport, and we felt the fitting resolution was to discover a option to permit each group to race and provides these riders the precious expertise of an FIM Speedway World Championships occasion.
“There can be no Semi-Closing or Closing to determine the champions. Each group will race towards the opposite seven nations. The best-scoring group on the finish of it will likely be the world under-21 group champions, and we look ahead to seeing who comes out on prime.”
The FIM has confirmed the FIM Speedway of Nations world rankings forward of the 2024 match, which sees Australia defend the title they received on the final FIM SoN, staged at Danish venue Vojens in 2022.
The FIM SoN rankings correspond to the international locations’ ending positions within the 2022 competitors, with the SoN2 rankings taken from the 2023 occasion in Riga.
