AUSTRALIAN SOLO CHAMPION BRADY KURTZ FOR A FIM SPEEDWAY GP DEBUT

Australian Solo Champion Brady Kurtz believes this is the perfect time to make his FIM Speedway Grand Prix debut, asking, “If not now, then when?”

Kurtz ended a superb 2024 season by winning the FIM SGP Challenge at Czech venue Pardubice on October 4 to book his place in the Speedway GP line-up for the first time. He also won FIM Speedway of Nations silver with Australia and led British side Belle Vue to their second Rowe Motor Oil Premiership league title in three years. 

The Cowra-born racer has brought his winning ways into 2025, claiming his second Australian Championship on January 8 – nine years after he lifted his first as a relative rookie in 2016.

With Kurtz set to make his PGE Ekstraliga debut with Polish team Wroclaw this season, the 28-year-old’s career has picked up fantastic pace over the past year.

He cannot wait to make his Speedway GP bow and insists now is the perfect time to test himself at the highest level.

“If not now, then when?” he said. “For sure I am in the best form I have ever been in. I think I am in the best position I have been in with my team and my whole life in general. It’s definitely the time when I need to step in there and try and make my chance worth it.

“Hopefully I can be prepared. The season starts in March and the GP doesn’t start until May. Hopefully I can hit the ground running in March, get a little bit of confidence up before the first round and we will see what happens.”

Kurtz admits he has left no stone unturned in his quest to reach peak performance ahead of his full-time SGP debut at the FIM Speedway GP of Germany – Landshut on May 3. 

He said: “The end of 2023 was when things really started going well for me.  Everything has been working, and I feel like I have just been on a roll since then. I just keep working hard and chipping away at it. I am happy things are going well, and I am back on the path I should have been on a few years earlier.

“I would say it’s a combination of a lot of things. I definitely couldn’t put it down to changing one thing and then suddenly I was going well. It didn’t happen overnight – that’s for sure.

“I worked hard in every aspect of not just speedway, but my entire life, to try and put things back on track and be better at everything. I feel like it took a while, but it’s finally all paying off. Hopefully I can stick to my plan, keep working hard and it will keep going well for me.”