BRITISH SPEEDWAY NOVEMBER 23, 2024

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SLOVENIAN ACE JOINS BRUMMIES

BIRMINGHAM have brought former Grand Prix winner Matej Zagar back into British league racing for the first time since 2022.
Slovenian star Zagar won the league title with Belle Vue the last time he competed in the ROWE Motor Oil Premiership, and he finished fifth in the World Championship standings a decade ago.
After previous UK spells with Trelawny, Reading, Swindon, Eastbourne and then five seasons in Manchester, he now comes into a new-look Brummies team at Perry Barr.

CEO Nigel Tolley said: “One thing that nobody can argue with is that Matej is an enormously talented speedway rider.
“He was a Grand Prix regular for over a decade in total and he won his national championships for 18 successive years – that takes some doing no matter who you are or who you are up against.
“I’ve looked back at his previous scores around Birmingham the last time the club was in the top division and some of them are very eye-catching.
“I think Matej’s experience in the sport could count for a lot for this year’s team and hopefully, he and Tobi (Tobiasz Musielak) will form a solid spearhead.”

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SCUNTHORPE promoter Rob Godfrey says he faced tough decisions over 2025 team building – but believes his side will be stronger next season.
The Scorpions reached the Cab Direct Championship play-offs this year, losing out to Oxford in the semi-finals, with Kyle Howarth, Michael Palm Toft and Nathan Ablitt now departing the club as Steve Worrall and the Kennedy brothers, Zaine and Declan, come in.
Godfrey said: “Anyone who knows me knows I’m very loyal to people, and they all want to come back.

“It was only Kyle who didn’t want to return because he said he wanted a track nearer to home after becoming a new father, so we respected that.
“It was impossible, with the points the team increased by last year, to keep everyone. We had to pull it apart and put something together that we believe is stronger throughout, and I believe we’ve done that with the way we’ve gone.”