If you are having difficulty finding information about the 19-year-old Russian it maybe because he has more than one name in the Polish media. There he is signed with 2 Speedway League leaders, Wilki Krosno and is called either Witalij, or Vitaly, Kotlar.
Frenchman, Steven Goret, is 19 years old and competes in the French league for Club de Lamothe based in South West France near Bordeaux.
In part 1 we looked at the form of the riders who will be racing in the FOGO FIM U21 World Championships who have been racing in Polands’s Ekstraliga this season. In this article we will look outside the top division at those who have been racing regularly in Poland’s second two divisions and/ or the Elitserien in Sweden.
September is here and that means there is just less than one month to go until the FOGO FIM U21 World Championships. The competition brings together the best juniors from across the world in Pardubice. But not every country has been able to have pro-racing this year. For example, in the UK all leagues were cancelled. However, a number of the U21 riders have been in action in the Polish and Swedish leagues.
Captain, Dominik Kubera, lead Poland to a seventh Team U21 World Championship Gold in a row in Outrup, Denmark on 5 September.
Lukas Fienhage will be 21 years old when he races in Pardubice in October. It will be his second and final FOGO FIM U21 World Championship as he competed in the series in 2017. Three years ago, the German rider had his best results in the final round at Pardubice. That night he won his first two heats beating rivals Dominik Kubera and Alexander Woentin, who he will face again this year.
Alexander Woentin, 20 years old, is from Sweden and grew up near Vetlanda where he rode as a junior. After two years with Swedish champions, Eskilstuna Smederna, he returns this year to his home club.
Born in 2001, Czech rider, Jan Kvech, was just 18 years old at the end of last season when he completed his first series in the FOGO FIM U21 Speedway World Championships. He came an impressive sixth place, the highest placed rider in his year group.
19-year-old Polish rider, Wiktor Lampart had an epic 2019. He raced his first full season as a junior in the Ekstraliga with Motor Lublin, competed in the FOGO FIM U21 World Championship and the won the U21 European Championships in Ukraine.
Polish rider, Dominik Kubera, is already well known in the speedway world, despite the fact that he is still counted as a junior. He will race in his last FOGO FIM Speedway U21 World Championship in October.
The riders registered for the Czech round have been selected by the FIM Speedway U21/Youth Commission upon proposal from their respective Federations.
The FIM, the Promoter One Sport, the Polish Motorcycling Federation (PZM) and the German Motorsport Federation (DMSB) regret to announce the cancellation of the 2020 FOGO FIM Speedway U21 World Championship Final 1 proviously postponed and of the Final 2 originally set to take place on 05 September in Stralsund, Germany.
