Poland’s former world No.2 Patryk Dudek takes his place in the world’s biggest speedway event as wild card for the PZM FIM Speedway GP of Poland – Warsaw at PGE Narodowy on May 17.
Dudek wears the No.16 race jacket as he joins five-time Speedway GP world champion Bartosz Zmarzlik and Dominik Kubera in flying the white and red flag on Poland’s grandest sporting stage.
Torun rider Dudek is this year’s Speedway GP second substitute rider and appeared in two SGP events as a wild card in 2024, scoring 12 points and reaching the semi-finals in both Wroclaw and Torun.
The three-time SGP winner famously finished second in the Speedway GP World Championship in 2017, becoming the first rider to reach the SGP top two in their debut season.
Dudek is a regular member of the Polish national side and has an incredible record in the FIM Speedway World Cup, winning gold on all four of his Final appearances in 2013, 2016, 2017 and 2023. He will hope to extend that to five in Warsaw in 2026, when the FIM SWC Final takes place at PGE Narodowy.
The PZM FIM Warsaw Speedway GP line-up is completed by Tarnow-born track reserves Mateusz Cierniak and Bartlomiej Kowalski. They will take to the shale if any of the main 16 riders are forced out of a race due to injury, illness, a starting offence or other reasons.
Cierniak, who lines up at No.17, was last year’s Warsaw wild card and goes into the event on a high after finishing second to Zmarzlik at the prestigious Golden Helmet event in Opole on Easter Monday, losing out on victory only after a run-off with his Lublin teammate.
Former SGP2 bronze medallist Kowalski, who rides at No.18, is also no stranger to Warsaw, having raced in the 2023 event as a last-minute replacement for the injured Kubera, winning a race and scoring four championship points. He races for Wroclaw in the PGE Ekstraliga.
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