Poland's top division, the Ekstraliga, enters its final weekend of the regular season with Round 14. As usual there are two matches on Friday and two on Sunday.
Five One Racing looks at the Hot Heats for Friday's matches:
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When TRULY.WORK STAL Gorzów host forBET WLOKNIARZ Częstochowa on Friday evening, Heat 8 will see two of the best riders in the world go head-to-head as Polish, Bartosz Zmarzlik (GOR) takes on Danish, Leon Madsen (CZE).
Madsen (pictured) came second in the Scandinavian GP on Saturday despite carrying an injury sustained in his last match in Poland for Częstochowa when they secured a playoff place for 2019. Earlier this year he won the Warsaw GP as well as the SEC Round 2 in Toruń.
Zmarzlik may not repeat his podium spot from 2018, but still has won the Slovenian and Wroclaw GPs, the individual rider competition in the Ekstraliga and in Sweden had had a near perfect season with a heat average of more than 2.8!
This will be a heat worthy of any Grand Prix.
Whilst these two battle it out for three points, behind them two Poles will go at it for the all important third place as 29 year old Pawel Przedpelski (CZE) takes on 20 year old Rafal Karczmarz (GOR).
This year Karczmarz has a much stronger record at home (1.519 P/H), than Przedpelski away (1.091 P/H), which could be advantageous to the young pretender.
But in the three years he has raced in Gorzow as a professional, he has never beaten the older Częstochowa rider in his career! But Friday night seen a change in fortune?
It will only last one minute, but there's a lot at stake as Heat 8 comes off the line - who will win the race within the race?
