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:
The Laguta brothers - Heats 6 and 11 #GRULUB
It is a must win match for visitors SPEEDCAR MOTOR Lublin, who are trying to avoid the seventh place relegation playoff spot. But for MRGARDEN GKM Grudziadz it is just the last match of the season as they cannot get into the postseason this year.
There are several brothers competing in speedway, including Chris and Jack Holder, and Preymslaw and Piotr Pawlicki, David and Wiktor Lampart and Grigorij and Artem Laguta.
Friday's match sees two of these pairings, the Lamparts and the Lagutas in action. But whilst the Lamparts are on the same team, their Lublin teammate, Grigorij Laguta, will race against his brother, Artem, of Grudziadz.
And for the Russian pairing this will be the first time they have fought against each other in the Polish league for nearly 2.5 years due to Grigorij's two year doping suspension.
Both are having a good season on the international circuit. Artem (28 yrs) is currently eighth in the World championship, whilst Grigorij (35 yrs) leads the European competition.
In the Extraliga they both lead their respective teams with impressive heats averages of over 2.1.
However, it is Artem (pictured) who can claim the bragging rights as he is in 8th position of all the riders in the Ekstraliga and his older brother is below him in 11th. Perhaps more importantly in the Laguta household, when they have competed against each other in 54% of the heats Artem has beaten Grigorij.
All this points to two juicy heats where there will be more at stake than just points for the Laguta family when the tapes go up in Poland for Heats 6 and 11 in Friday’s late match.
