Doyle second in Slovenian SGP
The reigning world champion reignited his 2018 Speedway Grand Prix campaign with a stop-scoring performance in KrskoAustralia’s Jason Doyle finished second in the 2018 Speedway Grand Prix final in Slovenia on September 8, lifting himself back up to eighth in the championship.
Doyle finished behind Pole Patryk Dudek and ahead of American Greg Hancock and Dane Fredrik Lindgren in the Krsko final, but finished the program as the leading points scorer on 17.
It was Doyle’s first rostrum in the 2018 SGP season, which has been a challenging one for the New South Welshman as he sought to become the first a back-to-back world champion since Dane Nicki Pedersen in 2007-08.
“It’s a massive honour to make a podium. It has been a tough year to dig deep and try to find the performance we had last year,” said Doyle.
“We have really struggled, I guess with ourselves, nothing to do with the equipment. We just needed to make a lot of changes.
“After the world title last year, things have changed. I have a big target on my back. So it’s nice to finally get that trophy this year and hopefully it will be the start of me staying in the top eight.”
Doyle’s compatriot Chris Holder finished seventh in Slovenia, with his night ending in the opening semi-final.
Holder is 12th in the championship.
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS: 1 Tai Woffinden 108, 2 Bartosz Zmarzlik 99, 3 Maciej Janowski 89, 4 Fredrik Lindgren 89, 5 Patryk Dudek 84, 6 Greg Hancock 81, 7 Artem Laguta 73, 8 Jason Doyle 70, 9 Emil Sayfutdinov 70, 10 Matej Zagar 61, 11 Nicki Pedersen 59, 12 Chris Holder 53, 13 Martin Vaculik 44, 14 Przemyslaw Pawlicki 32, 15 Craig Cook 30, 16 Niels-Kristian Iversen 14, 17 Szymon Wozniak 8, 18 Krzysztof Kasprzak 7, 19 Andreas Jonsson 7, 20 Vaclav Milik 6, 21 Peter Ljung 5, 22 Michael Jepsen Jensen 4, 23 Oliver Berntzon 3, 24 Maksym Drabik 2, 25 Bartosz Smektala 2, 26 Robert Lambert 1, 27 Mikkel Michelsen 1, 28 Joel Kling 1.
SLOVENIAN SGP SCORES: 1 Patryk Dudek 16, 2 Jason Doyle 17, 3 Greg Hancock 15, 4 Fredrik Lindgren 13, 5 Bartosz Zmarzlik 12, 6 Maciej Janowski 10, 7 Chris Holder 10, 8 Martin Vaculik 9, 9 Artem Laguta 7, 10 Nicki Pedersen 7, 11 Emil Sayfutdinov 5, 12 Niels-Kristian Iversen 5, 13 Craig Cook 5, 14 Tai Woffinden 5, 15 Przemyslaw Pawlicki 2, 16 Matic Ivacic 0, 17 Nick Skorja 0, 18 Denis Stojs DNR.
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