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Cycle News 2013 Issue 36 September 10

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VOL. 50 ISSUE 36 SEPTEMBER 10, 2013 (Left) Jaroslaw Hampel leads Tai Woffinden and Tomasz Gollob en route to winning the final at the Slovanian Speedway Grand Prix on Saturday night. (Below) Gollob leads American Greg Hancock in heat 15 inside the Matije Gubca Stadium. GP this year, had never scored more than six points in Krsko before this event. So he was delighted to leave with the win, which could make a monumental difference in his search for second overall. "I didn't feel so good on the track in the middle of the meeting after getting a third and a last in my second and third races," Hampel said. "When I sat in the pits I thought, 'it's going to happen again here.' But I've got a good P71 team and the boys told me I needed to be more focused and that I could do it. They told me I could race well and that helped me a lot. "The last few rounds haven't been bad, but I've always missed something in the semi-finals. My situation with the points isn't as good as it could have been. But after the middle of this competition, I knew if I wanted to stay in this position and have a chance to get a medal, I needed to do something. After my two bad races, I was much harder on the track and that was good." Hampel refuses to give too much thought to his position in the World Championship standings. He is simply determined to get his head down and score well at the Rockklassiker Scandina-

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