ROUND 11/SEPTEMBER 21, 2013
FRIENDS ARENA/STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
SPEEDWAY
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SPEEDWAY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP GRAND PRIX SERIES
NOT OVER YET
IVERSEN WINS TOPSY-TURVY GRAND PRIX IN SWEDEN
Niels-Kristian
Iversen leads
Krzysztof Kasprzak
en route to taking
the biggest points
haul for the
Scandinavian FIM
Speedway Grand
Prix in Sweden on
Saturday night.
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY
JOHN HIPKISS
D
anish champion Niels-Kristian Iversen admits it would
be "a dream come true" if
he could secure a World Championship medal after storming to
Rockklassiker Scandinavian FIM
Speedway Grand Prix glory in
Stockholm on Saturday.
Iversen won the dramatic firstever speedway meeting at the
Friends Arena ahead of Poland's
Jaroslaw Hampel, Slovenian star
Matej Zagar and American icon
Greg Hancock.
The event saw World Championship leader Tai Woffinden of
Great Britain re-break the collarbone he shattered at Cardiff's
Millennium Stadium on June 1
when he crashed with Polish legend Tomasz Gollob in heat two.
Woffy, who is six points away
from becoming World Champion,
was originally scheduled for surgery in England on Sunday night,
but now will wait it out. Meanwhile, Gollob was taken to the
hospital where it was discovered
that he'd broken his C7 vertebrae
and now the 42-year-old Pole will
