Speedway Grand Prix: Martin Vaculik wins action-packed 2022 SGP finale in Torun from Bartosz Zmarzlik

Updated 01/10/2022 at 21:52 GMT

Martin Vaculik took a brilliant win at the final round of the 2022 Speedway Grand Prix in Torun, Poland. He won three of his four heats before going on to win his semi-final and the final from Bartosz Zmarzlik to end his season on a high. Stream the very best speedway action live and ad-free on discovery+ with live race action also on Eurosport 2.

'Fabulous Grand Prix!' - Speedway GP Torun Highlights

Martin Vaculik won his second Speedway Grand Prix of 2022 with victory at the season-finale in Torun.

Vaculik was on top form all night, winning his opening three heats before dominating the final by beating Bartosz Zmarzlik, Leon Madsen and Maciej Janowski.

The Slovakian chose Gate 2 for the final and got the perfect start by beating Zmarzlik to Turn 1. As hard as the newly crowned champion tried, he couldn’t do anything about Vaculik.

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Maciej Janowski and Leon Madsen battled for third, with the latter coming out on top to take his fourth podium of the season.

A disappointing night for Patryk Dudek, who came into the event in the bronze medal position, saw him drop to seventh in the championship with Janowski’s fourth place vaulting him up the order into third in the championship behind Madsen.

Fredrik Lindgren, Robert Lambert and Dan Bewley did enough to hold onto a top-six place in the championship which means they are guaranteed to be in next year’s Speedway GP field.

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Andzejs Lebedevs was the best of the non-permanent riders with his first semi-final appearance of 2022.

The Latvian won a thrilling Heat 4, after going three-wide for the lead with Janowski and Jason Doyle, and also took victory in Heat 15.

There was confusion in Heat 16 when Lindgren was originally excluded from jumping the start, before being called back with Tai Woffinden being excluded instead for his movement before the tape went up. It likely cost the Briton a place in the semi-finals.