America’s Luke Becker produced a dominant performance at Abensberg in Germany where he won all five of his Heat races to claim maximum points and come out on top at the first of this year’s three FIM Speedway Grand Prix Qualifying rounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leading home an international top five featuring riders from four countries and three continents, the twenty-seven-year-old \u2013 who failed to progress beyond the Qualifying stage last season \u2013 booked his position behind the tapes at the FIM SGP World Championship Challenge in Terenzano in Italy on 25 July where four places in the 2027 FIM Speedway Grand Prix World Championship (SGP) will be up for grabs.
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Becker will be joined in Terenzano by Sweden’s Kim Nilsson, Australians Rohan Tungate and Keynan Rew and Poland’s Dominik Kubera who fought their way into the all-important top five across twenty closely contested Heats in the Wack Hofmeister Speedway Stadium in Bavaria.
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France’s Dimitri Berg\u00e9 defeated Kubera in their opening Heat, Nilsson got the better of Tungate and Latvia’s Francis Gusts beat local hero Kevin W\u00f6lbert before Becker led home Rew to conclude the opening block of racing.
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Tungate then defeated compatriot Rew and Nilsson maintained his one-hundred per cent record with victory ahead of German racer Norick Bl\u00f6dorn as Gusts beat Kubera and Becker claimed his second win of the afternoon, this time at the expense of Jan Kv\u011bch from the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The third block of racing got under way with a showdown between the so-far-undefeated Becker and Nilsson and it was the rider from California who emerged on top before Tungate raced to his second win of the programme, this time chased by Niccolo Percotti from Italy. Kubera then won from Bl\u00f6dorn and Rew defeated Slovenian Matic Ivacic as the battle for a place in the top five continued to rage.
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Bl\u00f6dorn kept himself in contention when he beat Berg\u00e9 at the start of the fourth block of racing as Gusts followed Rew across the line and Becker booked his place in Terenzano when he led home Tungate and Kubera before Nilsson made it three wins from four starts with victory ahead of Germany’s Valentin Grobauer.
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Having started the day among the pre-race favourites, W\u00f6lbert claimed a consolation victory from Berg\u00e9 as the concluding block of racing got under way before Becker completed his domination with a fifth win, this time from Grobauer.
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The final two Heats proved to be pivotal with Kubera winning from Nilsson and Rew and Tungate getting the better of Gusts to set up a run-off for second, that was won by Nilsson from Tungate, before Rew led home Kubera and Gusts in a run-off for fourth, fifth and sixth that dropped the thirty-two-year-old Latvian out of contention for a place in Terenzano.
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The focus now shifts to 30 May and the final two Qualifying rounds in \u017darnovica and Glasgow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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