Martin Vaculik is performing in XVIII Memorial of Edward Jancarz on Saturday 30th of March. The tournment in Gorzow is going to be extremely interesting. The Slovakian rider will come with number eleven. The first run is planned to start at 14.00.
This Memorial is devoted to memory of the rider from Leszno who tragically died. The competition is organized by Stal Gorzow Wielkopolski – with breaks. For the first time the riders competed in 1992 year.
Edward Jancarz was born 20th of August 1946 in Gorzow Wielkopolski. He died tragically in his hometown 11th of January 1992. The alumnus of Stal represented Poland many times, he was Speedway World Team Cup champion. After he finished his career on the track he was a coach. Whole his career he represented his hometown club.
Internationally he took part in the finals of Speedway World Championship (in the years: 1968-1969, 1973-1977, 1981-1982). His greatest success was in Goteborg in 1968. Debuting in the world final Jancarz fought eleven points in five starts and he got the only one in his whole career brown medal.
Unfortunately after finishing his career as a rider he abused alkohol. During a quarrel at home he was mortally stabbed with a knife by his second wife. He died 11th of January 1992. For many fans of Stal he is still considered to be the beatemest rider in the history of the sport club. He was the first speedway rider in the world who has been built a monument. The celebratory exposure of the monument was in December 2005.
To sum up the competition on Saturday is going to be very interesting. Betweeen the favourites to victory are: Bartosz Zmarzlik and Martin Vaculik or the domestic leader of ebut.pl Stal Gorzow Szymon Wozniak.
“I can’t wait to start in this competition. For me it will be the first individual tournment this year. On top of that it is taking place in Gorzow on our hometrack. I think our fans will see a very interesting spectacle. Many wonderful riders will take part in this memorial, so there will be worthy opponents to compete with” – said Martin Vaculik.
The card of XVIII Memorial of Edward Jancarz:
- Oskar Paluch
- Bartosz Zmarzlik
- Chris Holder
- Maciej Janowski
- Wiktor Przyjemski
- Jack Holder
- Jakub Miśkowiak
- Kai Huckenbeck
- Przemysław Pawlicki
- Daniel Bewley
- Martin Vaculik
- Kacper Woryna
- Piotr Pawlicki
- Oskar Fajfer
- Patryk Dudek
- Szymon Woźniak