MAGIC-AL WIN IN PARDUBICE

Saturday 13th October 2012, 20:58

Defending champion Maciej Janowski closed the gap on FIM Speedway Under-21 World Championship leader Michael Jepsen Jensen after winning round five of the final in Pardubice on Saturday evening.

The Pole topped the rostrum on 14 points, suffering just one defeat to Ukrainian racer Aleksandr Loktaev in heat 13.

Janowski now has 61 championship points and is just three behind MJJ, who is on 64 at the top of the standings, after the Dane finished second on 13. He won a run-off for the silver medal on the day after tying on points with Loktaev.

Mikkel B Jensen’s title hopes suffered a setback as he fell further behind the top two after scoring 11 and finishing fourth.

He is now 13 points off the lead in third and will need a special performance over the final two rounds at Argentine track Bahia Blanca on November 3 and 10 to have any chance of denying his good friend Jepsen Jensen and Janowski the title.

CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS: 1 Michael Jepsen Jensen 64, 2 Maciej Janowski 61, 3 Mikkel B Jensen 51, 4 Przemyslaw Pawlicki 43, 5 Mikkel Michelsen 40, 6 Aleksandr Loktaev 37, 7 Nicklas Porsing 32, 8 Patryk Dudek 30, 9 Bartosz Zmarzlik 29, 10 Nikolaj Busk Jakobsen 26, 11 Tobiasz Musielak 25, 12= Sam Masters 21, Piotr Pawlicki 21, 14= Damian Adamczak 18, Vaclav Milik 18, 16 Pontus Aspgren 17, 17 Kyle Newman 10, 18 Andrej Lebiediev 9, 19 Jakub Jamrog 7, 20= Kacper Gomolski 6, Eduard Krcmar 6, Dakota North 6, 23 Tom Perry 5, 24 Zdenek Holub 4, 25 Jan Holub 3, 26= Michele Paco Castagna 2, Roman Cejka 2, 28= Nicolas Vicentin 1, Matic Ivacic 1.

PARDUBICE SCORES: 1 Maciej Janowski 14, 2 Michael Jepsen Jensen 13+3, 3 Aleksandr Loktaev 13+2, 4 Mikkel B Jensen 11, 5 Andrzej Lebiediev 9, 6 Pontus Aspgren 8, 7 Nicklas Porsing 8, Nikolaj Busk Jakobsen 7, 9 Dakota North 6, 10 Mikkel Michelsen 6, 11 Eduard Krcmar 6, 12 Sam Masters 5, 13 Vaclav Milik 5, 14 Zdenek Holub 4, 15 Jan Holub 3, 16 Roman Cejka 2.

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