New European champion Patryk Dudek celebrated his Speedway GP return by storming to 13 points for Torun as they took charge of the PGE Ekstraliga play-off final with a 54-36 win at home to reigning champions Lublin on Sunday.
Just 24 hours after completing his FIM Speedway Grand Prix comeback for 2026 by lifting the Speedway European Championship in Pardubice, Dudek racked up four wins from five rides to put Torun a tantalising 37 points away from claiming their first PGE Ekstraliga title since 2008.
Triple European champion Mikkel Michelsen tallied 10 for the hosts, with Emil Sayfutdinov adding nine paid 11, Robert Lambert collecting eight paid nine and Jan Kvech scoring five paid six.
Six-time Speedway GP world champion Bartosz Zmarzlik scored 13 for Lublin, with SGP rival Dominik Kubera adding 10. Jack Holder bagged five paid six and Fredrik Lindgren left with three paid four.
Elsewhere, new world No.2 Brady Kurtz blazed to a 14 paid 15-point maximum for Wroclaw as they put one hand on the PGE Ekstraliga bronze medals with a thumping 61-29 win at home to Grudziadz in the third-place play-off, first leg.
Former Speedway GP world champion Artem Laguta racked up 11 paid 12 for Wroclaw, with world No.3 Dan Bewley adding 10 paid 13 and Maciej Janowski notching nine paid 12.
Danish champion Michael Jepsen Jensen raced to 15 points from six heats for Grudziadz, with Max Fricke hitting six.
The second leg of the bronze-medal play-off takes place in Grudziadz on Saturday, with the title decider in Lublin next Sunday.
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