Five-time Speedway GP world champion Bartosz Zmarzlik raced to 14 points for Lublin as they edged their PGE Ekstraliga play-off semi-final, first leg away to Grudziadz on Friday.
Zmarzlik dropped just one point from five rides as his side won 47-43 to claim an aggregate advantage going into their home leg on September 5.
His Speedway GP rivals Jack Holder and Fredrik Lindgren both contributed eight points to their side’s total, with the Aussie registering eight paid 11 and the Swede scoring eight paid nine.
Double SGP2 champion Mateusz Cierniak scored seven on a night the team coped well without the absent Wiktor Przyjemski, who underwent ankle surgery following a crash in Sweden.
Danish champion Michael Jepsen Jensen raced to 14 paid 15 points for Grudziadz, with Vadim Tarasenko adding eight and Aussie star Max Fricke scoring five paid six. SGP2 rider Kevin Malkiewicz collected six.
In the play-offs to avoid relegation, Danish star Leon Madsen racked up 16 points for Zielona Gora as they slipped to a 46-44 loss away to Rybnik.
Double World Under-21 champion Maksym Drabik was Rybnik’s top scorer on 13 points, with former Aussie champion Rohan Tungate adding 10 paid 12 and Gleb Chugunov scoring eight paid nine.
The second leg takes place on Friday – the night before the DeWalt FIM Speedway GP of Poland – Wroclaw next Saturday.
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