Matej won the Finnish SGP

44 Grand Prix races was necessary for Matej to climb the highest step in the Speedway Grand Prix series. In the Finnish Tampere Stadium Ratina, he wrote the history of Slovenian Speedway with the greatest success who has ever achieved any of the Slovenian riders. When it all seemed to be second in the final again, a current World Champion Tai Woffinden made a mistake and Matej managed to squeeze past him, routinely drove the final round and for the first time in his career, past the finish line first. Third place took Swede Fredrik Lindgren , without a podium remained an American Greg Hancock .
On the extremely narrow and technically demanding course was very important start: ” I am pleased with the starts, but still has much room for improvement,” described Matej, who is already looking ahead : “Engines, good technical advices from my father and improvements with my German tuner worked much better, we just need little more improvement to be ready for the next race in Prague where is a completely different stadium than this time, but nevertheless, I was also on the podium there. ”

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FINAL RESULTS:
1. Matej Žagar (SLO) – 15 (3,1,2,3,1,2,3)
2. Tai Woffinden (UK) – 16 (3,2,3,0,3,3,2)
3. Fredrik Lindgren (SWE) – 12 (2,2,u,3,2,2,1)
4. Greg Hancock (USA) – 12 (d,0,3,3,3,3,0)
5. Chris Holder (AUS) – 10 (3,3,2,2,0,d)
6. Nicki Pedersen (DK) – 10 (1,3,2,1,3,0)
7. Troy Batchelor (AUS) – 10 (3,1,1,1,3,1)
8. Martin Smolinski (GER) – 9 (1,3,0,2,2,1)
9. Darcy Ward (AUS) – 8 (1,2,1,2,2)
10. Andreas Jonsson (SWE) – 7 (2,3,0,1,1)
11. Jarosław Hampel (PL) – 7 (1,1,3,1,1)
12. Niels Kristian Iversen (DK) – 6 (0,0,2,2,2)
13. Joonas Kylmaekorpi (FIN) – 5 (2,0,0,3,0)
14. Kauko Nieminen (FIN) – 4 (0,2,1,0,1)
15. Chris Harris (UK) – 4 (2,1,1,0,0)
16. Kenneth Bjerre (DK) – 3 (0,d,3,0,0)
17. Juha Hautamaeki (FIN)

Heat results:
1. Batchelor, Harris, Hampel, Hancock (d4)
2. Žagar, Kylmaekorpi, Pedersen, Nieminen
3. Holder, Jonsson, Ward, Iversen
4. Woffinden, Lindgren, Smolinski, Bjerre
5. Holder, Woffinden, Žagar, Hancock
6. Jonsson, Nieminen, Hampel, Bjerre (d4)
7. Pedersen, Lindgren, Harris, Iversen
8. Smolinski, Ward, Batchelor, Kylmaekorpi
9. Hancock, Iversen, Nieminen, Smolinski
10. Hampel, Žagar, Ward, Lindgren (u4)
11. Bjerre, Holder, Harris, Kylmaekorpi
12. Woffinden, Pedersen, Batchelor, Jonsson
13. Hancock, Ward, Pedersen, Bjerre
14. Kylmaekorpi, Iversen, Hampel, Woffinden
15. Žagar, Smolinski, Jonsson, Harris
16. Lindgren, Holder, Batchelor, Nieminen
17. Hancock, Lindgren, Jonsson, Kylmaekorpi
18. Pedersen, Smolinski, Hampel, Holder
19. Woffinden, Ward, Nieminen, Harris
20. Batchelor, Iversen, Žagar, Bjerre