Speedway GP 2022 - 'It was an unreal night' - Max Fricke reflects on Warsaw win and looks ahead to Prague

Warsaw Speedway GP winner Max Fricke says that the night of his victory is “something I’ll never forget”. Fricke stunned the field in Warsaw as he first beat local favourite Bartosz Zmarzlik in the semi-final, then beat out Leon Madsen, Mikkel Michelsen and Fredrik Lindgren, three of the top five in the current standings. Ad/> “It definitely took a while to set in [the realisation] after Warsaw,” Fricke told Speedway ahead of the weekend in Prague.

“It was an unreal night, everything worked out really well. My team, everyone, were on form on the night so we had a great performance and an awesome night. It's something I’ll never forget so it took a while to come down from that one.

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The first round it was just one of those days. It definitely wasn’t a good one. So I knew I needed to come out and turn it around a little bit for the second round, and a win definitely tops it off.” Fricke’s slow start did carry on in Warsaw, he actually struggled initially before catching fire in the semi-finals and final.

Fricke admitted: “There was definitely maybe a few swear words at the helm when the first… a lot of lights came on but it’s all part of it. These things happen. I knew I’d made a start in the first one, I just needed to regroup and go out and execute again.