Speedway Grand Prix 2022: Dan Bewley completely ready to ‘have some fun’ in medal hunt at conclusion of ‘special’ season

Dan Bewley is established to cap off a outstanding breakthrough period at the 2022 FIM Speedway Grand Prix ultimate spherical in Torun but stays stage-headed more than his successes.

The 23-year-outdated hotshot wasn’t originally scheduled to be amid the everlasting riders this season and only got the contact-up off the again of suspensions to Russian pair Artem Laguta and Emil Sayfutdinov in excess of the war in Ukraine.

Greedy his prospect with both equally palms, Bewley has practically raced up the standings and sits in fifth position, 7 factors at the rear of Patryk Dudek in a bronze medal place.

Talking to Eurosport ahead of the assembly, Bewley was tranquil about his prospective clients of a historic podium end this time.

“It would be interesting,” he casually remarked. “If we ended up in 3rd spot, it will be amazing. If we will not, it will not seriously alter just about anything. It truly is been a genuinely fantastic 12 months. And whichever takes place, it won’t have an impact on that it’s been a fantastic year.

“But for confident, if we’re going to go, we may well as properly go and test and place a very good final result in and give us the best prospect doable for a medal also.

“I feel the situation I’m in now, I might have to have a very great night to end third overall. So for me, it truly is variety of just go and have some entertaining and test and mix it up on the track to just try to have the ideal consequence we can. Which is about as considerably as I can do, just try and target on ourselves. And, yeah, have some pleasurable and attempt and get a great end result.”

Bewley’s ‘good year’ has observed him make record immediately after winning his initially Grand Prix in round six in Cardiff, ending Britain’s 15-12 months hold out for an FIM British Speedway GP winner.

He then followed this up with victory in Wroclaw to make it back again-to-again victories, momentarily propelling him into that coveted third place and sparking whispers of a attainable title obstacle.

Despite the fact that unable to hold pace with eventual champions Bartosz Zmarzlik, Bewley concluded second in the GP Challenge celebration, granting him automated qualification to the 2023 Speedway Grand Prix series.

With his position for following year in the bag, the pressure is possibly eased in Torun as he does not need to have to protected a best 6 finish.

“The real aims prior to the time for this 12 months were being just to try out and qualify for the SGP for subsequent 12 months,” he admitted as he assessed his marketing campaign so considerably. “So we are sort of already on house money, and we just go now and have some enjoyable.

“For confident, the most memorable issue is for me is naturally Cardiff and special to have my 1st GP earn in my household state, household crowd, that was fairly exclusive. And to back again it up in Wroclaw two weeks later that was rather specific, way too.

“But, seriously some of the most memorable issues for me was the GP in Prague, and then the GP, in Gorzow soon after that”.

Bewley arrived at his to start with semi-ultimate in the Czech Republic, setting up a operate of five consecutive conferences in which he did so.

“They were the GPs when I truly felt like I was capable to earn and I basically deserved to be there, and I felt portion of it. So, yeah, which is anything that I’ll recall but of course, the initially GP acquire is quite distinctive.”

Although his variety has dipped a bit with inadequate scores from the two most latest rounds in Vojens and Malilla respectively, Bewley is taking it in his stride and is identified to identify and rectify any issues on the observe going forwards.

“It’s been challenging,” he confessed. “I imagine, in Malilla, the last GP, that was it’s possible a tiny little bit of inexperience. We built some glitches with machines, and also with me as a rider in the apply, I messed some points up.

He added: “And then in Vojens right before that, I didn’t have as fantastic a outcome once more. It was a identical point all over again. It is really just one factor to be speedy on the monitor, but if you do not make fantastic begins and put you in fantastic positions, and it will not make a difference. And I believe it is really just seeking to find out from that and attempting to make improvements to it for up coming calendar year.”

But what does ‘next year’ keep in shop? With his position secured, Bewley is assured of another very good season and believes with improvements from this marketing campaign, he can aim straight for the pretty prime and strategies to delight in each and every second of his continuing Speedway Grand Prix journey.

“I think every single rider in GP needs to be environment winner, so definitely, that’s the aim,” he exposed. “But at conclusion of the day, I consider for next year it is really just about making an attempt to put into practice what we’ve learned from this year and check out and learn from some issues and also study from some of the items we did perfectly also.

“If we can do that next yr, I think we would be in a quite very good posture to be in the major a few and you know, perhaps bigger but yeah, just hold owning fun and see what we can do.”

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