2001 Individual Speedway Junior European Championship

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Individual Speedway Junior World Championship (usually referred to as the Speedway World Under 21 Championship) is an annual speedway event held each year organized by the International Motorcycling Federation (FIM) since 1977. The current World Champion is Darcy Ward from Australia, who won in 2009 Final. Russian Emil Sayfutdinov is a first, and so far only, double U-21 World Champion, who won in 2007 and 2008 Finals. Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. Speedway motorcycles use only one gear and have no brakes and racing takes place on a flat oval track usually consisting of dirt or loosely packed shale. Competitors use this surface to slide their machines sideways, powersliding or broadsiding into the bends. On the straight sections of the track the motorcycles reach speeds of up 70 miles per hour (110 km/h).