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Interesting read:
Swedish star Andreas Jonsson hopes returning to British racing with Lakeside will aid his quest for a successful 2015 season.
The world No.6 rides in the Elite League for the first time since 2008 as he spearheads the Hammers’ title challenge.
Jonsson fears he hasn’t raced enough meetings in recent years and hopes the busy British schedule will lift his form as he aims to return to the World Championship rostrum.
But he insists it will take more than riding in the UK to help him get back to the scoring that saw him claim SGP silver in 2011.
He said: “I think many things can make you season work. It doesn’t matter if you’re riding in the UK or not. It’s about getting all the pieces of the puzzle together at the same time. That’s what makes the difference.
“Whether you’re riding in the British, Danish, Swedish or Polish league at the time doesn’t matter. It’s not about that.
“It’s about having the feeling of harmony with the decisions you’re making. If you feel comfortable that you’re racing enough, you’re enjoying your racing, you’re happy with your equipment and everything is going well, then the results are there.
“But if stuff isn’t going the way you want, it doesn’t matter if you ride in one league or four leagues. It’s just going to be bad.
“The British league will not make me world champion. I don’t believe that. I just think that for me at the moment, after having so many years without the British league, it will give me something for my riding. But I don’t think success will come because of it.”
Jonsson hopes racing on Lakeside’s tight Arena-Essex Raceway will make him stronger on the SGP series’ technical tracks like Warsaw, Cardiff and Stockholm.
He said: “I look forward to coming to some of the really technical tracks. I need to work on some of that stuff because if you haven’t done it for a few years, you lose the feeling of how to do it. I definitely think I can learn from being back in the UK again.
“There aren’t many small tracks I really like, but I like the track at Lakeside. It is really technical and it suits me down to the ground. It’s a challenge to do well there and it’s quite good for a small track.”
Jonsson has been pondering a UK return for some time. But one of the main things which have deterred riders from racing in Britain is the number of rain-offs in recent years, which only adds wasted trips to a heavy travelling schedule.
AJ said: “I think for the last couple of years I’ve been back and forward with the decision as to whether I would do it or not. I have been missing Britain and I wanted to ride there again, but the negatives have stopped me.
“Firstly, there were so many meetings. And when you look at it during the season, there are so many rain-offs there. You see the other riders when they come home from Britain after having rain-off after rain-off after rain-off. It just saps the energy out of you.
“There’s all the travelling back and forth and it takes a lot out of you to do the UK compared to the other leagues. That has been the negative and the reason why I haven’t done it.
“But the last few years, I’ve felt like I wanted to do more meetings. I’ve been doing a few open meetings and the Czech and Danish leagues.
“Now I feel it’s the right time to do the Elite League. I want more meetings and they’ve been cutting down the fixtures in Britain, so there aren’t as many as there used to be. I feel like it suits me now.
“I will not do the Allsvenskan League back home. I will only do the Elitserien in Sweden with Rospiggarna and the Ekstraliga with Zielona Gora in Poland as well as Lakeside.”
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Swedish star Andreas Jonsson hopes returning to British racing with Lakeside will aid his quest for a successful 2015 season.
The world No.6 rides in the Elite League for the first time since 2008 as he spearheads the Hammers’ title challenge.
Jonsson fears he hasn’t raced enough meetings in recent years and hopes the busy British schedule will lift his form as he aims to return to the World Championship rostrum.
But he insists it will take more than riding in the UK to help him get back to the scoring that saw him claim SGP silver in 2011.
He said: “I think many things can make you season work. It doesn’t matter if you’re riding in the UK or not. It’s about getting all the pieces of the puzzle together at the same time. That’s what makes the difference.
“Whether you’re riding in the British, Danish, Swedish or Polish league at the time doesn’t matter. It’s not about that.
“It’s about having the feeling of harmony with the decisions you’re making. If you feel comfortable that you’re racing enough, you’re enjoying your racing, you’re happy with your equipment and everything is going well, then the results are there.
“But if stuff isn’t going the way you want, it doesn’t matter if you ride in one league or four leagues. It’s just going to be bad.
“The British league will not make me world champion. I don’t believe that. I just think that for me at the moment, after having so many years without the British league, it will give me something for my riding. But I don’t think success will come because of it.”
Jonsson hopes racing on Lakeside’s tight Arena-Essex Raceway will make him stronger on the SGP series’ technical tracks like Warsaw, Cardiff and Stockholm.
He said: “I look forward to coming to some of the really technical tracks. I need to work on some of that stuff because if you haven’t done it for a few years, you lose the feeling of how to do it. I definitely think I can learn from being back in the UK again.
“There aren’t many small tracks I really like, but I like the track at Lakeside. It is really technical and it suits me down to the ground. It’s a challenge to do well there and it’s quite good for a small track.”
Jonsson has been pondering a UK return for some time. But one of the main things which have deterred riders from racing in Britain is the number of rain-offs in recent years, which only adds wasted trips to a heavy travelling schedule.
AJ said: “I think for the last couple of years I’ve been back and forward with the decision as to whether I would do it or not. I have been missing Britain and I wanted to ride there again, but the negatives have stopped me.
“Firstly, there were so many meetings. And when you look at it during the season, there are so many rain-offs there. You see the other riders when they come home from Britain after having rain-off after rain-off after rain-off. It just saps the energy out of you.
“There’s all the travelling back and forth and it takes a lot out of you to do the UK compared to the other leagues. That has been the negative and the reason why I haven’t done it.
“But the last few years, I’ve felt like I wanted to do more meetings. I’ve been doing a few open meetings and the Czech and Danish leagues.
“Now I feel it’s the right time to do the Elite League. I want more meetings and they’ve been cutting down the fixtures in Britain, so there aren’t as many as there used to be. I feel like it suits me now.
“I will not do the Allsvenskan League back home. I will only do the Elitserien in Sweden with Rospiggarna and the Ekstraliga with Zielona Gora in Poland as well as Lakeside.”
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