Hunter rider Jason Doyle has claimed his second straight and third overall Speedway Grand Prix victory this season.
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The 30-year-old won the German race in Teterow on Saturday night as he rounded Polish star Bartosz Zmarzlik in the early stage of the final.
The victory takes the Novacastrian to five points of Amercian star Greg Hancock who maintained his lead the World Speedway Championship with a third place on Saturday.
"I didn't make the best of starts, but I had some speed going around turns one and two on the second lap,” Doyle told mcnews.com.au.
“I don't really remember; it was just head down, backside up and try to do something special.
"I knew when Bartosz got in front it was going to be very difficult to hunt him down.
“I knew I had to do it in the first two laps; he's very quick on these big tracks.
“But it worked out."
Doyle’s success coincided with the 200th Speedway Grand Prix event.
This followed first place in the Polish city of Gorzow.
He won his maiden round at the Prague course in the Czech Republic in June.
The final event of the series is in Melbourne on October 22 and Doyle is virtually assured of securing a spot in next year’s series.
“I just want to go to Melbourne and know I’m in the GPs again.
“Of course we’re going to be pushing for a world title. But we’re enjoying ourselves. We’re amateurs we’ve been told! We’re amateur speedway riders and mechanics.
We’ll keep who told us that a secret, but it was said we were only coming in for one year, and we’re up there.”
Doyle (104) now sits second on the overall leader board within five points of Hancock (109). There’s an eight-point gap to third-placed Tai Woffinden (96) from Britain.
“I think many years ago, I didn’t have what I have worked for now,” he said.
Of course we’re going to be pushing for a world title. But we’re enjoying ourselves.
- Jason Doyle
“I don’t want to throw it away. I had many years with injuries and people putting me down, saying I wasn’t good enough and ‘go back to Australia.
“I wanted to give myself some plans and some goals to make it in speedway.
“I didn’t want to go back home and say I didn’t give it 100 percent.
“When I retire, I want to say I did it 100 percent. I’ve spent a lot of money.
“People just think you rock up with two or three bikes and that’s it. But there is a lot of behind-the-scenes work with engines and with the boys.”
Three rounds remain to complete the 2016 season.
Stockholm is the first stop in Sweden (September 24).
The series returns to Poland on October 1 at the Torun track before the final event in Melbourne on October 22.