The stars of the future will be in action this coming Sunday (13 July) when the 2025 FIM Track Racing Youth Gold Trophy (TRYGT) is staged at the Bikernieki Speedway Stadium in the Latvian capital city Riga.
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- International field of twenty riders line up in Latvia
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The competition for riders aged between eleven and sixteen on 125cc machines is regarded as a major stepping stone for up-and-coming Track Racing prospects and, as such, attracts a very high-quality field of ambitious young racers.
With last year’s champion Franciszek Szczyrba from Poland not returning to defend his title, this year’s competition is wide open with a field of twenty talented riders from eight nations assembling in the Baltic nation to signal their arrival on an international stage.
Of the eight riders returning for another attempt at TRYGT glory, the highest ranked was Andžejs Smulkevičs who finished fifth in 2024 and will be hoping that home advantage in Riga will carry him to the top of the points table after five blocks of what will undoubtedly be fiercely contested Heat races.
A further three of last season’s TRYGT veterans achieved top-ten finishes with the Ukrainian pairing of Arsenii Mykulchyn and Volodymyr Skorokhod – who finished seventh and ninth respectively – joined behind the tapes by the Czech Republic’s Jakub Hejkal who was tenth in 2024.
Completing the list of returning riders, Poland’s Michał Głębocki finished twelfth last year – three places ahead of Erik Barth from Germany – with Slovakia’s Marek Ziman seventeenth and Romanian racer André Damian eighteenth.
While having experience of the event is an obvious advantage, speed and talent will be the deciding factors. Tom Knese and Levi Fittkau are both newcomers and have been enjoying success in their native Germany this season while Valters Buss and Hugo Polaks will be aiming to give the expected big turnout of passionate Latvian fans two more home heroes to cheer.
Of course, it is far too early to make any definite predictions and Britain’s sole representative Fraser Buckle is another potential star of the future hoping to make his presence felt, but everyone who lines up behind the tapes on Sunday afternoon will share this goal and every point will need to be fought for.
The action from Riga gets under way with the first Heat scheduled for 15:15 (local time).
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