Speedway Best Pairs Event 1: Torun - Friday, March 28th - British Eurosport
Commentators: Jack Burnicle and Sam Ermolenko
Reporter: Jan Stęchmann
Jack Burnicle, who called the Ice Speedway Gladiators series for Eurosport, replaced Steve Day as commentator for the first of the expanded Speedway Best Pair meetings. And made it almost unwatchable, I can only hope they can find someone else for the SEC.
Dave Goddard used to fly to Dublin every week to call Premier Sport's coverage of the Swedish Elitserien so he should have no problem calling the meetings from London if available. Eurosport International have also taken over coverage of the Swedish league this year, although I have not seen anything to say who will be commentating on that.
New Zealand Speedway Grand Prix - Saturday, April 5th - British Eurosport 2
Presenters (London): Andy Jaye and Scot Nicholls
Commentators (World Feed): David Tapp and Jason Crump
Reporter: Mark Gottlieb
With Steve Day becoming lead commentator on World Superbikes, he has been replaced by Andy Jaye to lead Eurosport's grand prix coverage this season. Last year Jaye hosted on-site coverage for the British GP and World Cup while Day presented coverage from London of the other GPs as well as commentating on the SEC and SBP meetings.
It sounds like British Eurosport will be on-site for the rest of the series too when it returns to Europe, as they confirmed Sophie Blake will be in the pits for the European GP in Bydgoszcz at the end of the month. She had been named alongside Jaye and Nicholls as their presenting team for this year.
David Tapp replaced Wade Aunger who had called the two previous Western Springs meetings since the NZ event was added in 2012. And a vast improvement he was too. (Although in 2012 the series was still on Sky and rather than take the world feed they had Nigel Pearson and Kelvin Tatum call the meeting from Isleworth.)