Former Workington Comets rider Rasmus Jensen will crown his biggest season so far by making his FIM Speedway Grand Prix debut next month.
The Danish champions has been named as a wild card for the FIM Speedway GP of Denmark in Vojens on September 10.
It’s set to be his biggest night of a stellar season which has seen him emerge as one Danish speedway brightest stars.
He stormed to Danish Championship glory at his home track Holsted on June 22, before earning a place in the five-man national squad for the FIM Speedway of Nations Final in Vojens, just missing out on a spot in the starting line-up.
Jensen also took sixth place at the FIM GP Challenge in Glasgow on Saturday, scoring 10 points and falling only three points short of certain qualification for the 2023 Speedway GP series and two adrift of a spot in the third-place run-off.
Ex-Comet Dan Bewley finished second in that meeting after a run-off.
The 28-year-old Jensen has enjoyed a fine season across Europe. He’s currently sixth in the Polish First Division average charts for Gdansk on 2.250 points per race. Jensen also races for Dackarna in Sweden’s Bauhaus Elitserien.
He is joined in flying the home flag at Denmark’s biggest annual speedway event by Speedway GP duo Leon Madsen and Mikkel Michelsen, with Latvian star Andzejs Lebedevs replacing injured home rider Anders Thomsen, whose season was ended by a badly broken leg suffered at the FIM GP Challenge.
Tony Jackson was Comets team manager when Jensen was riding for the Derwent Park team and he is really pleased to see him get a Grand Prix chance.
He said: “It’s great to see ‘Razzer’ get this opportunity, which underlines his continued progress in the sport.
“To be honest, with him recently having become Danish champion, I half expected that he would get the nod for the wildcard berth at Vojens so it’s nice to see that confirmed.
“He initially rode for us as a short-term replacement at the start of 2016 and we persuaded him to stay for the season, and of course we brought him back in 2018 where he became a key member of our treble winning side.
“In fact the progress he made that year finally saw him show the form in Britain that he had been showing back in his native Denmark for a couple of years where he was regularly beating the top riders.
“Following our closure Rasmus joined Glasgow in 2019 and doubled-up with Swindon in the top league, where again he continued to progress and proved to be a key member of Swindon’s league winning side.
“Since then he has continued to race in the Danish, Swedish and Polish leagues, with his time in Poland, racing for Gdansk, being particularly pivotal in his development.”
