Klub Motorowy Cross Lublin also known as the Platinum Motor Lublin through sponsorship rights, is a Polish

motorcycle speedway Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that use only ...

team based in

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. The team currently competes in the Ekstraliga (the highest division) and have won the

Team Speedway Polish Championship The Team Speedway Polish Championship (Polish: ''Drużynowe Mistrzostwa Polski, DMP'') is an annual speedway event held each year in different Polish clubs organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM) since 1948. The team winning the league is awarded ...

once.

History

For the Lublin speedway teams before 2017, see- In 2017, the speedway team in Lublin was reactivated and participated in the

Polish Speedway Second League The Polish Speedway Second League or Liga.2 żużlowa is the third division of motorcycle speedway in Poland. It is below the Ekstraliga and the Polish Speedway First League The Polish Speedway First League or Liga.1 żużlowa is the second ...

(2. liga). In the 2017 season Motor finished second in 2. liga, and reached the play-off final where they were defeated by Start Gniezno. The final was contested over two legs, one at each participating club's stadium (50:40 in Lublin, 36:53 in

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). Despite losing to Start, Motor qualified for the two-game relegation-promotion playoff against the second-last place team in Nice 1. Liga – Stal Rzeszów. The first game took place on 1 October 2017 in

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, with Motor winning 52:38. Motor won the deciding game 47:25 which took place on 8 October 2017 in

. Motor Lublin ended first half of the 2018 season in first place, three points ahead of Start Gniezno. Motor finished first in the Nice 1. Liga regular season, and faced

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in the play-off semi-finals. On 31 August 2018, Motor won the away leg 47:43. In the second leg, which took place on 8 September 2018 in

, Motor won 55:35. In the play-off finals, Motor faced second placed side ROW Rybnik. The first leg took place on 16 September 2018 in

Rybnik Rybnik (Polish pronunciation: ; szl, Rybńik) is a city in southern Poland, in the Silesian Voivodeship, around 38 km (24 mi) southwest of Katowice, the region's capital, and around 19 km (11 miles) from the Czech border. It is on ...

, which Motor lost 52:38. The return leg was contested one week later, when Motor beat ROW 53:37, and gained promotion to Ekstraliga. In

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, the team won the Ekstraliga and were awarded the gold medal and declared

winners. In 2023, the club signed 3-times world champion Bartosz Zmarzlik.

Teams

2023 team

Jarosław Hampel Jarosław "Jarek" Hampel (; born 17 April 1982 in Łódź, Poland) is a Polish Speedway rider. He was a participant of the FIM Speedway Grand Prix in 2007 and 2010. He received his speedway license in 1998 with the Polish team Polonia Piła, alth ...

* Bartosz Zmarzlik *

Freddie Lindgren Jan Fredrik Tobias (Freddie) Lindgren (born 15 September 1985) is a Swedish motorcycle speedway rider. He has twice won the bronze medal at the Speedway World Championship and won the world team championships in 2015. Career Born in Örebro, Sw ...

Jack Holder Jack Holder (born 23 March 1996) in Appin, New South Wales is an Australian speedway rider currently riding for Sheffield Tigers in the British Elite League and Apator Toruń in the Polish Ekstraliga. Jack is a World team champion and his bro ...

Dominik Kubera Dominik Kubera (born 15 April 1999) is an international speedway rider from Poland. Speedway career Kubera won a bronze and silver medal at the World Under 21 Championship in 2019 and 2020 respectively. He had previously won the 2018 Indivi ...

Mateusz Cierniak Mateusz Cierniak (born on 3 October 2002) is an international speedway rider from Poland. Speedway career In 2021, Cierniak finished second in the Krosno Krosno (in full ''The Royal Free City of Krosno'', pl, Królewskie Wolne Miasto Kros ...

* Bartosz Bańbor

Past teams

2022 team *

Mikkel Michelsen Mikkel Michelsen (born 19 August 1994) is a Danish speedway rider. Career Born in Nykøbing Falster, Michelsen took up speedway at the age of 6, and went on to win the Junior World Cup in both 2008 and 2009.Laursen Brock, Jeppe (2013)Speedwaytale ...

Maksym Drabik Maksym Drabik (born 22 February 1998) is an international speedway rider from Poland. Speedway career Drabik won the gold medal at the World Under-21 Championship in the 2017 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship and the 2019 Individ ...

Antti Vuolas Antti Vuolas (born 23 August 1999) is a motorcycle speedway rider from Finland. Career Vuolas twice won the bronze medal at the Finnish Individual Speedway Championship in 2018 and 2022. In 2022, he rode for Region Varde during the 2022 Da ...

* Wiktor Lampart *

* Mateusz Tudzież * Fraser Bowes

References

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History

Teams

2023 team

Past teams

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