Speedway club Unia

Speedway is one of the most exciting motorcycle sports. The race consists of 20 rides in which 4 riders compete against each other. There are 4 laps to ride, and the winner is the one who first passes through finish, getting 3 points.
Second placed rider gets 2 points, third placed 1 point, and the last rider gets 0 points. They race around oval circuit lenght up to 400 m on background made of shale. There are no two equal speedway tracks in the world which contributes to attractiveness of this sport. Motorcycles are very specific – motor fuel is methanol. They don't have brakes, gears, only clutch and gas. There are classes from 500, 250, 125 and 80 ccm.
The highest rank of competition is GRAND PRIX in which participate 16 riders. 10 races of Grand prix series give speedway world champion.

Speedway club „UNIA“  was founded in 2004 on initiative of Zvonko Pavlic, triple champion of former Yugoslavia. In 5 years, there were organized 23 races, from which the biggest was World championship U21 final, on October 3rd 2009. Winner was australian rider Darcy Ward. Club counts over 100 members, and 6 riders. There is also speedway club „Prelog“, which is working on stadium to bring speedway back to Prelog, and with he effort and enthusiasm of the speedway fans all over the country we hope that speedway centers like Crikvenica and Osijek will be live again. 

Club Structure

Zvonimir Pavlic, club director and trainer

Darija Pavlic, PR and race organization

Studies economics and management in Zagreb, owns FIM licence for speedway Referee and Race director. Works in speedway since 2001 when Jurica started his career where she helped him with agreements about races and signing contracts with clubs. In club she is in charge of public relations and media, organization of races, contacts with suppliers, riders and clubs, organization of training in pre-season.

Sandra Percač, marketing and race organization

Works in community of Donji Kraljevec as director of Rudolf Steiner centre. In HMS she has function director for speedway, and is in charge of coordination of state championship races, making race calendars, starting licences for riders, applications for races. She does marketing in club and relations with sponsors and business partners. Also has FIM licence for Race director.

Dejan Dolenec, stadium maintenance

He is in charge of technical part about track maintenance and whole stadium. Lawn mowing, stadium cleaning, maintenance of pits during training, placing billboards etc. are some of his jobs.

Officials during races

Mario Ružman – referee and Clerk of the course

Josip Golomboš – in charge of electrics at stadium

Danijel Golubić, Drago Vuk, Josip Škvorc, Danijel Golomboš, Dubravko Petraš, Velimir Švenda – Flag marshalls

Zlatko Cerovec, Zoran Matulin, Marijan Mikac – Starting marshalls

Christian Plakalović, Miroslav Lilek, Tomislav Canjuga, Ivan Jurčec, Goran Posavec, Željko Hižman – Pits marhalls

Rebeka Jakšić, Ivana Tisaj, Terezija Matulin, Marija Pavlic, Kristina Matić – Financial service, VIP guests area

Ninoslav Šestak, Anđelko Beti, Dejan Kolar, Antun Šulj, Đuro Barić, Antonio Lovrenčić – maintenance and security

Željko Sokač – Announcer

Petra Pavlic – interpreter, comunnication between referee and pits

Filip Blagus – DJ and music at the events

Tomislav Ošlaj, Darko Matjačić, Andrej Kežman – Tehnical Stewards

Of course, during season there can be changes, but they are all doing great job. Races wouldn't be organized so successfully like they are now. Thank you all!