INTERVIEW: Tim Sorensen – hoping for good results

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3 września, 2020
20:35

Interview with Tim Sørensen (DEN): Hoping for good results

Danish rider, Tim Sørensen (or Soerensen), was 20 years old in May and was due to be taking part in his second ever U21 World Championships series this year. He even had a contract with Orzel Lodz in eWinner1.

But the coronavirus put pay to all that.

Instead Mads Hansen was chosen to represent Denmark in the U21 competition which was changed to a one-day event in Pardubice in October.

In 2019 he had a semi-final placing in the round at Güstrow, where he came third behind Dominik Kubera and Bartosz Smektala. Kubera would go on to win the Round in Güstrow that night. It felt like a well-deserved-result for the Dane after some clever tinkering with the bike, “I worked with some new things that made me perform better [than in Lublin]”, he said.

Instead the autumn was spent training and managed to get a few races done in Denmark, even though the Metal League looks likely to not to start in 2020.

With options looking closed in his home country, Sorensen began to look abroad in neighbouring, Sweden. “I asked around a few clubs if they were missing people,” he says, “and all of a sudden Motala grabbed me”.

Motala Piraterna have been racing with one rider less than their rivals in this Corona-season. It is a concession that SVEMO have allowed to ensure the Elitserien could be completed despite the difficulties and probably helped Piraterna economically after they nearly went bankrupt in 2019. So, the club was a natural choice and already has Danish riders, Peter Kildemand, Jonas Seifert-Salk and Thomas Jorgensen.

“I hope to give the team joy and hopefully some good results,” he says enthusiastically.

Apart from league duties, the young Dane will be on international duty this Saturday at Outrup where he raced with Michael Jepsen Jensen at Region Varde Elitesport last season. The competition is none less than the FIM Team Speedway U21 World Championship Final.

He is in a team with Mads Hansen, Marcus Birkemose, Matias Nielsen and Piraterna teammate, Siefert-Salk. They face some of the best riders in their generation from Poland, Great Britain and Latvia.

“I think it will be a fight to the line with the Polish riders… but I think we will be the World Champions,” said captain Hansen in a Danish newspaper.