Josef Franc

Josef Franc
	Franc in 2012
Born	18 January 1979; Čáslav, Czech Republic
Nickname	Pepe
Nationality	Czech
Career history
Czech Republic
2005-2009, 2011, 2013-2018	Olymp Praga
Poland
2000	Lublin
2002, 2009-2011, 2018	Krosno
2007	Praga
2013	Kraków
2014	Daugavpils
2021	Wittstock
Great Britain
2001, 2003-2004, 2009, 2011	Berwick Bandits
2005-2008	Newcastle Diamonds
2006	Belle Vue Aces
2010	Sheffield Tigers
2014	Plymouth Devils
Sweden
2005	Eldarna
Denmark
2015	Holsted
Individual honours
2017, 2018	Czech Republic champion
1999	Czech Republic Under-21 Speedway Champion
2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018	Czech Longtrack Championship
2010	Scottish Open Champion
Team honours
2022	World Longtrack Team silver
2019	World Longtrack Team bronze
1998, 2003	Czech Republic Div One Champion

Josef Franc (born 18 January 1979, in Čáslav, Czech Republic) is a former international motorcycle racer who competed in Grasstrack, Longtrack and motorcycle speedway.[1][2][3][4][5]

Career

He has appeared as a track reserve in the 2007 Czech Republic Speedway Grand Prix, scoring three points from two rides and has represented the Czech Republic national speedway team at senior level.

Franc was the Czech Republic Under-21 Champion in 1999 and was the Czech Republic national champion in 2017 and 2018.[6]

In 2019, he was part of the Czech team, along with Hynek Štichauer and Martin Málek, that won the bronze medal at the 2019 Team Long Track World Championship.[7]

In 2022, he was part of the Czech team, again with Málek and Štichauer, that won the silver medal at the 2022 Team Long Track World Championship.[8]

Individual World Championship and Speedway Grand Prix
- 2003 - 45th place (1 pt in one event)
- 2007 - 28th place (3 pts in one event)
Team World Championship (Speedway World Team Cup and Speedway World Cup)
- 2003 - 6th place (started in Event 1 only)
- 2004 - 6th place
- 2006 - 8th place
- 2007 - 2nd place in Qualifying round 2
Individual U-21 World Championship
- 1999 - Vojens - did not start as track reserve
- 2000 - Gorzów Wlkp. - 6th place (8 pts)

Individual European Championship
- 2002 - Rybnik - 14th place (5 pts)
- 2003 - Slaný - did not start as track reserve
- 2007 - 13th place in Qualifying Round 3
- 2008 - Lendava - 6th place (10 pts)
Individual U-19 European Championship
- 1998 - Krško - 8th place (8 pts)
European Club Champions' Cup
- 2004 - Ljubljana - 4th place (10 pts)

Grand-Prix Years

Best Grand-Prix Results

Team Championship

2010 Morizes (6th) 9/25pts (Rode with Zdenek Schneiderwind, Richard Wolff, Pavel Ondrasik).
2011 Scheeßel (4th) 21/36pts (Rode with Ales Dryml jnr, Richard Wolff, Pavel Ondrasik).
2012 St. Macaire (5th) 16/30 (Rode with Ales Dryml jnr, Richard Wolff, Michael Hadek).
2013 Folkestone (7th) 11/23pts (Rode with Richard Wolff, Karel Kadlec).
2014 Forssa (6th) 13/23pts (Rode with Richard Wolff, Jan Klatovsky).
2015 Mühldorf (6th) 18/30pts (Rode with Richard Wolff, Michal Dudek, Michal Skurla).
2016 Marianske Lazne (Third) 18/42pts (Rode with Hynek Stichauer, Martin Malek).
2017 Roden (4th) 28/43pts (Rode with Hynek Stichauer, Martin Malek).
2018 Morizes (5th) 20/32pts (rode with Martin Malek, Michal Skurla).

Finalist

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Świat Żużla, No 1 (77) / 2009, pages 58-59 ISSN 1429-3285
"2008 Rider index" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
"Franc, Josef". Polish Speedway Database. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
"ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
"Individual Czechoslovakian Championship at Zuzla Indvidual [sic] Czechoslovakian Championship". Historia Sportu Zuzlowego. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
"World Longtrack Championship". GrasstrackGB. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
"2022 RESULTS Herxheim – Long Track of Nations". FIM. Retrieved 15 July 2023.

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