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World speedway event
The Speedway Grand Prix Challenge or Speedway Grand Prix Qualification is an annual
speedway qualifying tournament to determine the qualifiers for the
Speedway Grand Prix , which is the World Championship of speedway.
[1]
History
From 1995 the
Individual World Championship was replaced by the Grand Prix system. The 17 qualifiers for the 1995 Grand Prix were the top 10 from the
1994 World final , 5 seeds and 2 wildcards.
[2]
From 1996, the leading riders from each Grand Prix series would automatically qualifying for the following year's event. The remaining places would be filled by the leading riders in the Challenge event and qualifiers from both the
Continental Speedway Final and
Intercontinental Final .
[3] However, the latter two finals would come to end in 2000 and 2001 respectively.
Format and winners
Year
Format
Winner
Other qualifiers
1996
8 to qualify
Leigh Adams
[4]
Marvyn Cox ,
Peter Karlsson ,
Tommy Knudsen ,
Joe Screen ,
Gary Havelock ,
Craig Boyce ,
Andy Smith
1997
4 to qualify
Simon Wigg
[5]
[6]
Leigh Adams ,
Mikael Karlsson ,
Andy Smith
1998
4 to qualify
Piotr Protasiewicz
[7]
Stefan Dannö ,
Leigh Adams ,
Craig Boyce
1999
8 to qualify
Leigh Adams
[8]
Brian Andersen ,
Henrik Gustafsson ,
Andy Smith ,
Stefan Dannö ,
Mikael Karlsson ,
Joe Screen ,
John Jørgensen
2000
10 to qualify
Billy Hamill
[9]
Mikael Karlsson ,
Carl Stonehewer ,
Brian Karger ,
Henrik Gustafsson ,
Mark Loram ,
Andy Smith ,
Antonín Kasper Jr. ,
Peter Karlsson ,
Brian Andersen
2001
10 to qualify
Peter Karlsson
[10]
Carl Stonehewer ,
Nicki Pedersen ,
Rune Holta ,
Mikael Karlsson ,
Piotr Protasiewicz ,
Jimmy Nilsen ,
Joe Screen ,
Brian Andersen ,
Andy Smith
2002
6 to qualify
Greg Hancock
[11]
Nicki Pedersen ,
Scott Nicholls ,
Lukáš Dryml ,
Carl Stonehewer ,
Andy Smith
2003
6 to qualify
Lee Richardson
[12]
Bohumil Brhel ,
Piotr Protasiewicz ,
Lukáš Dryml ,
Bjarne Pedersen ,
Tomasz Bajerski
2004
6 to qualify
Piotr Protasiewicz
[13]
Bohumil Brhel ,
Bjarne Pedersen ,
Kai Laukkanen ,
Aleš Dryml Jr. ,
Jesper B Jensen
2005
2 to qualify
Antonio Lindbäck
[14]
Tomasz Chrzanowski
2006
No qualifying
2007
3 to qualify
Wiesław Jaguś
[15]
Rune Holta ,
Hans Andersen
2008
3 to qualify
Niels Kristian Iversen
Lukáš Dryml ,
Bjarne Pedersen
2009
3 to qualify
Kenneth Bjerre
Grzegorz Walasek ,
Sebastian Ułamek
2010
3 to qualify
Magnus Zetterström
Chris Holder ,
Jarosław Hampel
2011
3 to qualify
Artem Laguta
Antonio Lindbäck ,
Fredrik Lindgren
2012
3 to qualify
Antonio Lindbäck
Bjarne Pedersen ,
Piotr Protasiewicz
2013
3 to qualify
Krzysztof Kasprzak
Matej Žagar ,
Niels-Kristian Iversen
2014
5 to qualify
Niels-Kristian Iversen +
Krzysztof Kasprzak ,
Kenneth Bjerre ,
Martin Smolinski ,
Chris Harris
2015
4 to qualify
Matej Žagar +
Jason Doyle ,
Chris Harris ,
Maciej Janowski
2016
3 to qualify
Bartosz Zmarzlik
Piotr Pawlicki Jr. ,
Chris Harris
2017
3 to qualify
Patryk Dudek
Martin Vaculík ,
Fredrik Lindgren
2018
3 to qualify
Przemysław Pawlicki
Artem Laguta ,
Craig Cook
2019
3 to qualify
Janusz Kołodziej
Niels-Kristian Iversen ,
Antonio Lindbäck
2020
3 to qualify
Matej Žagar
Niels-Kristian Iversen ,
Max Fricke
2021
3 to qualify
Matej Žagar
Oliver Berntzon ,
Krzysztof Kasprzak
2022
3 to qualify
Paweł Przedpełski
Max Fricke ,
Patryk Dudek
2023
3 to qualify
Kim Nilsson
Jack Holder ,
Max Fricke
2024
3 to qualify
Jason Doyle
Martin Vaculik +,
Szymon Woźniak ,
Jan Kvěch
2025
4 to qualify
[16]
+ Already qualified for the Grand Prix series
See also
References