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.
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.
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. However, the latter two finals would come to end in 2000 and 2001 respectively.
Format and winners YearFormatWinnerOther qualifiers 19968 to qualify Leigh Adams Marvyn Cox, Peter Karlsson, Tommy Knudsen, Joe Screen, Gary Havelock, Craig Boyce, Andy Smith 19974 to qualify Simon Wigg Leigh Adams, Mikael Karlsson, Andy Smith 19984 to qualify Piotr Protasiewicz Stefan Dannö, Leigh Adams, Craig Boyce 19998 to qualify Leigh Adams Brian Andersen, Henrik Gustafsson, Andy Smith, Stefan Dannö, Mikael Karlsson, Joe Screen, John Jørgensen 200010 to qualify Billy Hamill Mikael Karlsson, Carl Stonehewer, Brian Karger, Henrik Gustafsson, Mark Loram, Andy Smith, Antonín Kasper Jr., Peter Karlsson, Brian Andersen 200110 to qualify Peter Karlsson Carl Stonehewer, Nicki Pedersen, Rune Holta, Mikael Karlsson, Piotr Protasiewicz, Jimmy Nilsen, Joe Screen, Brian Andersen, Andy Smith 20026 to qualify Greg Hancock Nicki Pedersen, Scott Nicholls, Lukáš Dryml, Carl Stonehewer, Andy Smith 20036 to qualify Lee Richardson Bohumil Brhel, Piotr Protasiewicz, Lukáš Dryml, Bjarne Pedersen, Tomasz Bajerski 20046 to qualify Piotr Protasiewicz Bohumil Brhel, Bjarne Pedersen, Kai Laukkanen, Aleš Dryml Jr., Jesper B Jensen 20052 to qualify Antonio Lindbäck Tomasz Chrzanowski 2006No qualifying 20073 to qualify Wiesław Jaguś Rune Holta, Hans Andersen 20083 to qualify Niels Kristian Iversen Lukáš Dryml, Bjarne Pedersen 20093 to qualify Kenneth Bjerre Grzegorz Walasek, Sebastian Ułamek 20103 to qualify Magnus Zetterström Chris Holder, Jarosław Hampel 20113 to qualify Artem Laguta Antonio Lindbäck, Fredrik Lindgren 20123 to qualify Antonio Lindbäck Bjarne Pedersen, Piotr Protasiewicz 20133 to qualify Krzysztof Kasprzak Matej Žagar, Niels-Kristian Iversen 20143 to qualify Niels-Kristian Iversen+ Krzysztof Kasprzak, Kenneth Bjerre, Martin Smolinski 20153 to qualify Matej Žagar+ Jason Doyle, Chris Harris, Maciej Janowski 20163 to qualify Bartosz Zmarzlik Piotr Pawlicki Jr., Chris Harris 20173 to qualify Patryk Dudek Martin Vaculík, Fredrik Lindgren 20183 to qualify Przemysław Pawlicki Artem Laguta, Craig Cook 20193 to qualify Janusz Kołodziej Niels-Kristian Iversen, Antonio Lindbäck 20203 to qualify Matej Žagar Niels-Kristian Iversen, Max Fricke 20213 to qualify Matej Žagar Oliver Berntzon, Krzysztof Kasprzak 20223 to qualify Paweł Przedpełski Max Fricke, Patryk Dudek 20233 to qualify Kim Nilsson Jack Holder, Max Fricke 20243 to qualify Jason Doyle Martin Vaculik+, Szymon Woźniak, Jan Kvěch 20254 to qualify Brady Kurtz Anders Thomsen, Dominik Kubera, Max Fricke 20264 to qualify Dominik Kubera Kacper Woryna, Leon Madsen, Andžejs Ļebedevs+, Michael Jepsen Jensen 20274 to qualify Robert Lambert Rohan Tungate, Kacper Woryna, Kim Nilsson
+ Already qualified for the Grand Prix series
See also Motorcycle speedway Speedway Grand Prix
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