2005 Speedway Grand Prix
| 2005 Speedway Grand Prix | |
|---|---|
| Season details | |
| Dates | April 30 - September 9 |
| Events | 9 |
| Cities | 9 |
| Countries | 7 |
| Riders | 15 permanents 1 wild card(s) 2 track reserves |
| Heats | 207 (in 9 events) |
| Winners | |
| Champion | File:Flag of Sweden.svg SWE Tony Rickardsson |
| Runner-up | File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg AUS Jason Crump |
| 3rd place | File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg AUS Leigh Adams |
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The 2005 Speedway Grand Prix was the 60th edition of the official World Championship[1][2] and the 11th season in the Speedway Grand Prix era used to determine the Speedway World Champion.
Event format
[edit | edit source]The format was changed for GP 2005 with 16 riders (instead of 24) taking part in each Grand Prix event, and over the course of 20 heats each rider started in 5 heats and raced against every other rider once (which is the classical round-robin formula of the individual tournament). The top eight scorers advanced to two semi-final heats, and the first and second riders from each semi-final advanced to the GP final heat. All riders apart from the qualifiers for the final carried forward the points earned in the round-robin round over the course of the season. The riders in the final received points (for the whole tournament, irrespective of how many points they had earned) as follows:
- 1st place = 25 points
- 2nd place = 20 points
- 3rd place = 18 points
- 4th place = 16 points
This formula was very similar to that in effect during the 1995-1997 GP editions, the difference being such that then all the 16 riders after the 20 heat round-robin round started in one additional heat (those from places 13–16 after round-robin in 21st, 9–12 in 22nd, 5–8 in 23rd, 1–4 in 24th being the Great Final), and all 16 received a constant number of points for a given place in a tournament (irrespective of how many points they had earned).
Qualification for Grand Prix
[edit | edit source]For the 2005 season, there were 15 permanent riders, joined at each Grand Prix by one wild card. They were, in rider number order:
- (1) Jason Crump Australia
- (2) Tony Rickardsson Sweden
- (3) Greg Hancock United States
- (4) Leigh Adams Australia
- (5) Nicki Pedersen Denmark
- (6) Tomasz Gollob Poland
- (7) Andreas Jonsson Sweden
- (8) Jarosław Hampel Poland
- (9) Hans Andersen Denmark
- (10) Bjarne Pedersen Denmark
- (11) Lee Richardson Error creating thumbnail:
- (12) Scott Nicholls Error creating thumbnail:
- (13) Ryan Sullivan Australia
- (14) Antonio Lindback Sweden
- (15) Tomasz Chrzanowski Poland
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Calendar
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Result: Europe • Sweden • Slovenia • Great Britain • Copenhagen • Denmark • Scandinavia • Poland • Italy
Final classification
[edit | edit source]| Qualifies for next season's Grand Prix series |
| Full-time Grand Prix rider |
| Wild card, track reserve or qualified reserve |
| Pos. | Rider | Points | EUR Poland |
SWE Sweden |
SVN Slovenia |
GBR Error creating thumbnail: |
DEN Denmark |
CZE Czech Republic |
SCA Sweden |
POL Poland |
ITA Italy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Sweden (2) Tony Rickardsson | 196 | 25 | 20 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 18 | 8 | 25 |
| Silver | Australia (1) Jason Crump | 154 | 18 | 25 | 16 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 25 | 18 | 20 |
| Bronze | Australia (4) Leigh Adams | 106 | 20 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 16 | 11 | 16 |
| 4 | Denmark (5) Nicki Pedersen | 102 | 10 | 16 | 20 | 6 | 16 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 5 |
| 5 | United States (3) Greg Hancock | 100 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 20 | 7 | 8 | 16 | 18 |
| 6 | Denmark (10) Bjarne Pedersen | 90 | 4 | 18 | 3 | 18 | 3 | 20 | 7 | 7 | 10 |
| 7 | Poland (6) Tomasz Gollob | 83 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 25 | 4 |
| 8 | Sweden (7) Andreas Jonsson | 80 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 20 | 10 | 10 |
| 9 | Error creating thumbnail: (12) Scott Nicholls | 72 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 6 |
| 10 | Sweden (14) Antonio Lindbäck | 71 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 18 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 5 |
| 11 | Poland (8) Jarosław Hampel | 67 | 10 | – | – | 20 | 8 | 18 | 5 | 6 | – |
| 12 | Denmark (9) Hans N. Andersen | 64 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 8 |
| 13 | Error creating thumbnail: (11) Lee Richardson | 55 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 20 | 6 |
| 14 | Australia (13) Ryan Sullivan | 45 | 7 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 2 | – |
| 15 | Poland (15) Tomasz Chrzanowski | 28 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 16 | Slovenia (16) Matej Žagar | 23 | – | – | 18 | – | – | – | – | – | 5 |
| 17 | Denmark (19) Kenneth Bjerre | 12 | – | 8 | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 18 | Poland (16) Piotr Protasiewicz | 11 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 11 | – |
| 19 | Denmark (16) Niels Kristian Iversen | 7 | – | – | – | – | 7 | – | – | – | – |
| 20 | Norway (16) Rune Holta | 6 | – | 6 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 21 | Sweden (21) Stefan Andersson | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 5 |
| 22 | Poland (16) (17) Krzysztof Kasprzak | 4 | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | – | ns | – |
| 23 | Error creating thumbnail: (16) David Norris | 4 | – | – | – | 4 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 24 | Sweden (16) Jonas Davidsson | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | – | – |
| 25 | Russia (23) Roman Povazhny | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 |
| 26 | Czech Republic (16) Aleš Dryml, Jr. | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | – | – | – |
| 27 | Error creating thumbnail: (18) Edward Kennett | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 28 | Sweden (17) Mikael Max | 0 | – | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 29 | Error creating thumbnail: (17) Simon Stead | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 30 | Sweden (18) Peter Nahlin | 0 | – | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 31 | Italy (18) Daniele Tessari | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 |
| Rider(s) not classified | |||||||||||
| Poland (17) Janusz Kołodziej | ns | ns | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Slovenia (17) Izak Šantej | ns | - | - | ns | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Denmark (17) Charlie Gjedde | ns | - | - | - | - | ns | - | - | - | - | |
| Czech Republic (17) Bohumil Brhel | ns | - | - | - | - | - | ns | - | - | - | |
| Sweden (17) Peter Ljung | ns | - | - | - | - | - | - | ns | - | - | |
| Italy (17) Simone Terenzani | ns | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ns | |
| Poland (18) Adrian Miedziński | ns | ns | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Slovenia (18) Denis Štojs | ns | - | - | ns | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Denmark (18) Mads Korneliussen | ns | - | - | - | - | ns | - | - | - | - | |
| Czech Republic (18) Lukáš Dryml | ns | - | - | - | - | - | ns | - | - | - | |
| Sweden (18) Fredrik Lindgren | ns | - | - | - | - | - | - | ns | - | - | |
| Poland (18) Karol Ząbik | ns | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ns | - | |
| Pos. | Rider | Points | EUR Poland |
SWE Sweden |
SVN Slovenia |
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DEN Denmark |
CZE Czech Republic |
SCA Sweden |
POL Poland |
ITA Italy |
