2017 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification

The 2017 Individual Speedway World Championship Grand Prix Qualification was a series of motorcycle speedway meetings that were used to determine the three riders that qualified for the 2017 Speedway Grand Prix. The series consisted of four qualifying rounds at Terenzano, Slangerup, King's Lynn and Abensberg, two semi-finals at Goričan and Lonigo and then the Grand Prix Challenge at Vetlanda.[1] The three riders that qualified were Patryk Dudek, Martin Vaculík and Fredrik Lindgren.

Qualifying rounds

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Round One

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Pos. Rider Points Details
1 Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik 12 (3,1,3,2,3)
2 Denmark Mikkel Bech Jensen 11+3 (2,3,1,3,2)
3 Finland Timo Lahti 11+2 (1,3,1,3,3)
4 Ukraine Andrey Karpov 11+1 (3,3,3,0,2)
5 Slovakia Martin Vaculík 10 (3,R,2,2,3)
6 Sweden Thomas H. Jonasson 10 (2,3,2,2,1)
7 Latvia Andžejs Ļebedevs 9 (2,2,2,1,2)
8 Denmark Anders Thomsen 8+3 (0,2,X,3,3)
9 Sweden Linus Sundström 8+2 (3,1,1,1,2)
10 Russia Vadim Tarasenko 8+1 (1,0,3,3,1)
11 United Kingdom Chris Harris 7 (2,2,2,0,1)
12 Australia Nick Morris 5 (0,2,0,2,1)
13 Czech Republic Eduard Krčmář 4 (0,1,3,R,0)
14 Norway Glenn Moi 3 (1,1,R,1,0)
15 Australia Rohan Tungate 2 (1,0,1,0,0)
16 Latvia Oļegs Mihailovs 1 (0,R,0,1,0)
Denmark Leon Madsen DNS
Denmark Mikkel Michelsen DNS

Round Two

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Pos. Rider Points Details
1 Poland Piotr Pawlicki Jr. 14 (3,3,3,3,2)
2 Sweden Kim Nilsson 13 (3,1,3,3,3)
3 Denmark Michael Jepsen Jensen 12 (2,2,3,2,3)
4 Sweden Peter Ljung 10 (3,2,1,3,1)
5 Poland Krzysztof Buczkowski 10 (3,3,1,1,2)
6 Italy Nicolás Covatti 10 (2,1,2,3,2)
7 Germany Kai Huckenbeck 9+3 (1,3,2,F,3)
8 Croatia Jurica Pavlic 9+2 (0,3,1,2,3)
9 Italy Michele Paco Castagna 7 (2,2,0,2,1)
10 Ukraine Stanislaw Mielniczuk 6 (2,0,3,0,1)
11 Germany René Deddens 5 (1,F,0,2,2)
12 Hungary Norbert Magosi 5 (1,1,2,1,0)
13 Slovenia Nick Škorja 5 (0,1,2,1,1)
14 Slovenia Matic Ivačič 4 (1,2,1,0,0)
15 Argentina Jonathan Iturre 1 (F,0,R,1,R)
16 Italy Alessandro Milanese 0 (0,0,0,0,0)
Italy Giorgio Trentin DNS

Round Three

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Pos. Rider Points Details
1 Sweden Fredrik Lindgren 13 (3,3,3,2,2)
2 Poland Krzysztof Kasprzak 12+3 (3,F,3,3,3)
3 Denmark Kenneth Bjerre 12+2 (1,3,3,2,3)
4 Denmark Hans N. Andersen 11 (2,3,2,3,1)
5 Finland Joonas Kylmäkorpi 10 (3,2,2,3,T)
6 Australia Sam Masters 10 (2,1,3,3,1)
7 Australia Brady Kurtz 9 (1,2,1,2,3)
8 United Kingdom Craig Cook 8+3 (3,3,0,F,2)
9 United Kingdom Robert Lambert 8+2 (2,2,0,1,3)
10 United States Ricky Wells 7 (1,2,2,1,1)
11 Czech Republic Matěj Kůs 5 (2,1,1,2,F)
12 United Kingdom Jason Garrity 5 (1,0,2,0,2)
13 New Zealand Bradley Wilson-Dean 3 (F,1,1,1,0)
14 United Kingdom Lewis Kerr 2 (-,-,-,-,2)
15 Norway Lasse Fredriksen 2 (F,0,1,1,0)
16 France Alexandre Dubrana 2 (0,1,0,0,1)
17 France Gabriel Dubernard 0 (0,F,0,0,0)
United Kingdom Lewis Bridger DNS

Round Four

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Pos. Rider Points Details
1 Australia Max Fricke 9 (3,3,3)
2 Germany Martin Smolinski 9 (3,3,3)
3 Poland Tomasz Jędrzejak 8 (3,3,2)
4 Poland Patryk Dudek 7 (3,2,2)
5 Austria Dany Gappmaier 6 (1,2,3)
6 Russia Sergey Logachev 5 (2,3,U)
7 Hungary József Tabaka 5 (2,1,2)
8 United Kingdom Danny King 4 (T,1,3)
9 Germany Kevin Wölbert 4 (1,2,1)
10 Czech Republic Hynek Štichauer 3 (1,2,W)
11 Czech Republic Tomáš Suchánek 3 (2,W,1)
12 Latvia Artjoms Trofimovs 2 (W,0,2)
13 Germany Erik Riss 2 (2,W.-)
14 Slovenia Žiga Kovačič 2 (1,1,0)
15 France Xavier Muratet 2 (D,1,1)
16 Germany Michael Härtel 0 (D,0,W)
17 Germany Mark Riss 0 (D,-,W)
  • The meeting was abandoned after 12 heats. Result stood.

Semi-finals

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Semi-final 1

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Pos. Rider Points Details
1 Poland Piotr Pawlicki Jr. 15 (3,3,3,3,3)
2 Poland Krzysztof Kasprzak 14 (2,3,3,3,3)
3 Denmark Kenneth Bjerre 11 (3,3,1,3,1)
4 Australia Sam Masters 11 (3,2,2,3,1)
5 Poland Krzysztof Buczkowski 9 (1,1,3,2,2)
6 Sweden Peter Ljung 9 (2,2,1,2,2)
7 Denmark Hans N. Andersen 8 (1,1,2,1,3)
8 Slovakia Martin Vaculík 7+3 (0,3,0,2,2)
9 Czech Republic Václav Milík 7+2 (1,2,2,2,D)
10 Latvia Andžejs Ļebedevs 7+1 (0,2,1,1,3)
11 Ukraine Andrey Karpov 7+0 (2,1,3,0,1)
12 Finland Timo Lahti 4 (3,0,1,0,0)
13 Sweden Kim Nilsson 4 (0,1,0,1,2)
14 Croatia Jurica Pavlic 4 (2,0,0,1,1)
15 Germany Kai Huckenbeck 2 (W,0,2,0,0)
16 Hungary József Tabaka 0 (W,0,0,0,0)
Denmark Anders Thomsen DNR
United Kingdom Danny King DNR

Semi-final 2

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Pos. Rider Points Details
1 Poland Patryk Dudek 9 (3,3,3)
2 Poland Tomasz Jędrzejak 8 (2,3,3)
3 Australia Max Fricke 7 (3,1,3)
4 Italy Nicolás Covatti 7 (3,2,2)
5 United Kingdom Robert Lambert 6 (3,3,0)
6 Australia Brady Kurtz 6 (1,3,2)
7 Germany Martin Smolinski 5 (0,2,3)
8 Denmark Mikkel Bech Jensen 5 (2,2,1)
9 United Kingdom Craig Cook 4 (2,0,2)
10 Sweden Tomas H. Jonasson 4 (1,1,2)
11 Denmark Michael Jepsen Jensen 4 (1,2,1)
12 Sweden Fredrik Lindgren 3 (2,0,1)
13 Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik 2 (1,1,W)
14 Italy Michele Paco Castagna 1 (0,0,1)
15 Ukraine Stanislaw Mielniczuk 1 (-,-,1)
16 Russia Sergey Logachev 0 (0,0,U)
17 Austria Dany Gappmaier 0 (0,T,0)
  • The meeting was abandoned after 12 heats. Result stood.

2016 Speedway Grand Prix Challenge

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Grand Prix Challenge

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  • 3 September 2016
  • Sweden Vetlanda[8]
  • Lindgren and Vaculík were nominated as wildcards.
Pos. Rider Points Details
1 Poland Patryk Dudek 15 (3,3,3,3,3)
2 Slovakia Martin Vaculík 14 (3,2,3,3,3)
3 Sweden Fredrik Lindgren 11+3 (2,3,2,2,2)
4 Denmark Kenneth Bjerre 11+2 (1,3,2,3,2)
5 Germany Martin Smolinski 10 (2,2,2,1,3)
6 Sweden Peter Ljung 9 (0,3,3,2,1)
7 Poland Krzysztof Kasprzak 7 (1,0,3,3,0)
8 Italy Nicolás Covatti 7 (0,2,R,2,3)
9 Poland Piotr Pawlicki Jr. 6 (3,2,1,0,-)
10 Australia Max Fricke 6 (2,1,1,0,2)
11 Australia Sam Masters 5 (3,1,0,1,0)
12 Denmark Mikkel Bech Jensen 5 (2,0,0,2,1)
13 Australia Brady Kurtz 5 (0,1,2,1,1)
14 Poland Krzysztof Buczkowski 5 (1,1,1,1,1)
15 Poland Tomasz Jędrzejak 3 (F,0,1,R,2)
16 United Kingdom Robert Lambert 1 (1,0,0,0,0)
17 Czech Republic Václav Milík 0 (-,-,-,-,R)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "2017 Grand Prix Qualification schedule". FIM.
  2. ^ "2016 Slangerup qualifier". World Speedway.
  3. ^ "2016 Terenzano qualifier". World Speedway.
  4. ^ "2016 King's Lynn qualifier". World Speedway).
  5. ^ "2016 Abensberg qualifier". Sportowe Fakty (In Polish).
  6. ^ "2016 Goričan qualifier". Sportowe Fakty (In Polish).
  7. ^ "2016 Lonigo qualifier". Sportowe Fakty (In Polish).
  8. ^ "2016 Grand Prix Challenge". baansportfansite.nl (In Dutch).