2007 Speedway Grand Prix season

[edit] Format

The format for 2007 is a revision on that used in 2006 with 16 riders taking part in each Grand Prix and over the course of 20 heats each rider will race against every other rider once. The top 8 scorers advance to a semi-final and from each semi-final the 1st and 2nd placed riders will advance to the GP final.

All rides now count towards Grand Prix points totals, including the semi-final and final, which counts double (6-4-2-0) and therefore the maximum points for a single GP is 24 (5x heat wins, semi final win and final win). This scoring revision was introduced as a result of comments made during 2006 that the 4 finalists received too many points compared to the losing semi-finalists who in turn received little benefit compared to, say, the 9th placed non-qualifier. Also, this format means that the winner of each Grand Prix may not be the rider who scores most GP points from each race.

[edit] Qualification

There were 16 drivers in the 2007 season, of which 15 are permanent, and 1 is a wildcard. Each Grand Prix has two track reserves too. The Series also has racing reserves incase of retirement, or injury.

The riders that qualified for the 2007 Speedway Grand Prix season did so in the following way (and were assigned each particular bike number accordingly).

[edit] Speedway Grand Prix Qualifiers

The top three positions qualified. They were:

13 Wieslaw Jagus
14 Rune Holta
15 Hans Andersen

[edit] The top 8 from the 2006 Speedway Grand Prix season

1 Jason Crump
2 Greg Hancock
3 Nicki Pedersen
4 Andreas Jonsson
5 Leigh Adams
6 Hans Andersen
7 Matej Zagar
8 Tomasz Gollob

Because Andersen had already qualified for the 2007 season based on his 2006 position (he filled in for the retiring Tony Rickardsson half way through the season), he was assigned the Number 6. This enabled the ninth placed rider in 2006 to qualify, as the Number 9.

9 Jaroslaw Hampel

[edit] Nominations

Series promoters held nominations for the final four rides in the 2007 season.

10 Antonio Lindback
11 Scott Nicholls
12 Bjarne Pedersen
15 Chris Harris

[edit] Qualified Reserves

Six qualified reserves are in place in case of injury, retirement etc. to fill in places in the series.

19 Peter Karlsson
20 Kaj Laukkanen
21 Charlie Gjedde
22 Piotr Protasiewicz
23 Ryan Sullivan
24 Matej Ferjan

[edit] Races

Date	Grand Prix	City	Stadium	Winner	Report
April 28	Italy	Lonigo	Santa Marina Stadium	Nicki Pedersen	Report
May 12	Europe	Wroclaw	Olimpic Stadium	Nicki Pedersen	Report
May 26	Sweden	Eskilstuna	Smedstadion	Leigh Adams	Report
June 9	Denmark	Copenhagen	Parken Stadium	Andreas Jonsson	Report
June 30	Great Britain	Cardiff	Millennium Stadium	Chris Harris	Report
July 28	Czech Republic	Prague	Marketa Stadium	Nicki Pedersen	Report
August 11	Template:Country data Nordic Scandinavia	Malilla	G&B Stadium	Leigh Adams	Report
August 25	Latvia	Daugavpils	Spidveja Stadium	Leigh Adams	Report
September 8	Poland	Bydgoszcz	Polonia Stadium	Tomasz Gollob	Report
September 22	Slovenia	Krsko	Matija Gubca Stadium	Nicki Pedersen	Report
October 13	Germany	Gelsenkirchen	Veltins-Arena	Andreas Jonsson	Report

[edit] Standings

Pos	Rider							Template:Country data Nordic					Points
1	Nicki Pedersen	24	23	11	16	12	24	16	19	19	23	9	196
2	Leigh Adams	12	10	21	18	14	8	19	22	9	9	11	153
3	Jason Crump	12	13	4	9	15	11	15	10	7	13	15	124
4	Tomasz Gollob	10	3	9	11	3	1	19	14	22	9	7	108
5	Hans Andersen	9	13	20	12	13	8	12	5	3	3	9	107
6	Greg Hancock	19	15	9	7	17	6	5	3	5	4	16	106
7	Rune Holta	2	6	9	5	5	16	5	7	10	16	10	91
8	Scott Nicholls	4	6	4	7	9	12	8	13	4	16	8	91
9	Chris Harris	7	15	9	5	20	5	6	7	5	9	4	91
10	Andreas Jonsson	7	5	5	16	5	7		8	11	6	20	90
11	Wieslaw Jagus	14	6	6	3	0	9	12	11	5	9	6	81
12	Bjarne Pedersen	5	8	3	5	7	6	7	8	8	9	11	77
13	Jaroslaw Hampel	8	6	5	7	8	16			11	6		67
14	Matej Zagar	5	7	7	1	5	8	3	2	4	6	6	54
15	Antonio Lindback	3	0	3	9	7	0	3	0	5	1		31
16	Fredrik Lindgren			14				7					21
17	Krzystof Kasprzak									17			17
18	Peter Karlsson							5				8	13
19	Kenneth Bjerre				10								10
20	Grigorijs Laguta								8				8
21	Sebastien Ulamek		6										6
22	Jonas Davidsson			5									5
23	Kai Laukkanen							2	3			0	5
24	Jurica Pavlic										5		5
25	David Howe					4							4
26	Lubos Tomicek						4						4
27	Christian Hefenbrock											4	4
28	Josef Franc						3						3
29	Mattia Carpenese	2											2
30	Morten Risager				2								2
31	Maksims Bogdanovs								2				2
32	Tomasz Gapinski		1										1
33	Kasts Poudzuks								1				1
34	Daniele Tessari	0											0
35	Jesper B Jensen				0								0
36	Christian Miotello	0											0
37	Erik Andersson			0									0
38	Matej Kus						0						0
	Edward Kennett					ns
	Tomasz Jedrzejak					ns
	Daniel King		ns
	Krzysztof Buczkowski									ns
	Adrian Miedzinski									ns
	Jernej Kolenko										ns
	Izak Santej										ns
	Martin Smolinski											ns
	Tobias Kroner											ns

Bold names denote regular Speedway Grand Prix riders - all others are either wildcards, or track reserves.
Bold scores denote that the rider won that particular Grand Prix.

The top 8 riders automatically qualify for the 2008 Speedway Grand Prix season.