2005 Speedway Grand Prix

2005 Speedway Grand Prix
Season details
DatesApril 30 - September 9
Events9
Cities9
Countries7
Riders15 permanents
1 wild card(s)
2 track reserves
Heats207 (in 9 events)
Winners
Champion SWE Tony Rickardsson
Runner-up AUS Jason Crump
3rd place AUS Leigh Adams

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

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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

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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 United Kingdom
  • (12) Scott Nicholls United Kingdom
  • (13) Ryan Sullivan Australia
  • (14) Antonio Lindback Sweden
  • (15) Tomasz Chrzanowski Poland

Calendar

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Round Date City and venue Winner Runner-up 3rd placed 4th placed Results
1 30 April Poland Wrocław, Poland
Olympic Stadium
Sweden Tony Rickardsson Australia Leigh Adams Australia Jason Crump Sweden Antonio Lindbäck results
2 11 May Sweden Eskilstuna, Sweden
Smedstadion
Australia Jason Crump Sweden Tony Rickardsson Denmark Bjarne Pedersen Denmark Nicki Pedersen results
3 28 May Slovenia Krško, Slovenia
Matija Gubec Stadium
Sweden Tony Rickardsson Denmark Nicki Pedersen Slovenia Matej Žagar Australia Jason Crump results
4 11 June United Kingdom Cardiff, Great Britain
Millennium Stadium
Sweden Tony Rickardsson Poland Jarosław Hampel Denmark Bjarne Pedersen Denmark Hans N. Andersen results
5 25 June Denmark Copenhagen, Denmark
Parken Stadium
Sweden Tony Rickardsson United States Greg Hancock Sweden Antonio Lindbäck Denmark Nicki Pedersen results
6 29 July Czech Republic Prague, Czech Republic
Markéta Stadium
Sweden Tony Rickardsson Denmark Bjarne Pedersen Poland Jarosław Hampel Australia Jason Crump results
7 13 August Sweden Målilla , Sweden
G&B Stadium
Australia Jason Crump Sweden Andreas Jonsson Sweden Tony Rickardsson Australia Leigh Adams results
8 27 August Poland Bydgoszcz, Poland
Polonia Stadium
Poland Tomasz Gollob United Kingdom Lee Richardson Australia Jason Crump United States Greg Hancock results
9 9 September Italy Lonigo, Italy
Santa Marina Stadium
Sweden Tony Rickardsson Australia Jason Crump United States Greg Hancock Australia Leigh Adams results

Result: EuropeSwedenSloveniaGreat BritainCopenhagenDenmarkScandinaviaPolandItaly

Final classification

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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
United Kingdom
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 United Kingdom (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 United Kingdom (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 United Kingdom (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 United Kingdom (18) Edward Kennett 1 1
28 Sweden (17) Mikael Max 0 0
29 United Kingdom (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
GBR
United Kingdom
DEN
Denmark
CZE
Czech Republic
SCA
Sweden
POL
Poland
ITA
Italy

References

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  1. ^ "WORLD INDIVIDUAL FINAL - RIDER INDEX". British Speedway. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Speedway riders, history and results". wwosbackup. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
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