2005 Speedway Grand Prix

The 2005 Speedway Grand Prix season is the eleventh season in the Speedway Grand Prix era and is used to determine the Speedway World Champion.

Event format

The format was new for 2005 with 16 riders taking part in each Grand Prix, rather than 24, 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 riders apart from the qualifiers for the final carry forward the points earned in the first 20 heats over the course of the season. The riders placing in the final receive points as follows:-

* 1st place = 25 points
* 2nd place = 20 points
* 3rd place = 18 points
* 4th place = 16 points

Qualification for Grand Prix

For the 2005 season, there were 15 permanent riders, to be joined at each Grand Prix by one wild card. They were, in rider number order:-

* Jason Crump flagicon|AUS
* Tony Rickardsson flagicon|SWE
* Greg Hancock flagicon|USA
* Leigh Adams flagicon|AUS
* Nicki Pedersen flagicon|DEN
* Tomasz Gollob flagicon|POL
* Andreas Jonsson flagicon|SWE
* Jarosław Hampel flagicon|POL
* Hans Andersen flagicon|DEN
* Bjarne Pedersen flagicon|DEN
* Lee Richardson flagicon|GBR
* Scott Nicholls flagicon|GBR
* Ryan Sullivan flagicon|AUS
* Antonio Lindback flagicon|SWE
* Tomasz Chrzanowski flagicon|POL

2005 Event Schedule and Winners

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Result: [http://www.speedwayworld.tv/en/sgpresult/m1230 Europe] • [http://www.speedwayworld.tv/en/sgpresult/m1285 Sweden] • [http://www.speedwayworld.tv/en/sgpresult/m1384 Slovenia] • [http://www.speedwayworld.tv/en/sgpresult/m1453 Great Britain] • [http://www.speedwayworld.tv/en/sgpresult/m1539 Copenhagen] • [http://www.speedwayworld.tv/en/sgpresult/m1577 Denmark] • [http://www.speedwayworld.tv/en/sgpresult/m1788 Scandinavia] • [http://www.speedwayworld.tv/en/sgpresult/m1852 Poland] • [http://www.speedwayworld.tv/en/sgpresult/m1938 Italy]

The Final overall Grand Prix classification

SGP Table|EUR |SWE |SVN |GBR |DNK |CZE |SCA |POL |ITA |RIDERS=SGP Table/rider|Q|1 |SWE|2| Tony Rickardsson | 196
25|20|25|25|25|25|18|8 |25SGP Table/rider|Q|2 |AUS|1| Jason Crump | 154
18|25|16|4 |12|16|25|18|20SGP Table/rider|Q|3 |AUS|4| Leigh Adams | 107
20|13|9 |7 |7 |8 |16|11|16SGP Table/rider|Q|4 |DEN|5| Nicki Pedersen | 102
10|16|20|6 |16|10|10|9 |5 SGP Table/rider|Q|5 |USA|3| Greg Hancock | 100
11|6 |8 |6 |20|7 |8 |16|18SGP Table/rider|Q|6 |DEN|10| Bjarne Pedersen | 90
4 |18|3 |18|3 |20|7 |7 |10SGP Table/rider|Q|7 |POL|6| Tomasz Gollob | 83
6 |6 |10|8 |6 |9 |9 |25|4 SGP Table/rider|Q|8 |SWE|7| Andreas Jonsson | 80
8 |1 |3 |12|8 |8 |20|10|10SGP Table/rider|P|9 |GBR|12| Scott Nicholls | 72
6 |7 |8 |9 |4 |14|10|8 |6 SGP Table/rider|P|10|SWE|14| Antonio Lindbäck | 71
16|8 |3 |8 |18|6 |7 |0 |5 SGP Table/rider|P|11|POL|8| Jarosław Hampel | 67
10| -| -|20|8 |18|5 |6 | -SGP Table/rider|P|12|DEN|9| Hans Nørgaard Andersen | 64
2 |8 |9 |16|8 |3 |5 |5 |8 SGP Table/rider|P|13|GBR|11| Lee Richardson | 55
5 |3 | 3|5 |6 |4 |3 |20|6 SGP Table/rider|P|14|AUS|13| Ryan Sullivan | 45
7 |3 |13|1 |5 |9 |5 |2 | -SGP Table/rider|P|15|POL|15| Tomasz Chrzanowski | 28
4 |4 |2 |7 |2 |1 |1 |1 |6 SGP Table/rider|W|16|SVN|16| Matej Žagar | 23
-| -|18| -| -| -| -| -|5 SGP Table/rider|W|17|DEN|19| Kenneth Bjerre | 12
-|8 |4 | -| -| -| -| -| -SGP Table/rider|W|18|POL|16| Piotr Protasiewicz | 11
-| -| -| -| -| -| -|11| -SGP Table/rider|W|19|DEN|16| Niels Kristian Iversen | 7
-| -| -| -|7 | -| -| -| -SGP Table/rider|W|20|NOR|16| Rune Holta | 6
-| 6| -| -| -| -| -| -| -SGP Table/rider|W|21|SWE|21| Stefan Andersson | 5
-| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| 5SGP Table/rider|W|22|POL|16) (17| [Kasprzak in European SGP started with number 16, in Polish SGP with number 17.] Krzysztof Kasprzak | 4
4| -| -| -| -| -| -| ns| -SGP Table/rider|W|23|GBR|16| David Norris | 4
-| -| -|4 | -| -| -| -| -SGP Table/rider|W|24|SWE|16| Jonas Davidsson | 4
-| -| -| -| -| -|4 | -| -SGP Table/rider|W|25|RUS|23| Roman Powazhnyj | 4
-| -| -| -| -| -| -| -|4 SGP Table/rider|W|26|CZE|16| Aleš Dryml, Jr. | 3
-| -| -| -| -|2 | -| -| -SGP Table/rider|W|27|GBR|18| Edward Kennett | 1
-| -| -|1 | -| -| -| -| -SGP Table/rider|W|28|SWE|17| Mikael Max | 0
-|0 | -| -| -| -| -| -| -SGP Table/rider|W|29|GBR|17| Simon Stead | 0
-| -| -|0 | -| -| -| -| -SGP Table/rider|W|30|SWE|18| Peter Nahlin | 0
-|0 | -| -| -| -| -| -| -SGP Table/rider|W|31|ITA|18| Daniele Tessari | 0
-| -| -| -| -| -| -| -|0 SGP Table/rider|W| |POL|17| Janusz Kołodziej | ns
ns| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -SGP Table/rider|R| |SVN|17| Izak Šantej | ns
-| -|ns| -| -| -| -| -| -SGP Table/rider|R| |DEN|17| Charlie Gjedde | ns
-| -| -| -|ns| -| -| -| -SGP Table/rider|R| |CZE|17| Bohumil Brhel | ns
-| -| -| -| -|ns| -| -| -SGP Table/rider|R| |SWE|17| Peter Ljung | ns
-| -| -| -| -| -|ns| -| -SGP Table/rider|R| |ITA|17| Simone Terenzani | ns
-| -| -| -| -| -| -| -|nsSGP Table/rider|R| |POL|18| Adrian Miedziński | ns
ns| -| -| -| -| -| -| -| -SGP Table/rider|R| |SVN|18| Denis Stojs | ns
-| -|ns| -| -| -| -| -| -SGP Table/rider|R| |DEN|18| Mads Korneliussen | ns
-| -| -| -|ns| -| -| -| -SGP Table/rider|R| |CZE|18| Lukáš Dryml | ns
-| -| -| -| -|ns| -| -| -SGP Table/rider|R| |SWE|18| Fredrik Lindgren | ns
-| -| -| -| -| -|ns| -| -SGP Table/rider|R| |POL|18| Karol Ząbik | ns
-| -| -| -| -| -| -|ns| -

External links

* [http://www.speedwayworld.tv/en/sgp/a5939 List of results from Official Speedway GP site]