2001 Speedway Grand Prix

The 2001 Speedway Grand Prix season was the seventh season in the Speedway Grand Prix era and is used to determine the Speedway World Champion.

Event format

The system first used in 1998 continued to be adopted with 24 riders, divided into two classes. The eight best would be directly qualified for the "Main Event", while the sixteen others would be knocked out if they finished out of the top two in 4-man heats on two occasions - while they would go through if they finished inside the top two on two occasions. This resulted in 10 heats, where eight proceeded to the Main Event, where exactly the same system was applied to give eight riders to a semi-final.

The semi-finals were then two heats of four, where the top two qualified for a final and the last two going towards the consolation final. The 4 finalists scored 25, 20, 18 and 16 points, with 5th to 8th scoring 15, 14, 12 and 10 point, and after that 8, 8, 7, 7, etc. Places after 8th place were awarded according to the time a rider was knocked out and, secondly, according to position in the last heat he rode in.

Qualification for Grand Prix

The 2001 season had 22 permanent riders and two wild cards at each event. The permanent riders are highlighted in the results table below.

Joe Screen had also qualified as a permanent rider for the 2001 season however as a result of injury he did not take part in any Grand Prix. He was replaced by first reserve, Henrik Gustafsson.

2001 Event Schedule and Winners

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Final 2001 standings

SGP Table|GER|GBR|DEN|CZE|POL|SWE|RIDERS=SGP Table/rider|Q|1 |SWE|3| Tony Rickardsson |121
16|25|25|20|20|15SGP Table/rider|Q|2 |AUS|4| Jason Crump |113
5|20|20|18|25|25SGP Table/rider|Q|3 |POL|7| Tomasz Gollob |89
25|18|16|16| 8| 6SGP Table/rider|Q|4 |AUS|9| Ryan Sullivan |80
10|15| 8|15|14|18SGP Table/rider|Q|5 |AUS|6| Leigh Adams |69
12| 8|18|10| 7|14SGP Table/rider|Q|6 |USA|2| Billy Hamill |61
5| 3| 4|25|16| 8SGP Table/rider|Q|7 |SWE|15| Mikael Karlsson |59
2| 2|12| 5|18|20SGP Table/rider|Q|8 |AUS|8| Todd Wiltshire |56
14|14|14| 6| 3| 5SGP Table/rider|Q|9 |GBR|1| Mark Loram |54
6| 8| 5| 7|12|16SGP Table/rider|Q|10|SWE|21| Niklas Klingberg |54
4|16|15| 8| 4| 7SGP Table/rider|P|11|DEN|13| Nicki Pedersen |52
18| 7| 7| 6| 8| 6SGP Table/rider|P|12|GBR|12| Carl Stonehewer |46
7| 5| 4|12| 6|12SGP Table/rider|P|13|USA|5| Greg Hancock |43
8| 6| 5| 4|10|10SGP Table/rider|P|14|NOR|14| Rune Holta |41
1| 2|10| 8|15| 5SGP Table/rider|P|15|SWE|11| Peter Karlsson |39
15| -| 8| 2| 6| 8SGP Table/rider|W|16|POL|26| Grzegorz Walasek |34
-|10| 6|14| 4| -SGP Table/rider|W|17|SWE|25| Henrik Gustafsson |33
20| 3| 2| 3| 2| 3SGP Table/rider|P|18|DEN|19| Brian Andersen |23
8| 5| 3| 4| 1| 2SGP Table/rider|P|19|SVN|22| Matej Ferjan |21
7| 7| 1| 2| 3| 1SGP Table/rider|P|20|POL|16| Piotr Protasiewicz |20
4| 6| 1| 5| 2| 2SGP Table/rider|P|21|SWE|17| Jimmy Nilsen |20
1|12| 7| -| -| -SGP Table/rider|P|22|GBR|20| Andy Smith |12
3| 1| 2| 1| 1| 4SGP Table/rider|W|23|CZE|23) (27| Antonín Kasper, Jr. |11
-| -| -| 3| 5| 3SGP Table/rider|W|24|CZE|24| Bohumil Brhel |7
-| -| -| 7| -| -SGP Table/rider|W|25|POL|24| Jarosław Hampel |7
-| -| -| -| 7| -SGP Table/rider|W|26|SWE|24| Andreas Jonsson |7
-| -| -| -| -| 7SGP Table/rider|P|27|GBR|10| Chris Louis |6
3| 1| -| 1| -| 1SGP Table/rider|W|28|GER|23| Robert Barth |6
6| -| -| -| -| -SGP Table/rider|W|29|DEN|23| Hans Clausen |6
-| -| 6| -| -| -SGP Table/rider|W|30|POL|23| Krzysztof Cegielski |5
-| -| -| -| 5| -SGP Table/rider|W|31|GBR|23| Martin Dugard |4
-| 4| -| -| -| -SGP Table/rider|W|32|SWE|23| Stefan Andersson |4
-| -| -| -| -| 4SGP Table/rider|W|33|GBR|24| Scott Nicholls |4
-| 4| -| -| -| -SGP Table/rider|W|34|DEN|24| Jesper B. Jensen |3
-| -| 3| -| -| -SGP Table/rider|W|35|GER|24| Mirko Wolter |2
2| -| -| -| -| -SGP Table/rider|P| |GBR|18| Joe Screen |-
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External links

* [http://www.speedwayworld.tv/ Official Speedway GP site]