2008 Speedway Grand Prix

The 2008 Speedway Grand Prix season will be the fourteenth season in the Speedway Grand Prix era and is used to determine the Speedway World Champion. It is the second under the promotion of IMG.

Event format

The format for 2008 is the same as that used in 2007 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 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 format means that the winner of each Grand Prix may not be the rider who scores most GP points from each race.

Qualification

For the 2008 season, there will be 15 permanent riders, to be joined at each Grand Prix by one wild card and two track reserves.

2008 Riders

Cities of the 2008 Grand Prix

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Calendar

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The intermediate classification

References

See also

External links

* (en) [http://www.speedwayworld.tv/en/sgplatest/show_gp SpeedwayWorld.tv - SGP news]