2005 Speedway Grand Prix

2005 Speedway Grand Prix
Season details
Dates	April 30 - September 9
Events	9 in 9 cities in 7 countries
Riders	15 permanents, 1 wild card(s), 2 track reserves
Heats	207 (in 9 events)
Champion	SWE Tony Rickardsson
Runner-up	AUS Jason Crump
3rd place	AUS Leigh Adams

The 2005 Speedway Grand Prix season is the 11th season in the Speedway Grand Prix era and is used to determine the Speedway World Champion.

Event format

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 will start in 5 heats and race against every other rider once (which is the classical round-robin formula of the individual tournament). The top 8 scorers advance to two semi-final heats, and the 1st and 2nd riders from each semi-final advance to the GP final heat. All riders apart from the qualifiers for the final carry forward the points earned in the round-robin round over the course of the season. The riders in the final receive points (for the whole tournament, irrespective of how many points they actually earned) as follows:

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

This formula was basically identical 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 amount of points for a given place in a tournament (irrespective of how many points they actually earned).

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:

• (1) Jason Crump
• (2) Tony Rickardsson
• (3) Greg Hancock
• (4) Leigh Adams
• (5) Nicki Pedersen
• (6) Tomasz Gollob
• (7) Andreas Jonsson
• (8) Jarosław Hampel
• (9) Hans Andersen
• (10) Bjarne Pedersen
• (11) Lee Richardson
• (12) Scott Nicholls
• (13) Ryan Sullivan
• (14) Antonio Lindback
• (15) Tomasz Chrzanowski

2005 Event Schedule and Winners

	Date	Grand Prix of	Stadium	City	Winner
1	April 30	Europe	Olympic Stadium	Wrocław	Tony Rickardsson	result
2	May 11	Sweden	Smedstadium	Eskilstuna	Jason Crump	result
3	May 28	Slovenia	Matije Gubca Stadium	Krško	Tony Rickardsson	result
4	June 11	Great Britain	Millennium Stadium	Cardiff	Tony Rickardsson	result
5	June 25	Denmark	Parken Stadium	Copenhagen	Tony Rickardsson	result
6	July 29	Czech Republic	Marketa Stadium	Praha	Tony Rickardsson	result
7	August 13	Scandinavia	G&B Stadium	Målilla	Jason Crump	result
8	August 27	Poland	Polonia Stadium	Bydgoszcz	Tomasz Gollob	result
9	September 9	Italy	Motoclub Lonigo	Lonigo	Tony Rickardsson	result

Result: Europe • Sweden • Slovenia • Great Britain • Copenhagen • Denmark • Scandinavia • Poland • Italy

Final classification

Qualifies for next season's Grand Prix series

Full-time Grand Prix rider

Wild card, track reserve or qualified reserve

Pos.	Rider	Points	EUR	SWE	SVN	GBR	DEN	CZE	SCA	POL	ITA
1	(2) Tony Rickardsson	196	25	20	25	25	25	25	18	8	25
2	(1) Jason Crump	154	18	25	16	4	12	16	25	18	20
3	(4) Leigh Adams	107	20	13	9	7	7	8	16	11	16
4	(5) Nicki Pedersen	102	10	16	20	6	16	10	10	9	5
5	(3) Greg Hancock	100	11	6	8	6	20	7	8	16	18
6	(10) Bjarne Pedersen	90	4	18	3	18	3	20	7	7	10
7	(6) Tomasz Gollob	83	6	6	10	8	6	9	9	25	4
8	(7) Andreas Jonsson	80	8	1	3	12	8	8	20	10	10
9	(12) Scott Nicholls	72	6	7	8	9	4	14	10	8	6
10	(14) Antonio Lindbäck	71	16	8	3	8	18	6	7	0	5
11	(8) Jarosław Hampel	67	10	-	-	20	8	18	5	6	-
12	(9) Hans N. Andersen	64	2	8	9	16	8	3	5	5	8
13	(11) Lee Richardson	55	5	3	3	5	6	4	3	20	6
14	(13) Ryan Sullivan	45	7	3	13	1	5	9	5	2	-
15	(15) Tomasz Chrzanowski	28	4	4	2	7	2	1	1	1	6
16	(16) Matej Žagar	23	-	-	18	-	-	-	-	-	5
17	(19) Kenneth Bjerre	12	-	8	4	-	-	-	-	-	-
18	(16) Piotr Protasiewicz	11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	11	-
19	(16) Niels Kristian Iversen	7	-	-	-	-	7	-	-	-	-
20	(16) Rune Holta	6	-	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
21	(21) Stefan Andersson	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5
22	(16) (17) Krzysztof Kasprzak	4	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	ns	-
23	(16) David Norris	4	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-
24	(16) Jonas Davidsson	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-
25	(23) Roman Povazhny	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4
26	(16) Aleš Dryml, Jr.	3	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-
27	(18) Edward Kennett	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-
28	(17) Mikael Max	0	-	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
29	(17) Simon Stead	0	-	-	-	0	-	-	-	-	-
30	(18) Peter Nahlin	0	-	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
31	(18) Daniele Tessari	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0
	(17) Janusz Kołodziej	ns	ns	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	(17) Izak Šantej	ns	-	-	ns	-	-	-	-	-	-
	(17) Charlie Gjedde	ns	-	-	-	-	ns	-	-	-	-
	(17) Bohumil Brhel	ns	-	-	-	-	-	ns	-	-	-
	(17) Peter Ljung	ns	-	-	-	-	-	-	ns	-	-
	(17) Simone Terenzani	ns	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	ns
	(18) Adrian Miedziński	ns	ns	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	(18) Denis Štojs	ns	-	-	ns	-	-	-	-	-	-
	(18) Mads Korneliussen	ns	-	-	-	-	ns	-	-	-	-
	(18) Lukáš Dryml	ns	-	-	-	-	-	ns	-	-	-
	(18) Fredrik Lindgren	ns	-	-	-	-	-	-	ns	-	-
	(18) Karol Ząbik	ns	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	ns	-
Pos.	Rider	Points	EUR	SWE	SVN	GBR	DEN	CZE	SCA	POL	ITA

External links

• List of results from Official Speedway GP site