1999 Speedway Grand Prix

1999 Speedway Grand Prix
Season details
Dates	May 8 – September 25
Events	6
Cities	6
Countries	5
Riders	22 permanents 2 wild card(s)
Heats	144 (in 6 events)
Winners
Champion	SWE Tony Rickardsson
Runner-up	POL Tomasz Gollob
3rd place	DEN Hans Nielsen

The 1999 Speedway Grand Prix season was the fifth season in the Speedway Grand Prix era and was 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 1999 season had 22 permanent riders and two wild cards at each event. The permanent riders are highlighted in the results table below.

Calendar

Round	Date	City and venue	Winner	Runner-up	3rd placed	4th placed	Results
1	May 8	Prague , Czech Republic Markéta Stadium	Tomasz Gollob	Greg Hancock	Jason Crump	Jimmy Nilsen	results
2	June 4	Linköping , Sweden Motorstadium	Mark Loram	Jimmy Nilsen	Tony Rickardsson	Leigh Adams	results
3	July 3	Wrocław , Poland Olympic Stadium	Tomasz Gollob	Jimmy Nilsen	Stefan Dannö	Tony Rickardsson	results
4	July 31	Coventry , Great Britain Brandon Stadium	Tony Rickardsson	Chris Louis	Greg Hancock	Hans Nielsen	results
5	August 28	Bydgoszcz , Poland Polonia Stadium	Hans Nielsen	Tony Rickardsson	Ryan Sullivan	Mark Loram	results
6	September 25	Vojens , Denmark Speedway Center	Tony Rickardsson	Mark Loram	Hans Nielsen	Joe Screen	results

Final standings

Qualifies for next season's Grand Prix series

Full-time Grand Prix rider

Wild card, track reserve or qualified reserve

Pos.	Rider	Points	CZE	SWE	POL	GBR	PL2	DEN
	(1) Tony Rickardsson	111	7	18	16	25	20	25
	(3) Tomasz Gollob	98	25	15	25	10	15	8
	(4) Hans Nielsen	76	6	1	10	16	25	18
4	(2) Jimmy Nilsen	73	16	20	20	8	4	5
5	(23)(25) Mark Loram	71	–	25	2	8	16	20
6	(19) Joe Screen	68	12	5	15	12	8	16
7	(13) Leigh Adams	67	4	16	5	14	14	14
8	(8) Jason Crump	66	18	7	12	15	8	6
9	(6) Greg Hancock	62	20	7	4	18	7	6
10	(7) Ryan Sullivan	55	6	3	14	7	18	7
11	(17) Stefan Dannö	52	10	12	18	5	5	2
12	(5) Chris Louis	50	8	6	5	20	7	4
13	(10) Peter Karlsson	45	8	14	6	4	5	8
14	(18) Mikael Karlsson	45	7	5	8	7	6	12
15	(11) Antonín Kasper Jr.	39	15	10	7	3	2	2
16	(9) Brian Karger	36	3	8	6	6	3	10
17	(15) Henrik Gustafsson	35	5	2	7	4	10	7
18	(22) Billy Hamill	35	2	3	3	6	6	15
19	(20) John Jørgensen	32	14	8	3	2	1	4
20	(16) Andy Smith	22	5	6	1	5	4	1
21	(21) Robert Dados	20	4	4	4	1	2	5
22	(14) Brian Andersen	12	3	1	2	2	3	1
23	(23) Jacek Gollob	12	–	–	–	–	12	–
24	(12) Marian Jirout	8	1	2	1	1	–	3
25	(24) Rafał Dobrucki	8	–	–	8	–	–	–
26	(24) Sebastian Ułamek	4	–	4	–	–	–	–
27	(24) Scott Nicholls	3	–	–	–	3	–	–
28	(24) Jesper B. Jensen	3	–	–	–	–	–	3
29	(23) Antonín Šváb Jr.	2	2	–	–	–	–	–
30	(24) Piotr Protasiewicz	2	1	–	–	–	1	–
Pos.	Rider	Points	CZE	SWE	POL	GBR	PL2	DEN

External links

• Official Speedway GP site