2018 Speedway Under-21 World Championship

The 2018 Individual Speedway Under 21 World Championship was the 2018 version of FIM the Individual Under-21 World Championship and was staged over three rounds, at Daugavpils, Leszno and Pardubice.^[1] Poland's Maksym Drabik was the defending champion having won the title in 2017.

Result

The title was won by Bartosz Smektała, who beat Drabik by two points. Smektała had trailed Drabik heading into the final round, however he scored a 21-point maximum to take the title. Great Britain's Robert Lambert took bronze.

Final series

No.	Date	Venue	Winner	Runner-up	3rd place
1	June 29	Daugavpils	Maksym Drabik	Robert Lambert	Bartosz Smektała
2	July 22	Leszno	Maksym Drabik	Bartosz Smektała	Daniel Bewley
3	September 28	Pardubice	Bartosz Smektała	Robert Lambert	Dominik Kubera

Classification

The meeting classification ^[2] was according to the points scored during the meeting, with the total points scored by each rider during each meeting credited as World Championship points. The FIM Speedway Under 21 World Champion was the rider who collected most World Championship points at the end of the series. In case of a tie between one or more riders in the final overall classification, a run-off decided the 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. For all other placings, the better-placed rider in the last meeting was the better placed rider.

Pos.	Rider	Points
	Bartosz Smektała	56	17	18	21
	Maksym Drabik	54	20	21	13
	Robert Lambert	48	17	13	18
4	Dominik Kubera	37	12	13	12
5	Andreas Lyager	29	7	10	12
6	Frederik Jakobsen	25	11	5	9
7	Patrick Hansen	25	7	8	10
8	Daniel Bewley	21	7	14	–
9	Daniel Kaczmarek	15	8	5	2
10	Robert Chmiel	15	1	3	11
11	Joel Kling	14	6	8	–
11	Oleg Mihalovs	12	12	–	–
12	Nick Škorja	12	3	5	4
13	Wiktor Lampart	9	–	9	–
14	Filip Hjelmland	9	4	5	–
15	Gleb Chugunov	7	–	–	7
16	Davis Kurmis	7	0	1	6
17	Artem Trofimov	5	5	–	–
18	Jan Kvech	5	–	–	5
19	Daniel Spiller	5	–	0	5
20	Filip Hájek	3	1	–	2
21	Petr Chlupac	1	–	–	1
22	Ernest Matjuszonoks	0	0	–	–
23	Patrik Mikel	0	–	–	0