1998 Speedway Grand Prix

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1998 FIM Speedway Grand Prix
Previous: 1997	Next: 1999

The 1998 Speedway Grand Prix season was the fourth season in the Speedway Grand Prix era and was used to determine the Speedway World Champion.

1 Event format
2 Qualification for Grand Prix
3 1998 Event Schedule and Winners
4 Final 1998 standings
5 External links

[edit] Event format

The system used was a new one for the 4th SGP season 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.

[edit] Qualification for Grand Prix

The 1998 season had 23 permanent riders and one wild card at each event. The permanent riders are highlighted in the results table below.

[edit] 1998 Event Schedule and Winners

	Date	Grand Prix of	Stadium	City	Winner
1	May 15	Czech Republic	Marketa Stadium	Prague	Tony Rickardsson	result
2	June 6	Germany	Rottalstadion	Pocking	Tony Rickardsson	result
3	June 19	Denmark	Speedway Center	Vojens	Hans Nielsen	result
4	August 7	Great Britain	Coventry Stadium	Coventry	Jason Crump	result
5	August 28	Sweden	Motorstadium	Linköping	Tony Rickardsson	result
6	September 18	Poland	Polonia Stadium	Bydgoszcz	Tomasz Gollob	result

[edit] Final 1998 standings

Pos.	Rider	Points						Template:SGP Table6
1	(4) Tony Rickardsson	111	25	25	18	8	25	10
2	(8) Jimmy Nilsen	99	18	20	8	20	15	18
3	(3) Tomasz Gollob	97	16	16	8	18	14	25
4	(7) Hans Nielsen	76	8	12	25	7	8	16
5	(18) Chris Louis	75	15	8	20	6	20	6
6	(1) Greg Hancock	69	6	10	14	15	16	8
7	(9) Ryan Sullivan	68	12	7	3	16	10	20
8	(10) Jason Crump	62+3	3	3	16	25	7	8
9	(2) Billy Hamill	62+n	20	18	6	12	5	1
10	(5) Mark Loram	52	6	7	10	7	8	14
11	(15) Leigh Adams	51	10	6	4	4	12	15
12	(22) (23) (24) Antonin Kasper	50	7	4	15	14	3	7
13	(14) Stefan Dannö	49	14	6	7	10	5	7
14	(17) Andy Smith	43	2	14	5	4	6	12
15	(19) Henrik Gustafsson	43	8	15	6	6	2	6
16	(6) Brian Andersen	31	5	-	7	8	7	4
17	(23) (25) Peter Karlsson	27	1	8	-	-	18	-
18	(11) Armando Castagna	23	1	5	3	3	6	5
19	(12) Zoltan Adorjan	21	7	5	2	3	1	3
20	(16) Craig Boyce	18	3	4	1	1	4	5
21	(13) Piotr Protasiewicz	16	2	1	5	2	3	3
22	(21) Jesper B. Jensen	14	4	-	1	5	2	2
23	(22) Brian Karger	12	-	-	12	-	-	-
24	(20) Sebastian Ułamek	10	-	1	2	1	4	2
25	(22) (24) Gerd Riss	6	4	2	-	-	-	-
26	(23) Bohumil Brhel	5	5	-	-	-	-	-
27	(23) Joe Screen	5	-	-	-	5	-	-
28	(24) Lars Gunnestad	5	-	-	4	-	1	-
29	(24) Jacek Gollob	4	-	-	-	-	-	4
30	(27) Jacek Krzyżaniak	3	-	3	-	-	-	-
31	(23) Robert Barth	2	-	2	-	-	-	-
32	(24) Martin Dugard	2	-	-	-	2	-	-
33	(23) Robert Dados	1	-	-	-	-	-	1