2007 Speedway Grand Prix

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2007 FIM Speedway Grand Prix
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The 2007 Speedway Grand Prix season is the thirteenth season in the Speedway Grand Prix era and is used to determine the Speedway World Champion. It is the first under the promotion of IMG.

1 Event format
2 Cities
3 Qualification for Grand Prix
4 2007 Event Schedule and Winners
5 Final Championship standings
6 See also

[edit] Event format

The format for 2007 is a revision on that used in 2006 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 now 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 scoring revision was introduced as a result of comments made during 2006 that the 4 finalists received too many points compared to the losing semi-finalists who in turn received little benefit compared to, say, the 9th placed non-qualifier [1]. Also, this format means that the winner of each Grand Prix may not be the rider who scores most GP points from each race.

[edit] Cities

Cities of 2007 Grand Prix:

[edit] Qualification for Grand Prix

For the 2007 season, there will be 15 permanent riders, to be joined at each Grand Prix by one wild card. The top 8 riders from the 2006 championship were to qualify as of right, although as Hans Andersen had already qualified the 9th placed rider was also included. These 8 qualifiers are, in championship order:-

They will be joined by 3 riders who qualified via the Grand Prix Qualifying Final. These riders are, in order by qualifying position:-

The final 4 riders were nominated by series promoters, Benfield Sports International, following the completion of the 2006 Grand Prix season.

[edit] 2007 Event Schedule and Winners

	Date	Grand Prix of	Stadium	City	Winner
1	April 28	Italy	Santa Marina Stadium	Lonigo	Nicki Pedersen	result
2	May 12	Europe	Olimpic Stadium	Wrocław	Nicki Pedersen	result
3	May 26	Sweden	Smedstadion	Eskilstuna	Leigh Adams	result
4	June 9	Denmark	Parken Stadium	Copenhagen	Andreas Jonsson	result
5	June 30	Great Britain	Millennium Stadium	Cardiff	Chris Harris	result
6	July 28	Czech Republic	Marketa Stadium	Prague	Nicki Pedersen	result
7	August 11	Scandinavia	G&B Stadium	Målilla	Leigh Adams	result
8	August 25	Latvia	Spidveja Centrs	Daugavpils	Leigh Adams	result
9	September 8	Poland	Polonia Stadium	Bydgoszcz	Tomasz Gollob	result
10	September 22	Slovenia	Matije Gubca Stadium	Krško	Nicki Pedersen	result
11	October 13	Germany	Veltins-Arena	Gelsenkirchen	Andreas Jonsson	result

[edit] Final Championship standings

Qualify for the Speedway Grand Prix series in next season
Permanent Grand Prix rider
Wild card, track reserve or qualified reserve
Rider not classified (a track reserve who didn't start)

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	(3) Nicki Pedersen	196	24	23	11	16	12	24	16	19	19	23	9
2	(5) Leigh Adams	153	12	10	21	18	14	8	19	22	9	9	11
3	(1) Jason Crump	124	12	13	4	9	15	11	15	10	7	13	15
4	(8) Tomasz Gollob	108	10	3	9	11	3	1	19	14	21	10	7
5	(6) Hans Andersen	107	9	13	20	12	13	8	12	5	3	3	9
6	(2) Greg Hancock	106	19	15	9	7	17	6	5	3	5	4	16
7	(14) Rune Holta	91 +3	2	6	9	5	5	16	5	7	10	16	10
8	(11) Scott Nicholls	91 +2	4	6	4	7	9	12	8	13	4	16	8
9	(15) Chris Harris	91 +F	7	15	9	5	20	5	6	7	5	8	4
10	(4) Andreas Jonsson	90	7	5	5	16	5	7	-	8	11	6	20
11	(13) Wiesław Jaguś	81	14	6	6	3	0	9	12	11	5	9	6
12	(12) Bjarne Pedersen	77	5	8	3	5	7	6	7	8	8	9	11
13	(9) Jarosław Hampel	67	8	6	5	7	8	16	-	-	11	6	-
14	(7) Matej Žagar	54	5	7	7	1	5	8	3	2	4	6	6
15	(10) Antonio Lindbäck	31	3	0	3	9	7	0	3	0	5	1	-
16	(16) Fredrik Lindgren	21	-	-	14	-	-	-	7	-	-	-	-
17	(16) Krzysztof Kasprzak	17	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	17	-	-
18	(19) Peter Karlsson	13	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	-	-	-	8
19	(16) Kenneth Bjerre	10	-	-	-	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
20	(16) Grigorijs Laguta	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	-	-	-
21	(16) Sebastian Ułamek	6	-	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
22	(16) Jurica Pavlič	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	-
23	(17) Jonas Davidsson	5	-	-	5	-	-	-	ns	-	-	-	-
24	(20) Kai Laukkanen	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	3	-	-	0
25	(16) David Howe	4	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-
26	(16) Luboš Tomíček, Jr.	4	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-
27	(16) Christian Hefenbrock	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4
28	(17) Josef Franc	3	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-
29	(16) Mattia Carpanese	2	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
30	(18) Morten Risager	2	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
31	(18) Maksims Bogdanovs	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-
32	(17) Tomasz Gapiński	1	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
33	(17) Kasts Poudzuks	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-
34	(17) Daniele Tessari	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
35	(17) Jesper B. Jensen	0	-	-	-	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
36	(18) Christian Miotello	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
37	(18) Erik Andersson	0	-	-	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
38	(18) Matěj Kůs	0	-	-	-	-	-	0	-	-	-	-	-
	(17) Edward Kennett	-	-	-	-	-	ns	-	-	-	-	-	-
	(17) Krzysztof Buczkowski	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	ns	-	-
	(17) Jernej Kolenko	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	ns	-
	(17) Martin Smolinski	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	ns
	(18) Tomasz Jędrzejak	-	-	ns	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	(18) Daniel King	-	-	-	-	-	ns	-	-	-	-	-	-
	(18) Sebastian Aldén	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	ns	-	-	-	-
	(18) Adrian Miedziński	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	ns	-	-
	(18) Izak Šantej	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	ns	-
	(18) Tobias Kroner	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	ns
Pos.	Rider	Points

[edit] See also

v • d • e Individual Speedway World Championship and Speedway Grand Prix seasons

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