2007 Speedway Grand Prix

2007 Speedway Grand Prix
Season details
Dates April 28 - October 13
Events 11 in 11 cities in 9 countries
Riders 15 permanents,
1 wild card(s),
2 track reserves
Heats 253 + 1 Run-off (in 11 events)
Champion  DEN Nicki Pedersen
Runner-up  AUS Leigh Adams
3rd place  AUS Jason Crump

The 2007 Speedway Grand Prix season was the thirteenth season in the Speedway Grand Prix era and was used to determine the Speedway World Champion. It was the first under the promotion of IMG, who had purchased series organisers Benfield Sports International (BSI).

Contents

Event format

The format for 2007 was a revision of that used in 2006, with 16 riders taking part in each Grand Prix and over the course of 20 heats each rider racing against every other rider once. The top 8 scorers advanced to a semi-final and from each semi-final the 1st and 2nd placed riders advanced to the Grand Prix final.

All rides counted towards Grand Prix points totals, including the semi-final and final, which counted as double (6-4-2-0) and therefore the maximum points for a single Grand Prix was 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 four finalists received too many points compared to the losing semi-finalists who received little benefit compared to the 9th placed non-qualifier.[1]. This format also meant that the winner of each Grand Prix may not be the rider who scores most Grand Prix points from each race.

Cities

Cities of 2007 Grand Prix:

Qualification for Grand Prix

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

They were joined by three riders who qualified via the Grand Prix Qualifying final. These riders were, in order by qualifying position:-

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

2007 Event schedule and winners

Date Grand Prix of Stadium City Winner
1 April 28 Italy Stadio Speedway Santa Marina 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

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 ITA
EUR
SWE
DEN
GBR
CZE
SCA
LAT
POL
SVN
GER
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) Grigory 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) Eric 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 ITA
EUR
SWE
DEN
GBR
CZE
SCA
LAT
POL
SVN
GER

See also

References

  1. ^ "Olsen pleased with new system". Benfield Sports International. 2007. http://www.speedwayworld.tv/en/sgp/a7292. Retrieved 2008-11-08.