2015 Speedway Grand Prix

The 2015 Speedway Grand Prix season is the 21st season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and will decide the 70th FIM Speedway World Championship. It is the fifteenth series under the promotion of Benfield Sports International, an IMG company. Greg Hancock is the defending champion from 2014.

Qualification

For the 2015 season there will be 15 permanent riders, joined at each Grand Prix by one wild card and two track reserves.

The top eight riders from the 2014 championship qualified automatically. Those riders are joined by the three riders who qualified via the Grand Prix Challenge. Since the winner of the Grand Prix Challenge, Matej Žagar, had already qualified following his fifth position in the 2014 championship, fourth-placed Maciej Janowski qualified.

The final four riders were nominated by series promoters, Benfield Sports International, following the completion of the 2014 season.

Qualified riders

#	Riders	2014 place	GP Ch place	Appearance	Previous appearances in series
45	Greg Hancock	1	—	21st	1995–2014
507	Krzysztof Kasprzak	2	—	4th	2004–2007, 2008, 2012, 2013–2014
3	Nicki Pedersen	3		15th	2000, 2001–2014
108	Tai Woffinden	4	—	4th	2010, 2011, 2013–2014
55	Matej Žagar	5	1	5th	2003–2005, 2006–2007, 2008–2009, 2011, 2013–2014
100	Andreas Jonsson	6	—	14th	2001, 2002–2014
23	Chris Holder	7	—	6th	2010–2014
33	Jarosław Hampel	8		10th	2000–2002, 2004–2007, 2008–2009, 2010–2014
75	Troy Batchelor	9	—	2nd	2013, 2014
88	Niels Kristian Iversen	11	—	5th	2004–2005, 2006, 2008, 2009–2010, 2013–2014
69	Jason Doyle	—	2	1st
37	Chris Harris	15	3	9th	2003, 2007–2014
71	Maciej Janowski	—	4	1st	2008, 2012, 2014
30	Thomas H. Jonasson	21	5	1st	2010–2012, 2014
52	Michael Jepsen Jensen	16		1st	2012–2014

Qualified substitutes

The following riders were nominated as a substitutes:

#	Riders	2014 place	GP Ch place
19	(19) Peter Kildemand	17	8
20	(20) Piotr Pawlicki Jr.
21	(21) Linus Sundström		11

Calendar

The 2015 season consists of 12 events, just like 2014.

Round	Date	City and venue	Winner	Runner-up	3rd placed	4th placed	Results
1	April 18	Warsaw , Poland Stadion Narodowy	Matej Žagar	Chris Harris	Jarosław Hampel	Niels-Kristian Iversen	results
2	May 16	Tampere , Finland Tampere Stadium					results
3	May 23	Prague , Czech Republic Markéta Stadium					results
4	July 4	Cardiff , Great Britain Millennium Stadium					results
5	July 18	Daugavpils , Latvia Latvijas Spīdveja Centrs					results
6	July 25	Målilla , Sweden G&B Stadium					results
7	August 8	Horsens , Denmark CASA Arena					results
8	August 29	Gorzów , Poland Jancarz Stadium					results
9	September 12	Krško , Slovenia Matija Gubec Stadium					results
10	September 26	Stockholm , Sweden Friends Arena					results
11	October 3	Toruń , Poland Rose Motoarena					results
12	October 24	Melbourne , Australia Etihad Stadium					results

Classification

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Pos.	Rider	Points	POL	FIN	CZE	GBR	LVA	SWE	DEN	POL	SVN	SCA	POL	AUS
	(55) Matej Žagar	8	8
	(33) Jarosław Hampel	7	7
	(88) Niels-Kristian Iversen	7	7
4	(37) Chris Harris	7	7
5	(45) Greg Hancock	5	5
6	(108) Tai Woffinden	5	5
7	(52) Michael Jepsen Jensen	5	5
8	(69) Jason Doyle	4	4
9	(30) Thomas H. Jonasson	4	4
10	(16) Tomasz Gollob	4	4
11	(507) Krzysztof Kasprzak	3	3
12	(3) Nicki Pedersen	3	3
13	(100) Andreas Jonsson	3	3
14	(71) Maciej Janowski	3	3
15	(17) Bartosz Zmarzlik	3	3
16	(18) Piotr Pawlicki Jr.	1	1
17	(23) Chris Holder	0	0
18	(75) Troy Batchelor	0	0
Pos.	Rider	Points	POL	FIN	CZE	GBR	LVA	SWE	DEN	POL	SVN	SCA	POL	AUS

See also

• 2015 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship

Individual Speedway World Championship and Speedway Grand Prix seasons Speedway World Championship 1936 1937 1938 1939 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 Speedway Grand Prix (SGP) 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 See also Medalists Medal Classification Grands Prix SGP riders Super Prix SGP Statistics

References

External links

• SpeedwayGP.com – Speedway World Championships