2020 Speedway Grand Prix

The 2020 Speedway Grand Prix season will be the 26th season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and will decide the 75th FIM Speedway World Championship. It will be the 20th series under the promotion of Benfield Sports International, an IMG company

2020 Speedway Grand Prix
Season details
DatesTBC
EventsTBC
CitiesTBC
CountriesTBC
Riders15 permanents
1 wild card(s)
2 track reserves
Heats(in TBC events)

A new points system will be introduced with overall positions deciding the number of championship points a rider will score from a GP and points scored in each individual heat used to determine a rider's progress in a GP.

Bartosz Zmarzlik will be the defending champion having won the 2019 Speedway Grand Prix series.

Qualification

For the 2020 season there will be 15 permanent riders, who will be joined at each Grand Prix by one wild card and two track reserves.

The top eight riders from the 2019 championship have qualified automatically.[1] These riders will be joined by the three riders who qualified via the Grand Prix Challenge.

The final four riders were nominated by series promoters, Benfield Sports International, following the completion of the 2019 season.[2]

Qualified riders
#Riders2019 placeGP Ch placeAppearancePrevious appearances in series
95 Bartosz Zmarzlik1—5th2012–2015, 2016–2019
30 Leon Madsen2—2nd2013, 2019
89 Emil Sayfutdinov3—9th2009–2013, 2017–2019
66 Fredrik Lindgren4—11th2004, 2006–2007, 2008–2014, 2016, 2017–2019
54 Martin Vaculík545th2012, 2013, 2017–2019
71 Maciej Janowski6—6th2008, 2012, 2014, 2015–2019
69 Jason Doyle7—6th2015–2019
692 Patryk Dudek8—4th2016, 2017–2019
55 Matej Žagar9110th2003–2005, 2006–2007, 2008–2009, 2011, 2013–2019
88 Niels-Kristian Iversen1029th2004–2005, 2006, 2008, 2009–2010, 2013–2017, 2018, 2019
46 Max Fricke1631st2016-2017, 2019
222 Artem Laguta11—4th2011, 2018–2019
85 Antonio Lindbäck12—10th2004, 2005–2007, 2009–2010, 2011–2013, 2015, 2016–2017, 2019
108 Tai Woffinden13—9th2010, 2011, 2013–2019
45 Greg Hancock——25th1995–2018

Qualified substitutes

The following riders were nominated as substitutes:

#Riders2019 placeGP Ch place
84 Martin Smolinski2610
155 Mikkel Michelsen1714
115 Bartosz Smektała18—
105 Anders Thomsen—5
20 Pontus Aspgren—6
96 Dimitri Bergé——

Martin Smolinski will take over Greg Hancock's entry after Hancock announced his retirement from the sport in February.

Calendar

The 2020 season originally consisted of 10 events, the same number as in 2019.[3] The Slovenian round had been replaced by a new round in Russia. The British Grand Prix was orginally scheduled to be held on July 18, but was cancelled on June 1. The first round in Warsaw was postponed to August 28, the Czech Grand Prix was postponed to September 19 & the German Grand Prix was postponed to a unknown date, all due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The rounds in Hallstavik and Målilla were cancelled on June 18.[4] On July 29 a final revised calendar was published by the organisers of the series, with a total of 8 rounds; 6 in Poland and 2 in the Czech Republic.

RoundDateCity and venueWinnerRunner-up3rd placed4th placedResults
1 August 28 Wrocław, Poland
Olympic Stadium		 results
2 August 29 Wrocław, Poland
Olympic Stadium		 results
3 September 11 Gorzow, Poland
Edward Jancarz Stadium		 results
4 September 12 Gorzow, Poland
Edward Jancarz Stadium		 results
5 September 18 Prague, Czech Republic
Markéta Stadium		 results
6 September 19 Prague, Czech Republic
Markéta Stadium		 results
7 October 2 Torun, Poland
Rose Motoarena		 results
8 October 3 Torun, Poland
Rose Motoarena		 results
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See also
  • 2020 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship

References
  1. "2019 FIM Speedway World Championship results". SGP.
  2. "2020 wildcards announced". SGP.
  3. "2020 FIM Speedway World Championship calendar confirmed". SGP.
  4. "GRAND PRIX EVENTS CANCELLED". Speedway Grand Prix. 18 June 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
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