2008 Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden

Sweden 2008 Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden
FIM SAPA Swedish Speedway Grand Prix
Information
Date 24 May 2008
City Sweden Gothenburg
Event 3 of 11 (103)
Referee United Kingdom Anthony Steele
Jury President Denmark Joergen L. Jensen
Stadium details
Stadium Ullevi
Capacity 43,000
Length 416 m (455 yd)
Track speedway track
SGP Results
Best Time
1st, gold medalist(s) Winner Poland Rune Holta
2nd, silver medalist(s) Runner-up Sweden Fredrik Lindgren
3rd, bronze medalist(s) 3rd place Denmark Nicki Pedersen

The 2008 Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden is the third race of the 2008 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on 24 May in the Ullevi Stadium in Göteborg, Sweden[1] It is the fourth time that the Ullevi Stadium has staged a GP, the last time being the 2004 Grand Prix of Scandinavia. At 416 metres, the semi-permanent track is the largest track on the 2008 Grand Prix calendar, and the longest ever used for a Grand Prix event.[2]

Sweden is also the first of four rounds of the 2008 Super Prix. The meeting winner will be given the red helmet in the SuperPrix final at Gelsenkirchen in October with a chance of winning a share of an extra $200,000 prize fund.[3]

Riders

The Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated Jonas Davidsson as a wild card, and Sebastian Aldén and Billy Forsberg both as track reserves.[4] Bjarne Pedersen was again replaced by Luboš Tomíček because of an injury. The draw was made on 13 May at the FIM Headquarters in Mies, Switzerland.[5]

Result

Rune Holta won the Swedish Grand Prix with a fast overtaking manoeuvre on the back straight on the first lap of the final. It was Holta's 50th Grand Prix and the first Grand Prix win of his career.[6]

Fredrik Lindgren had been unbeaten from his previous races but had to settle for second place, although he did score the most points from the meeting. Nicki Pedersen extended his series lead to ten points with third place.

The meeting overran by over an hour due to a number of stoppages caused by the unpredictable, rutted track. Andreas Jonsson was taken to hospital after a high-speed crash but escaped serious injury, Niels Kristian Iversen also crashed in one of his heats and suffered a dislocated shoulder.[6]

Heat details

Placing Draw Rider Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pts Pos 21 22 23
1 5 Poland (7) Rune Holta 17 3 1 2 0 3 9 4 2 3
2 15 Sweden (15) Fredrik Lindgren 22 3 3 3 3 3 15 1 3 2
3 7 Denmark (1) Nicki Pedersen 16 2 1 3 3 2 11 2 3 1
4 1 Australia (3) Jason Crump 12 3 3 1 2 1 10 3 2 0
5 6 Poland (4) Tomasz Gollob 8 0 2 3 Fx 3 8 5 0
6 3 Sweden (10) Andreas Jonsson 8 2 2 1 3 Fx 8 7 N
7 16 Australia (2) Leigh Adams 9 2 1 2 2 1 8 6 1
8 8 Denmark (5) Hans N. Andersen 8 1 3 3 F2 0 7 8 1
9 4 United Kingdom (8) Scott Nicholls 7 1 2 2 Fx 2 7 9
10 10 Sweden (16) Jonas Davidsson 7 E 3 1 1 2 7 10
11 11 United States (6) Greg Hancock 6 3 0 0 3 Fx 6 11
12 2 Poland (14) Krzysztof Kasprzak 5 0 0 0 2 3 5 12
13 13 Czech Republic (19) Luboš Tomíček, Jr. 5 0 2 0 1 2 5 13
14 14 United Kingdom (9) Chris Harris 5 1 1 2 0 1 5 14
15 12 Czech Republic (13) Lukáš Dryml 3 1 0 1 1 Fx 3 15
16 9 Denmark (12) Niels Kristian Iversen 2 2 Fx - - - 2 16
17 18 Sweden (18) Billy Forsberg 2 2 2 17
18 17 Sweden (17) Sebastian Aldén 0 0 0 0 18
Placing Draw Rider Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pts Pos 21 22 23

e: retired or mechanical failure • m: exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t: exclusion for touching the tapes • x: other exclusion • f: fell
ns: non-starter • nc: non-classify
Semi-finals: Heat 21: Riders placed 1st, 4th, 6th & 7th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)
Heat 22: Riders placed 2nd, 3rd, 5th & 8th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)
Big Final (heat 23): The first and second placed riders in each of the Semi-Finals

gate A – inside gate B gate C gate D – outside

Heat after heat

  1. Crump, Jonsson, Nicholls, Kasprzak
  2. Holta, Pedersen, Andersen, Gollob
  3. Hancock, Iversen, Dryml, Davidsson (E/start)
  4. Lindgren, Adams, Harris, Tomicek
  5. Crump, Tomicek, Holta, Iversen (X/F2)
  6. Davidsson, Gollob, Harris, Kasprzak
  7. Lindgren, Jonsson, Pedersen, Hancock
  8. Andersen, Nicholls, Adams, Dryml
  9. Gollob, Adams, Crump, Hancock
  10. Lindgren, Holta, Dryml, Kasprzak
  11. Andersen, Harris, Jonsson, Alden
  12. Pedersen, Nicholls, Davidsson, Tomicek
  13. Pedersen, Crump, Dryml, Harris
  14. Hancock, Kasprzak, Tomicek, Andersen (F2)
  15. Jonsson, Adams, Davidsson, Holta
  16. Lindgren, Forsberg, Nicholls (X/F3), Gollob (X/F2)
  17. Lindgren, Davidsson, Crump, Andersen
  18. Kasprzak, Pedersen, Adams, Alden
  19. Gollob, Tomicek, Jonsson (X/F5), Dryml (X/F3)
  20. Holta, Nicholls, Harris, Hancock (X/F2)
    Semi-Finals:
  21. Lindgren, Holta, Adams, Jonsson (N)
  22. Pedersen, Crump, Andersen, Gollob
    Final:
  23. Holta (6), Lindgren (4), Pedersen (2), Crump (0)

The intermediate classification

Qualifies for next season's Grand Prix series
Full-time Grand Prix rider
Wild card, track reserve or qualified reserve
Pos. Rider Points SVN
Slovenia		EUR
Poland		SWE
Sweden		DEN
Denmark		GBR
United Kingdom		CZE
Czech Republic		SCA
Sweden		LAT
Latvia		POL
Poland		ITA
Italy		FIN
Poland
1 Denmark (1) Nicki Pedersen 49 171616        
2 Poland (4) Tomasz Gollob 39 19128        
3 Sweden (15) Fredrik Lindgren 36 7722        
4 Australia (2) Leigh Adams 34 5209        
5 United States (6) Greg Hancock 34 8206        
6 Australia (3) Jason Crump 30 10812        
7 Sweden (10) Andreas Jonsson 29 1298        
8 Denmark (5) Hans N. Andersen 28 1468        
9 Poland (7) Rune Holta 26 5417        
10 Denmark (12) Niels Kristian Iversen 20 8102        
11 United Kingdom (9) Chris Harris 17 665        
12 United Kingdom (8) Scott Nicholls 16 727        
13 Poland (16) Jarosław Hampel 16 –16–        
14 Czech Republic (13) Lukáš Dryml 14 923        
15 Poland (14) Krzysztof Kasprzak 14 635        
16 Czech Republic (19) Luboš Tomíček, Jr. 8 –35        
17 Slovenia (16) Matej Žagar 7 7––        
18 Sweden (16) Jonas Davidsson 7 ––7        
19 Denmark (11) Bjarne Pedersen 4 4––        
20 Sweden (18) Billy Forsberg 2 ––2        
21 Sweden (17) Sebastian Aldén 0 ––0        
Rider(s) not classified
Slovenia (17) Izak Šantej — ns––        
Poland (17) Damian Baliński — –ns–        
Slovenia (18) Denis Štojs — ns––        
Poland (18) Krzysztof Buczkowski — –ns–        
Pos. Rider Points SVN
Slovenia		EUR
Poland		SWE
Sweden		DEN
Denmark		GBR
United Kingdom		CZE
Czech Republic		SCA
Sweden		LAT
Latvia		POL
Poland		ITA
Italy		FIN
Poland

See also

References

  1. ↑ "SGP Permanent Wild Cards and 2008 Calendar Announced". SpeedwayWorld.Tv. 2007-10-22. Archived from the original on 2007-08-01. Retrieved 2008-05-06.
  2. ↑ "Swedish GP Preview". SpeedwayWorld.Tv. 2008-05-23. Retrieved 2008-05-24.
  3. ↑ "SuperPrix". SpeedwayWorld.Tv. 2007. Retrieved 2008-05-24.
  4. ↑ "FIM SAPA Grand Prix Szwecji". PZM.pl. 2008-05-06. Archived from the original on 6 June 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-06.
  5. ↑ SpeedwayWorld.Tv Archived 2012-02-11 at the Wayback Machine. - 2008-05-13.
  6. 1 2 "Holta takes maiden win". SpeedwayWorld.Tv. 2008-05-25. Retrieved 2008-05-25.
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