2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Slovenia

Slovenia 2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Slovenia
2018 Aztorin Slovenian FIM Speedway Grand Prix
Information
Date 7 September 2018
City Slovenia Krško
Event 8 of 10
Referee Poland Artur Kusmierz
Stadium details
Stadium Matija Gubec Stadium
Capacity 12,000
Length 387.7 m (424.0 yd)
SGP Results
Best Time
1st, gold medalist(s) Winner Poland Patryk Dudek
2nd, silver medalist(s) Runner-up Australia Jason Doyle
3rd, bronze medalist(s) 3rd place United States Greg Hancock

The 2018 Aztorin Slovenian FIM Speedway Grand Prix was the eighth race of the 2018 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on September 7th at the Matija Gubec Stadium in Krško, Slovenia.[1]

Riders

First reserve Niels-Kristian Iversen replaced the injured Matej Žagar. The Speedway Grand Prix Commission also nominated Matic Ivačič as the wild card, and Nick Škorja and Denis Štojs both as Track Reserves.

Results

The Grand Prix was won by Patryk Dudek, who beat defending world champion Jason Doyle, Greg Hancock and Fredrik Lindgren in the final.[2]. It was the second Grand Prix win of Dudek's career. Overall leader Tai Woffinden finished 14th, scoring just five points, while his nearest challenger Bartosz Zmarzlik scored 12 points on the way to reaching the semi-finals. As a result, Zmarzlik closed the gap at the top of the world championship standings to just nine points.

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
14 Poland (692) Patryk Dudek 16 1 3 1 2 3 10 5 3 3
7 Australia (69) Jason Doyle 17 2 3 2 3 3 13 1 2 2
9 United States (45) Greg Hancock 15 3 1 3 3 2 12 2 2 1
4 1 Sweden (66) Fredrik Lindgren 13 3 2 1 1 3 10 6 3 0
5 15 Poland (95) Bartosz Zmarzlik 12 2 2 3 2 2 11 3 1
6 6 Poland (71) Maciej Janowski 10 0 2 3 1 3 9 7 1
7 7 Australia (23) Chris Holder 10 3 1 2 3 1 10 4 0
8 8 Slovakia (54) Martin Vaculík 9 2 3 2 0 2 9 8 0
9 13 Russia (222) Artem Laguta 7 0 3 3 0 1 7 9
10 3 Denmark (110) Nicki Pedersen 7 2 1 2 2 0 7 10
11 5 Denmark (88) Niels-Kristian Iversen 5 3 0 1 1 0 5 11
12 8 Russia (89) Emil Sayfutdinov 5 1 0 0 3 1 5 12
13 11 United Kingdom (111) Craig Cook 5 1 0 0 2 2 5 13
14 4 United Kingdom (108) Tai Woffinden 5 1 2 1 0 1 5 14
15 2 Poland (59) Przemysław Pawlicki 2 0 1 0 1 0 2 15
16 10 Slovenia (16) Matic Ivačič 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16
17 17 Slovenia (17) Nick Škorja 0 0 17
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

Intermediate classification

[3]

Qualifies for next season's Grand Prix series
Full-time Grand Prix rider
Wild card, track reserve or qualified reserve
Pos. Rider Points POL
Poland
CZE
Czech Republic
DEN
Denmark
SWE
Sweden
GBR
United Kingdom
SCA
Sweden
PL2
Poland
SVN
Slovenia
GER
Germany
PL3
Poland
United Kingdom (108) Tai Woffinden 108 151618161610125
Poland (95) Bartosz Zmarzlik 99 94101319141812
Poland (71) Maciej Janowski 89 13115181211910
4 Sweden (66) Fredrik Lindgren 89 1616715713213
5 Poland (692) Patryk Dudek 84 10146610101216
6 United States (45) Greg Hancock 81 8716101231015
7 Russia (222) Artem Laguta 73 13812866137
8 Australia (69) Jason Doyle 70 5912954917
9 Russia (89) Emil Sayfutdinov 70 81511148635
10 Slovenia (55) Matej Žagar 61 975761611
11 Denmark (110) Nicki Pedersen 59 2812361567
12 Australia (23) Chris Holder 53 1059775010
13 Slovakia (54) Martin Vaculík 44 31310189
14 Poland (59) Przemysław Pawlicki 32 355110332
15 United Kingdom (111) Craig Cook 30 22239345
16 Denmark (88) Niels-Kristian Iversen 14 455
17 Poland (16) Szymon Woźniak 8 8
18 Poland (16) Krzysztof Kasprzak 7 7
19 Sweden (16) Andreas Jonsson 7 7
20 Czech Republic (16) Vaclav Milik 6 6
21 Sweden (16) Peter Ljung 5 5
22 Denmark (16) Michael Jepsen Jensen 4 4
23 Sweden (17) Oliver Berntzon 3 3
24 Poland (17) Maksym Drabik 2 2
25 Poland (18) Bartosz Smektała 2 2
26 Denmark (17) Mikkel Michelsen 1 1
27 United Kingdom (16) Robert Lambert 1 1
28 Sweden (18) Joel Kling 1 1
29 Denmark (18) Mikkel Bech Jensen 0 0
30 United Kingdom (17) Daniel Bewley 0 0
31 Slovenia (16) Matic Ivačič 0 0
32 Slovenia (17) Nick Škorja 0 0
Pos. Rider Points POL
Poland
CZE
Czech Republic
DEN
Denmark
SWE
Sweden
GBR
United Kingdom
SCA
Sweden
PL2
Poland
SVN
Slovenia
GER
Germany
PL3
Poland

References

  1. "Slovenian Grand Prix Event Info". SGP.
  2. "Slovenian Grand Prix Result". SGP.
  3. "2018 FIM Speedway World Championship standings". SGP.

See also

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