2019 Speedway Grand Prix

2019 Speedway Grand Prix
Season details
Dates TBC
Events TBC
Riders 15 permanents
1 wild card(s)
2 track reserves
Heats (in TBC events)
Winners
Champion  [[ national speedway team|]]
Runner-up  [[ national speedway team|]]
3rd place  [[ national speedway team|]]

The 2019 Speedway Grand Prix season will be the 25th season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and will decide the 74th FIM Speedway World Championship. It will be the nineteenth series under the promotion of Benfield Sports International, an IMG company.

Tai Woffinden is the defending champion having won the title in 2018

Qualification

For the 2019 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 2018 championship qualify automatically. 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 2017 season.[1]

Qualified riders

#Riders2018 placeGP Ch placeAppearancePrevious appearances in series
108United Kingdom Tai Woffinden1—8th2010, 2011, 2013–2018
95Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik2—4th2012-2015, 2016–2018
66Sweden Fredrik Lindgren3—10th2004, 2006–2007, 2008–2014, 2016, 2017-2018
71Poland Maciej Janowski4—5th2008, 2012, 2014, 2015–2018
45United States Greg Hancock5—25th1995–2018
222Russia Artem Laguta6—3rd2011, 2018
69Australia Jason Doyle7—5th2015–2018
89Russia Emil Sayfutdinov8—8th2009–2013, 2017-2018
692Poland Patryk Dudek9—3rd2016, 2017-2018
55Slovenia Matej Žagar10159th2003–2005, 2006–2007, 2008–2009, 2011, 2013–2018
54Slovakia Martin Vaculík13—4th2012, 2013, 2017-2018
TBCPoland Janusz Kołodziej—12nd2006, 2010, 2011
88Denmark Niels-Kristian Iversen1428th2004–2005, 2006, 2008, 2009–2010, 2013–2017, 2018
TBCSweden Antonio Lindbäck—39th2004, 2005–2007, 2009–2010, 2011–2013, 2015, 2016-2017
TBCDenmark Leon Madsen——1st2013

Qualified substitutes

The following riders were nominated as substitutes:

#Riders2018 placeGP Ch place
United Kingdom Robert Lambert305
Australia Max Fricke187
Denmark Mikkel Michelsen29—
Czech Republic Václav Milík Jr.1711
Poland Bartosz Smektała26—

Calendar

The provisional 2019 calendar has been announced.[2] There will be 11 events in 2019, one more than in 2018 with the return of the Australian Grand Prix.

RoundDateCity and venueWinnerRunner-up3rd placed4th placedResults
1 May 18 Poland Warsaw , Poland
Stadion Narodowy 		results
2 June 1 Slovenia Krsko, Slovenia
Stadion Matije Gubca 		results
3 June 15 Czech Republic Prague , Czech Republic
Markéta Stadium 		results
4 July 6 Sweden Hallstavik , Sweden
HZ Bygg Arena 		results
5 August 3 Poland Wrocław , Poland
Olympic Stadium 		results
6 August 17 Sweden Målilla , Sweden
G&B Arena		 results
7 August 31 Germany Teterow , Germany
Bergring Arena 		results
8 September 7 Denmark Vojens , Denmark
Vojens Speedway Center 		results
9 September 21 United Kingdom Cardiff , Great Britain
Principality Stadium 		results
10 October 5 Poland Torun , Poland
Rose Motoarena 		results
11 TBC Australia , Australia
TBC 		results

See also

  • 2019 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship

References

  1. ↑ "2019 SGP Wildcards". SGP.
  2. ↑ "2019 FIM Speedway World Championship provisional calendar". SGP.
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