2000 Speedway Grand Prix

The 2000 Speedway Grand Prix season was the sixth season in the Speedway Grand Prix era and was used to determine the Speedway World Champion.

2000 Speedway Grand Prix
Season details
DatesMay 6 – September 23
Events6
Cities6
Countries5
Riders22 permanents
2 wild card(s)
Heats144 (in 6 events)
Winners
Champion GBR Mark Loram
Runner-up USA Billy Hamill
3rd place SWE Tony Rickardsson

Event format

The system first used in 1998 continued to be adopted with 24 riders, divided into two classes. The eight best would be directly qualified for the "Main Event", while the sixteen others would be knocked out if they finished out of the top two in 4-man heats on two occasions – while they would go through if they finished inside the top two on two occasions. This resulted in 10 heats, where eight proceeded to the Main Event, where exactly the same system was applied to give eight riders to a semi-final.

The semi-finals were then two heats of four, where the top two qualified for a final and the last two going towards the consolation final. The 4 finalists scored 25, 20, 18 and 16 points, with 5th to 8th scoring 15, 14, 12 and 10-point, and after that 8, 8, 7, 7, etc. Places after 8th place were awarded according to the time a rider was knocked out and, secondly, according to position in the last heat he rode in.

Qualification

The 2000 season had 22 permanent riders and two wild cards at each event. The permanent riders are highlighted in the results table below.

Calendar

RoundDateCity and venueWinnerRunner-up3rd placed4th placedResults
1 May 6 Prague , Czech Republic
Markéta Stadium
Billy Hamill Mark Loram Chris Louis Todd Wiltshire results
2 June 3 Linköping , Sweden
Motorstadium
Jason Crump Mark Loram Todd Wiltshire Tony Rickardsson results
3 July 1 Wrocław , Poland
Olympic Stadium
Tony Rickardsson Billy Hamill Chris Louis Leigh Adams results
4 July 29 Coventry , Great Britain
Brandon Stadium
Martin Dugard Ryan Sullivan Mark Loram Jason Lyons results
5 September 2 Vojens , Denmark
Speedway Center
Greg Hancock Jason Crump Stefan Dannö Nicki Pedersen results
6 September 23 Bydgoszcz , Poland
Polonia Stadium
Billy Hamill Greg Hancock Tony Rickardsson Jason Crump results

Final standings

Qualifies for next season's Grand Prix series
Full-time Grand Prix rider
Wild card, track reserve or qualified reserve
Pos. Rider Points CZE
SWE
POL
GBR
DEN
EUR
(16) Mark Loram 102 202015181514
(11) Billy Hamill 95 2562051425
(1) Tony Rickardsson 94 14162514718
4 (6) Jason Crump 88 52512102016
5 (7) Greg Hancock 76 757122520
6 (5) Leigh Adams 65 6101615126
7 (2) Tomasz Gollob 64 151414615
8 (21) Todd Wiltshire 63 161877312
9 (8) Ryan Sullivan 62 81282086
10 (10) Chris Louis 60 18718854
11 (3) Jimmy Nilsen 42 6155628
12 (9) Stefan Dannö 41 34106180
13 (12) Mikael Karlsson 39 1284852
14 (15) Henrik Gustafsson 39 84251010
15 (19) Peter Karlsson 35 328787
16 (4) Joe Screen 34 556378
17 (18) Antonín Kasper, Jr. 32 765464
18 (13) Carl Stonehewer 30 1073433
19 (23) Martin Dugard 25 25
20 (23) Nicki Pedersen 17 116
21 (22) Rafał Dobrucki 16 43315
22 (28) Jason Lyons 16 16
23 (20) Brian Andersen 15 421242
24 (14) Brian Karger 13 234121
25 (17) Andy Smith 10 211213
26 (24) Rune Holta 8 8
27 (24) Jarosław Hampel 7 7
28 (24) Sebastian Ułamek 6 6
29 (24) Jesper B. Jensen 4 4
30 (23) Piotr Protasiewicz 3 21
31 (24) Lee Richardson 3 3
32 (23) Michal Makovský 1 1
33 (24) Bohumil Brhel 1 1
34 (25) John Jørgensen 1 1
Pos. Rider Points CZE
SWE
POL
GBR
DEN
EUR
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