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2020 Speedway Grand Prix

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2020 Speedway Grand Prix
Season details
Dates28 August - 3 October
Events8
Cities4
Countries2
Riders15 permanents
1 wild card(s)
2 track reserves
Heats184 (in 8 events)
Winners
Champion POL Bartosz Zmarzlik
Runner-up GBR Tai Woffinden
3rd place SWE Fredrik Lindgren

The 2020 Speedway Grand Prix season was the 26th season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and decided the 75th FIM Speedway World Championship.[1][2] It was the 20th series under the promotion of Benfield Sports International, an IMG company

A new points system was introduced with overall positions deciding the number of championship points a rider scored from a Grand Prix (GP), and points scored in each individual heat used to determine a rider's progress in a GP.

The series was dominated by Polish venues with six of the eight races held in Poland.[3] Bartosz Zmarzlik was the defending champion, having won the 2019 Speedway Grand Prix series, and he successfully retained his title in 2020 by winning four of the eight rounds. Former three-time champion Tai Woffinden finished second after winning a run-off with Fredrik Lindgren. Maciej Janowski, Leon Madsen and Jason Doyle completed the top six, thus earning places in the 2021 series.

Qualification

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

The top eight riders from the 2019 championship qualified automatically.[4] These riders were 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.[5]

Qualified riders

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# Riders 2019 place GP Ch place Appearance Previous appearances in series
95 Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik 1 5th 2012–2015, 2016–2019
30 Denmark Leon Madsen 2 2nd 2013, 2019
89 Russia Emil Sayfutdinov 3 9th 2009–2013, 2017–2019
66 Sweden Fredrik Lindgren 4 11th 2004, 2006–2007, 2008–2014, 2016, 2017–2019
54 Slovakia Martin Vaculík 5 4 5th 2012, 2013, 2017–2019
71 Poland Maciej Janowski 6 6th 2008, 2012, 2014, 2015–2019
69 Australia Jason Doyle 7 6th 2015–2019
692 Poland Patryk Dudek 8 4th 2016, 2017–2019
55 Slovenia Matej Žagar 9 1 10th 2003–2005, 2006–2007, 2008–2009, 2011, 2013–2019
88 Denmark Niels-Kristian Iversen 10 2 9th 2004–2005, 2006, 2008, 2009–2010, 2013–2017, 2018, 2019
46 Australia Max Fricke 16 3 1st 2016-2017, 2019
222 Russia Artem Laguta 11 4th 2011, 2018–2019
85 Sweden Antonio Lindbäck 12 10th 2004, 2005–2007, 2009–2010, 2011–2013, 2015, 2016–2017, 2019
108 United Kingdom Tai Woffinden 13 9th 2010, 2011, 2013–2019
155 Denmark Mikkel Michelsen 17 14 1st 2015, 2018–2019

Michelsen was handed a spot after initial wildcard pick Greg Hancock announced his retirement from the sport and first reserve Martin Smolinski withdrew due to injury.[6]

Qualified substitutes

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The following riders were nominated as substitutes:

# Riders 2019 place GP Ch place
115 Poland Bartosz Smektała 18
105 Denmark Anders Thomsen 5
20 Sweden Pontus Aspgren 6
96 France Dimitri Bergé

Calendar

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The 2020 season originally consisted of 10 events, the same number as in 2019.[7] The Slovenian round had been replaced by a new round in Russia. The British Grand Prix was originally 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.[8] 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.

Round Date City and venue Winner Runner-up 3rd placed 4th placed Results
1 28 August Poland Wrocław, Poland
Olympic Stadium
Russia Artem Laguta Poland Maciej Janowski Sweden Fredrik Lindgren United Kingdom Tai Woffinden results
2 29 August Poland Wrocław, Poland
Olympic Stadium
Poland Maciej Janowski United Kingdom Tai Woffinden Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik Sweden Fredrik Lindgren results
3 11 September Poland Gorzów, Poland
Edward Jancarz Stadium
Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik Australia Jason Doyle Sweden Fredrik Lindgren Denmark Leon Madsen results
4 12 September Poland Gorzów, Poland
Edward Jancarz Stadium
Sweden Fredrik Lindgren Denmark Leon Madsen Australia Jason Doyle Russia Emil Sayfutdinov results
5 18 September Czech Republic Prague, Czech Republic
Markéta Stadium
Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik United Kingdom Tai Woffinden Slovakia Martin Vaculík Russia Emil Sayfutdinov results
6 19 September Czech Republic Prague, Czech Republic
Markéta Stadium
Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik United Kingdom Tai Woffinden Australia Jason Doyle Sweden Fredrik Lindgren results
7 2 October Poland Toruń, Poland
Rose Motoarena
Australia Max Fricke Poland Maciej Janowski United Kingdom Tai Woffinden Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik results
8 3 October Poland Toruń, Poland
Rose Motoarena
Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik Poland Maciej Janowski Russia Artem Laguta Sweden Fredrik Lindgren results

Final Classification

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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
PL2
Poland
PL3
Poland
PL4
Poland
CZE
Czech Republic
CZE
Czech Republic
PL5
Poland
PL6
Poland
Gold Poland (95) Bartosz Zmarzlik (C) 133 11 16 20 12 20 20 14 20
Silver United Kingdom (108) Tai Woffinden 117 14 18 11 10 18 18 16 12
Bronze Sweden (66) Fredrik Lindgren 117 16 14 16 20 12 14 11 14
4 Poland (71) Maciej Janowski 107 18 20 10 9 5 9 18 18
5 Denmark (30) Leon Madsen 89 12 6 14 18 9 11 9 10
6 Australia (69) Jason Doyle 87 6 2 18 16 11 16 7 11
7 Russia (222) Artem Laguta 84 20 12 8 5 10 5 8 16
8 Russia (89) Emil Sayfutdinov 81 10 5 7 14 14 10 12 9
9 Slovakia (54) Martin Vaculík 78 9 3 12 11 16 12 10 5
10 Australia (46) Max Fricke 64 2 10 4 8 8 8 20 4
11 Slovenia (55) Matej Žagar 46 8 4 9 6 3 7 6 3
12 Poland (692) Patryk Dudek 39 5 8 2 1 7 6 4 6
13 Denmark (88) Niels-Kristian Iversen 32 3 11 6 4 4 2 1 1
" Denmark (155) Mikkel Michelsen 32 4 7 5 2 6 3 3 2
15 Sweden (85) Antonio Lindbäck 22 1 1 1 3 2 4 2 8
16 Poland (16) Gleb Chugunov 16 7 9
17 Australia (16) Jack Holder 12 5 7
18 Denmark (16) Anders Thomsen 10 3 7
19 Czech Republic (17) Eduard Krčmář 1 1 0
" Czech Republic (16) Václav Milík 1 0 1
21 Poland (17) Rafał Karczmarz 0 0 0
" Poland (18) Wiktor Jasiński 0 0
" Poland (18) Przemysław Liszka 0 0
" Poland (17) Michał Curzytek 0 0
" Czech Republic (18) Jan Kvěch 0 0
Pos. Rider Points POL
Poland
PL2
Poland
PL3
Poland
PL4
Poland
CZE
Czech Republic
CZE
Czech Republic
PL5
Poland
PL6
Poland

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "WORLD INDIVIDUAL FINAL - RIDER INDEX". British Speedway. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Speedway riders, history and results". wwosbackup. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Calendar". Speedway GP. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  4. ^ "2019 FIM Speedway World Championship results". SGP. Archived from the original on 26 May 2019. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  5. ^ "2020 wildcards announced". SGP. Archived from the original on 6 October 2019. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  6. ^ "Mikkelsen replaces Smolinski". SGP. Archived from the original on 13 September 2020. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
  7. ^ "2020 FIM Speedway World Championship calendar confirmed". SGP. Archived from the original on 4 November 2019. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  8. ^ "Grand Prix Events Cancelled". Speedway Grand Prix. 18 June 2020. Archived from the original on 24 July 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  9. ^ "2020 FIM Speedway World Championship standings". SGP.
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