2009 Speedway Grand Prix

Qualification

For the 2008 season, there was the 15 permanent riders, to be joined at each Grand Prix by one wild card and two track reserves.

2008 Grand Prix

Main article: 2008 Speedway Grand Prix

The top eight riders from the 2008 championship qualified as of right. These eight qualifiers are, in championship order:

1. DEN (1) Nicki Pedersen
2. AUS (2) Jason Crump
3. POL (3) Tomasz Gollob
4. USA (4) Greg Hancock
5. DEN (5) Hans Andersen
6. AUS (6) Leigh Adams
7. SWE (7) Andreas Jonsson
8. POL (8) Rune Holta

Grand Prix Challenge

Main article: 2009 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification

The top eight riders from the 2008 championship were joined by three riders who qualified via the Grand Prix Challenge. These riders are, in order by qualifying position:

• DEN (12) Kenneth Bjerre
• POL (13) Grzegorz Walasek
• POL (14) Sebastian Ułamek

Nominations

The final four riders were nominated by series promoters, Benfield Sports International, following the completion of the 2008 season. Riders were nominated after the season ended on October 28, 2008.

• GBR (9) Scott Nicholls
• SWE (10) Fredrik Lindgren
• GBR (11) Chris Harris
• RUS (15) Emil Sayfutdinov

Permanent riders

Event format

The format for 2009 is a revision on that used in 2006 with 16 riders taking part in each Grand Prix and over the course of 20 heats each rider will race against every other rider once. The top 8 scorers advance to a semi-final and from each semi-final the 1st and 2nd placed riders will advance to the GP final.

All rides now count towards Grand Prix points totals, including the semi-final and final, which counts double (6–4–2–0) and therefore the maximum points for a single GP is 24 (5x heat wins, semi final win and final win). This scoring revision was introduced as a result of comments made during 2006 that the 4 finalists received too many points compared to the losing semi-finalists who in turn received little benefit compared to, say, the 9th placed non-qualifier http://www.speedwayworld.tv/en/sgp/a7292. Also, this format means that the winner of each Grand Prix may not be the rider who scores most GP points from each race.--

Calendar

Calendar is confirmed.

Final classification

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References

References

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