Speedway Grand Prix Qualification

Speedway Grand Prix Challenge

Current season, competition or edition: 2026 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification
Sport	motorcycle speedway
Founded	1995
Most recent champion	Kim Nilsson

The Speedway Grand Prix Challenge or Speedway Grand Prix Qualification is an annual speedway qualifying tournament to determine the qualifiers for the Speedway Grand Prix, which is the World Championship of speedway.^[1]

History

From 1995 the Individual World Championship was replaced by the Grand Prix system. The 17 qualifiers for the 1995 Grand Prix were the top 10 from the 1994 World final, 5 seeds and 2 wildcards.^[2]

From 1996, the leading riders from each Grand Prix series would automatically qualifying for the following year's event. The remaining places would be filled by the leading riders in the Challenge event and qualifiers from both the Continental Speedway Final and Intercontinental Final.^[3] However, the latter two finals would come to end in 2000 and 2001 respectively.

Format and winners

Year	Format	Winner	Other qualifiers
1996	8 to qualify	Leigh Adams[4]	Marvyn Cox, Peter Karlsson, Tommy Knudsen, Joe Screen, Gary Havelock, Craig Boyce, Andy Smith
1997	4 to qualify	Simon Wigg[5][6]	Leigh Adams, Mikael Karlsson, Andy Smith
1998	4 to qualify	Piotr Protasiewicz[7]	Stefan Dannö, Leigh Adams, Craig Boyce
1999	8 to qualify	Leigh Adams[8]	Brian Andersen, Henrik Gustafsson, Andy Smith, Stefan Dannö, Mikael Karlsson, Joe Screen, John Jørgensen
2000	10 to qualify	Billy Hamill[9]	Mikael Karlsson, Carl Stonehewer, Brian Karger, Henrik Gustafsson, Mark Loram, Andy Smith, Antonín Kasper Jr., Peter Karlsson, Brian Andersen
2001	10 to qualify	Peter Karlsson[10]	Carl Stonehewer, Nicki Pedersen, Rune Holta, Mikael Karlsson, Piotr Protasiewicz, Jimmy Nilsen, Joe Screen, Brian Andersen, Andy Smith
2002	6 to qualify	Greg Hancock[11]	Nicki Pedersen, Scott Nicholls, Lukáš Dryml, Carl Stonehewer, Andy Smith
2003	6 to qualify	Lee Richardson[12]	Bohumil Brhel, Piotr Protasiewicz, Lukáš Dryml, Bjarne Pedersen, Tomasz Bajerski
2004	6 to qualify	Piotr Protasiewicz[13]	Bohumil Brhel, Bjarne Pedersen, Kai Laukkanen, Aleš Dryml Jr., Jesper B Jensen
2005	2 to qualify	Antonio Lindbäck[14]	Tomasz Chrzanowski
2006	No qualifying
2007	3 to qualify	Wiesław Jaguś[15]	Rune Holta, Hans Andersen
2008	3 to qualify	Niels Kristian Iversen	Lukáš Dryml, Bjarne Pedersen
2009	3 to qualify	Kenneth Bjerre	Grzegorz Walasek, Sebastian Ułamek
2010	3 to qualify	Magnus Zetterström	Chris Holder, Jarosław Hampel
2011	3 to qualify	Artem Laguta	Antonio Lindbäck, Fredrik Lindgren
2012	3 to qualify	Antonio Lindbäck	Bjarne Pedersen, Piotr Protasiewicz
2013	3 to qualify	Krzysztof Kasprzak	Matej Žagar, Niels-Kristian Iversen
2014	5 to qualify	Niels-Kristian Iversen+	Krzysztof Kasprzak, Kenneth Bjerre, Martin Smolinski, Chris Harris
2015	4 to qualify	Matej Žagar+	Jason Doyle, Chris Harris, Maciej Janowski
2016	3 to qualify	Bartosz Zmarzlik	Piotr Pawlicki Jr., Chris Harris
2017	3 to qualify	Patryk Dudek	Martin Vaculík, Fredrik Lindgren
2018	3 to qualify	Przemysław Pawlicki	Artem Laguta, Craig Cook
2019	3 to qualify	Janusz Kołodziej	Niels-Kristian Iversen, Antonio Lindbäck
2020	3 to qualify	Matej Žagar	Niels-Kristian Iversen, Max Fricke
2021	3 to qualify	Matej Žagar	Oliver Berntzon, Krzysztof Kasprzak
2022	3 to qualify	Paweł Przedpełski	Max Fricke, Patryk Dudek
2023	3 to qualify	Kim Nilsson	Jack Holder, Max Fricke
2024	3 to qualify	Jason Doyle	Martin Vaculik+, Szymon Woźniak, Jan Kvěch
2025	4 to qualify[16]	Brady Kurtz	Anders Thomsen, Dominik Kubera, Max Fricke
2026	4 to qualify	Dominik Kubera	Kacper Woryna, Leon Madsen, Andžejs Ļebedevs

+ Already qualified for the Grand Prix series

See also

• Motorcycle speedway
• Speedway Grand Prix

References

1. "Rules". FIM. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
2. "Unfancied Swede gets a taste of big night". Birmingham Daily Post. 22 August 1994. Retrieved 5 January 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
3. "HISTORICAL LIST OF RESULTS 1995-2013 Speedway Grand Prix - Qualifications". Speedway History. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
4. "1995 Individual Championship". Speedway.org. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
5. "1996 Individual Championship". Speedway.org. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
6. "Karlsson wins GP berth". Birmingham Daily Post. 7 October 1996. Retrieved 20 January 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
7. "1997 Individual Championship". Speedway.org. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
8. "1998 Individual Championship". Speedway.org. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
9. "1999 Individual Championship". Speedway.org. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
10. "2000 Individual Championship". Speedway.org. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
11. "2001 Individual Championship". Speedway.org. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
12. "2002 Individual Championship". Speedway.org. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
13. "2003 Individual Championship". Speedway.org. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
14. "2004". Speedway Info. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
15. "2006". Speedway Info. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
16. "Four 2025 Speedway GP Places on the line at FIM SGP Challenge". FIM. Retrieved 26 January 2024.