2001 Speedway Grand Prix

World championship speedway season July 2024 September 2015 2001 5 May – 29 September 6 6 6 22 2 144 SWE Tony Rickardsson AUS Jason Crump POL Tomasz Gollob The 2001 Speedway Grand Prix was the 56th edition of the official World Championshiphttps://www.speedwaygb.co.uk/worldfinalindex WORLD INDIVIDUAL FINAL - RIDER INDEX British Speedway 10 July 2021http://www.speedway.org/history/ HISTORY SPEEDWAY and LONGTRACK Speedway.org 10 July 2021https://wwosbackup.proboards.com/thread/6933/world-champions Speedway riders, history and results wwosbackup 10 July 2021 and the seventh season in the Speedway Grand Prix era and is used to determine the Speedway World Champion. 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 2001 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification The 2001 season had 22 permanent riders and two wild cards at each event. The permanent riders are highlighted in the results table below. Joe Screen had also qualified as a permanent rider for the 2001 season however as a result of injury he did not take part in any Grand Prix. He was replaced by first reserve, Henrik Gustafsson. Calendar 2001 GER 1 5 May F. L. Jahn Stadium Berlin POL Tomasz Gollob SWE Henrik Gustafsson DEN Nicki Pedersen SWE Tony Rickardsson 2001 GBR 2 9 June Millennium Stadium Cardiff SWE Tony Rickardsson AUS Jason Crump POL Tomasz Gollob SWE Niklas Klingberg 2001 DEN 3 28 July Speedway Center Vojens SWE Tony Rickardsson AUS Jason Crump AUS Leigh Adams POL Tomasz Gollob 2001 CZE 4 18 August Markéta Stadium Prague USA Billy Hamill SWE Tony Rickardsson AUS Jason Crump POL Tomasz Gollob 2001 POL 5 8 September Polonia Stadium Bydgoszcz AUS Jason Crump SWE Tony Rickardsson SWE Mikael Karlsson USA Billy Hamill 2001 SWE 6 29 September Stockholms Stadion Stockholm AUS Jason Crump SWE Mikael Karlsson AUS Ryan Sullivan GBR Mark Loram Final standings 2001 GER GBR DEN CZE POL SWE Q P1 SWE 3 Tony Rickardsson d 16 a 25 a 25 b 20 b 20 e 15 Q P2 AUS 4 Jason Crump f 5 b 20 b 20 c 18 a 25 a 25 Q P3 POL 7 Tomasz Gollob a 25 c 18 d 16 d 16 f 8 f 6 Q 4 AUS 9 Ryan Sullivan e 10 e 15 f 8 e 15 e 14 c 18 Q 5 AUS 6 Leigh Adams e 12 f 8 c 18 e 10 f 7 e 14 Q 6 USA 2 Billy Hamill f 5 f 3 f 4 a 25 d 16 f 8 Q 7 SWE 15 Mikael Karlsson f 2 f 2 e 12 f 5 c 18 b 20 Q 8 AUS 8 Todd Wiltshire e 14 e 14 e 14 f 6 f 3 f 5 Q 9 GBR 1 Mark Loram f 6 f 8 f 5 f 7 e 12 d 16 Q 10 SWE 21 Niklas Klingberg f 4 d 16 e 15 f 8 f 4 f 7 P 11 DEN 13 Nicki Pedersen c 18 f 7 f 7 f 6 f 8 f 6 P 12 GBR 12 Carl Stonehewer f 7 f 5 f 4 e 12 f 6 e 12 P 13 USA 5 Greg Hancock f 8 f 6 f 5 f 4 e 10 e 10 P 14 NOR 14 Rune Holta f 1 f 2 e 10 f 8 e 15 f 5 P 15 SWE 11 Peter Karlsson e 15 x f 8 f 2 f 6 f 8 W 16 POL 26 Grzegorz Walasek x e 10 f 6 e 14 f 4 x W 17 SWE 25 Henrik Gustafsson b 20 f 3 f 2 f 3 f 2 f 3 P 18 DEN 19 Brian Andersen f 8 f 5 f 3 f 4 f 1 f 2 P 19 SLO 22 Matej Ferjan f 7 f 7 f 1 f 2 f 3 f 1 P 20 POL 16 Piotr Protasiewicz f 4 f 6 f 1 f 5 f 2 f 2 P 21 SWE 17 Jimmy Nilsen f 1 e 12 f 7 x x x P 22 GBR 20 Andy Smith f 3 f 1 f 2 f 1 f 1 f 4 W 23 CZE 23) (27 Antonín Kasper Jr. x x x f 3 f 5 f 3 W 24 CZE 24 Bohumil Brhel x x x f 7 x x W 25 POL 24 Jarosław Hampel x x x x f 7 x W 26 SWE 24 Andreas Jonsson x x x x x f 7 P 27 GBR 10 Chris Louis f 3 f 1 x f 1 x f 1 W 28 GER 23 Robert Barth f 6 x x x x x W 29 DEN 23 Hans Clausen x x f 6 x x x W 30 POL 23 Krzysztof Cegielski x x x x f 5 x W 31 GBR 23 Martin Dugard x f 4 x x x x W 32 SWE 23 Stefan Andersson x x x x x f 4 W 33 GBR 24 Scott Nicholls x f 4 x x x x W 34 DEN 24 Jesper B. Jensen x x f 3 x x x W 35 GER 24 Mirko Wolter f 2 x x x x x P GBR 18 Joe Screen x x x x x x References External links Official Speedway GP site 2001 World I