2003 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification

2003 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification 2002 2004 The 2003 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification or GP Challenge was a series of motorcycle speedway meetings used to determine the 6 riders that would qualify for the 2003 Speedway Grand Prixhttp://www.speedway.org/history/02.htm#2002 Individual Championship Speedway.org 8 January 2023 to join the other 16 riders that finished in the leading positions from the 2002 Speedway Grand Prix.http://www.historyspeedway.nstrefa.pl/grandprixquali.php HISTORICAL LIST OF RESULTS 1995-2013 Speedway Grand Prix - Qualifications Speedway History 8 January 2023 Only 6 riders would qualify through the GP Challenge once again but there was a major change in the lead up to the GP Challenge with a new qualifying format of 4 quarter finals and 2 semi finals. The Intercontinental Final, Continental Final, Overseas Final and Scandinavian Finals were all scrapped.https://www.crash.net/speedway/news/98597/1/aussie-speedway-strength-shown-by-five-in-2003-gp Aussie speedway strength shown by five in 2003 GP Crash 8 January 2023 Lee Richardson won the GP Challenge.https://www.crash.net/speedway/news/98217/1/richardson-qualifies-for-2003-gp-series Richardson qualifies for 2003 GP series Crash 8 January 2023 Format First Round (7 riders from Poland to quarter final, 6 from Sweden & Great Britain, 5 from Denmark & Czech Republic, 4 from Australia & Germany, 3 riders from United States, Hungary, Italy, Russia & Slovenia, 2 from Norway, Finland, Latvia, 1 rider each from Austria, Canada, Croatia, France, Netherlands and Ukraine) Quarter finals - 32 riders to semi finals Semi finals - 16 riders to GP Challenge Final Round - 6 riders from the GP Challenge to the 2003 Grand Prix Quarter finals 32 riders to semi finals start QF (27 April 2002 ITA Lonigo)PosRiderPoints1 SWE Peter Karlsson 142 POL Piotr Protasiewicz 133 POL Robert Dados124 USA Ryan Fisher 125 AUS Steve Johnston 116 ENG David Howe 117 CZE Lukáš Dryml98 HUN Róbert Nagy79 ITA Andrea Maida 610 CZE Josef Franc 511 ENG Simon Stead 412 RUS Eduard Shaihullin 413 ITA Christian Miotello (R) 414 GER Jörg Pingel 415 ITA Simone Terenzani 216 ITA Alessandro Milanese (R) 017 FRA Stéphane Trésarrieu 017 RSA Sandor Lakatos 0 break QF (12 May 2002 GER Pfaffenhofen)PosRiderPoints1 DEN Hans Andersen 122 DEN Bjarne Pedersen 123 RUS Roman Povazhny114 RUS Sergej Darkin 95 ENG Dean Barker 86 CZE Bohumil Brhel 87 POL Rafał Okoniewski88 ENG Paul Hurry89 GER Joachim Kugelmann 810 CRO Zlato Krznaric 811 GER Matthias Kröger 712 CZE Tomáš Topinka 713 NOR Björn G Hansen 514 GER Mirko Wolter 515 AUT Manuel Hauzinger 216 GER Herbert Rudolph (R) 117 NED Jim Groen 0 break QF (18 May 2002 SVN Ljubljana)PosRiderPoints1 DEN Charlie Gjedde 142 POL Tomasz Bajerski 123 HUN Attila Stefáni104 SVN Matej Žagar 105 AUS Craig Watson 106 CZE Aleš Dryml Jr. 107 SWE Peter I Karlsson98 USA Brent Werner89 POL Jarosław Hampel 710 SWE Anders Henriksson 611 SVN Izak Šantej 512 AUS Mark Lemon 513 DEN Niels Kristian Iversen 514 HUN Norbert Magosi 315 CAN Chris Slabon 316 FIN Joonas Kylmäkorpi 2 break QF (24 May 2002 SWE Vetlanda)PosRiderPoints1 ENG Lee Richardson 112 SWE Stefan Dannö 103 AUS Jason Lyons94 FIN Kai Laukkanen 95 POL Andrzej Huszcza 96 SWE Henrik Gustafsson 77 DEN Ronni Pedersen78 NOR Lars Gunnestad79 USA Billy Janniro 610 ENG Danny Bird 611 SVN Jernej Kolenko 512 POL Jacek Rempala 313 SWE Niklas Karlsson (R) 314 LAT Nikolai Kokin 315 LAT Andrzej Korolew 116 UKR Alexander Liatosinskij 017 SWE Stefan Andersson 018 SWE Freddie Eriksson (R) 0 end Semi finals 16 riders from to GP Challenge SF 15 June 2002 CZE Mšeno Pos.RiderPoints1 CZE Bohumil Brhel 142 CZE Lukáš Dryml 123 ENG Lee Richardson114 SWE Peter Karlsson 115 DEN Ronni Pedersen 96 POL Tomasz Bajerski 97 POL Rafał Okoniewski88 ENG David Howe89 POL Robert Dados 710 FIN Kai Laukkanen 611 ITA Andrea Maida (R) 612 ENG Paul Hurry 413 USA Brent Werner (R) 414 HUN Róbert Nagy 315 HUN Attila Stefáni 316 SVN Matej Žagar 217 SWE Stefan Dannö 218 CZE Antonín Šváb Jr. 1SF 16 June 2002 DEN Holsted Pos.RiderPoints1 AUS Jason Lyons 122 DEN Bjarne Pedersen 123 POL Piotr Protasiewicz124 POL Andrzej Huszcza 105 ENG Dean Barker 86 DEN Hans Andersen 77 RUS Roman Povazhny78 AUS Steve Johnston79 SWE Peter Ingvar Karlsson 710 NOR Lars Gunnestad 611 AUS Craig Watson 612 RUS Sergej Darkin 613 USA Ryan Fisher 614 CZE Aleš Dryml Jr. 515 DEN Charlie Gjedde 516 SWE Henrik Gustafsson 4 Final Round GP Challenge 6 riders to 2003 Grand Prix 25 August 2002 POL Piła Pos.RiderTotalPoints1 ENG Lee Richardson 143, 2, 3, 3, 32 CZE Bohumil Brhel 123, 3, 3, 0, 33 POL Piotr Protasiewicz 110, 3, 3, 2, 34 CZE Lukáš Dryml 113, 2, 2, 3, 15 DEN Bjarne Pedersen 113, 1, 3, 2, 26 POL Tomasz Bajerski 112, 1, 2, 3, 37 AUS Jason Lyons 102, 2, 1, 3, 28 DEN Hans Andersen 92, 3, 0, 2, 29 DEN Ronni Pedersen 90, 3, 2, ex, 010 SWE Peter Karlsson 5 2, 1, 2, ex, 111 ENG David Howe 40, 2, 1, 0, 0, 312 POL Robert Dados (R) 4-, -, 1, 2, 113 RUS Roman Povazhny 41, ef, 1, 1, 114 POL Andrzej Huszcza 3ex, 0, 1, 2, 015 AUS Steve Johnston 21, 0, 0, 1, ef16 POL Rafał Okoniewski 21, 1, 0, -, -17 ENG Dean Barker 11, 0, 0, 0, - race off for 3rd place - Protasiewicz, Dryml, B Pedersen, Bajerski References Speedway Grand Prix Qualification Category:Speedway Grand Prix Qualification