2000 Speedway Grand Prix

6th season of the Speedway Grand Prix September 2015 2000 May 6 – September 23 6 6 5 22 2 144 GBR Mark Loram USA Billy Hamill SWE Tony Rickardsson The 2000 Speedway Grand Prix was the 55th edition of the official World Championship to determine the world champion rider.https://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 It was the sixth season in the Speedway Grand Prix era and was 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 2000 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification The 2000 season had 22 permanent riders and two wild cards at each event. The permanent riders are highlighted in the results table below. Calendar 2000 CZE 1 May 6 Markéta Stadium Prague USA Billy Hamill GBR Mark Loram GBR Chris Louis AUS Todd Wiltshire 2000 SWE 2 June 3 Motorstadium Linköping AUS Jason Crump GBR Mark Loram AUS Todd Wiltshire SWE Tony Rickardsson 2000 POL 3 July 1 Olympic Stadium Wrocław SWE Tony Rickardsson USA Billy Hamill GBR Chris Louis AUS Leigh Adams 2000 GBR 4 July 29 Brandon Stadium Coventry GBR Martin Dugard AUS Ryan Sullivan GBR Mark Loram AUS Jason Lyons 2000 DEN 5 September 2 Speedway Center Vojens USA Greg Hancock AUS Jason Crump SWE Stefan Dannö DEN Nicki Pedersen 2000 EUR 6 September 23 Polonia Stadium Bydgoszcz USA Billy Hamill USA Greg Hancock SWE Tony Rickardsson AUS Jason Crump Final standings 2000 CZE SWE POL GBR DEN EUR Q P1 GBR 16 Mark Loram b 20 b 20 e 15 c 18 e 15 e 14 Q P2 USA 11 Billy Hamill a 25 f 6 b 20 f 5 e 14 a 25 Q P3 SWE 1 Tony Rickardsson e 14 d 16 a 25 e 14 f 7 c 18 Q 4 AUS 6 Jason Crump f 5 a 25 e 12 e 10 b 20 d 16 Q 5 USA 7 Greg Hancock f 7 f 5 f 7 e 12 a 25 b 20 Q 6 AUS 5 Leigh Adams f 6 e 10 d 16 e 15 e 12 f 6 Q 7 POL 2 Tomasz Gollob e 15 e 14 e 14 x f 6 e 15 Q 8 AUS 21 Todd Wiltshire d 16 c 18 f 7 f 7 f 3 e 12 Q 9 AUS 8 Ryan Sullivan f 8 e 12 f 8 b 20 f 8 f 6 Q 10 GBR 10 Chris Louis c 18 f 7 c 18 f 8 f 5 f 4 P 11 SWE 3 Jimmy Nilsen f 6 e 15 f 5 f 6 f 2 f 8 P 12 SWE 9 Stefan Dannö f 3 f 4 e 10 f 6 c 18 f 0 P 13 SWE 12 Mikael Karlsson e 12 f 8 f 4 f 8 f 5 f 2 P 14 SWE 15 Henrik Gustafsson f 8 f 4 f 2 f 5 e 10 e 10 P 15 SWE 19 Peter Karlsson f 3 f 2 f 8 f 7 f 8 f 7 P 16 GBR 4 Joe Screen f 5 f 5 f 6 f 3 f 7 f 8 P 17 CZE 18 Antonín Kasper, Jr. f 7 f 6 f 5 f 4 f 6 f 4 P 18 GBR 13 Carl Stonehewer e 10 f 7 f 3 f 4 f 3 f 3 W 19 GBR 23 Martin Dugard x x x a 25 x x W 20 DEN 23 Nicki Pedersen x f 1 x x d 16 x P 21 POL 22 Rafał Dobrucki f 4 f 3 f 3 x f 1 f 5 W 22 AUS 28 Jason Lyons x x x d 16 x x P 23 DEN 20 Brian Andersen f 4 f 2 f 1 f 2 f 4 f 2 P 24 DEN 14 Brian Karger f 2 f 3 f 4 f 1 f 2 f 1 P 25 GBR 17 Andy Smith f 2 f 1 f 1 f 2 f 1 f 3 W 26 NOR 24 Rune Holta x f 8 x x x x W 27 POL 24 Jarosław Hampel x x x x x f 7 W 28 POL 24 Sebastian Ułamek x x f 6 x x x W 29 DEN 24 Jesper B. Jensen x x x x f 4 x W 30 POL 23 Piotr Protasiewicz x x f 2 x x f 1 W 31 GBR 24 Lee Richardson x x x f 3 x x W 32 CZE 23 Michal Makovský f 1 x x x x x W 33 CZE 24 Bohumil Brhel f 1 x x x x x W 34 DEN 25 John Jørgensen x x x f 1 x x References External links Official Speedway GP site 2000 World I