2016 Speedway Grand Prix of Australia

Motorcycle race AUS 2016 Australian FIM Speedway Grand Prix 22 October 2016 Melbourne 11 of 11 Krister Gardell SWE Etihad Stadium 42,000 346 4 Chris Holder AUS Tai Woffinden GBR Bartosz Zmarzlik POL The 2016 QBE Insurance Australian FIM Speedway Grand Prix was the eleventh and final race of the 2016 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on 22 October at the Etihad Stadium in Melbourne, Australia.http://www.speedwaygp.com/event/speedwaygp-2016-australia https://web.archive.org/web/20151031081321/http://www.speedwaygp.com/event/speedwaygp-2016-australia usurped October 31, 2015 Australian Grand Prix Event Info SGP Riders The Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated reigning Australian Champion Brady Kurtz as the wild card, with newly crowned Under-21 World Champion Max Fricke and Jack Holder, the younger brother of Chris Holder, as the Track Reserves. Second series reserve Michael Jepsen Jensen replaced injured Australian Jason Doyle, while 2016 Australian Championship runner-up Sam Masters replaced the man who he had clashed with in the 2015 event, injured triple World Champion Nicki Pedersen. Results The Grand Prix was won by Australia's Chris Holder, who beat Tai Woffinden, Bartosz Zmarzlik and Antonio Lindbäck in the final. It was Holder's first SGP win of the season, and his first win in SGP since winning in Great Britain in his championship year of 2012. Holder's win also saw him overtake fellow Australian Jason Doyle for overall 4th place in the series. Greg Hancock was crowned world champion for the fourth time when he won heat four. Hancock would later cause controversy by pulling out of the meeting after he was excluded from 2nd place in heat nine. Woffinden finished second in the overall standings by claiming second place, with Zmarzlik and Holder in third and fourth respectively. The meeting also saw Piotr Pawlicki Jr., Lindbäck and Niels Kristian Iversen claim the final qualifying places for the 2017 season.http://www.speedwaygp.com/results/116 https://web.archive.org/web/20161023202452/http://www.speedwaygp.com/results/116 usurped October 23, 2016 Australian Grand Prix Result SGP Heat details 6 Gold AUS 23 Chris Holder 2 3 3 3 0 3 b 3 r 3 3 Silver GBR 108 Tai Woffinden 3 0 2 3 3 2 r 2 y 2 11 Bronze POL 95 Bartosz Zmarzlik 3 3 1 3 2 1 r 2 b 1 14 4 SWE 85 Antonio Lindbäck 1 2 3 2 3 4 w 3 w 0 9 5 DEN 88 Niels Kristian Iversen 2 3 1 2 3 5 y 1 1 6 SVN 55 Matej Žagar 2 0 2 3 3 6 b 1 7 7 DEN 52 Michael Jepsen Jensen 3 1 3 1 2 7 y 0 13 8 POL 777 Piotr Pawlicki Jr. 2 2 t 2 2 8 w 0 4 9 SWE 100 Andreas Jonsson 1 3 1 1 0 15 10 SWE 66 Fredrik Lindgren 0 2 2 0 2 16 11 USA 45 Greg Hancock 3 2 0 5 12 POL 71 Maciej Janowski 1 1 1 1 1 2 13 DEN 25 Peter Kildemand 0 0 3 0 1 10 14 GBR 37 Chris Harris 0 1 0 2 1 8 15 AUS 16 Brady Kurtz 0 1 1 0 m 12 16 AUS 17 Sam Masters 1 0 0 0 1 18 17 AUS 19 Jack Holder 2 0 17 18 AUS 18 Max Fricke 0 0 Final classification http://www.speedwaygp.com/standings?36 https://web.archive.org/web/20160502065427/http://www.speedwaygp.com/standings?36 usurped May 2, 2016 2016 FIM Speedway World Championship standings SGP 2016 SVN POL DEN CZE GBR SWE PL2 GER SCA PL3 AUS Q P1 USA 45 Greg Hancock e 10 b 14 e 14 b 18 d 10 a 17 e 11 c 15 e 9 b 16 f 5 Q P2 GBR 108 Tai Woffinden d 10 a 14 c 15 e 9 b 15 f 8 b 15 e 10 e 11 f 8 b 15 Q P3 POL 95 Bartosz Zmarzlik f 8 e 10 f 7 e 13 c 13 e 10 d 14 b 13 e 12 c 13 c 15 Q 4 AUS 23 Chris Holder c 14 d 12 b 13 f 5 f 6 d 12 c 15 e 8 b 13 e 11 a 17 Q 5 AUS 69 Jason Doyle b 13 f 5 f 7 a 17 e 12 b 17 a 16 a 17 a 19 f 0 x Q 6 POL 777 Piotr Pawlicki Jr. f 8 f 4 f 5 f 6 e 14 c 13 e 10 e 11 e 10 e 10 e 8 Q 7 SWE 85 Antonio Lindbäck e 10 e 10 e 10 f 5 a 18 f 7 f 4 f 6 f 4 f 5 d 14 Q 8 DEN 88 Niels Kristian Iversen f 8 f 4 f 7 d 11 f 3 e 8 f 5 d 11 f 7 a 15 e 12 P 9 POL 71 Maciej Janowski e 10 e 10 a 16 f 5 e 11 e 12 f 6 f 2 f 8 f 5 f 5 P 10 SVN 55 Matej Žagar f 4 c 14 e 8 f 5 f 8 f 3 f 4 f 3 d 15 d 15 e 11 P 11 SWE 66 Fredrik Lindgren f 7 e 12 f 2 e 11 f 2 f 8 e 11 f 6 c 14 e 9 f 6 P 12 DEN 25 Peter Kildemand a 15 f 6 f 7 f 6 f 4 e 9 f 3 f 6 f 6 f 2 f 4 P 13 DEN 3 Nicki Pedersen e 10 f 4 d 10 e 8 f 5 f 6 e 12 f 7 x x x P 14 SWE 100 Andreas Jonsson f 6 f 8 e 8 f 6 e 9 f 2 f 0 x x f 7 f 7 P 15 GBR 37 Chris Harris f 3 f 3 f 4 c 10 f 1 f 2 f 4 f 6 f 0 f 3 f 4 R 16 DEN 52 Michael Jepsen Jensen x x x x x x x f 7 f 4 e 10 e 10 R 17 POL 16 Patryk Dudek x f 8 x x x x x x x x x R 17 GER 16 Martin Smolinski x x x x x x x e 8 x x x R 17 POL 16 Paweł Przedpełski x x x x x x x x x f 8 x R 20 GBR 16 Danny King x x x x f 7 x x x x x x R 20 POL 16 Krzysztof Kasprzak x x x x x x f 7 x x x x R 22 DEN 16 Anders Thomsen x x f 5 x x x x x x x x R 22 SWE 17 Kim Nilsson x x x x x x x x f 5 x x R 24 SWE 16 Peter Ljung x x x x x f 4 x x x x x R 25 CZE 16 Václav Milík Jr. x x x f 3 x x x x x x x R 26 GER 17 Tobias Kroner x x x x x x x f 2 x x x R 26 AUS 16 Sam Masters x x x x x x x x x x f 2 R 26 AUS 17 Brady Kurtz x x x x x x x x x x f 2 R 26 AUS 19 Jack Holder x x x x x x x x x x f 2 R 30 SVN 16 Denis Štojs f 1 x x x x x x x x x x R 30 SVN 17 Nick Škorja f 1 x x x x x x x x x x R 30 POL 17 Daniel Kaczmarek x x x x x x f 1 x x x x R 30 SWE 16 Jacob Thorssell x x x x x x x x f 1 x x R 30 POL 17 Kacper Woryna x x x x x x x x x f 1 x R 35 SVN 18 Matic Ivačič f 0 x x x x x x x x x x R 35 POL 18 Oskar Bober x x x x x x x x x f 0 x R 35 AUS 18 Max Fricke x x x x x x x x x x f 0 References See also motorcycle speedway Australia Speedway Grand Prix