2001 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification

The 2001 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification or GP Challenge was a series of motorcycle speedway meetings used to determine the 12 riders that would qualify for the 2001 Speedway Grand Prix^[1] to join the other 10 riders that finished in the leading positions from the 2000 Speedway Grand Prix.^[2]

2001 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification
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The format was similar to the previous year, in that 2 riders would qualify straight from the Intercontinental and Continental finals and 10 riders would qualify through the GP Challenge.

Peter Karlsson won the GP Challenge.^[3]

Format

• First Round - 6 riders from Sweden, 5 from Denmark, 3 from Norway, 2 from Finland to Scandinavian Final
• First Round - 27 riders from Continental quarter finals to Continental semi-finals
• First Round - 8 riders from British Final to Overseas Final
• First Round - 2 riders from Australian Final to Overseas Final
• First Round - 1 rider from New Zealand Final to Overseas Final
• First Round - 3 riders from United States Final to Overseas Final
• Second Round - 8 riders from Scandinavian Final to Intercontinental Final
• Second Round - 8 riders from Overseas Final to Intercontinental Final
• Second Round - 16 riders from Continental semi-finals to Continental Final
• Third Round - 11 riders from positions 11-21 from the 2000 Grand Prix, World U21 champion & host rider to GP Challenge
• Third Round - 1 rider from the Continental Final to 2001 Grand Prix and 4 to GP Challenge
• Third Round - 1 rider from the Intercontinental Final to 2001 Grand Prix and 7 to GP Challenge
• Final Round - 10 riders from the GP Challenge to the 2001 Grand Prix

First round

Continental quarter finals

QF (30 Apr Terenzano) Pos Rider Points 1 Rafał Okoniewski 13+ 2 Adam Skórnicki 13+ 3 Andrea Maida 12 4 Zlatko Krznaric 11 5 Alessandro Dalla Valle 9 6 Zoltán Adorján 9 7 Bohumil Brhel 8 8 Lukáš Dryml 7 9 Simone Terenzani 7 10 Aleš Dryml Jr. 7 11 László Szatmári 7 12 Rinat Mardanshin 6 13 Tolgat Galeev 3 14 Simone Tadiello 3 15 Stéphane Trésarrieu 2 16 Sebastien Trésarrieu 2 17 Eduard Shajkoulin 1

QF (14 May Pfaffenhofen) Pos Rider Points 1 Piotr Protasiewicz 15 2 Joachim Kugelmann 13 3 Grzegorz Walasek 12 4 Róbert Nagy 11 5 Sergej Darkin 11 6 Mirko Wolter 9 7 Nikolaj Kokins 8 8 Antonín Šváb Jr. 8 9 Sergej Eroschin 7 10 Michal Makovský 7 11 Steffen Mell 6 12 Toni Pilotto 5 13 Attila Stefáni 5 14 Vladimir Voronkovs 2 15 Erik Eijbergen 1 16 Uilke Kooistra 0 17 Stefan Bachhuber 0 18 Herbert Rudolph 0

QF (14 May Krško) Pos Rider Points 1 Matej Ferjan 15 2 Robert Sawina 12 3 Armando Castagna 10 4 Tomasz Bajerski 10 5 Izak Šantej 9 6 Piotr Świst 9 7 Adrian Rymel 9 8 Tomas Sustersic 8 9 Tomáš Topinka 8 10 Marián Jirout 8 11 Pavel Ondrašík 7 12 Stefano Alfonso 5 13 Thomas Stadler 4 14 Emiliano Sanchez 4 15 Vladimir Trofimov 1 16 Volodymyr Kolodij 1

Second round

Overseas Final

Main article: 2000 Overseas Final

8 riders to Intercontinental Final

Scandinavian Final

8 riders to Intercontinental Final

(18 June 2000 Elgane)
Pos	Rider	Points
1	Rune Holta	13
2	Lars Gunnestad	13
3	Nicki Pedersen	12
4	Stefan Andersson	11
5	Niklas Klingberg	10
6	John Jørgensen	9
7	Peter Nahlin	9
8	Bjarne Pedersen	9
9	Jesper B Jensen	9
10	Kai Laukkanen	7
11	Andreas Jonsson	6
12	Claes Ivarsson	4
13	Ronni Pedersen	3
14	Peter Ingvar Karlsson	3
15	Tomi Reima	1
16	Björn G Hansen	1

Continental semi finals

Continental semi-finals - 16 riders from to Continental final, Armando Castagna seeded to final

SF 22 June 2000 Gdańsk Pos. Rider Points 1 Piotr Protasiewicz 11 2 Sebastian Ulamek 10 3 Krzysztof Jabłoński 10 4 Antonín Šváb Jr. 8 5 Adam Skórnicki 7 6 Zoltán Adorján 6 7 Izak Šantej 6 8 Nikolaj Kokins 6 9 Adrian Rymel 6 10 Sergej Darkin 5 11 Mirko Wolter 5 12 Sergej Eroshin 5 13 Zlatko Krznaric 4 14 Tomáš Topinka 4 15 Andrea Maida 2 16 Michal Makovský 1 17 Sándor Tihanyi 0

SF 22 June 2000 Olching Pos. Rider Points 1 Matej Ferjan 12 2 Robert Barth 11 3 Piotr Świst 11 4 Róbert Nagy 11 5 Grzegorz Walasek 11 6 Bohumil Brhel 9 7 Joachim Kugelmann 9 8 Tomasz Bajerski 9 9 Alessandro Dalla Valle 7 10 Tomas Sustersic 6 11 Roman Povazhny 6 12 Rafał Okoniewski 6 13 Lukáš Dryml 6 14 Aleš Dryml Jr. 3 15 Armando Castagna 3 16 László Szatmári 0 17 Pavel Ondrašík 0 18 Steffen Mell 0

Third round

• 11 riders from positions 11-21 from the 2000 Speedway Grand Prix, World U21 champion & host rider to GP Challenge

Intercontinental Final

Main article: 2000 Intercontinental Final

1 rider direct to Grand Prix, 7 riders to GP Challenge

Continental Final

• 1 rider direct to Grand Prix, 4 riders to GP Challenge
• 9 July 2000 Lonigo

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Matej Ferjan	14
2	Piotr Protasiewicz	14
3	Piotr Świst	13
4	Sebastian Ułamek	11
5	Grzegorz Walasek	10
6	Krzysztof Jabłoński	10
7	Adam Skórnicki	8
8	Bohumil Brhel	7
9	Armando Castagna	7
10	Tomasz Bajerski	5
11	Róbert Nagy	5
12	Antonín Šváb Jr.	4
13	Izak Šantej	4
14	Robert Barth	3
15	Joachim Kugelmann	3
16	Zoltán Adorján	2

Final Round

GP Challenge

10 riders to 2001 Grand Prix

• 8 October 2000 Abensberg

Pos.	Rider	pre-event	main-event	sf	Final
1	Peter Karlsson	x	2, 2	3	3
2	Carl Stonehewer	x	0, 3, 3	3	2
3	Nicki Pedersen	1, 3, 3	3	2	1
4	Rune Holta	3, 0, 2	1, 2, 3, 2	2	0
5	Mikael Karlsson	x	3, 3	1	x
6	Piotr Protasiewicz	2, 0, 3	3, 1, 2	1	x
7	Jimmy Nilsen	x	2, 2	0	x
8	Joe Screen	x	0, 2, 3	0	x
9	Brian Andersen	3, 3	3, 1, 1	x	x
10	Andy Smith	3, 2	2, 0, 1	x	x
11	Henrik Gustafsson	x	2, 0, 0	x	x
12	Grzegorz Walasek	2, 3	1, 3, 0	x	x
13	Antonín Kasper Jr.	x	0, 1	x	x
14	Rafał Dobrucki	x	1, 1	x	x
15	Sebastian Ułamek	2, 2	0	x	x
16	Gary Havelock	1, 3, 2	1, 0	x	x
17	Piotr Świst	3, 1, 1	x	x	x
18	Steve Johnston	0, 2, 1	x	x	x
19	Brian Karger	2, 1, 0	x	x	x
20	John Jørgensen	0, 2, 0	x	x	x
21	Jesper B Jensen	0, 1	x	x	x
22	Andreas Jonsson	0, 1	x	x	x
23	Jason Lyons	1, 0	x	x	x
24	Robert Barth	1, 0	x	x	x