2004 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification

The 2004 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 2004 Speedway Grand Prix^[1] to join the other 16 riders that finished in the leading positions from the 2003 Speedway Grand Prix.^[2]

2004 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification
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The system introduced the previous year, that of four quarter finals and two semi finals was retained and only 6 riders would qualify through the GP Challenge.

Piotr Protasiewicz won the GP Challenge.^[3]

Format

• First Round (64 riders qualifying from respective national championships)
• Quarter finals - 32 riders to semi finals
• Semi finals - 16 riders to GP Challenge
• Final Round - 6 riders from the GP Challenge to the 2004 Grand Prix

Quarter finals

32 riders to semi finals (Andrea Maida & Jarosław Hampel seeded to sf)

QF (26 April 2003 Lonigo) Pos Rider Points 1 Lee Richardson 13 2 Billy Janniro 13 3 Ryan Fisher 11 4 Tomáš Topinka 11 5 Piotr Protasiewicz 11 6 Sebastian Ułamek 10 7 Theo Pijper 10 8 Matej Žagar 10 9 Sebastien Trésarrieu 7 10 Joachim Kügelmann 6 11 Mirko Wolter 6 12 Scott Smith 4 13 Jernej Kolenko 4 14 Simone Terenzani 3 15 Christian Miotello 1 16 Marko Vlah 0

QF (1 May 2003 Debrecen) Pos Rider Points 1 Peter Karlsson 13 2 Rafał Dobrucki 13 3 Jesper B. Jensen 12 4 Attila Stefáni 11 5 David Howe 11 6 Sándor Tihanyi 10 7 Sergej Darkin 9 8 Jacek Rempala 8 9 László Szatmári 8 10 Oleg Kurguskin 8 11 Josef Franc 5 12 Norbert Magosi 4 13 Ronni Pedersen 4 14 Izak Šantej 3 15 Manuel Hauzinger 1 16 Tomáš Suchánek 0

QF (3 May 2003 Elgane) Pos Rider Points 1 Grzegorz Walasek 13 2 Bjarne Pedersen 12 3 David Ruud 12 4 Charlie Gjedde 11 5 Stefan Andersson 10 6 Kai Laukkanen 9 7 Hans Andersen 9 8 Peter Ingvar Karlsson 9 9 Brent Werner 9 10 Chris Harris 8 11 Björn Hansen 8 12 Oliver Allen 4 13 Sam Taylor 3 14 Mikke Bjerk 2 15 Carl Johan Raugstad 1 16 Remi Ueland 0

QF (8 June 2003 Heusden-Zolder) Pos Rider Points 1 Lukáš Dryml 12 2 Bohumil Brhel 12 3 Aleš Dryml Jr. 11 4 Chris Slabon 11 5 Peter Ljung 11 6 Joonas Kylmäkorpi 10 7 Roman Povazhny 8 8 Simon Stead 8 9 Kenneth Bjerre 7 10 Mathias Schultz 7 11 Mark Lemon 6 12 Magnus Zetterström 6 13 Craig Watson 5 14 Leigh Lanham 3 15 Henk Bos 2 16 Warren Meier 0

Semi finals

16 riders from to GP Challenge

SF 21 June 2003 Terenzano Pos. Rider Points 1 Peter Karlsson 13 2 David Howe 13 3 Billy Janniro 12 4 Aleš Dryml Jr. 10 5 Piotr Protasiewicz 9 6 Tomáš Topinka 9 7 Theo Pijper 8 8 Charlie Gjedde 8 9 Matej Žagar 7 10 Chris Slabon 6 11 Peter Ljung 6 12 László Szatmári (R) 4 13 Grzegorz Walasek 4 14 Jacek Rempala 4 15 David Ruud 3 16 Andrea Maida 3 17 Sándor Tihanyi 0

SF 22 June 2003 Rybnik Pos. Rider Points 1 Roman Povazhny 12 2 Jesper B. Jensen 12 3 Bjarne Pedersen 12 4 Bohumil Brhel 11 5 Rafał Dobrucki 10 6 Lukáš Dryml 10 7 Kai Laukkanen 10 8 Sebastian Ułamek 8 9 Joonas Kylmäkorpi 7 10 Sergej Darkin 6 11 Peter Ingvar Karlsson 5 12 Jarosław Hampel 5 13 Attila Stefáni 4 14 Simon Stead (R) 3 15 Ryan Fisher 2 16 Lee Richardson 1 17 Stefan Andersson 2 18 Brent Werner (R) 1

Final Round

GP Challenge

6 riders to 2004 Grand Prix

• 17 August 2003 Poole

Pos.	Rider	Total	Points
1	Piotr Protasiewicz	14	2, 3, 3, 3, 3
2	Bohumil Brhel	13	3, 3, 2, 2, 3
3	Bjarne Pedersen	12	2, 2, 2, 3, 3
4	Kai Laukkanen	11	3, 3, 1, 2, 2
5	Aleš Dryml Jr.	10	exc, 3, 3, 3, 1
6	Jesper B. Jensen	9	1, ef, 3, 3, 2
7	Joonas Kylmäkorpi	7	3, 2, 0, 1, 1
8	Simon Stead (R)	6	1, 0, 3, 2, exc
9	Rafał Dobrucki	6	3, 0, 1, 1, 1
10	Billy Janniro	6	2, 2, 1, 1, 0
11	Roman Povazhny	5	exc, 1, 0, 1, 3
12	Charlie Gjedde	5	0, 1, 0, 2, 2
13	Tomáš Topinka	5	2, 2, 1, 0, x
14	Matej Žagar (R)	5	1, -, 2, x, 2
15	Sebastian Ułamek	4	1, 1, 2, f, exc
16	Theo Pijper	1	0, 0, 0, 0, 1
17	Peter Karlsson	0	ef, -, -, -, -
18	Lukáš Dryml	-	dns+[4]

+broke his leg and was unable to compete further