2005 Speedway Grand Prix

The 2005 Speedway Grand Prix was the 60th edition of the official World Championship^[1][2] and the 11th season in the Speedway Grand Prix era used to determine the Speedway World Champion.

2005 Speedway Grand Prix
Season details
Dates	April 30 - September 9
Events	9
Cities	9
Countries	7
Riders	15 permanents 1 wild card(s) 2 track reserves
Heats	207 (in 9 events)
Winners
Champion	SWE Tony Rickardsson
Runner-up	AUS Jason Crump
3rd place	AUS Leigh Adams
← 2004 Speedway Grand Prix 2006 →

Event format

The format was changed for GP 2005 with 16 riders (instead of 24) taking part in each Grand Prix event, and over the course of 20 heats each rider started in 5 heats and raced against every other rider once (which is the classical round-robin formula of the individual tournament). The top eight scorers advanced to two semi-final heats, and the first and second riders from each semi-final advanced to the GP final heat. All riders apart from the qualifiers for the final carried forward the points earned in the round-robin round over the course of the season. The riders in the final received points (for the whole tournament, irrespective of how many points they had earned) as follows:

• 1st place = 25 points
• 2nd place = 20 points
• 3rd place = 18 points
• 4th place = 16 points

This formula was very similar to that in effect during the 1995-1997 GP editions, the difference being such that then all the 16 riders after the 20 heat round-robin round started in one additional heat (those from places 13–16 after round-robin in 21st, 9–12 in 22nd, 5–8 in 23rd, 1–4 in 24th being the Great Final), and all 16 received a constant number of points for a given place in a tournament (irrespective of how many points they had earned).

Qualification for Grand Prix

Main article: 2005 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification

For the 2005 season, there were 15 permanent riders, joined at each Grand Prix by one wild card. They were, in rider number order:

• (1) Jason Crump
• (2) Tony Rickardsson
• (3) Greg Hancock
• (4) Leigh Adams
• (5) Nicki Pedersen
• (6) Tomasz Gollob
• (7) Andreas Jonsson
• (8) Jarosław Hampel
• (9) Hans Andersen
• (10) Bjarne Pedersen
• (11) Lee Richardson
• (12) Scott Nicholls
• (13) Ryan Sullivan
• (14) Antonio Lindback
• (15) Tomasz Chrzanowski

Calendar

Round	Date	City and venue	Winner	Runner-up	3rd placed	4th placed	Results
1	30 April	Wrocław, Poland Olympic Stadium	Tony Rickardsson	Leigh Adams	Jason Crump	Antonio Lindbäck	results
2	11 May	Eskilstuna, Sweden Smedstadion	Jason Crump	Tony Rickardsson	Bjarne Pedersen	Nicki Pedersen	results
3	28 May	Krško, Slovenia Matija Gubec Stadium	Tony Rickardsson	Nicki Pedersen	Matej Žagar	Jason Crump	results
4	11 June	Cardiff, Great Britain Millennium Stadium	Tony Rickardsson	Jarosław Hampel	Bjarne Pedersen	Hans N. Andersen	results
5	25 June	Copenhagen, Denmark Parken Stadium	Tony Rickardsson	Greg Hancock	Antonio Lindbäck	Nicki Pedersen	results
6	29 July	Prague, Czech Republic Markéta Stadium	Tony Rickardsson	Bjarne Pedersen	Jarosław Hampel	Jason Crump	results
7	13 August	Målilla , Sweden G&B Stadium	Jason Crump	Andreas Jonsson	Tony Rickardsson	Leigh Adams	results
8	27 August	Bydgoszcz, Poland Polonia Stadium	Tomasz Gollob	Lee Richardson	Jason Crump	Greg Hancock	results
9	9 September	Lonigo, Italy Santa Marina Stadium	Tony Rickardsson	Jason Crump	Greg Hancock	Leigh Adams	results

Result: Europe • Sweden • Slovenia • Great Britain • Copenhagen • Denmark • Scandinavia • Poland • Italy

Final classification

Qualifies for next season's Grand Prix series

Full-time Grand Prix rider

Wild card, track reserve or qualified reserve

Pos.	Rider	Points	EUR	SWE	SVN	GBR	DEN	CZE	SCA	POL	ITA
	(2) Tony Rickardsson	196	25	20	25	25	25	25	18	8	25
	(1) Jason Crump	154	18	25	16	4	12	16	25	18	20
	(4) Leigh Adams	106	20	13	8	7	7	8	16	11	16
4	(5) Nicki Pedersen	102	10	16	20	6	16	10	10	9	5
5	(3) Greg Hancock	100	11	6	8	6	20	7	8	16	18
6	(10) Bjarne Pedersen	90	4	18	3	18	3	20	7	7	10
7	(6) Tomasz Gollob	83	6	6	10	8	6	9	9	25	4
8	(7) Andreas Jonsson	80	8	1	3	12	8	8	20	10	10
9	(12) Scott Nicholls	72	6	7	8	9	4	14	10	8	6
10	(14) Antonio Lindbäck	71	16	8	3	8	18	6	7	0	5
11	(8) Jarosław Hampel	67	10	–	–	20	8	18	5	6	–
12	(9) Hans N. Andersen	64	2	8	9	16	8	3	5	5	8
13	(11) Lee Richardson	55	5	3	3	5	6	4	3	20	6
14	(13) Ryan Sullivan	45	7	3	13	1	5	9	5	2	–
15	(15) Tomasz Chrzanowski	28	4	4	2	7	2	1	1	1	6
16	(16) Matej Žagar	23	–	–	18	–	–	–	–	–	5
17	(19) Kenneth Bjerre	12	–	8	4	–	–	–	–	–	–
18	(16) Piotr Protasiewicz	11	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	11	–
19	(16) Niels Kristian Iversen	7	–	–	–	–	7	–	–	–	–
20	(16) Rune Holta	6	–	6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
21	(21) Stefan Andersson	5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	5
22	(16) (17) Krzysztof Kasprzak	4	4	–	–	–	–	–	–	ns	–
23	(16) David Norris	4	–	–	–	4	–	–	–	–	–
24	(16) Jonas Davidsson	4	–	–	–	–	–	–	4	–	–
25	(23) Roman Povazhny	4	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	4
26	(16) Aleš Dryml, Jr.	3	–	–	–	–	–	3	–	–	–
27	(18) Edward Kennett	1	–	–	–	1	–	–	–	–	–
28	(17) Mikael Max	0	–	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
29	(17) Simon Stead	0	–	–	–	0	–	–	–	–	–
30	(18) Peter Nahlin	0	–	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
31	(18) Daniele Tessari	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0
Rider(s) not classified
	(17) Janusz Kołodziej	ns	ns	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	(17) Izak Šantej	ns	-	-	ns	-	-	-	-	-	-
	(17) Charlie Gjedde	ns	-	-	-	-	ns	-	-	-	-
	(17) Bohumil Brhel	ns	-	-	-	-	-	ns	-	-	-
	(17) Peter Ljung	ns	-	-	-	-	-	-	ns	-	-
	(17) Simone Terenzani	ns	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	ns
	(18) Adrian Miedziński	ns	ns	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	(18) Denis Štojs	ns	-	-	ns	-	-	-	-	-	-
	(18) Mads Korneliussen	ns	-	-	-	-	ns	-	-	-	-
	(18) Lukáš Dryml	ns	-	-	-	-	-	ns	-	-	-
	(18) Fredrik Lindgren	ns	-	-	-	-	-	-	ns	-	-
	(18) Karol Ząbik	ns	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	ns	-
Pos.	Rider	Points	EUR	SWE	SVN	GBR	DEN	CZE	SCA	POL	ITA