2005 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification

The 2005 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification or GP Challenge was a series of motorcycle speedway meetings used to determine the 2 riders that would qualify for the 2005 Speedway Grand Prix to join the other 8 riders that finished in the leading positions from the 2004 Speedway Grand Prix and 6 seeded riders.^[1]

2005 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 but due to the main Grand Prix being reduced from 24 riders to 16 only 2 riders would qualify through the GP Challenge.^[2]

Antonio Lindbäck 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 – 2 riders from the GP Challenge to the 2005 Grand Prix

Quarter-finals

32 riders to semi-finals

QF (8 May 2004  ITA Terenzano) Pos Rider Points 1 Wiesław Jaguś 10+3+3 2 Sebastian Ułamek 15+3+2 3 Niels Kristian Iversen 13+2+1 4 David Norris 9+2+0 5 Stuart Robson 9+1 6 Ronni Pedersen 8+1 7 Lukáš Dryml 10+0 8 Aleš Dryml Jr. 9+0 9 Simone Terenzani 6 10 Jernej Kolenko 5 11 Krzysztof Słaboń 5 12 Tommy Reima 5 13 Kai Laukkanen 4 14 Christian Hefenbrock 2 15 Mirko Wolter 2 16 Paolo Salvatelli 1

QF (9 May 2004  POL Zielona Góra) Pos Rider Points 1 Jarosław Hampel 12+2+3 2 Antonio Lindbäck 9+3+2 3 Janusz Kołodziej 11+2+1 4 Stefan Andersson 10+3+0 5 Hans Andersen 12+1 6 Sergej Darkin 10+1 7 Jacek Rempala 12+0 8 Damian Baliński 8+0 9 Mark Lemon 8 10 Renat Gafurov 8 11 Leigh Lanham 7 12 Henning Bager 6 13 Chris Harris 3 14 Kjasts Puodžuks 2 15 Rune Sola 2 16 Mike Bjerk 0

QF (9 May 2004  SVN Krško) Pos Rider Points 1 Matej Žagar 15+2+3 2 Niklas Klingberg 11+3+2 3 David Ruud 11+3+1 4 Theo Pijper 7+2+0 5 Matej Ferjan 11+1 6 Chris Neath 11+1 7 Izak Šantej 11+0 8 Peter Ljung 10+0 9 Ryan Fisher 7 10 Denis Stoys 6 11 Henrik Møller 5 12 Oliver Allen 3 13 Primož Legan 2 14 Ivan Vargek 2 15 Thomas Stange 2 16 Brian Lyngsö 1 17 Christoph Martin 1

QF (22 May 2004  CZE Slaný) Pos Rider Points 1 Antonín Šváb Jr. 9+3+3 2 Tomasz Chrzanowski 14+3+2 3 Stefan Dannö 11+2+1 4 László Szatmári 8+2+0 5 Mathias Schultz 12+1 6 Josef Franc 9+1 7 Craig Watson 13+0 8 Tomáš Topinka 9+0 9 Sławomir Drabik 8 10 Fritz Wallner 8 11 Joachim Kugelmann 6 12 Niklas Aspgren 4 13 Pavel Ondrašík 3 14 Manuel Hauzinger 1 15 Zsolt Bencze 1 16 Eddie Turksema 0 17 Tomáš Suchánek 0

Semi-finals

16 riders from to GP Challenge

SF 5 June 2004  ITA Lonigo Pos. Rider Points 1 Wiesław Jaguś 13 2 Hans Andersen 12 3 Antonio Lindbäck 12 4 Tomasz Chrzanowski 11 5 Niels Kristian Iversen 11 6 Marcin Rempala 10 7 Bohumil Brhel 9 8 Roman Povazhny 7 9 Stuart Robson 7 10 Jacek Rempala 7 11 László Szatmári 6 12 Andrea Maida 5 13 Izak Šantej 3 14 David Ruud 3 15 Chris Neath 3 16 Josef Franc 1	SF 20 June 2004  BEL Heusden-Zolder Pos. Rider Points 1 Peter Karlsson 11+2+3 2 Sebastian Ułamek 12+3+2 3 Ronni Pedersen 8+2+1 4 Damian Baliński 10+3+0 5 Kenneth Bjerre 10+1 6 David Norris 9+1 7 Craig Watson 12+0 8 Stefan Andersson 8+0 9 Niklas Klingberg 8 10 David Howe 7 11 Stefan Dannö 7 12 Matej Ferjan 6 13 Lukáš Dryml 5 14 Janusz Kołodziej 5 15  NED Theo Pijper 2 16 Mathias Schultz 0

Final Round

Hans Andersen was extremely unlucky not to seal a place in the Grand Prix after topping the event with 14 points and then suffering an engine failure in the final.

GP Challenge

2 riders to 2005 Grand Prix

• 14 August 2004  DEN Vojens

Pos.	Rider	Total	Points	semi-final	final
1	Antonio Lindbäck	12	2, 3, 3, 2, 2	3	3
2	Tomasz Chrzanowski	10	1, 2, 1, 3, 2	3	2
3	Kenneth Bjerre	7	3, 0, 1, 0, 3	2	1
4	Hans Andersen	14	3, 2, 3, 3, 3	2	ef
5	Stefan Andersson	8	0, 2, 2, 1, 3	1	-
6	Peter Karlsson	9	3, f, 0, 3, 3	1	-
7	Roman Povazhny	10	3, 3, 2, x, 2	exc	-
8	Damian Baliński	10	2, 1, 3, 2, 2	ef	-
9	David Norris	7	2, 1, 3, exc, 1	-	-
10	Marcin Rempała	7	0, 3, 1, 2, 1	-	-
11	Bohumil Brhel	7	1, 1, 2, 3, 0	-	-
12	Niels Kristian Iversen	6	1, 3, 0, 1, 1	-	-
13	Niklas Klingberg	6	0, 2, 1, 2, 1	-	-
14	Wiesław Jaguś	4	2, exc, 2, 0, ef	-	-
15	Ronni Pedersen	3	1, 1, 0, 1, 0	-	-
16	Craig Watson	0	0, 0, ef, -, –	-	-