2012 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland II

The 2012 FIM Torun Speedway Grand Prix of Poland was the twelfth race meeting of the 2012 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on October 6 at the MotoArena Toruń in Toruń, Poland.^[1][2][3]

2012 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland II
2012 FIM Torun Speedway Grand Prix of Poland
Information
Date	6 October 2012
City	Toruń
Event	12 of 12 (156)
Referee	Craig Ackroyd
Jury President	Wolfgang Glas
Stadium details
Stadium	MotoArena Toruń
Capacity	15,500
Length	325 m (355 yd)
Track	speedway
SGP Results
Attendance	16,000
Best Time	Chris Holder 59,81 secs (in Heat 6)
Winner	Antonio Lindbäck
Runner-up	Tomasz Gollob
3rd place	Greg Hancock

Former three-times World Champion, Jason Crump, announced his SGP retirement after the Toruń SGP.^[4][5][6]

The Grand Prix was won by Antonio Lindbäck who beat Tomasz Gollob, Greg Hancock and Chris Holder in the final.^[7][8]

Riders

The Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated Maciej Janowski as Wild Card, and Emil and Kamil Pulczyński both as Track Reserves.^[9] Injured Kenneth Bjerre was replaced by first Qualified Substitutes, Martin Vaculík.^[10] The draw was made on October 5.^[11]

(7) Kenneth Bjerre → (19) Martin Vaculík

Results

Heat details

Placing	Draw	Rider	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pts	Pos	21	22	23
1	11	(12) Antonio Lindbäck	19			2				3		3					3						0	11	3		2	3
2	5	(5) Tomasz Gollob	21		3			2					3					3					3	14	1	3		2
3	6	(1) Greg Hancock	13		2				0			2							3			2		9	6	2		1
4	14	(8) Chris Holder	15				3		3					1		3							2	12	2		3	R
5	3	(19) Martin Vaculík	12	3						2				3				0				3		11	4	1
6	10	(6) Emil Sayfutdinov	11			3			2						2			1		3				11	5		0
7	7	(10) Nicki Pedersen	9		1					1					3	2					1			8	8		1
8	16	(16) Maciej Janowski	8				0				3	1						2			2			8	7	0
9	13	(9) Fredrik Lindgren	8				2	3							1		1					1		8	9
10	9	(11) Chris Harris	6			1		1						0					1		3			6	10
11	1	(15) Hans N. Andersen	5	2				0				0				1				2				5	11
12	15	(4) Jason Crump	5				1			0			1						2	1				5	12
13	4	(2) Andreas Jonsson	4	1							2				0				0				1	4	13
14	12	(13) Bjarne Pedersen	3			0					1		2			0						0		3	14
15	2	(3) Jarosław Hampel	3	0					1				R				2				0			3	15
16	8	(14) Peter Ljung	2		0						0			2			0			0				2	16
17	17	(17) Emil Pulczyński	-																					-	17
18	18	(18) Kamil Pulczyński	-																					-	18
Placing	Draw	Rider	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pts	Pos	21	22	23

e: retired or mechanical failure • m: exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t: exclusion for touching the tapes • x: other exclusion • f: fell
ns: non-starter • nc: non-classify
Semi-finals: Heat 21: Riders placed 1st, 4th, 6th & 7th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)
Heat 22: Riders placed 2nd, 3rd, 5th & 8th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)
Big Final (heat 23): The first and second placed riders in each of the Semi-Finals

gate A – inside

gate B

gate C

gate D – outside

Heat after heat

1. (60,97) Vaculík, Andersen, Jonsson, Hampel
2. (60,87) Gollob, Hancock, N.Pedersen, Ljung
3. (60,68) Sayfutdinov, Lindbäck, Harris, B.Pedersen
4. (60,10) Holder, Lindgren, Crump, Janowski
5. (59,97) Lindgren, Gollob, Harris, Andersen
6. (59,80) Holder, Sayfutdinov, Hampel, Hancock
7. (59,87) Lindbäck, Vaculík, N.Pedersen, Crump
8. (60,22) Janowski, Jonsson, B.Pedersen, Ljung
9. (60,15) Lindbäck, Hancock, Janowski, Andersen
10. (60,81) Gollob, B.Pedersen, Crump, Hampel (R)
11. (60,97) Vaculík, Ljung, Holder, Harris
12. (60,10) N.Pedersen, Sayfutdinov, Lindgren, Jonsson
13. (60,29) Holder, N.Pedersen, Andersen, B.Pedersen
14. (60,13) Lindbäck, Hampel, Lindgren, Ljung
15. (60,25) Gollob, Janowski, Sayfutdinov, Vaculík
16. (60,56) Hancock, Crump, Harris, Jonsson
17. (60,41) Sayfutdinov, Andersen, Crump, Ljung
18. (60,40) Harris, Janowski, N.Pedersen, Hampel
19. (60,62) Vaculík, Hancock, Lindgren, B.Pedersen
20. (60,53) Gollob, Holder, Jonsson, Lindbäck

    Semifinals

21. (59,94)21. Gollob, Hancock, Vaculik, Janowski
22. (60,87)22. Holder, Lindbäck, N.Pedersen, Sayfutdinov

    the Final

23. (60,75)23. Lindbäck, Gollob, Hancock, Holder (R1)

The 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	NZL	EUR	CZE	SWE	DEN	POL	CRO	ITA	GBR	SCA	NOR	PL2
	(8) Chris Holder	160	4	19	12	17	9	17	6	10	23	17	11	15
	(10) Nicki Pedersen	152	13	10	19	14	9	7	19	10	11	11	20	9
	(1) Greg Hancock	148	22	9	12	15	17	12	10	14	7	8	9	13
4	(5) Tomasz Gollob	142	15	16	12	6	3	12	13	6	10	21	7	21
5	(6) Emil Sayfutdinov	133	8	7	10	12	11	10	7	19	12	11	15	11
6	(4) Jason Crump	126	12	12	20	11	18	5	9	10	6	8	10	5
7	(12) Antonio Lindbäck	122	13	4	9	5	3	6	6	16	12	18	11	19
8	(9) Fredrik Lindgren	119	8	8	6	15	15	11	9	5	12	11	11	8
9	(2) Andreas Jonsson	88	4	13	3	10	8	9	15	8	6	1	7	4
10	(15) Hans N. Andersen	69	6	5	6	3	4	7	8	4	10	5	6	5
11	(19) Martin Vaculík	67	–	–	–	–	–	20	8	14	7	6	–	12
12	(11) Chris Harris	65	5	3	6	3	10	1	10	8	6	5	2	6
13	(13) Bjarne Pedersen	59	7	2	6	4	10	4	5	3	2	6	7	3
14	(3) Jarosław Hampel	58	18	15	6	7	ns	–	–	–	–	6	3	3
15	(14) Peter Ljung	57	4	6	5	6	8	7	0	8	0	5	6	2
16	(7) Kenneth Bjerre	41	4	8	3	5	5	3	7	6	–	–	–	–
17	(16) Michael Jepsen Jensen	22	–	–	–	–	7	–	–	–	–	–	15	–
18	(20) Krzysztof Kasprzak	17	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	13	–	4	–
19	(16) Thomas H. Jonasson	16	–	–	–	11	–	–	–	–	–	5	–	–
20	(16) Bartosz Zmarzlik	13	–	–	–	–	–	13	–	–	–	–	–	–
21	(16) Jurica Pavlic	12	–	–	–	–	–	–	12	–	–	–	–	–
22	(16) Josef Franc	9	–	–	9	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
23	(16) Maciej Janowski	8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	8
24	(16)(18) Przemysław Pawlicki	7	–	7	–	–	–	ns	–	–	–	–	–	–
25	(16) Scott Nicholls	7	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	7	–	–	–
26	(17)(18) Mikkel B. Jensen	4	–	–	–	–	4	–	–	–	–	–	ns	–
27	(16) Nicolas Covatti	3	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	3	–	–	–	–
28	(17) Peter Kildemand	2	–	–	–	–	2	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
29	(16) Jason Bunyan	1	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
30	(17) Václav Milík, Jr.	0	–	–	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
31	(17) Dino Kovacic	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–	–	–	–	–
32	(17)(18) Linus Sundström	0	–	–	–	ns	–	–	–	–	–	0	–	–
33	(17) Kim Nilsson	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–	–
Rider(s) not classified
	(17) Grant Tregoning	—	ns	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	(18) Sean Mason	—	ns	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	(17) Tobiasz Musielak	—	–	ns	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	(17)(18) Piotr Pawlicki, Jr.	—	–	ns	–	–	–	ns	–	–	–	–	–	–
	(18) Matěj Kůs	—	–	–	ns	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	(18) Simon Gustafsson	—	–	–	–	ns	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	(18) Samo Kukovica	—	–	–	–	–	–	–	ns	–	–	–	–	–
	(17) Michele Paco Castagna	—	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	ns	–	–	–	–
	(18) Nicolas Vicentin	—	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	ns	–	–	–	–
	(17) Ben Barker	—	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	ns	–	–	–
	(18) Josh Auty	—	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	ns	–	–	–
	(18) Nicklas Porsing	—	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	ns	–
	(17) Emil Pulczyński	—	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	ns
	(18) Kamil Pulczyński	—	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	ns
Pos.	Rider	Points	NZL	EUR	CZE	SWE	DEN	POL	CRO	ITA	GBR	SCA	NOR	PL2