2000 Speedway Grand Prix

2000 Speedway Grand Prix
2000 Speedway Grand Prix
Season details
Dates	May 6 – September 23
Events	6
Cities	6
Countries	5
Riders	22 permanents ; 2 wild card(s)
Heats	144 (in 6 events)
Winners
Champion	GBR Mark Loram
Runner-up	USA Billy Hamill
3rd place	SWE Tony Rickardsson
	← 1999 ; Speedway Grand Prix ; 2001 → ;

Last updated January 08, 2023

The 2000 Speedway Grand Prix was the 55th edition of the official World Championship to determine the world champion rider.^[1]^[2]^[3] It was the sixth season in the Speedway Grand Prix era and was used to determine the Speedway World Champion.

Event format

The system first used in 1998 continued to be adopted with 24 riders, divided into two classes. The eight best would be directly qualified for the "Main Event", while the sixteen others would be knocked out if they finished out of the top two in 4-man heats on two occasions – while they would go through if they finished inside the top two on two occasions. This resulted in 10 heats, where eight proceeded to the Main Event, where exactly the same system was applied to give eight riders to a semi-final.

The semi-finals were then two heats of four, where the top two qualified for a final and the last two going towards the consolation final. The 4 finalists scored 25, 20, 18 and 16 points, with 5th to 8th scoring 15, 14, 12 and 10-point, and after that 8, 8, 7, 7, etc. Places after 8th place were awarded according to the time a rider was knocked out and, secondly, according to position in the last heat he rode in.

Qualification

The 2000 season had 22 permanent riders and two wild cards at each event. The permanent riders are highlighted in the results table below.

Calendar

Round	Date	City and venue	Winner	Runner-up	3rd placed	4th placed	Results
1	May 6	Prague , Czech Republic Markéta Stadium	Billy Hamill	Mark Loram	Chris Louis	Todd Wiltshire	results
2	June 3	Linköping , Sweden Motorstadium	Jason Crump	Mark Loram	Todd Wiltshire	Tony Rickardsson	results
3	July 1	Wrocław , Poland Olympic Stadium	Tony Rickardsson	Billy Hamill	Chris Louis	Leigh Adams	results
4	July 29	Coventry , Great Britain Brandon Stadium	Martin Dugard	Ryan Sullivan	Mark Loram	Jason Lyons	results
5	September 2	Vojens , Denmark Speedway Center	Greg Hancock	Jason Crump	Stefan Dannö	Nicki Pedersen	results
6	September 23	Bydgoszcz , Poland Polonia Stadium	Billy Hamill	Greg Hancock	Tony Rickardsson	Jason Crump	results

Final standings

Qualifies for next season's Grand Prix series
Full-time Grand Prix rider
Wild card, track reserve or qualified reserve

Pos.	Rider	Points	CZE	SWE	POL	GBR	DEN	EUR
	(16) Mark Loram	102	20	20	15	18	15	14
	(11) Billy Hamill	95	25	6	20	5	14	25
	(1) Tony Rickardsson	94	14	16	25	14	7	18
4	(6) Jason Crump	88	5	25	12	10	20	16
5	(7) Greg Hancock	76	7	5	7	12	25	20
6	(5) Leigh Adams	65	6	10	16	15	12	6
7	(2) Tomasz Gollob	64	15	14	14	–	6	15
8	(21) Todd Wiltshire	63	16	18	7	7	3	12
9	(8) Ryan Sullivan	62	8	12	8	20	8	6
10	(10) Chris Louis	60	18	7	18	8	5	4
11	(3) Jimmy Nilsen	42	6	15	5	6	2	8
12	(9) Stefan Dannö	41	3	4	10	6	18	0
13	(12) Mikael Karlsson	39	12	8	4	8	5	2
14	(15) Henrik Gustafsson	39	8	4	2	5	10	10
15	(19) Peter Karlsson	35	3	2	8	7	8	7
16	(4) Joe Screen	34	5	5	6	3	7	8
17	(18) Antonín Kasper, Jr.	32	7	6	5	4	6	4
18	(13) Carl Stonehewer	30	10	7	3	4	3	3
19	(23) Martin Dugard	25	–	–	–	25	–	–
20	(23) Nicki Pedersen	17	–	1	–	–	16	–
21	(22) Rafał Dobrucki	16	4	3	3	–	1	5
22	(28) Jason Lyons	16	–	–	–	16	–	–
23	(20) Brian Andersen	15	4	2	1	2	4	2
24	(14) Brian Karger	13	2	3	4	1	2	1
25	(17) Andy Smith	10	2	1	1	2	1	3
26	(24) Rune Holta	8	–	8	–	–	–	–
27	(24) Jarosław Hampel	7	–	–	–	–	–	7
28	(24) Sebastian Ułamek	6	–	–	6	–	–	–
29	(24) Jesper B. Jensen	4	–	–	–	–	4	–
30	(23) Piotr Protasiewicz	3	–	–	2	–	–	1
31	(24) Lee Richardson	3	–	–	–	3	–	–
32	(23) Michal Makovský	1	1	–	–	–	–	–
33	(24) Bohumil Brhel	1	1	–	–	–	–	–
34	(25) John Jørgensen	1	–	–	–	1	–	–
Pos.	Rider	Points	CZE	SWE	POL	GBR	DEN	EUR

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References

↑ "WORLD INDIVIDUAL FINAL - RIDER INDEX". British Speedway. Retrieved July 10, 2021.
↑ "HISTORY SPEEDWAY and LONGTRACK". Speedway.org. Retrieved July 10, 2021.
↑ "Speedway riders, history and results". wwosbackup. Retrieved July 10, 2021.

External links

Official Speedway GP site

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[1] "WORLD INDIVIDUAL FINAL - RIDER INDEX". British Speedway. Retrieved July 10, 2021.

[2] "HISTORY SPEEDWAY and LONGTRACK". Speedway.org. Retrieved July 10, 2021.

[3] "Speedway riders, history and results". wwosbackup. Retrieved July 10, 2021.

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v t e Individual Speedway World Championship and Speedway Grand Prix seasons
Speedway World Championship	1936 1937 1938 1939 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
Speedway Grand Prix (SGP)	1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
See also	Medalists Medal Classification Grands Prix SGP riders Super Prix SGP Statistics