2004 Speedway Grand Prix

2004 Speedway Grand Prix
2004 Speedway Grand Prix
Season details
Dates	1 May – 2 October
Events	9
Cities	9
Countries	7
Riders	22 permanents ; 2 wild card(s)
Heats	225 (in 9 events)
Winners
Champion	AUS Jason Crump
Runner-up	SWE Tony Rickardsson
3rd place	USA Greg Hancock
	← 2003 ; Speedway Grand Prix ; 2005 → ;

Last updated November 10, 2023

The 2004 Speedway Grand Prix was the 59th edition of the official World Championship^[1]^[2] and the tenth season in the Speedway Grand Prix era 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 – there was no consolation final. The 4 finalists scored 25, 20, 18 and 16 points, with 5th and 6th place getting 13, 7th and 8th 11, 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 for Grand Prix

The 2004 season had 22 permanent riders and two wild cards at each event. The permanent riders are highlighted in the results table below.

Event Schedule and Winners

Calendar

Date	Grand Prix	Venue	Winner
1 May	Sweden	Olympiastadion, Stockholm	Leigh Adams	results
15 May	Czech Republic	Markéta Stadium, Prague	Jason Crump	results
29 May	Europe	Stadion Olimpijski, Wrocław	Bjarne Pedersen	results
12 June	Great Britain	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	Greg Hancock	results
26 June	Denmark	Parken Stadium, Copenhagen	Jason Crump	results
21 August	Scandinavia	Ullevi, Gothenburg	Hans Andersen	results
4 September	Slovenia	Matija Gubec Stadium, Krško	Tony Rickardsson	results
18 September	Poland	Polonia Stadium, Bydgoszcz	Tomasz Gollob	results
2 October	Norway	Vikingskipet, Hamar	Tony Rickardsson	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	SWE	CZE	EUR	GBR	DEN	SCA	SVN	POL	NOR
	(2) Jason Crump	158	20	25	8	16	25	20	13	20	11
	(3) Tony Rickardsson	155	18	18	18	8	7	18	25	18	25
	(5) Greg Hancock	137	13	11	8	25	18	16	20	6	20
4	(4) Leigh Adams	131	25	13	11	20	11	11	11	13	16
5	(1) Nicki Pedersen	113	13	8	13	13	16	13	13	11	13
6	(6) Tomasz Gollob	113	16	13	7	11	6	11	6	25	18
7	(10) Andreas Jonsson	97	5	7	7	13	20	8	16	8	13
8	(22) Jarosław Hampel	81	3	20	20	6	–	6	6	13	7
9	(17) Hans Andersen	80	4	6	3	3	7	25	18	8	6
10	(15) Bjarne Pedersen	78	8	4	25	6	8	8	11	5	3
11	(16) Lee Richardson	76	11	11	5	18	5	7	7	7	5
12	(7) Scott Nicholls	66	5	–	4	11	11	13	5	11	6
13	(9) Ryan Sullivan	65	7	16	11	5	4	4	4	6	8
14	(8) Rune Holta	60	6	8	1	5	4	1	8	16	11
15	(12) Piotr Protasiewicz	55	2	1	16	7	5	5	5	7	7
16	(14) Mikael Max	49	6	3	6	2	8	5	7	4	8
17	(11) Mark Loram	38	8	4	6	7	2	2	3	4	2
18	(21) Jesper B. Jensen	37	11	5	2	1	6	4	1	2	5
19	(18) Bohumil Brhel	32	7	7	5	4	2	3	2	1	1
20	(19) Kai Laukkanen	25	1	1	3	1	3	6	3	3	4
21	(13) Lukáš Dryml	22	3	6	2	2	1	3	4	1	–
22	(20) Aleš Dryml Jr.	22	1	3	1	3	3	1	2	5	3
23	Grzegorz Walasek	13	–	–	13	–	–	–	–	–	–
24	Niels-Kristian Iversen	13	–	–	–	–	13	–	–	–	–
25	Kenneth Bjerre	13	–	–	–	–	13	–	–	–	–
26	Matej Žagar	8	–	–	–	–	–	–	8	–	–
27	David Norris	8	–	–	8	–	–	–	–	–	–
28	Peter Karlsson	7	–	–	–	–	–	7	–	–	–
29	Rafał Dobrucki	5	–	5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
30	Arnt Förland	4	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	4
31	Fredrik Lindgren	4	4	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
32	Chris Louis	4	–	–	–	4	–	–	–	–	–
33	Wiesław Jaguś	4	–	–	4	–	–	–	–	–	–
34	Krzysztof Kasprzak	3	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	3	–
35	Tomasz Chrzanowski	2	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2	–
36	Peter Ljung	2	2	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
37	Robert Barth	2	–	2	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
38	Rune Sola	2	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2
39	Antonio Lindbäck	2	–	–	–	–	–	2	–	–	–
40	Antonín Šváb Jr.	2	–	2	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
41	Izak Šantej	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	1	–	–
42	Joonas Kylmäkorpi	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	1
43	Simon Stead	1	–	–	–	1	–	–	–	–	–
Pos.	Rider	Points	SWE	CZE	EUR	GBR	DEN	SCA	SVN	POL	NOR

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References

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

External links

List of results from Official Speedway GP site

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

[2] "Speedway riders, history and results". wwosbackup. Retrieved 10 July 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 2024
See also	Medalists Medal Classification Grands Prix SGP riders Super Prix SGP Statistics