2011 Speedway Grand Prix of Croatia

2011 Speedway Grand Prix of Croatia
	FIM Nice Croatian Speedway Grand Prix
Information
Date	24 September 2011
City	Donji Kraljevec (Goričan)
Event	10 of 11 (143)
Referee	Craig Ackroyd
Jury President	Ikka Teromaa
Stadium details
Stadium	Stadium Milenium
Length	305 m (334 yd)
SGP Results
Attendance	6,000
Best Time	Kenneth Bjerre ; 59,84 secs (in Heat 8)
Winner	Andreas Jonsson
Runner-up	Chris Harris
3rd place	Chris Harris

Last updated September 10, 2019

The 2011 FIM Nice Croatian Speedway World Championship Grand Prix was the tenth race of the 2011 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on September 24 at the Stadium Milenium in Donji Kraljevec, Croatia.^[1]^[2]

The 2011 Speedway Grand Prix season was the 17th season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and decided the 66th FIM Speedway World Championship. It was the eleventh series under the promotion of Benfield Sports International, an IMG company. The series began on 30 April in Leszno and finished on 8 October in Gorzów.

Donji Kraljevec is a village and municipality in Međimurje County, Croatia.

Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, on the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to the southeast, sharing a maritime border with Italy. Its capital, Zagreb, forms one of the country's primary subdivisions, along with twenty counties. Croatia has an area of 56,594 square kilometres and a population of 4.28 million, most of whom are Roman Catholics.

Riders

The Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated Matej Žagar as Wild Card, and Dino Kovačić and Matija Duh both as Track Reserves.^[3] The Draw was made on September 23.^[4]

Results

Grand Prix was won by Andreas Jonsson who beat Chris Harris, Fredrik Lindgren and Greg Hancock in the final.^[5]^[6]

After the event, championship leader Greg Hancock has more than 24 points over second Andreas Jonsson and becoming 2011 World Champion. Hancock is the oldest World Champion in history, beating Ivan Mauger. Between first and last champion title was 14 years; former the longest period was 11 years (Mauger 1968-1979).^[7]

Ivan Gerald Mauger was a motorcycle speedway rider from New Zealand. He won a record six World Championships (Finals), a feat equalled only with the inclusion of the Speedway GP Championships by Tony Rickardsson of Sweden who won one World Final and five GP Championships. Mauger rode for several British teams – Wimbledon Dons, Newcastle Diamonds, Belle Vue Aces, Exeter Falcons, and the Hull Vikings.

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	1	(9) Andreas Jonsson	18	3				1				F				3				2				9	6	3		3
2	13	(6) Chris Harris	19				3	3							3		2					2		13	1	2		2
3	14	(11) Fredrik Lindgren	12				2		1					3		2							0	8	8		2	1
4	11	(5) Greg Hancock	15			3				2		3					3						1	12	2		3	0
5	8	(7) Kenneth Bjerre	12		2						3			2			1			3				11	3		1
6	6	(12) Emil Sayfutdinov	10		3				3			1							3			0		10	4	0
7	5	(2) Jarosław Hampel	9		1			0					3					3					2	9	5		0
8	4	(4) Rune Holta	9	0							2				1				2				3	8	7	1
9	16	(3) Jason Crump	8				1				0	2						2			3			8	9
10	9	(8) Chris Holder	7			1		2						1					1		2			7	10
11	15	(1) Tomasz Gollob	5				0			3			1						0	1				5	11
12	7	(16) Matej Žagar	5		0					1					2	1					1			5	12
13	12	(15) Janusz Kołodziej	4			0					1		0			0						3		4	13
14	10	(13) Artem Laguta	4			2			2						0			0		0				4	14
15	2	(10) Nicki Pedersen	4	2					Fx				2				0				0			4	15
16	3	(14) Antonio Lindbäck	3	1						0				0				1				1		3	16
17	17	(17) Dino Kovačić	-																					-	17
18	18	(18) Matija Duh	-																					-	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

(60,92) Jonsson, Pedersen, Lindbäck, Holta
(60,17) Sayfutdinov, Bjerre, Hampel, Žagar
(60,39) Hancock, Laguta, Holder, Kołodziej
(60,32) Harris, Lindgren, Crump, Gollob
(60,98) Harris, Holder, Jonsson, Hampel
(60,84) Sayfutdinov, Laguta, Lindgren, Pedersen (Fx)
(60,81) Gollob, Hancock, Žagar, Lindbäck
(59,84) Bjerre, Holta, Kołodziej, Crump
(60,65) Hancock, Crump, Sayfutdinov, Jonsson (F)
(60,03) Hampel, Pedersen, Gollob, Kołodzej
(60,34) Lindgren, Bjerre, Holder, Lindbäck
(60,98) Harris, Žagar, Holta, Laguta
(61,26) Jonsson, Lindgren, Žagar, Kołodziej
(61,15) Hancock, Harris, Bjerre, Pedersen
(60,25) Hampel, Crump, Lindbäck, Laguta
(60,98) Sayfutdinov, Holta, Holder, Gollob
(61,78) Bjerre, Jonsson, Gollob, Laguta
(61,81) Crump, Holder, Žagar, Pedersen
(62,02) Kołodziej, Harris, Lindbäck, Sayfutdinov
(61,42) Holta, Hampel, Hancock, Lindgren
Semi-finals:
(61,09) Jonsson, Harris, Holta, Sayfutdinov
(61,68) Hancock, Lindgren, Bjerre, Hampel
the Final:
(61,65) Jonsson (6 points), Harris (4), Lindgren (2), Hancock (0)

The intermediate 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	CZE	DEN	GBR	ITA	SCA	POL	NOR	CRO	PL2
	(5) Greg Hancock	154	14	10	23	13	20	15	9	13	22	15
2	(9) Andreas Jonsson	118	5	6	8	7	10	17	19	20	8	18
3	(2) Jarosław Hampel	117	12	5	19	12	5	12	17	18	8	9
4	(3) Jason Crump	104	5	6	13	18	8	6	16	7	17	8
5	(1) Tomasz Gollob	98	18	6	17	20	7	5	3	12	5	5
6	(12) Emil Sayfutdinov	98	14	8	6	7	13	11	13	7	9	10
7	(7) Kenneth Bjerre	97	10	2	9	6	11	12	16	6	13	12
8	(8) Chris Holder	95	9	10	9	14	15	6	7	7	11	7
9	(11) Fredrik Lindgren	85	11	6	9	9	5	7	8	5	13	12
10	(10) Nicki Pedersen	79	17	4	9	7	16	3	3	6	10	4
11	(14) Antonio Lindbäck	69	1	9	6	5	3	17	7	12	6	3
12	(6) Chris Harris	67	7	4	3	7	6	6	10	0	5	19
13	(4) Rune Holta	53	9	1	7	6	1	5	4	8	3	9
14	(15) Janusz Kołodziej	45	8	9	1	3	7	10	1	–	2	4
15	(13) Artem Laguta	25	0	1	2	7	–	–	1	1	9	4
16	(19) Magnus Zetterström	19	–	–	–	–	9	3	–	7	–	–
17	(16) Thomas H. Jonasson	17	–	8	–	–	–	–	9	–	–	–
18	(16) Darcy Ward	15	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	15	–	–
19	(16) Matej Žagar	14	–	–	–	–	–	9	–	–	–	5
20	(16) Scott Nicholls	5	–	–	–	–	5	–	–	–	–	–
21	(16) Damian Baliński	4	4	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
22	(16) Matěj Kůs	3	–	–	3	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
23	(16) Bjarne Pedersen	3	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	3	–
24	(16) Mikkel B. Jensen	2	–	–	–	2	–	–	–	–	–	–
25	(17) Tai Woffinden	2	–	–	–	–	2	–	–	–	–	–
26	(17) Simon Gustafsson	1	–	1	–	–	–	–	ns	–	–	–
27	(18) Dennis Andersson	0	–	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Rider(s) not classified
	(17) Patryk Dudek	—	ns	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	(18) Maciej Janowski	—	ns	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	(17) Lukáš Dryml	—	–	–	ns	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	(18) Zdeněk Simota	—	–	–	ns	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	(17) Michael Jepsen Jensen	—	–	–	–	ns	–	–	–	–	–	–
	(18) Kenneth Arendt Larsen	—	–	–	–	ns	–	–	–	–	–	–
	(18) Ben Barker	—	–	–	–	–	ns	–	–	–	–	–
	(17) Mattia Carpanese	—	–	–	–	–	–	ns	–	–	–	–
	(18) Guglielmo Franchetti	—	–	–	–	–	–	ns	–	–	–	–
	(18) Linus Sundström	—	–	–	–	–	–	–	ns	–	–	–
	(17) Piotr Pawlicki, Jr.	—	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	ns	–	–
	(18) Emil Pulczyński	—	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	ns	–	–
	(17) Michael Jepsen Jensen	—	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	ns	–
	(18) Mikkel Michelsen	—	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	ns	–
	(17) Dino Kovačić	—	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	ns
	(18) Matija Duh	—	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	ns
Pos.	Rider	Points	EUR	SWE	CZE	DEN	GBR	ITA	SCA	POL	NOR	CRO	PL2

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[1] "SGP/SWC Dates 2011". speedwaygp.com. 2010-10-22. Archived from the original on 25 October 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-26.

[2] "Supplementary Regulations" (PDF). FIM-live.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 June 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2011.

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[4] "Lista startowa Grand Prix Chorwacji" (in Polish). SportoweFakty.pl. 23 Sep 2011. Retrieved 24 Feb 2013.

[5] "Jonsson najlepszy w Gorican, Hancock mistrzem świata!" (in Polish). SportoweFakty.pl. 24 Sep 2011. Retrieved 23 Feb 2013.

[6] Świat Żużla, No 4 (88) 2011, page 56 ISSN 1429-3285

[7] "Hancock pobił Maugera" (in Polish). SportoweFakty.pl. 26 Sep 2011. Retrieved 23 Feb 2013.

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