2013 Speedway Grand Prix of Europe

2013 Speedway Grand Prix of Europe
	MotorSportWash.com European FIM SGP
Information
Date	20 April 2013
City	Bydgoszcz
Event	2 of 12 (158)
Referee	Krister Gardell
Stadium details
Stadium	Polonia Bydgoszcz Stadium
Capacity	15,000
Length	348 m (381 yd)
Track	speedway
SGP Results
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Last updated April 24, 2019

The 2013 Motorsportwash.com European FIM Speedway Grand Prix will be the second race of the 2013 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on 20 April at the Polonia Bydgoszcz Stadium in Bydgoszcz, Poland.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The 2013 Speedway Grand Prix season was the 19th season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and decided the 68th FIM Speedway World Championship. It was the thirteenth series under the promotion of Benfield Sports International, an IMG company.

Polonia Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Bydgoszcz, Poland. It is currently used mostly for speedway matches but also for association football and is the home stadium of Polonia Bydgoszcz. The stadium has a capacity of 20,000 people and was opened in 1924 by president Stanisław Wojciechowski.

Bydgoszcz is a city in northern Poland, on the Brda and Vistula rivers. With a city population of 358,614, and an urban agglomeration with more than 470,000 inhabitants, Bydgoszcz is the eighth-largest city in Poland. It has been the seat of Bydgoszcz County and the co-capital, with Toruń, of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999. Prior to this, between 1947 and 1998, it was the capital of the Bydgoszcz Voivodeship, and before that, of the Pomeranian Voivodeship between 1945 and 1947.

Riders

The Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated Krzysztof Buczkowski as Wild Card, and Szymon Woźniak and Mikołaj Curyło both as Track Reserves.^[4] The draw will be made on 19 April.

Standing

Championship standing before the event

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	FIN	CZE	SWE	DEN	GBR	LAT	POL	NOR	SCA	PL2
	(45) Greg Hancock	140	6	16	12	12	16	11	14	16	9	–	15	13
	(507) Krzysztof Kasprzak	132	17	18	–	7	0	7	10	17	16	12	11	17
	(5) Nicki Pedersen	121	19	5	10	10	11	5	8	18	7	8	6	14
4	(1) Tai Woffinden	121	7	5	16	18	17	9	18	8	–	7	7	9
5	(55) Matej Žagar	114	6	6	15	16	10	7	6	9	16	6	12	5
6	(100) Andreas Jonsson	103	7	10	7	7	4	6	8	6	4	15	12	17
7	(23) Chris Holder	100	11	11	10	8	15	–	–	6	9	10	13	7
8	(33) Jarosław Hampel	98	8	14	7	2	13	10	5	4	0	3	21	11
9	(75) Troy Batchelor	91	4	4	10	3	5	20	3	8	9	13	6	6
10	(66) Fredrik Lindgren	90	13	5	12	8	5	4	10	6	6	9	9	3
11	(88) Niels Kristian Iversen	87	6	10	6	13	11	16	12	7	6	–	–	–
12	(84) Martin Smolinski	81	15	7	9	6	3	5	8	6	5	6	7	4
13	(91) Kenneth Bjerre	79	11	4	3	4	10	3	4	11	10	10	1	8
14	(43) Darcy Ward	75	5	16	8	16	6	9	15	–	–	–	–	–
15	(37) Chris Harris	48	0	2	4	6	5	3	6	3	6	5	4	4
16	(19) Michael Jepsen Jensen	42	–	–	–	–	–	8	9	–	14	7	4	–
17	(16) Peter Kildemand	33	–	–	–	–	–	15	–	–	–	18	–	–
18	(16) Bartosz Zmarzlik	17	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	17	–	–	–
19	(16) Adrian Miedzinski	14	–	5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	9
20	(17) Kasts Puodzuks	10	–	–	–	–	–	–	10	–	–	–	–	–
21	(16) Tomas H. Jonasson	7	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	7	–
22	(16) Peter Ljung	7	–	–	–	–	7	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
23	(18) Mikkel B Jensen	7	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	7	–	–
24	(20) Maciej Janowski	7	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	7
25	(16) Joonas Kylmäkorpi	5	–	–	5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
26	(17) Kauko Nieminen	4	–	–	4	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
27	(17) Pawel Przedpelski	4	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	4
28	(16) Andzejs Lebedevs	3	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	3	–	–	–	–
29	(20) Kim Nilsson	3	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	3	–
30	(16) Jason Bunyan	2	2	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
31	(16) Craig Cook	2	–	–	–	–	–	–	2	–	–	–	–	–
32	(16) Vaclav Milik	2	–	–	–	2	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
33	(17) Adrian Cyfer	2	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2	–	–	–
34	(18) Lukasz Kaczmarek	2	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2	–	–	–
35	(18) Lasse Bjerre	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	1	–	–
Pos.	Rider	Points	NZL	EUR	FIN	CZE	SWE	DEN	GBR	LAT	POL	NOR	SCA	PL2

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References

↑ "Oficjalny kalendarz Grand Prix 2013" (in Polish). SportoweFakty.pl. 26 October 2012. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
↑ "Motorsportwash.com European FIM Speedway Grand Prix". speedwaygp.com. Retrieved 28 March 2013.
↑ Świat Żużla, No 1 (93) 2013, pages 24–25 ISSN 1429-3285
↑ "Krzysztof Buczkowski z dziką kartą (szczegóły)" (in Polish). SportoweFakty.pl. 28 March 2013. Retrieved 28 March 2013.

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2013 Speedway Grand Prix of Europe

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