2017 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland III

2017 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland
	2017 Nice Toruń FIM Speedway Grand Prix of Poland
Information
Date	7 October 2017
City	Toruń
Event	11 of 12
Referee	Krister Gardell
Stadium details
Stadium	Marian Rose MotoArena
Capacity	15,500
Length	325 m (355 yd)
SGP Results
Best Time	;
	Patryk Dudek
	Tai Woffinden
	Bartosz Zmarzlik

Last updated March 04, 2019

The 2017 Nice Toruń FIM Speedway Grand Prix of Poland was the 11th race of the 2017 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on October 7 at the Marian Rose MotoArena in Toruń, Poland.^[1]

The 2017 Speedway Grand Prix season was the 23rd season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and decided the 72nd FIM Speedway World Championship. It was seventeenth series under the promotion of Benfield Sports International, an IMG company.

Motoarena Toruń im. Mariana Rosego is a multi-use stadium in Toruń, Poland. It is currently used mostly for motorcycle speedway matches and it is used for car racing and concerts and it is the home stadium of KST Unibax Toruń in the Speedway Ekstraliga. The stadium has a capacity of 15,500 people and was opened on 3 May 2009. It is named after Marian Rose, former speedway rider from Toruń.

Toruń Place in Kuyavian-Pomeranian, Poland

Toruń is a city in northern-central Poland, on the Vistula River. Its population was 202,562 as of December 2017. Previously it was the capital of the Toruń Voivodeship (1975–98) and the Pomeranian Voivodeship (1921–45). Since 1999, Toruń has been a seat of the self-government of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship and, as such, is one of its two capitals. The cities and neighboring counties form the Bydgoszcz–Toruń twin city metropolitan area. Toruń itself is the sixteenth-largest city in Poland and the second in the voivodeship.

Riders

First reserve Peter Kildemand replaced Greg Hancock, second reserve Martin Smolinski replaced Nicki Pedersen, third reserve Max Fricke replaced Niels-Kristian Iversen and fourth reserve Václav Milík Jr. replaced Fredrik Lindgren. The Speedway Grand Prix Commission also nominated Paweł Przedpełski as the wild card, and Bartosz Smektała and Igor Kopeć-Sobczyński both as Track Reserves.

Peter Kildemand is a Danish motorcycle speedway rider who is a member of Denmark U-21 national teams. He was a member of the Swindon Robins Elite League Championship winning side of 2012 and was named "Rider of the Year" for the club at the end of the season.

Gregory Alan "Greg" Hancock is an American motorcycle speedway rider.

Martin Smolinski is a German international motorcycle speedway and Grasstrack rider who has represented the German speedway team at senior level. He is the current World Long Track champion and European Grasstrack champion.

Results

The Grand Prix was won by Poland's Patryk Dudek, who beat Tai Woffinden, Bartosz Zmarzlik and Matej Žagar in the final.^[2] It was the first Grand Prix win of Dudek's career, which kept alive the title race as championship leader Jason Doyle was eliminated in the semi-finals.

Patryk Dudek is a Polish motorcycle speedway rider who is a member of the Polish national speedway team. He got his speedway licence in 2008. His father, Sławomir, is a former rider. Dudek won 2009 and 2010 Team U-19 European Champion and 2009 Individual Under-21 Polish Champion titles. He is the 2017 Speedway Grand Prix silver medallist, having accomplished this during his debut season in the Speedway Grand Prix series, which makes him the most successful SGP rookie ever.

Tai Woffinden is a speedway rider. In 2013 he became World Speedway Champion and currently rides for the WTS Wrocław in the Polish Speedway Ekstraliga and Indianerna Kumla in the Swedish Elitserien. Until the end of 2014 he also rode for the Wolverhampton Wolves in the British Elite League, but announced in late 2014 that he would not be riding in Britain during 2015 in his quest to regain his World Championship.

Bartosz Zmarzlik is a Polish motorcycle speedway rider.

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
	13	(692) Patryk Dudek	18				1	3							2		3					3		12	1	3		3
	8	(108) Tai Woffinden	15		1						2			3			1			3				10	5		3	2
	1	(95) Bartosz Zmarzlik	14	3				2				2				2				2				11	3		2	1
4	6	(55) Matej Žagar	11		2				0			3							2			2		9	7	2		0
5	11	(225) Václav Milík Jr.	11			3				3		1					2						2	11	2		0
6	16	(777) Piotr Pawlicki Jr.	10				2				3	0						2			3			10	4	0
7	7	(69) Jason Doyle	10		3					1					0	3					2			9	6	1
8	15	(16) Paweł Przedpełski	10				3			2			2						1	1				9	8		1
9	14	(25) Peter Kildemand	8				0		2					2		1							3	8	9
10	2	(89) Emil Sayfutdinov	7	1					3				3				0				0			7	10
11	4	(23) Chris Holder	7	2							1				3				0				1	7	11
12	3	(54) Martin Vaculík	5	0						0				1				3				1		5	12
13	9	(71) Maciej Janowski	5			1		0						0					3		1			5	13
14	10	(46) Max Fricke	4			2			1						1			0						4	14
15	5	(84) Martin Smolinski	2		0			1					0					1					0	2	15
16	12	(85) Antonio Lindbäck	1			0					0		1			0						0		1	16
17	17	(17) Bartosz Smektała	0																					0	17
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

Intermediate classification

^[3]

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

Pos.	Rider	Points	SVN	POL	LAT	CZE	DEN	GBR	SWE	PL2	GER	SCA	PL3	AUS
	(69) Jason Doyle	142	12	15	10	13	15	13	5	14	17	18	10	–
	(692) Patryk Dudek	128	13	9	16	13	14	10	5	13	11	6	18	–
	(108) Tai Woffinden	115	8	13	9	7	11	9	14	18	5	6	15	–
4	(71) Maciej Janowski	113	6	16	13	6	17	17	13	6	7	7	5	–
5	(89) Emil Sayfutdinov	109	12	6	13	2	14	11	10	11	11	12	7	–
6	(95) Bartosz Zmarzlik	108	6	12	6	8	7	16	15	10	2	12	14	–
7	(66) Fredrik Lindgren	107	16	16	5	6	8	7	18	11	11	9	–	–
8	(55) Matej Žagar	97	10	1	10	4	11	12	3	7	15	13	11	–
9	(54) Martin Vaculík	90	16	10	8	10	1	4	10	7	14	5	5	–
10	(23) Chris Holder	82	6	6	4	11	7	10	6	2	14	9	7	–
11	(777) Piotr Pawlicki Jr.	79	7	7	18	7	4	1	6	9	4	6	10	–
12	(85) Antonio Lindbäck	73	2	6	4	9	8	7	19	5	4	8	1	–
13	(25) Peter Kildemand	55	–	–	1	8	3	10	4	–	10	11	8	–
14	(45) Greg Hancock	45	11	4	5	18	7	0	–	–	–	–	–	–
15	(88) Niels Kristian Iversen	44	9	9	7	3	3	7	6	–	–	–	–	–
16	(225) Václav Milík Jr.	31	–	–	–	13	–	–	–	7	–	–	11	–
17	(84) Martin Smolinski	19	–	–	–	–	–	–	1	4	8	4	2	–
18	(46) Max Fricke	11	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	1	6	4	–
19	(16) Paweł Przedpełski	10	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	10	–
20	(16) Maksims Bogdanovs	8	–	–	8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
20	(52) Michael Jepsen Jensen	8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	8	–	–	–	–
20	(12) Nicki Pedersen	8	3	5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
23	(16) Kenneth Bjerre	7	–	–	–	–	7	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
24	(16) Krzysztof Kasprzak	6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	6	–	–	–	–
25	(16) Kai Huckenbeck	4	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	4	–	–	–
25	(17) Jacob Thorssell	4	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	4	–	–
27	(16) Przemysław Pawlicki	3	–	3	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
28	(16) Craig Cook	2	–	–	–	–	–	2	–	–	–	–	–	–
28	(18) Josh Bates	2	–	–	–	–	–	2	–	–	–	–	–	–
28	(16) Linus Sundström	2	–	–	–	–	–	–	2	–	–	–	–	–
28	(16) Kim Nilsson	2	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2	–	–
32	(16) Nick Škorja	1	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
33	(17) Josef Franc	0	–	–	–	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
33	(18) Matěj Kůs	0	–	–	–	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
33	(17) Adam Ellis	0	–	–	–	–	–	0	–	–	–	–	–	–
33	(17) Tobias Kroner	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–	–	–
33	(18) Filip Hjelmland	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–	–
33	(17) Bartosz Smektała	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
Pos.	Rider	Points	SVN	POL	LAT	CZE	DEN	GBR	SWE	PL2	GER	SCA	PL3	AUS

References

↑ "Torun Grand Prix Event Info". SGP.
↑ "Torun Grand Prix Result". SGP.
↑ "2017 FIM Speedway World Championship standings". SGP.

2017 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland III

Contents

Riders

Results

Heat details

Intermediate classification

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