2017 Speedway Grand Prix of Scandinavia

2017 Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden
	2017 Stockholm FIM Speedway Grand Prix
Information
Date	22 September 2017
City	Stockholm
Event	10 of 12
Referee	Jesper Steentoft
Stadium details
Stadium	Friends Arena
Capacity	34,000
Length	272 m (297 yd)
SGP Results
Best Time	;
	Matej Žagar
	Bartosz Zmarzlik
	Jason Doyle

Last updated March 04, 2019

The 2017 Stockholm FIM Speedway Grand Prix was the tenth race of the 2017 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on September 22 at the Friends Arena in Stockholm, Sweden.^[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.

Friends Arena Association football stadium in Solna, Sweden

Friends Arena, also known as Nationalarenan, is a retractable roof multi-purpose stadium in Stockholm, Sweden. Located next to the lake Råstasjön in Solna, just north of the City Centre, it is the biggest stadium in Scandinavia. Since its opening, the venue has served as Sweden's national stadium for men's football, hence its name. The main tenants of the stadium are Sweden's men's national football team and Allsvenskan football club AIK; both relocated from their previous home at the Råsunda Stadium. The venue has a total capacity of 65,000 at concerts and 50,000 seated at football matches, but the stadium can be scaled down to provide for smaller events with approximately 20,000 guests. If the city of Stockholm's bid with Åre, Falun and Sigulda, Latvia for the 2026 Winter Olympics is successful, this arena would host the opening and closing ceremonies, being the largest stadium to do this, narrowly beating Beijing National Stadium if 2022 ceremonies aren't fully sold-out events.

Stockholm Capital city in Södermanland and Uppland, Sweden

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous urban area in the Nordic countries; 960,031 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area. The city stretches across fourteen islands where Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. Just outside the city and along the coast is the island chain of the Stockholm archipelago. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. It is also the capital of Stockholm County.

Riders

First reserve Peter Kildemand replaced Greg Hancock, second reserve Martin Smolinski replaced Nicki Pedersen and third reserve Max Fricke replaced Niels-Kristian Iversen. The Speedway Grand Prix Commission also nominated Kim Nilsson as the wild card, and Jacob Thorssell and Filip Hjelmland 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 Slovenia's Matej Žagar, who beat Bartosz Zmarzlik, Jason Doyle and Peter Kildemand in the final.^[2] It was Zagar's second successive Grand Prix win after finishing first in Germany the round before. Doyle, who equalled the record number of final appearances in one season with nine, initially top scored in the qualifying heats, however third place saw him move 22 points clear of Patryk Dudek, who failed to make the semi-finals.

Matej Žagar is a Slovenian motorcycle speedway rider who was won Individual Speedway European Champion titles. He was permanent speedway rider in 2006 and 2007 Speedway Grand Prix seasons. He was touted as a potential GP wildcard for the 2012 SGP season following impressive and consistent performances in the Polish Extraliga with Gorzow, but turned down the opportunity to replace Darcy Ward due to the 1GP rider in the Extraliga and his contract with Gorzow, where 2010 world champion Tomasz Gollob was signed up.

Bartosz Zmarzlik is a Polish motorcycle speedway rider.

Jason Kevin Doyle is an Australian motorcycle speedway rider. He became World Champion in 2017. He won the 2015 Australian Solo Championship. He has also won the South Australian Championship in 2014, and the Elite League Riders' Championship and the Master of Speedway meeting in Germany in 2015.

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
	16	(55) Matej Žagar	13				1				2	1						3			0			7	8		3	3
	15	(95) Bartosz Zmarzlik	12				2			2			1						3	0				8	4	2		2
	11	(69) Jason Doyle	18			3				3		2					3						3	14	1	3		1
4	14	(25) Peter Kildemand	10				0		2					3		1							2	8	5		2	0
5	2	(89) Emil Sayfutdinov	12	3					3				3				2				1			12	2		0
6	12	(23) Chris Holder	9			1					0		2			3						3		9	3		0
7	4	(66) Fredrik Lindgren	9	2							3				1				2				0	8	7	1
8	13	(85) Antonio Lindbäck	8				3	2							0		1					2		8	6	0
9	5	(71) Maciej Janowski	7		3			1					0					2					1	7	9
10	1	(692) Patryk Dudek	6	1				3				0				0				2				6	10
11	9	(777) Piotr Pawlicki Jr.	6			0		0						2					1		3			6	11
12	6	(46) Max Fricke	6		2				1			3							0			0		6	12
13	7	(108) Tai Woffinden	6		0					0					2	2					2			6	13
14	8	(54) Martin Vaculík	5		0						1			1			0			3				5	14
15	17	(17) Jacob Thorssell	4																					4	15
16	10	(84) Martin Smolinski	4			2			0						0			1		1				4	16
17	3	(16) Kim Nilsson	2	0						1				0				0				1		2	17
18	18	(18) Filip Hjelmland	0																					0	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

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	132	12	15	10	13	15	13	5	14	17	18	–	–
	(692) Patryk Dudek	110	13	9	16	13	14	10	5	13	11	6	–	–
	(71) Maciej Janowski	108	6	16	13	6	17	17	13	6	7	7	–	–
4	(66) Fredrik Lindgren	107	16	16	5	6	8	7	18	11	11	9	–	–
5	(89) Emil Sayfutdinov	102	12	6	13	2	14	11	10	11	11	12	–	–
6	(108) Tai Woffinden	100	8	13	9	7	11	9	14	18	5	6	–	–
7	(95) Bartosz Zmarzlik	94	6	12	6	8	7	16	15	10	2	12	–	–
8	(55) Matej Žagar	86	10	1	10	4	11	12	3	7	15	13	–	–
9	(54) Martin Vaculík	85	16	10	8	10	1	4	10	7	14	5	–	–
10	(23) Chris Holder	75	6	6	4	11	7	10	6	2	14	9	–	–
11	(85) Antonio Lindbäck	72	2	6	4	9	8	7	19	5	4	8	–	–
12	(777) Piotr Pawlicki Jr.	69	7	7	18	7	4	1	6	9	4	6	–	–
13	(25) Peter Kildemand	47	–	–	1	8	3	10	4	–	10	11	–	–
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.	20	–	–	–	13	–	–	–	7	–	–	–	–
17	(84) Martin Smolinski	17	–	–	–	–	–	–	1	4	8	4	–	–
18	(16) Maksims Bogdanovs	8	–	–	8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
19	(52) Michael Jepsen Jensen	8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	8	–	–	–	–
20	(12) Nicki Pedersen	8	3	5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
21	(16) Kenneth Bjerre	7	–	–	–	–	7	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
22	(46) Max Fricke	7	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	1	6	–	–
23	(16) Krzysztof Kasprzak	6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	6	–	–	–	–
24	(16) Kai Huckenbeck	4	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	4	–	–	–
25	(17) Jacob Thorssell	4	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	4	–	–
26	(16) Przemysław Pawlicki	3	–	3	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
27	(16) Craig Cook	2	–	–	–	–	–	2	–	–	–	–	–	–
28	(18) Josh Bates	2	–	–	–	–	–	2	–	–	–	–	–	–
29	(16) Linus Sundström	2	–	–	–	–	–	–	2	–	–	–	–	–
30	(16) Kim Nilsson	2	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2	–	–
31	(16) Nick Škorja	1	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
32	(17) Josef Franc	0	–	–	–	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
33	(18) Matěj Kůs	0	–	–	–	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
34	(17) Adam Ellis	0	–	–	–	–	–	0	–	–	–	–	–	–
35	(17) Tobias Kroner	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–	–	–
36	(18) Filip Hjelmland	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–	–
Pos.	Rider	Points	SVN	POL	LAT	CZE	DEN	GBR	SWE	PL2	GER	SCA	PL3	AUS

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