2025 Speedway Grand Prix

2025 Speedway Grand Prix
Season details
Dates	3 May – 13 September
Events	10
Cities	9
Countries	7
Riders	15 permanents 1 wild card(s) 2 track reserves
Heats	230 (in 10 events)
← 2024 Speedway Grand Prix

The 2025 Speedway Grand Prix season is the 31st season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and will decide the 80th FIM Speedway World Championship. It is the fourth series promoted by Discovery Sports Events.

For the first time Great Britain will host two rounds of the championship. The original schedule showed the National Speedway Stadium in Manchester joining the flagship Principality Stadium in Cardiff on the calendar, ^{[1] [2]} but the Cardiff round was subsequently cancelled and replaced with a second grand prix in Manchester. ^[3] There will be eight other rounds, with Poland's allocation reduced from four to three. ^[4]

Bartosz Zmarzlik is the defending champion having won the title in 2024. He will be aiming to equal Tony Rickardsson and Ivan Mauger's record of six world championships. ^{[5] [6]}

The choice of the wildcard riders caused significant controversy due to the fact that 2021 Word Champion Artem Laguta and Emil Sayfutdinov were once again omitted, ^[7] as was 2022 world runner-up Leon Madsen. The 2025 event would be the fourth consecutive year that Zmarzlik would be missing some of his strongest rivals. ^[8]

Qualification

For the 2025 season there will be 15 permanent riders, who will be joined at each Grand Prix by one wild card and two track reserves. The top six riders from the 2024 championship qualify automatically. These riders will be joined by the four riders who qualified via the Grand Prix Challenge ^[9] and the 2024 Speedway European Championship winner. The final four riders were nominated by the SGP Commission. ^[10]

Qualified riders

#	Riders	2024 place	GP Ch place	Permanent rider appearance	Previous appearances in series
95	Bartosz Zmarzlik	1	—	10th	2012–2015, 2016–2024
505	Robert Lambert	2	—	5th	2015, 2018–2019, 2021–2024
66	Fredrik Lindgren	3	—	16th	2004, 2006–2007, 2008–2014, 2016, 2017–2024
99	Dan Bewley	4	—	4th	2018, 2022–2024
54	Martin Vaculík	5	—	10th	2012, 2013, 2017–2024
25	Jack Holder	6	—	4th	2016, 2020, 2022–2024
29	Andžejs Ļebedevs	10	—	2nd	2013–2014, 2022–2023, 2024
101	Brady Kurtz	—	1	1st	2016
105	Anders Thomsen	21	2	4th	2016, 2020, 2021–2023, 2024
415	Dominik Kubera	8	3	2nd	2021, 2023, 2024
46	Max Fricke	11	4	5th	2016–2017, 2019, 2020–2023, 2024
155	Mikkel Michelsen	7	—	5th	2015, 2018–2019, 2020, 2021, 2022–2024
744	Kai Huckenbeck	12	13	2nd	2017–2019, 2022–2023, 2024
201	Jan Kvěch	15	9	2nd	2020–2023, 2024
69	Jason Doyle	16	—	11th	2015–2024

Qualified substitutes

The following riders were nominated as substitutes:

#	Riders	2024 place	GP Ch place
30	Leon Madsen	9	—
692	Patryk Dudek	17	11
108	Tai Woffinden	18	—
24	Jacob Thorssell	—	5
22	Luke Becker	—	—
96	Dimitri Bergé	—	—
TBC	Wiktor Przyjemski	—	—
785	Nazar Parnitskyi	—	—
999	Mathias Pollestad	—	—

Calendar

The 2025 season consists of 10 events. ^[11]

Round	Date	City and venue	Winner	Runner-up	3rd placed	4th placed	Results
1	3 May	Landshut, Germany Ellermühle Speedway Stadium	Bartosz Zmarzlik	Dan Bewley	Andžejs Ļebedevs	Brady Kurtz	results [12]
2	17 May	Warsaw, Poland Stadion Narodowy	Jack Holder	Brady Kurtz	Patryk Dudek	Dominik Kubera	results
3	31 May	Prague, Czech Republic Markéta Stadium	Bartosz Zmarzlik	Fredrik Lindgren	Leon Madsen	Jack Holder	results
4	13 June	Manchester, Great Britain National Speedway Stadium	Dan Bewley	Bartosz Zmarzlik	Brady Kurtz	Fredrik Lindgren	results
5	14 June	Manchester, Great Britain National Speedway Stadium	Bartosz Zmarzlik	Brady Kurtz	Fredrik Lindgren	Jack Holder	results
6	21 June	Gorzów, Poland Edward Jancarz Stadium	Brady Kurtz	Bartosz Zmarzlik	Dan Bewley	Fredrik Lindgren	results [13]
7	5 July	Målilla, Sweden Skrotfrag Arena	Brady Kurtz	Bartosz Zmarzlik	Andžejs Ļebedevs	Jason Doyle	results
8	2 August	Riga, Latvia Riga Speedway Stadium	Brady Kurtz	Fredrik Lindgren	Dan Bewley	Bartosz Zmarzlik	results
9	30 August	Wrocław, Poland Olympic Stadium					results
10	13 September	Vojens, Denmark Vojens Speedway Center					results

Intermediate classification

^[14]

Qualifies for next season's Grand Prix series

Full-time Grand Prix rider

Wild card, track reserve or qualified reserve

Pos.	Rider	Points	GER	POL	CZE	GBR	GBR	POL	SWE	LAT	POL	DEN
	(95) Bartosz Zmarzlik	145	24	9	20	20	20	20	18	14	–	–
	(101) Brady Kurtz	142	17	21	7	19	18	20	20	20	–	–
	(66) Fredrik Lindgren	117	12	10	18	14	16	17	12	18	–	–
4	(99) Dan Bewley	108	18	5	11	20	7	20	16	11	–	–
5	(25) Jack Holder	98	8	20	14	12	14	9	9	12	–	–
6	(29) Andžejs Ļebedevs	75	17	12	12	1	4	5	8	16	–	–
7	(505) Robert Lambert	67	11	13	3	11	5	4	10	10	–	–
8	(46) Max Fricke	67	10	8	4	12	12	10	3	8	–	–
9	(415) Dominik Kubera	58	11	14	2	4	8	6	6	7	–	–
10	(105) Anders Thomsen	54	7	7	10	2	6	11	2	9	–	–
11	(201) Jan Kvěch	52	5	7	9	7	3	7	11	3	–	–
12	(155) Mikkel Michelsen	52	4	6	6	9	9	9	5	4	–	–
13	(69) Jason Doyle	45	3	5	–	3	2	12	14	6	–	–
14	(54) Martin Vaculík	41	6	2	8	11	11	0	1	2	–	–
15	(744) Kai Huckenbeck	33	1	1	5	5	10	3	7	1	–	–
16	(16) Patryk Dudek	16	–	16	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
17	(30) Leon Madsen	16	–	–	16	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
18	(16) Charles Wright	7	–	–	–	6	1	–	–	–	–	–
19	(16) Jevgeņijs Kostigovs	5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	5	–	–
20	(16) Kim Nilsson	4	–	–	–	–	–	–	4	–	–	–
21	(16) Erik Riss	2	2	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
22	(16) Oskar Paluch	2	–	–	–	–	–	2	–	–	–	–
23	(16) Daniel Klíma	1	–	–	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
24	(17) Bartłomiej Kowalski	1	–	0	–	–	–	1	–	–	–	–
25	(17) Mateusz Cierniak	0	–	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
26	(18) Kevin Małkiewicz	0	–	–	–	–	–	0	–	–	–	–
27	(17) Rasmus Karlsson	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–	–	–
28	(18) Sammy Van Dyck	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–	–	–
Pos.	Rider	Points	GER	POL	CZE	GBR	GBR	POL	SWE	LAT	POL	DEN

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