2025 Speedway Grand Prix

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2025 Speedway Grand Prix
Season details
Dates3 May – 13 September
Events10
Cities9
Countries7
Riders15 permanents
1 wild card(s)
2 track reserves
Heats230 (in 10 events)

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

Contents

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 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 placeGP Ch placePermanent rider appearancePrevious appearances in series
95 Flag of Poland.svg Bartosz Zmarzlik 1—10th2012–2015, 2016–2024
505 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Robert Lambert 2—5th2015, 2018–2019, 2021–2024
66 Flag of Sweden.svg Fredrik Lindgren 3—16th2004, 2006–2007, 2008–2014, 2016, 2017–2024
99 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Dan Bewley 4—4th2018, 2022–2024
54 Flag of Slovakia.svg Martin Vaculík 5—10th2012, 2013, 2017–2024
25 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jack Holder 6—4th2016, 2020, 2022–2024
29 Flag of Latvia.svg Andžejs Ļebedevs 10—2nd2013–2014, 2022–2023, 2024
101 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Brady Kurtz —11st2016
105 Flag of Denmark.svg Anders Thomsen 2124th2016, 2020, 2021–2023, 2024
415 Flag of Poland.svg Dominik Kubera 832nd2021, 2023, 2024
46 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Max Fricke 1145th2016–2017, 2019, 2020–2023, 2024
155 Flag of Denmark.svg Mikkel Michelsen 7—5th2015, 2018–2019, 2020, 2021, 2022–2024
744 Flag of Germany.svg Kai Huckenbeck 12132nd2017–2019, 2022–2023, 2024
201 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Jan Kvěch 1592nd2020–2023, 2024
69 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jason Doyle 16—11th2015–2024

Qualified substitutes

The following riders were nominated as substitutes:

#Riders 2024 placeGP Ch place
30 Flag of Denmark.svg Leon Madsen 9—
692 Flag of Poland.svg Patryk Dudek 1711
108 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Tai Woffinden 18—
24 Flag of Sweden.svg Jacob Thorssell —5
22 Flag of the United States.svg Luke Becker ——
96 Flag of France.svg Dimitri Bergé ——
TBC Flag of Poland.svg Wiktor Przyjemski ——
785 Flag of Ukraine.svg Nazar Parnitskyi ——
999 Flag of Norway.svg Mathias Pollestad ——

Calendar

The 2025 season consists of 10 events. [11]

RoundDateCity and venueWinnerRunner-up3rd placed4th placedResults
13 May Flag of Germany.svg Landshut, Germany
Ellermühle Speedway Stadium 		results
217 May Flag of Poland.svg Warsaw, Poland
Stadion Narodowy 		results
331 May Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Prague, Czech Republic
Markéta Stadium 		results
413 June Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Manchester, Great Britain
National Speedway Stadium 		results
514 June Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Manchester, Great Britain
National Speedway Stadium 		results
621 June Flag of Poland.svg Gorzów, Poland
Edward Jancarz Stadium 		results
75 July Flag of Sweden.svg Målilla, Sweden
Skrotfrag Arena 		results
82 August Flag of Latvia.svg Riga, Latvia
Riga Speedway Stadium 		results
930 August Flag of Poland.svg Wrocław, Poland
Olympic Stadium 		results
1013 September Flag of Denmark.svg Vojens, Denmark
Vojens Speedway Center 		results

References

  1. ↑ "Historic moment as Belle Vue set to host Grand Prix". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  2. ↑ "Belle Vue to host GP round in 2025". Speedway Star. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  3. ↑ "CARDIFF EVENT REPLACED ON THE 2025 FIM SPEEDWAY GP CALENDAR WITH AN ADDITIONAL ROUND IN MANCHESTER". FIM. 20 December 2024. Archived from the original on 20 December 2024. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
  4. ↑ "2025 FIM Speedway calendar confirmed". FIM Speedway. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  5. ↑ "Polish hero Zmarzlik ready for question no.6". FIM Speedway. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  6. ↑ "Zmarzlik one step away from history". Sportowe Fakty (in Polish). Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  7. ↑ "Łaguta misses, but can forget. Wild cards for the 2025 Grand Prix almost given out!". Przegląd Sportowy Onet. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  8. ↑ "Leaked 'wild cards' for the 2025 Grand Prix! Madsen's entourage makes blunt comment". Przegląd Sportowy Onet. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  9. ↑ "Kurtz, Thomsen, Kubera & Fricke seal places". FIM Speedway. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
  10. ↑ "2025 Speedway GP wildcards named". FIM Speedway. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
  11. ↑ "2025 Speedway Grand Prix calendar". FIM Speedway. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
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