2025 Speedway Grand Prix

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2025 Speedway Grand Prix
Season details
Dates3 May – 13 September
Events10
Cities10
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 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 110th2012–2015, 2016–2024
505 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Robert Lambert 25th2015, 2018–2019, 2021–2024
66 Flag of Sweden.svg Fredrik Lindgren 316th2004, 2006–2007, 2008–2014, 2016, 2017–2024
99 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Dan Bewley 44th2018, 2022–2024
54 Flag of Slovakia.svg Martin Vaculík 510th2012, 2013, 2017–2024
25 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jack Holder 64th2016, 2020, 2022–2024
29 Flag of Latvia.svg Andžejs Ļebedevs 102nd2013–2014, 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 75th2015, 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 1611th2015–2024

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

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