Speedway Grand Prix of Nordic

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Flag of Denmark.svg FIM Dansk Metal Nordic Speedway Grand Prix
Stadium Speedway Center, Vojens
Years5 (2009-2012, 2014)
Trackspeedway track
Track Length300 m
Last Event (season 2014)
DateSeptember 13 2014
Winner Flag of Sweden.svg Andreas Jonsson
2nd place Flag of Denmark.svg Peter Kildemand
3rd place Flag of Poland.svg Krzysztof Kasprzak

The Speedway Grand Prix of Nordic was a motorcycle speedway event that was a part of the Speedway Grand Prix Series. It was the second Grand Prix event in Denmark. It was staged between 2009 and 2014 at the Speedway Center in Vojens.

Motorcycle speedway motorcycle sport

Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines which use only one gear and have no brakes; racing takes place on a flat oval track usually consisting of dirt, loosely packed shale, or crushed rock. Competitors use this surface to slide their machines sideways, powersliding or broadsiding into the bends. On the straight sections of the track the motorcycles reach speeds of up to 70 miles per hour (110 km/h).

Speedway Grand Prix are a series of stand-alone motorcycle speedway events over the course of a season used to determine the Speedway World Champion.

Denmark Constitutional monarchy in Europe

Denmark, officially the Kingdom of Denmark, is a sovereign state in Northern Europe. Denmark proper consists of a peninsula, Jutland, and an archipelago of 443 named islands, with the largest being Zealand, Funen and the North Jutlandic Island. The islands are characterised by flat, arable land and sandy coasts, low elevation and a temperate climate. The southernmost of the Scandinavian nations, Denmark lies southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and is bordered to the south by Germany. The Kingdom of Denmark also comprises two autonomous constituent countries in the North Atlantic Ocean: the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Denmark has a total area of 42,924 km2 (16,573 sq mi), land area of 42,394 km2 (16,368 sq mi), and the total area including Greenland and the Faroe Islands is 2,210,579 km2 (853,509 sq mi), and a population of 5.8 million.

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Winners

SeasonCityStadiumWinner
1 2009 Vojens Speedway Center Flag of Sweden.svg Andreas Jonsson result
2 2010 Vojens Speedway Center Flag of Poland.svg Tomasz Gollob result
3 2011 Vojens Speedway Center Flag of the United States.svg Greg Hancock result
4 2012 Vojens Speedway Center Flag of Denmark.svg Michael Jepsen Jensen result
5 2014 Vojens Speedway Center Flag of Sweden.svg Andreas Jonsson result

Most wins

Flag of Sweden.svg Andreas Jonsson 2 times

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