2009 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification

The 2009 Individual Speedway World Championship Grand Prix Qualification Meetings are a series of speedway meetings used to determine the three riders and one reserve who qualify for the 2009 Speedway Grand Prix. The top eight riders finishing the 2008 Grand Prix series automatically qualify for 2009.

Calendar

Date Venue Winner Domestic Qualifications April 16 Zielona Góra Adrian Miedziński result Quarter-finals May 12 Abensberg Davey Watt result May 31 Goričan Charlie Gjedde result June 15 Częstochowa Grzegorz Walasek result June 21 Lonigo Ryan Sullivan result Semi-finals July 5 Terenzano Lee Richardson result July 5 Motala Peter Karlsson result Grand Prix Challenge September 14 Zielona Góra Kenneth Bjerre result

Allocation Qualifying Rules: Riders placed 1st to 7th + 1 reserve from each Qualifying Round will qualify for the semi-final. Riders placed 1st to 8th + 1 reserve from each Semi-Final will qualify for the Grand Prix Challenge. However, if no Polish rider qualifies to the Grand Prix Challenge, then only 7 riders + 1 reserve will qualify from Semi-Final 2. Riders will be balloted for the semi-finals and the Grand Prix Challenge.

FMNs Total +/- Qualifying Rounds Semi-Finals Ch1 2 3 4 1 2 Czech Republic (ACCR) 5 -12 1 2 Great Britain (ACU) 6 -2 2 2 United States (AMA) 1 - 1 Slovenia (AMZS) 2 -2 2 Canada (CMA) 1 - 1 Germany (DMSB) 5 +13 2 Denmark (DMU) 6 - 2 1 2 1 France (FFM) 2 +22 Italy (FMI) 3 - 2 1 Ukraine (FMU) 1 - 1 Switzerland (FMS) 1 +1 1 Croatia (HMS) 2 +1 2 Netherlands (KNMV) 2 -2 Latvia (LaMSF) 2 - 2 Australia (MA) 3 - 1 2 Hungary (MAMS) 2 -1 2 Russia (MFR) 4 +1 2 2 Norway (NMF) 1 -1 1 Austria (OeAMTC) 2 -2 Poland (PZM) 7 -11 2 3 1 Slovakia (SMF) 1 - 1 Finland (SML) 3 - 1 2 Sweden (SVEMO) 6 -2 2 1 1 TOTAL 68 - 16 16 16 16 1 1

Domestic Qualifications

Poland Domestic Qualifications for the 2009 Grand Prix and the 2008 Individual European Championship Krajowe eliminacje do Grand Prix 2009 i IME

Qualifying Rules: Riders placed 1st to 8th + 1 reserve in the semi-finals qualify for the Final. Riders placed 1st to 6th in the Domestic Final qualify for the Grand Prix Qualification. The seventh Polish rider and reserve are nominated by the Main Commission of Speedway Sport in Poland (GKSŻ). Riders placed 1st to 7th in the Domestic Final qualify to the Individual European Championship. The eighth Polish rider and reserve are nominated by the Main Commission of Speedway Sport in Poland (GKSŻ).

Results: Semi-Final 1 April 10, 2008 (4:00 pm CEST) Poznań, Olimpia Poznań Stadium Referee: Maciej Spychała Best Time: 66.90 - Krzysztof Kasprzak in heat 1 Attendance: 700 Changes: Adam Skórnicki (POZ) was replaced by Krzysztof Jabłoński (GDA) Kamil Brzozowski (GRU) was replaced by 1st track reserve Rafał Trojanowski (POZ) Maciej Piaszczyński (OST) was replaced by Janusz Kołodziej (TAR)

Pos. Rider Points Details1 (5) Walasek (ZIE) 15 (3,3,3,3,3)2 (6) Dobrucki (ZIE) 13 (2,3,3,2,3)3 (13) Mi.Szczepaniak (CZE) 11 (3,2,1,3,2)4 (14) Gapiński (CZE) 11 (2,1,3,3,2)5 (10) Jeleniewski (WRO) 11 (3,2,2,2,2)6 (4) Kasprzak (LES) 10 (3,1,3,3,E)7 (12) Świderski (RYB) 9 (2,3,2,1,1)8 (19) Kołodziej (TAR) 5+3+3 (2,3)9 (9) Słaboń (WRO) 5+3+2 (1,0,2,1,1)10 (17) Jankowski (POZ) 5+2+3+1 (2,X,3)11 (1) Jabłoński (GDA) 5+1+2+E (2,1,1,0,1)12 (11) Klecha (TAR) 5+2+1 (0,E,2,2,1)13 (16) Okoniewski (BYD) 4 (1,0,0,1,2)14 (3) Marcinkowski (POZ) 3 (0,3,E,T/-,0)15 (8) Trojanowski (POZ) 3 (1,2,X,-,-)16 (2) Pytel (POZ) 3 (1,0,1,1,d)17 (15) Ma.Szczepaniak (CZE) 1 (0,1,0,0,0)18 (18) Kłopot (POZ) 0 (0,0)19 (7) Szombierski (OST) 0 (E,-,-,-,-)(17) Jankowski: 7, 14, 18 (18) Kłopot: 12, 15 (19) Kołodziej: 13, 17 Times: Heat 1-4: 66.90 67.42 67.98 69.22 Heat 5-8: 67.70 68.10 68.40 68.64 Heat 9-12: 68.42 67.95 68.80 68.19 Heat 13-16: 68.10 70.29 67.94 68.08 Heat 17-20: 68.56 69.02 68.23 68.63 Heat 21-24: 68.18 69.36 69.09 68.87 Semi-Final 2 April 15, 2008 (4:30 pm CEST) Toruń, Marian Rose Stadium Best Time: 63.31 - Sebastian Ułamek in 15th heat Referee: Ryszard Bryła (Zielona Góra) Attendance: 1,000 Change: Tomasz Chrzanowski (GDA) was replaced by Grzegorz Zengota (ZIE) Reserves Jacek Rempała, Adam Kajoch and Marcin Rempała were replaced by Celmer, A.Wiśniewski and Lampkowski.

Pos. Rider Points Details1 (5) Ułamek (CZE) 13 (3,3,1,3,3)2 (15) Jędrzejak (WRO) 12 (3,2,2,3,2)3 (11) Kościecha (TOR) 11 (2,3,3,3,-)4 (4) Buczkowski (BYD) 11 (3,3,1,2,2)5 (1) Hampel (LES) 10 (2,0,2,3,3)6 (10) Miedziński (TOR) 10 (3,2,3,2,0)7 (12) Ząbik (TOR) 9 (1,2,3,T/-,3)8 (9) Protasiewicz (ZIE) 7+3 (0,1,2,1,3)9 (8) Zengota (ZIE) 7+2 (0,1,3,2,1)10 (13) Stachyra (RZE) 6 (2,2,0,0,2)11 (14) Gomólski (OST) 6 (1,1,1,2,1)12 (7) Staszek (GRU) 5 (2,0,2,1,M)13 (6) Puszakowski (GRU) 4 (1,3,X,-,-)14 (2) Jędrzejewski (BYD) 3 (0,0,E,1,2)15 (3) Hlib (GOR) 3 (1,1,0,1,0)16 (17) Celmer (TOR) 2 (1,0,1)17 (18) A.Wiśniewski (TOR) 1 (0,1,0)18 (19) Lampkowski (TOR) 0 (0,0)19 (16) Piszcz (DAU) 0 (X,0,E,-,-)(17) Cemler: 9, 16, 19 (18) Wiśniewski: 13, 18, 20 (19) Lampkowski: 15, 18 Final April 16, 2008 (5:00 pm CEST) Zielona Góra, Municipal Stadium Best Time: Referee: Wojciech Grodzki (Opole) Attendance:

Pos. Rider Points Details (2) Buczkowski (BYD) (12) Dobrucki (ZIE) (1) Gapiński (CZE) (6) Hampel (LES) (4) Jeleniewski (WRO) (9) Jędrzejak (WRO) (10) Kasprzak (LES) (16) Kołodziej (TAR) (11) Kościecha (TOR) (8) Miedziński (TOR) (13) Protasiewicz (ZIE) (3) Mi.Szczepaniak (CZE) (7) Świderski (RYB) (5) Ułamek (CZE) (14) Walasek (ZIE) (15) Ząbik (TOR) (17) Słaboń (WRO) (18) Zengota (ZIE)

Qualifying rounds Abensberg Qualifying Round 1pzm.pl - 2008-04-29 May 12, 2008 Abensberg (2pm) Referee: Jury President: Attendance: ? Best Time: ? Qualify: 7 + 1R Replacements for injured riders: Henk Bos (NED) was replaced by Mark Stiekema (NED)pzm.pl - 2008-05-06 Theo Pijper (FRAPijper is a Dutch rider, but in this competition he represents the French Motorcycling Federation.) was replaced by David Watt (AUS)pzm.pl - 2008-05-09 Changes: (5) NED (Jannick De Jong) › Rider 17 (16) NED (Mark Stiekema) › Rider 18

Pos. Rider Points Details1 (1) Davey Watt 15 (3,3,3,3,3)2 (14) Rafał Dobrucki 11+3 (3,3,2,0,3)3 (7) Adrian Rymel 11+2 (2,3,2,2,2)4 (12) David Howe 11+1 (2,3,3,1,2)5 (9) Edward Kennett 11+X/F (3,1,3,1,3)6 (6) Tobias Kroner 10 (3,2,2,3,0)7 (4) Mikael Max 10 (2,1,3,2,2)8 (13) Martin Smolinski 9 (E,2,1,3,3)9 (16) Richard Speiser 8 (2,2,1,2,1)10 (3) Josef Franc 5 (0,E,1,3,1)11 (15) Niklas Klingberg 5 (1,2,2,0,E)12 (8) Mathias Schultz 4 (1,0,E,2,1)13 (2) Manuel Hauzinger 4 (1,1,1,1,-)14 (10) Friedrich Wallner 3 (X/F,E,E,1,2)15 (11) Sebastien Tresarrieu 2 (1,1,0,0,0)16 (5) Frank Facher 1 (E,0,0,0,1)17 (17) Max Dilger 0 (E) Goričan Qualifying Round 2SportoweFakty.pl - 2008-05-30SportoweFakty.pl - 2008-06-02 May 31, 2008 (7:00 pm) Goričan Referee: Jury President: Qualify: 7 + 1R Change: No 8 Sirg Schutzbach (GER) was replaced by 1st track reserve

Pos. Rider Points Details1 (6) Charlie Gjedde 14 (2,3,3,3,3)2 (1) Jurica Pavlic 13+3 (3,3,2,2,3)3 (5) Matej Žagar 13+2 (3,2,2,3,3)4 (2) Tomasz Jędrzejak 12 (2,2,3,2,3)5 (4) Christian Hefenbrock 10 (1,3,3,1,2)6 (13) Rory Schlein 10 (3,1,1,3,2)7 (15) Kevin Wölbert 9+3 (2,2,1,2,2)8 (3) Kenneth Bjerre 9+2 (0,3,3,2,1)9 (10) Luboš Tomíček, Jr. 8 (3,1,2,1,1)10 (7) Renat Gafurov 7 (1,1,0,3,2)11 (11) Izak Šantej 5 (2,0,1,1,1)12 (14) Radik Tibiejev 4 (1,0,2,1,X)13 (12) Michał Szczepaniak 3 (1,2,0,E,-)14 (16) Carl Johan Raugstad 2 (0,1,E,0,1)15 (8) Nikola Pigac 1 (0,0,1,0,0)16 (17) Ivan Vargek 0 (0,0,0)17 (9) Nikola Martinec 0 (0,0,F,-,-) Częstochowa Qualifying Round 3 June 15, 2008 (5:00 pm) Częstochowa Referee: Christian Froschauer Jury President: Janos Nadasdi Qualify: 7 + 1R Change: No 16 - Juha Hautamäki (FIN) was replaced by track reserve (Jarosław Hampel, POL)

Pos. Rider Points Details1 (12) Grzegorz Walasek 14 (3,2,3,3,3)2 (9) Lukáš Dryml 13 (2,2,3,3,3)3 (14) Peter Karlsson 11 (3,2,1,2,3)4 (11) Lee Richardson 10 (0,3,3,3,1)5 (1) Aleš Dryml, Jr. 10 (3,3,0,1,3)6 (4) Sebastian Ułamek 10 (1,3,3,1,2)7 (3) Daniel Nermark 9 (0,2,2,3,2)8 (6) Emil Saifutdinov 8 (3,3,1,0,1)9 (2) Denis Gizatullin 7 (2,0,1,2,2)10 (16) Jarosław Hampel 7 (1,1,2,2,1)11 (10) Janusz Kołodziej 6 (1,1,2,0,2)12 (15) Oliver Allen 5 (0,E,2,2,1)13 (5) Maksims Bogdanovs 3 (2,0,0,1,0)14 (13) Nicolai Klindt 3 (2,1,C,T/-,0)15 (7) Andriy Karpov 3 (1,1,1,0,0)16 (8) Leonids Paura 1 (0,0,0,1,0)17 (17) Borys Miturski 0 (0) Lonigo Qualifying Round 4 June 21, 2008 (9:00 pm) Lonigo Referee: Jury President: Qualify: 7 + 1R Changes: No 7: Troy Batchelor (AUS) was replaced by Ryan Sullivan (AUS) No 9: Joonas Kylmäkorpi (FIN) was replaced by track reserve (Andrea Maida, ITA) No 11: Martin Vaculík (SVK) was replaced by Hynek Štichauer (CZE) No 13: Billy Janniro (USA) was replaced by Maks Gregorič (SVN) No 15: Laszlo Szatmari (HUN) was replaced by Zsolt Bencze (HUN) No 16: Fredrik Lindgren (SWE) was replaced by Peter Ljung (SWE)

Pos. Rider Points Details1 (7) Ryan Sullivan 14+3 (3,3,3,2,3)2 (1) Matej Ferjan 14+2 (3,3,3,3,2)3 (16) Peter Ljung 12+3 (3,3,2,2,2)4 (4) Mads Korneliussen 12+2 (2,2,2,3,3)5 (10) Jesper B. Monberg 10+3 (3,2,1,3,1)6 (2) Daniel King 10+2 (1,3,2,3,1)7 (8) Simon Stead 10+1 (1,1,3,2,3)8 (5) Mattia Carpanese 10+0 (2,2,3,1,2)9 (3) Chris Holder 5 (X,E,2,E,3)10 (9) Andrea Maida 5 (2,0,1,2,0)11 (13) Maks Gregorič 5 (1,1,0,1,2)12 (11) Hynek Štichauer 4 (1,2,X,0,1)13 (6) Kyle Legault 3 (0,1,1,1,0)14 (14) Kai Laukkanen 2 (2,0,0,E,0)15 (12) Marco Gregnanin 2 (0,0,1,E,1)16 (15) Zsolt Bencze 1 (0,1,0,0,0) - (17) Daniele Tessari - - - (18) Alessandro Milanese - -

Semi-finals Terenzano Semi-Final 1 July 5, 2008 (9:00 pm) Terenzano Referee: Jury President: No 8 Rafał Dobrucki (POL) was injury - was replaced by track reserve Qualify: 8 + 1R

Pos. Rider Points Details1 (7) Lee Richardson 12+3 (3,2,3,2,2)2 (9) Jesper B. Monberg 12+2 (0,3,3,3,3)3 (13) Peter Ljung 11+3 (3,2,2,1,3)4 (1) Sebastian Ułamek 11+2 (3,0,2,3,3)5 (2) Matej Žagar 10 (2,2,3,3,0)6 (11) Charlie Gjedde 10 (2,3,3,2,0)7 (5) Ryan Sullivan 10 (2,1,1,3,3)8 (12) Adrian Miedziński 9+3 (3,1,2,1,2)9 (16) Jurica Pavlic 9+2 (2,3,1,2,1)10 (4) Lukáš Dryml 8 (1,2,1,2,2)11 (14) Mikael Max 6 (0,3,2,0,1)12 (10) David Howe 4 (1,0,0,1,2)13 (15) Christian Hefenbrock 3 (1,1,0,1,FX)14 (6) Kevin Wölbert 3 (1,1,X,0,1)15 (8) Mattia Carpanese 2 (0,0,1,0,1)16 (3) Guglielmo Franchetti 0 (T,E,0,0,FX)17 - (17) Emil Saifutdinov - - Motala Semi-Final 2 July 5, 2008 (4:00 pm) Motala Referee: Jury President: Qualify: 8 + 1R No 4 Davey Watt (AUS) was replaced by track reserve

Pos. Rider Points Details1 (1) Peter Karlsson 14 (3,3,3,2,3)2 (3) Jonas Davidsson 11+3 (E,2,3,3,3)3 (10) Niels Kristian Iversen 11+2 (3,3,2,2,1)4 (15) Grzegorz Walasek 9 (3,3,2,1,0)5 (5) Matej Ferjan 9 (3,2,0,1,3)6 (9) Daniel Nermark 9 (1,1,1,3,3)7 (4) Kenneth Bjerre 9 (2,3,1,2,1)8 (8) Tomasz Jędrzejak 9 (2,1,2,2,2)9 (2) Mads Korneliussen 8+2 (1,2,1,3,1)10 (12) Edward Kennett 8+2 (0,2,3,1,2)11 (13) Daniel King 7 (2,0,3,1,1)12 (11) Aleš Dryml, Jr. 7 (2,1,2,0,2)13 (7) Simon Stead 6 (1,0,0,3,2)14 (16) Rory Schlein 1 (1,0,0,0,0)15 (14) Adrian Rymel 1 (E,1,0,0,0)16 (6) Tobias Kroner 1 (0,T,1,0,0) - (17) Martin Smolinski - -

Grand Prix Challenge Grand Prix Challenge September 14, 2008 Zielona Góra Referee: Anthony Steele Jury President: Christer Bergström Best Time: 59.66 sec - Kenneth Bjerre in Heat 3 Change: (2) Jonas Davidsson → (18) Korneliussen (15) Daniel Nermark → (17) Pavlic

Heat after heat:

(60.60) Sullivan, Korneliussen, Miedziński, Ferjan (59.75) Ułamek, Zagar, Ljung, Gjedde (59.66) Bjerre, Iversen, Monberg, Karlsson (60.47) Walasek, Jędrzejak, Richardson, Pavlić (60.19) Sullivan, Zagar, Monberg, Richardson (E4) (60.20) Iversen, Jędrzejak, Gjedde, Korneliussen (61.10) Miedziński, Karlsson, Ljung, Pavlić (60.34) Ułamek, Walasek, Bjerre, Ferjan (E4) (61.21) Sullivan, Walasek, Karlsson, Gjedde (E4) (60.22) Pavlić, Bjerre, Zagar, Korneliussen (F4) (60.94) Monberg, Jędrzejak, Miedziński, Ułamek (d4)