The 2023 Speedway Grand Prix season was the 29th season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and decided the 78th FIM Speedway World Championship. It was the second series promoted by Discovery Sports Events.
Bartosz Zmarzlik was the defending champion, having won the 2022 title.
Zmarzlik successfully retained the title, winning a fourth championship, despite being disqualified from round nine in Denmark. He beat Fredrik Lindgren by eight points, with Martin Vaculík securing the bronze medal. During the championships, Zmarzlik secured four Grand Prix wins after the Latvian Grand Prix, which equalled the 22 career Grand Prix wins of fellow Pole Tomasz Gollob. He then went on to win a fifth Grand Prix, which equalled the all-time record of 23 held by Jason Crump.
Qualification For the 2023 season there were 15 permanent riders, who were joined at each Grand Prix by one wild card and two track reserves.
The top six riders from the 2022 championship qualified automatically. These riders were joined by the three riders who qualified via the Grand Prix Challenge.
The final six riders were nominated by the SGP Commission.
Qualified riders # Riders 2022 place GP Ch place Appearance Previous appearances in series95 Bartosz Zmarzlik 1— 8th 2012–2015, 2016–202230 Leon Madsen 2— 5th 2010, 2013, 2019–202271 Maciej Janowski 3— 9th 2008, 2012, 2014, 2015–202266 Fredrik Lindgren 4 — 14th 2004, 2006–2007, 2008–2014, 2016, 2017–2022 505 Robert Lambert 5 5 3rd 2015, 2018–2019, 2021–202299 Dan Bewley 6 2 2nd 2018, 2022692 Patryk Dudek 7— 6th 2016, 2017–2020, 2022108 Tai Woffinden 8— 12th 2010, 2011, 2013–202254 Martin Vaculík 9— 8th 2012, 2013, 2017–202269 Jason Doyle 10— 9th 2015–2022155 Mikkel Michelsen 11— 3rd 2015, 2018–2019, 2020, 2021, 2022105 Anders Thomsen 14 103rd 2016, 2020, 2021–2022233 Kim Nilsson —1 1st 2012–2014, 2016–201725 Jack Holder 123 2nd 2016, 2020, 202246 Max Fricke 134 4th 2016–2017, 2019, 2020–2022
Qualified substitutes The following riders were nominated as substitutes:
# Riders 2022 place GP Ch place29 Andžejs Ļebedevs 16 9201 Jan Kvěch 27 —744 Kai Huckenbeck 20 —22 Luke Becker — —TBC Dimitri Bergé — —TBC Timi Salonen — —TBC Marko Levishyn — —
Calendar The 2023 season consisted of 10 events.
Final classification
See also 2023 Individual Long Track World Championship 2023 Speedway World Cup
References
External links Speedway World Championships