The 2003 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification or GP Challenge was a series of motorcycle speedway meetings used to determine the 6 riders that would qualify for the 2003 Speedway Grand Prix to join the other 16 riders that finished in the leading positions from the 2002 Speedway Grand Prix.
Only 6 riders would qualify through the GP Challenge once again but there was a major change in the lead up to the GP Challenge with a new qualifying format of 4 quarter finals and 2 semi finals. The Intercontinental Final, Continental Final, Overseas Final and Scandinavian Finals were all scrapped.
Lee Richardson won the GP Challenge.
Format First Round (7 riders from Poland to quarter final, 6 from Sweden & Great Britain, 5 from Denmark & Czech Republic, 4 from Australia & Germany, 3 riders from United States, Hungary, Italy, Russia & Slovenia, 2 from Norway, Finland, Latvia, 1 rider each from Austria, Canada, Croatia, France, Netherlands and Ukraine) Quarter finals - 32 riders to semi finals Semi finals - 16 riders to GP Challenge Final Round - 6 riders from the GP Challenge to the 2003 Grand Prix
Quarter finals 32 riders to semi finals
QF (27 April 2002 Lonigo)PosRider Points 1 Peter Karlsson 142 Piotr Protasiewicz 133 Robert Dados124 Ryan Fisher 125 Steve Johnston 116 David Howe 117 Lukáš Dryml98 Róbert Nagy79 Andrea Maida 610 Josef Franc 511 Simon Stead 412 Eduard Shaihullin 413 Christian Miotello (R) 414 Jörg Pingel 415 Simone Terenzani 216 Alessandro Milanese (R) 017 Stéphane Trésarrieu 017 Sandor Lakatos 0
QF (12 May 2002 Pfaffenhofen)PosRider Points 1 Hans Andersen 122 Bjarne Pedersen 123 Roman Povazhny114 Sergej Darkin 95 Dean Barker 86 Bohumil Brhel 87 Rafał Okoniewski88 Paul Hurry89 Joachim Kugelmann 810 Zlato Krznaric 811 Matthias Kröger 712 Tomáš Topinka 713 Björn G Hansen 514 Mirko Wolter 515 Manuel Hauzinger 216 Herbert Rudolph (R) 117 Jim Groen 0
QF (18 May 2002 Ljubljana)PosRider Points 1 Charlie Gjedde 142 Tomasz Bajerski 123 Attila Stefáni104 Matej Žagar 105 Craig Watson 106 Aleš Dryml Jr. 107 Peter I Karlsson98 Brent Werner89 Jarosław Hampel 710 Anders Henriksson 611 Izak Šantej 512 Mark Lemon 513 Niels Kristian Iversen 514 Norbert Magosi 315 Chris Slabon 316 Joonas Kylmäkorpi 2
QF (24 May 2002 Vetlanda)PosRider Points 1 Lee Richardson 112 Stefan Dannö 103 Jason Lyons94 Kai Laukkanen 95 Andrzej Huszcza 96 Henrik Gustafsson 77 Ronni Pedersen78 Lars Gunnestad79 Billy Janniro 610 Danny Bird 611 Jernej Kolenko 512 Jacek Rempala 313 Niklas Karlsson (R) 314 Nikolai Kokin 315 Andrzej Korolew 116 Alexander Liatosinskij 017 Stefan Andersson 018 Freddie Eriksson (R) 0
Semi finals 16 riders from to GP Challenge SF 15 June 2002 Mšeno Pos.RiderPoints1 Bohumil Brhel 142 Lukáš Dryml 123 Lee Richardson114 Peter Karlsson 115 Ronni Pedersen 96 Tomasz Bajerski 97 Rafał Okoniewski88 David Howe89 Robert Dados 710 Kai Laukkanen 611 Andrea Maida (R) 612 Paul Hurry 413 Brent Werner (R) 414 Róbert Nagy 315 Attila Stefáni 316 Matej Žagar 217 Stefan Dannö 218 Antonín Šváb Jr. 1SF 16 June 2002 Holsted Pos.RiderPoints1 Jason Lyons 122 Bjarne Pedersen 123 Piotr Protasiewicz124 Andrzej Huszcza 105 Dean Barker 86 Hans Andersen 77 Roman Povazhny78 Steve Johnston79 Peter Ingvar Karlsson 710 Lars Gunnestad 611 Craig Watson 612 Sergej Darkin 613 Ryan Fisher 614 Aleš Dryml Jr. 515 Charlie Gjedde 516 Henrik Gustafsson 4
Final Round GP Challenge 6 riders to 2003 Grand Prix 25 August 2002 Piła Pos.RiderTotalPoints1 Lee Richardson 143, 2, 3, 3, 32 Bohumil Brhel 123, 3, 3, 0, 33 Piotr Protasiewicz 110, 3, 3, 2, 34 Lukáš Dryml 113, 2, 2, 3, 1 5 Bjarne Pedersen 113, 1, 3, 2, 26 Tomasz Bajerski 112, 1, 2, 3, 37 Jason Lyons 102, 2, 1, 3, 28 Hans Andersen 92, 3, 0, 2, 29 Ronni Pedersen 90, 3, 2, ex, 010 Peter Karlsson 5 2, 1, 2, ex, 111 David Howe 40, 2, 1, 0, 0, 312 Robert Dados (R) 4-, -, 1, 2, 1 13 Roman Povazhny 41, ef, 1, 1, 114 Andrzej Huszcza 3ex, 0, 1, 2, 015 Steve Johnston 21, 0, 0, 1, ef16 Rafał Okoniewski 21, 1, 0, -, -17 Dean Barker 11, 0, 0, 0, - race off for 3rd place - Protasiewicz, Dryml, B Pedersen, Bajerski
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