The 2025 Speedway Grand Prix season was the 31st season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and decided the 80th FIM Speedway World Championship. It was the fourth series promoted by Discovery Sports Events.
For the first time Great Britain hosted 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, but the Cardiff round was subsequently cancelled and replaced with a second grand prix in Manchester. There were eight other rounds, with Poland's allocation reduced from four to three.
Bartosz Zmarzlik was the defending champion having won the title in 2024. He was aiming to equal Tony Rickardsson and Ivan Mauger's record of six world championships.
The choice of the wildcard riders caused significant controversy due to the fact that 2021 Word Champion Artem Laguta and Emil Sayfutdinov were once again omitted, as was 2022 world runner-up Leon Madsen. The 2025 event was also the fourth consecutive year that Zmarzlik was missing some of his strongest rivals.
The title was won by Zmarzlik, who edged out debutant Brady Kurtz by one point to win a sixth world title. Kurtz created history during the season by winning five consecutive Grand Prix, which was a new record. Britain's Dan Bewley completed the podium, while Fredrik Lindgren, Jack Holder, Andžejs Ļebedevs and Robert Lambert all secured their participation in the 2026 series by finishing in the top seven.
Qualification For the 2025 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 2024 championship qualified automatically. These riders were joined by the four riders who qualified via the Grand Prix Challenge and the 2024 Speedway European Championship winner. The final four riders were nominated by the SGP Commission.
Qualified riders # Riders 2024 place GP Ch place Permanent rider appearance Previous appearances in series95 Bartosz Zmarzlik 1— 10th 2012–2015, 2016–2024505 Robert Lambert 2 — 5th 2015, 2018–2019, 2021–202466 Fredrik Lindgren 3 — 16th 2004, 2006–2007, 2008–2014, 2016, 2017–2024 99 Dan Bewley 4 — 4th 2018, 2022–202454 Martin Vaculík 5— 10th 2012, 2013, 2017–202425 Jack Holder 6— 4th 2016, 2020, 2022–202429 Andžejs Ļebedevs 10— 2nd 2013–2014, 2022–2023, 2024101 Brady Kurtz — 1 1st 2016, 2017105 Anders Thomsen 21 24th 2016, 2020, 2021–2023, 2024415 Dominik Kubera 8 3 2nd 2021, 2023, 202446 Max Fricke11 4 5th 2016–2017, 2019, 2020–2023, 2024155 Mikkel Michelsen 7 — 5th 2015, 2018–2019, 2020, 2021, 2022–2024744 Kai Huckenbeck 12 13 2nd 2017–2019, 2022–2023, 2024201 Jan Kvěch 15 9 2nd 2020–2023, 202469 Jason Doyle 16 — 11th 2015–2024
Qualified substitutes The following riders were nominated as substitutes:
# Riders 2024 place GP Ch place30 Leon Madsen 9 —692 Patryk Dudek 17 11108 Tai Woffinden 18 —24 Jacob Thorssell — 522 Luke Becker — —96 Dimitri Bergé — —TBC Wiktor Przyjemski — —785 Nazar Parnitskyi — —999 Mathias Pollestad — —
Calendar The 2025 season consisted of 10 events.
Final classification
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