The 2026 Speedway Grand Prix season was the 32nd season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and decided the 81st FIM Speedway World Championship. It was the first series promoted by Mayfield Sports Events Ltd, who took over from Discovery.
Bartosz Zmarzlik was the defending champion having won the title in 2025. A win would have meant he surpassesed Tony Rickardsson and Ivan Mauger's record of six world championships.. However, Zmarzlik fell two points short as Robert Lambert won three of the last four rounds of the series to be crowned world champion for the first time. Brady Kurtz completed the podium.
Qualification For the 2026 season there were 15 permanent riders, who were joined at each Grand Prix by one wild card and two track reserves. The top seven riders from the 2025 championship qualified automatically. These riders were joined by the four riders who qualified via the Grand Prix Challenge and the 2025 Speedway European Championship winner. The final three riders Tai Woffinden, Max Fricke and Jason Doyle were nominated by the SGP Commission. In March 2026, Nazar Parnitskyi was named as the replacement for Tai Woffinden following the latter's withdrawal.
Qualified riders # Riders 2025 place GP Ch place 2025 SEC place Permanent rider appearance Previous appearances in series95 Bartosz Zmarzlik 1— — 11th 2012–2015, 2016–2025101 Brady Kurtz 2 — — 2nd 2016-2017, 202599 Dan Bewley 3 — — 5th 2018, 2022–202566 Fredrik Lindgren 4 — — 17th 2004, 2006–2007, 2008–2014, 2016, 2017–2025 25 Jack Holder 5 — — 5th 2016, 2020, 2022–202529 Andžejs Ļebedevs 6 2 3rd 2013–2014, 2022–2023, 2024-2025505 Robert Lambert 7 — — 6th 2015, 2018–2019, 2021–2025415 Dominik Kubera 12 1 — 3rd 2021, 2023, 2024-2025223 Kacper Woryna — 2 4 1st 2016, 202230 Leon Madsen 17 3 37th 2010, 2013, 2019–2024, 202552 Michael Jepsen Jensen 18 62nd 2012-2014, 2015, 2016-2018, 2025692 Patryk Dudek 16 — 17th 2016, 2017–2020, 2022-2023, 2024-202546 Max Fricke8 — — 6th 2016–2017, 2019, 2020–2023, 2024, 202569 Jason Doyle 10 — — 12th 2015–2025785 Nazar Parnitskyi — — 5 1st –
Qualified substitutes The following riders were nominated as substitutes:
# Riders 2025 place GP Ch place 2025 SEC place105 Anders Thomsen 11 6 —201 Jan Kvěch 13 9 22744 Kai Huckenbeck 15 14 13999 Mathias Pollestad — 16 —
Calendar The 2026 season consisted of 10 events.
Final classification
By league Among the 15 permanent riders:
15 participate in the Polish league 10 in the Swedish league 6 in the British league 4 in the Danish league
(club/league participation as of October 2025)
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