2022 Speedway Grand Prix

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2022 Speedway Grand Prix
Season details
DatesApril 30 - November 15
Events12
Cities12
Countries9
Riders15 permanents
1 wild card(s)
2 track reserves
Heats276 (in 12 events)

The 2022 Speedway Grand Prix season is the 28th season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and will decide the 77th FIM Speedway World Championship.[1][2] It will be the first series promoted by Discovery Sports Events.

Artem Laguta is the reigning champion having won the 2021 title, due to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia he and Emil Sayfutdinov will not be take part, due to the exclusion of Russian and Belarusian riders in any FIM sanctioned events.

Qualification[]

For the 2022 season there will be 15 permanent riders, who will be joined at each Grand Prix by one wild card and two track reserves.

The top six riders from the 2021 championship qualified automatically.[3] These riders will be joined by the three riders who qualified via the Grand Prix Challenge, and the 2021 Speedway European Championship winner.

The final five riders were nominated by series promoters, Discovery Sports Events, following the completion of the 2021 season.[4]

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Discovery Sports Events made the decision to suspend Artem Laguta and Emil Sayfutdinov in line with the FIM's ban on Russian riders.[5] They were replaced in the line-up by Jack Holder and Dan Bewley.[6]

Qualified riders[]

# Riders 2021 place GP Ch place Appearance Previous appearances in series
95 Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik 2 — 7th 2012–2015, 2016–2021
66 Sweden Fredrik Lindgren 4 — 13th 2004, 2006–2007, 2008–2014, 2016, 2017–2021
71 Poland Maciej Janowski 5 — 8th 2008, 2012, 2014, 2015–2021
108 United Kingdom Tai Woffinden 6 — 11th 2010, 2011, 2013–2021
30 Denmark Leon Madsen 7 — 4th 2010, 2013, 2019–2021
69 Australia Jason Doyle 9 — 8th 2015–2021
505 United Kingdom Robert Lambert 10 13 2nd 2015, 2018–2019, 2021
105 Denmark Anders Thomsen 11 — 2nd 2016, 2020, 2021
54 Slovakia Martin Vaculík 12 — 7th 2012, 2013, 2017–2021
323 Poland Paweł Przedpełski 17 1 1st 2016, 2017, 2021
46 Australia Max Fricke 8 2 3rd 2016-2017, 2019, 2020–2021
692 Poland Patryk Dudek — 3 5th 2016, 2017–2020
155 Denmark Mikkel Michelsen 18 — 2nd 2015, 2018–2019, 2020, 2021
25 Australia Jack Holder — — 1st 2016, 2020
99 United Kingdom Dan Bewley — 7 1st 2018

Qualified substitutes[]

The following riders were nominated as substitutes:

# Riders 2021 place GP Ch place
TBA Latvia Andžejs Ļebedevs — 6
TBA Poland Jakub Miśkowiak — —
TBA Denmark Mads Hansen 35 —
TBA United States Luke Becker — —
TBA France David Bellego — —

Calendar[]

The 2022 season will consist of 12 events.

Round Date Venue 1st 2nd 3rd
1 30 Apr Croatia , Gorican
2 14 May Poland Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw
3 28 May Czech Republic , Prague
4 4 Jun Germany , Teterow
5 25 Jun Poland Edward Jancarz Stadium, Gorzow
6 9 Jul TBA
7 13 Aug United Kingdom Principality Stadium, Cardiff
8 27 Aug Poland Olympic Stadium, Wrocław
9 10 Sep Denmark Vojens Speedway Center, Vojens
10 17 Sep Sweden , Malila
11 1 Oct Poland Rose Motoarena, Torun
12 5 Nov Oceania

References[]

  1. ^ "WORLD INDIVIDUAL FINAL - RIDER INDEX". British Speedway. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Speedway riders, history and results". wwosbackup. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  3. ^ "2021 FIM Speedway World Championship results". SGP. Archived from the original on 2019-05-26. Retrieved 2021-10-02.
  4. ^ "2022 wildcards announced". SGP. Archived from the original on 2019-10-06. Retrieved 2021-10-02.[dead link]
  5. ^ "FIM Speedway GP Statement". SGP.
  6. ^ "Holder & Bewley called into Speedway GP 2022 line-up". SGP. Retrieved 2022-03-11.

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