2007 Speedway Grand Prix

2007 Speedway Grand Prix
2007 Speedway Grand Prix
Season details
Dates	28 April - 13 October
Events	11
Cities	11
Countries	9
Riders	15 permanents ; 1 wild card(s); 2 track reserves
Heats	253 + 1 Run-off (in 11 events)
Winners
Champion	DEN Nicki Pedersen
Runner-up	AUS Leigh Adams
3rd place	AUS Jason Crump
	← 2006; Speedway Grand Prix; 2008 →;

The 2007 Speedway Grand Prix was the 62nd edition of the official World Championship^[1]^[2] and the 13th season in the Speedway Grand Prix era used to determine the Speedway World Champion. It was the first under the promotion of IMG, who had purchased series organisers Benfield Sports International (BSI).

Event format

The format for 2007 was a revision of that used in 2006, with 16 riders taking part in each Grand Prix and over the course of 20 heats each rider racing against every other rider once. The top 8 scorers advanced to a semi-final and from each semi-final the 1st and 2nd placed riders advanced to the Grand Prix final.

All rides counted towards Grand Prix points totals, including the semi-final and final, which counted as double (6-4-2-0) and therefore the maximum points for a single Grand Prix was 24 (5x heat wins, semi final win and final win). This scoring revision was introduced as a result of comments made during 2006 that the four finalists received too many points compared to the losing semi-finalists who received little benefit compared to the 9th placed non-qualifier.^[3] This format also meant that the winner of each Grand Prix may not be the rider who scores most Grand Prix points from each race.

Cities

Cities of 2007 Grand Prix:

Qualification for Grand Prix

For the 2007 season, there were 15 permanent riders joined at each Grand Prix by one wild card. The top eight riders from the 2006 championship qualified as of right, although as Hans Andersen had already qualified the 9th placed rider was also included. These eight qualifiers were, in championship order:-

They were joined by three riders who qualified via the Grand Prix Qualifying final. These riders were, in order by qualifying position:-

The final four riders were nominated by series promoters, Benfield Sports International, following the completion of the 2006 Grand Prix season.

Calendar

Round	Date	City and venue	Winner	Runner-up	3rd placed	4th placed	Results
1	28 April	Lonigo , Italy Stadio Speedway Santa Marina	Nicki Pedersen	Greg Hancock	Wiesław Jaguś	Jason Crump	results
2	12 May	Wrocław , Poland Olympic Stadium	Nicki Pedersen	Hans N. Andersen	Chris Harris	Jason Crump	results
3	26 May	Eskilstuna , Sweden Smedstadion	Leigh Adams	Hans N. Andersen	Fredrik Lindgren	Nicki Pedersen	results
4	9 June	Copenhagen , Denmark Parken Stadium	Andreas Jonsson	Nicki Pedersen	Leigh Adams	Tomasz Gollob	results
5	30 June	Cardiff , Great Britain Millennium Stadium	Chris Harris	Greg Hancock	Jason Crump	Leigh Adams	results
6	28 July	Prague , Czech Republic Markéta Stadium	Nicki Pedersen	Jarosław Hampel	Rune Holta	Scott Nicholls	results
7	11 August	Målilla , Sweden G&B Stadium	Leigh Adams	Tomasz Gollob	Jason Crump	Hans N. Andersen	results
8	25 August	Daugavpils , Latvia Latvijas Spīdveja Centrs	Leigh Adams	Nicki Pedersen	Tomasz Gollob	Scott Nicholls	results
9	8 September	Bydgoszcz , Poland Polonia Stadium	Tomasz Gollob	Krzysztof Kasprzak	Nicki Pedersen	Andreas Jonsson	results
10	22 September	Krško , Slovenia Matija Gubec Stadium	Nicki Pedersen	Scott Nicholls	Rune Holta	Jason Crump	results
11	13 October	Gelsenkirchen , Germany Veltins-Arena	Andreas Jonsson	Greg Hancock	Jason Crump	Leigh Adams	results

Final standings

Qualifies for next season's Grand Prix series
Full-time Grand Prix rider
Wild card, track reserve or qualified reserve

Pos.	Rider	Points	ITA	EUR	SWE	DEN	GBR	CZE	SCA	LAT	POL	SVN	GER
	(3) Nicki Pedersen	196	24	23	11	16	12	24	16	19	19	23	9
	(5) Leigh Adams	153	12	10	21	18	14	8	19	22	9	9	11
	(1) Jason Crump	124	12	13	4	9	15	11	15	10	7	13	15
4	(8) Tomasz Gollob	108	10	3	9	11	3	1	19	14	21	10	7
5	(6) Hans Andersen	107	9	13	20	12	13	8	12	5	3	3	9
6	(2) Greg Hancock	106	19	15	9	7	17	6	5	3	5	4	16
7	(14) Rune Holta	91 (+3)	2	6	9	5	5	16	5	7	10	16	10
8	(11) Scott Nicholls	91 (+2)	4	6	4	7	9	12	8	13	4	16	8
9	(15) Chris Harris	91 (+F)	7	15	9	5	20	5	6	7	5	8	4
10	(4) Andreas Jonsson	90	7	5	5	16	5	7	–	8	11	6	20
11	(13) Wiesław Jaguś	81	14	6	6	3	0	9	12	11	5	9	6
12	(12) Bjarne Pedersen	77	5	8	3	5	7	6	7	8	8	9	11
13	(9) Jarosław Hampel	67	8	6	5	7	8	16	–	–	11	6	–
14	(7) Matej Žagar	54	5	7	7	1	5	8	3	2	4	6	6
15	(10) Antonio Lindbäck	31	3	0	3	9	7	0	3	0	5	1	–
16	(16) Fredrik Lindgren	21	–	–	14	–	–	–	7	–	–	–	–
17	(16) Krzysztof Kasprzak	17	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	17	–	–
18	(19) Peter Karlsson	13	–	–	–	–	–	–	5	–	–	–	8
19	(16) Kenneth Bjerre	10	–	–	–	10	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
20	(16) Grigory Laguta	8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	8	–	–	–
21	(16) Sebastian Ułamek	6	–	6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
22	(16) Jurica Pavlič	5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	5	–
23	(17) Jonas Davidsson	5	–	–	5	–	–	–	ns	–	–	–	–
24	(20) Kai Laukkanen	5	–	–	–	–	–	–	2	3	–	–	0
25	(16) David Howe	4	–	–	–	–	4	–	–	–	–	–	–
26	(16) Luboš Tomíček, Jr.	4	–	–	–	–	–	4	–	–	–	–	–
27	(16) Christian Hefenbrock	4	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	4
28	(17) Josef Franc	3	–	–	–	–	–	3	–	–	–	–	–
29	(16) Mattia Carpanese	2	2	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
30	(18) Morten Risager	2	–	–	–	2	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
31	(18) Maksims Bogdanovs	2	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2	–	–	–
32	(17) Tomasz Gapiński	1	–	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
33	(17) Kasts Poudzuks	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	1	–	–	–
34	(17) Daniele Tessari	0	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
35	(17) Jesper B. Jensen	0	–	–	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
36	(18) Christian Miotello	0	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
37	(18) Eric Andersson	0	–	–	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
38	(18) Matěj Kůs	0	-	-	-	-	-	0	-	-	-	-	-
Rider(s) not classified
	(17) Edward Kennett	-	-	-	-	-	ns	-	-	-	-	-	-
	(17) Krzysztof Buczkowski	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	ns	-	-
	(17) Jernej Kolenko	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	ns	-
	(17) Martin Smolinski	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	ns
	(18) Tomasz Jędrzejak	-	-	ns	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	(18) Daniel King	-	-	-	-	-	ns	-	-	-	-	-	-
	(18) Sebastian Aldén	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	ns	-	-	-	-
	(18) Adrian Miedziński	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	ns	-	-
	(18) Izak Šantej	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	ns	-
	(18) Tobias Kroner	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	ns
Pos.	Rider	Points	ITA	EUR	SWE	DEN	GBR	CZE	SCA	LAT	POL	SVN	GER