2006 Speedway Grand Prix

2006 Speedway Grand Prix
2006 Speedway Grand Prix
Season details
Dates	April 22 - September 23
Events	10
Cities	10
Countries	8
Riders	15 permanents ; 1 wild card(s); 2 track reserves
Heats	230 (in 10 events)
Winners
Champion	AUS Jason Crump
Runner-up	USA Greg Hancock
3rd place	DNK Nicki Pedersen
	← 2005; Speedway Grand Prix; 2007 →;

The 2006 Speedway Grand Prix was the 61st edition of the official World Championship^[1]^[2] and the 12th season in the Speedway Grand Prix era used to determine the Speedway World Champion.^[3]^[4]

Event format

The format remained the same as 2005 with 16 riders taking part in each Grand Prix and over the course of 20 heats each rider will race against every other rider once. The top 8 scorers advance to a semi-final and from each semi-final the 1st and 2nd placed riders will advance to the GP final. All riders apart from the qualifiers for the final carry forward the points earned in the first 20 heats over the course of the season. The riders placing in the final receive points as follows:

1st place = 25 points
2nd place = 20 points
3rd place = 18 points
4th place = 16 points

Qualification for Grand Prix

For the 2006 season, there were 15 permanent riders, to be joined at each Grand Prix by one wild card. The top 8 riders from the 2005 championship qualified as of right. They were, in 2005 championship order:

Tony Rickardsson (retired part way through the season and replaced by Hans Andersen)
Jason Crump
Leigh Adams
Nicki Pedersen
Greg Hancock
Bjarne Pedersen
Tomasz Gollob
Andreas Jonsson

They were joined by 7 riders named by the organisers of the series, who are: (in alphabetical order)

Jarosław Hampel
Niels Kristian Iversen
Antonio Lindback
Scott Nicholls
Piotr Protasiewicz
Lee Richardson
Matej Zagar

Calendar

Round	Date	City and venue	Winner	Runner-up	3rd placed	4th placed	Results
1	22 April	Krško, Slovenia Matija Gubec Stadium	Nicki Pedersen	Jason Crump	Tomasz Gollob	Tony Rickardsson	results
2	6 May	Wrocław, Poland Olympic Stadium	Jason Crump	Greg Hancock	Matej Žagar	Jarosław Hampel	results
3	20 May	Eskilstuna, Sweden Smedstadion	Jason Crump	Greg Hancock	Tomasz Gollob	Nicki Pedersen	results
4	3 June	Cardiff, Great Britain Millennium Stadium	Jason Crump	Andreas Jonsson	Jarosław Hampel	Greg Hancock	results
5	24 June	Copenhagen, Denmark Parken Stadium	Hans N. Andersen	Jason Crump	Bjarne Pedersen	Antonio Lindbäck	results
6	29 July	Lonigo, Italy Santa Marina Stadium	Jason Crump	Scott Nicholls	Hans N. Andersen	Leigh Adams	results
7	12 August	Målilla, Sweden G&B Stadium	Andreas Jonsson	Hans N. Andersen	Leigh Adams	Jason Crump	results
8	26 August	Prague, Czech Republic Markéta Stadium	Hans N. Andersen	Matej Žagar	Antonio Lindbäck	Jarosław Hampel	results
9	9 September	Daugavpils, Latvia Latvijas Spīdveja Centrs	Greg Hancock	Antonio Lindbäck	Nicki Pedersen	Andreas Jonsson	results
10	23 September	Bydgoszcz, Poland Polonia Stadium	Nicki Pedersen	Greg Hancock	Tomasz Gollob	Wiesław Jaguś	results

results: Slovenia • Europe • Sweden • Great Britain • Danmark • Italy • Scandinavia • Czech Republic • Latvia • Poland

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	SVN	EUR	SWE	GBR	DEN	ITA	SCA	CZE	LAT	POL
	(2) Jason Crump	188	20	25	25	25	20	25	16	14	11	7
	(5) Greg Hancock	144	5	20	20	16	13	9	12	4	25	20
	(4) Nicki Pedersen	134	25	14	16	4	6	9	11	6	18	25
4	(8) Andreas Jonsson	119	8	5	10	20	7	9	25	7	16	12
5	(3) Leigh Adams	106	10	7	11	6	12	16	18	12	8	6
6	(16) (19) Hans Andersen	101	–	–	–	–	25	18	20	25	4	9
7	(13) Matej Žagar	97	9	18	4	9	4	10	4	20	11	8
8	(7) Tomasz Gollob	94	18	9	18	7	3	7	4	6	4	18
9	(11) Jarosław Hampel	91	4	16	8	18	2	4	10	16	7	6
10	(10) Antonio Lindbäck	89	9	2	6	8	16	4	3	18	20	3
11	(9) Scott Nicholls	83	9	9	5	8	8	20	8	–	9	7
12	(6) Bjarne Pedersen	82	5	6	7	12	18	10	8	2	7	7
13	(15) Niels Kristian Iversen	51	2	6	4	5	8	5	6	8	4	3
14	(1) Tony Rickardsson	41	16	6	4	10	5	–	–	–	–	–
15	(12) Lee Richardson	39	8	4	0	5	9	4	4	3	0	2
16	(14) Piotr Protasiewicz	31	1	3	3	3	1	3	4	5	4	4
17	(16) Wiesław Jaguś	16	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	16
18	(20) Ryan Sullivan	10	–	–	–	–	–	–	1	9	–	–
19	(16) (17) Fredrik Lindgren	7	–	–	7	–	–	–	ns	–	–	–
20	(16) Krzysztof Kasprzak	6	–	6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
21	(16) Kasts Poudzuks	4	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	4	–
22	(17) Luboš Tomíček, Jr.	4	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	4	–	–
23	(16) Matej Ferjan	3	3	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
24	(16) Simon Stead	3	–	–	–	3	–	–	–	–	–	–
25	(16) Adrian Rymel	2	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2	–	–
26	(17) Charlie Gjedde	1	–	–	–	–	1	–	–	–	–	–
27	(18) Kenneth Bjerre	1	–	–	–	–	1	–	–	–	–	–
28	(16) Mattia Carpanese	0	–	–	–	–	–	0	–	–	–	–
29	(17) Janusz Kołodziej	0	–	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	ns
30	(17) (18) Jonas Davidsson	0	–	–	0	–	–	–	ns	–	–	–
31	(17) Daniele Tessari	0	–	–	–	–	–	0	–	–	–	–
32	(17) Grigory Laguta	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
33	(18) Zdeněk Simota	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–	–
34	(18) Andrejs Koroļevs	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
Rider(s) not classified
	(17) Izak Šantej	-	ns	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	(17) Edward Kennett	-	-	-	-	ns	-	-	-	-	-	-
	(18) Jernej Kolenko	-	ns	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	(18) Tomasz Gapiński	-	-	ns	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	(18) Eric Andersson	-	-	-	ns	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	(18) Ben Wilson	-	-	-	-	ns	-	-	-	-	-	-
	(18) Simone Terenzani	-	-	-	-	-	-	ns	-	-	-	-
	(18) Karol Ząbik	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	ns
Pos.	Rider	Points	SVN	EUR	SWE	GBR	DEN	ITA	SCA	CZE	LAT	POL