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1999 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification

The 1999 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification or GP Challenge was a series of motorcycle speedway meetings used to determine the 14 riders that qualified for the 1999 Speedway Grand Prix[1] to join the other 8 riders that finished in the leading positions from the 1998 Speedway Grand Prix.[2]

1999 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification
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The format was similar to the previous year, in that 4 riders would qualify straight from the Intercontinental and Continental finals and 8 riders would qualify through the GP Challenge. The remaining two places would go to Billy Hamill and Robert Dados (world U21 champion) who were seeded through.

Leigh Adams won the GP Challenge.[3]

Format edit

  • First Round - 6 riders each from Sweden & Denmark, 2 riders each from Finland & Norway to Scandinavian Final
  • First Round - 32 riders from Continental quarter finals to Continental semi-finals
  • First Round - 8 riders from British Final to Overseas Final
  • First Round - 3 riders from Australian Final to Overseas Final
  • First Round - 1 rider from New Zealand Final to Overseas Final
  • First Round - 1 rider from South African Final to Overseas Final
  • First Round - 3 riders from United States Final to Overseas Final
  • Second Round - 8 riders from Scandinavian Final to Intercontinental Final
  • Second Round - 8 riders from Overseas Final to Intercontinental Final
  • Second Round - 16 riders from Continental semi-finals to Continental Final
  • Third Round - 12 riders from positions 9-20 from the 1998 Grand Prix to GP Challenge
  • Third Round - 2 riders from the Continental Final to 1999 Grand Prix and 5 to GP Challenge
  • Third Round - 2 riders from the Intercontinental Final to 1999 Grand Prix and 6 to GP Challenge
  • Final Round - 8 riders from the GP Challenge to the 1999 Grand Prix

First round edit

Continental quarter finals edit

Second round edit

Overseas Final edit

Main article: 1998 Overseas Final

8 riders to Intercontinental Final

Scandinavian Final edit

8 riders to Intercontinental final

(4 July 1998   Norrköping)
Pos Rider Points
1   John Jørgensen 13
2   Peter Karlsson 13
3   Mikael Karlsson 12
4   Brian Karger 11
5   Nicki Pedersen 10
6   Ronni Pedersen 10
7   Lars Gunnestad 9
8   Peter Nahlin 9
9   Andreas Jonsson 9
10   Niklas Klingberg 6
11   Kai Laukkanen 5
12   Arnt Førland 4
13   Niklas Karlsson 4
14   Hans Clausen 2
15   Bjarne Pedersen 2
16   Kauko Nieminen 1

Continental semi finals edit

Continental semi-finals - 16 riders from to Continental final

SF

Pos. Rider Points
1   Rafał Dobrucki 14
2   Piotr Świst 11
3   Marián Jirout 11
4   Tomasz Bajerski 10
5   Tomáš Topinka 10
6   Jacek Rempala 9
7   Andrea Maida 9
8   Roman Povazhny 9
9   Matthias Kröger 9
10   Robert Barth 7
11   Laszlo Bodi 5
12   Joachim Kugelmann 4
13   Andreas Bössner 3
14   Alexander Liatosinski 3
15   Philippe Bergé 2
16   Alessandro Dalla Valle 2
17   Stefano Alfonso 2
18   Thomas Stadler 0

SF

Pos. Rider Points
1   Antonín Kasper Jr. 15
2   Todd Wiltshire 13
3   Adam Fajfer 12
4   Sándor Tihanyi 11
5   Sławomir Drabik 10
6   Matej Ferjan 9
7   Róbert Nagy 7
8   Roman Jankowski 7
9   Rinat Mardanshin 7
10   Izak Šantej 6
11   Norbert Magosi 6
12   Gerhard Lekse 5
13   Michail Starostin 5
14   Bohumil Brhel 4
15   George Štancl 3
16   Karel Průša Jr. 0

Third round edit

Intercontinental Final edit

Main article: 1998 Intercontinental Final

2 riders direct to Grand Prix, 6 riders to GP Challenge

Continental Final edit

  • 2 riders direct to Grand Prix, 5 riders to GP Challenge
  • 25 July 1998   Debrecen
Pos. Rider Points
1   Antonín Kasper Jr. 13
2   Marián Jirout 11
3   Roman Povazhny 10
4   Róbert Nagy 10
5   Sławomir Drabik 9
6   Sándor Tihanyi 9
7   Piotr Świst 9
8   Adam Fajfer 9
9   Rafał Dobrucki 8
10   Tomáš Topinka 8
11   Jacek Rempala 7
12   Matej Ferjan 6
13   Todd Wiltshire 5
14   Andrea Maida 4
15   Tomasz Bajerski 1
16   Roman Jankowski 1

Final Round edit

GP Challenge edit

8 riders to 1998 Grand Prix

Pos. Rider pre-qual qual sf Final
1   Leigh Adams x 3, 3 3 3
2   Brian Andersen x 2, 2 2 2
3   Henrik Gustafsson x 2, 1, 3 3 1
4   Andy Smith x 1, 2, 2 2 0
5   Stefan Dannö x 3, 3 1 x
6   Mikael Karlsson 2, 2 2, 2 1 x
7   Joe Screen 2, 3 1, 3 0 x
8   John Jørgensen 1, 3 3, 3 0 x
9   Mark Loram x 3, 0, 1 x x
10   Nicki Pedersen 3, 3 1, 3, 1 x x
11   Zoltán Adorján x 2, 0, 0 x x
12   Sam Ermolenko 2, 0 2, 1, 2 x x
13   Armando Castagna x 0, 1 x x
14   Sebastian Ulamek 3, 2 0, 1 x x
15   Jesper B Jensen 3, 1 3, 0, 0 x x
16   Piotr Świst 0, 2 2, 0, 0 x x
17   Craig Boyce 2, 0 1 x x
18   Gary Havelock 1, 2 1 x x
19   Piotr Protasiewicz 3, 1 0 x x
20   Sándor Tihanyi 0, 3 0 x x
21   Ronni Pedersen 1, 1 x x x
22   Sławomir Drabik 0, 1 x x x
23   Roman Povazhny 1, 0 x x x
24   Róbert Nagy 0, 0 x x x

References edit

  1. ^ "Individual Championship". Speedway.org. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  2. ^ "HISTORICAL LIST OF RESULTS 1995-2013 Speedway Grand Prix - Qualifications". Speedway History. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  3. ^ "Speedway". Lynn Advertiser. 6 October 1998. Retrieved 7 January 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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