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2010 Speedway Grand Prix of Croatia

The 2010 FIM Valvoline Croatian Speedway Grand Prix was the eighth race of the 2010 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on August 29 at the Stadium Milenium in Donji Kraljevec, Croatia.[1]

Croatia 2010 Speedway Grand Prix of Croatia
2010 FIM Croatian Speedway Grand Prix
Information
Date29 August 2010
CityCroatia Donji Kraljevec (Goričan)
Event8 of 11 (130)
RefereePoland Wojciech Grodzki
Jury PresidentSweden Christer Bergstrøm
Stadium details
StadiumStadium Milenium
Capacity8,000
Length305 m (334 yd)
SGP Results
Attendance6,000
Best TimeUnited Kingdom Chris Harris
59.54 secs (in Heat 12)
1st place, gold medalist(s) WinnerUnited States Greg Hancock
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-upUnited Kingdom Chris Harris
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3rd placeAustralia Chris Harris

It was scheduled to take place on August 28. However, the meeting was delay because the track was deemed unsuitable by the FIM Jury due to adverse weather conditions. The event will be re-staged on the next day at 12pm.[2] It was second Grand Prix meeting which was re-staged at Sunday, after 1997 Speedway Grand Prix of Germany.

The first-ever Croatian Grand Prix was won by Greg Hancock from the United States, who beat British Chris Harris, World Champion Jason Crump and Fredrik Lindgren of Sweden in the Final.[3] It was his eleventh Grand Prix winning. Hancock also won first-ever British (1995), Czech Republic (1997), Australian (2002) and Latvian (2006) Grands Prix. Croatian Grand Prix was 130th-ever Grand Prix meeting in history. Today winner, Greg Hancock is only rider who started in all 130 events. It was first final in the 2010 season without any Pole.

Riders edit

The Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated Jurica Pavlic as Wild Card, and Matija Duh and József Tabaka both as Track Reserves.[4] Injured Emil Sayfutdinov will be replaced by second Qualified Substitutes rider Davey Watt.[5] The Draw was made on August 27 at 13:00 CEST by the Deputy-Mayor of Međimurje County.[6]

(3)   Emil Sayfutdinov → (20)   Davey Watt

It was the SGP debut for Matija Duh of Slovenia. Duh replaced Holder in Heat 19 and finished 4th scoring 0 points.

Heat details edit

Placing Draw Rider Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pts Pos 21 22 23
1 7   (4) Greg Hancock 22 2 3 2 3 3 13 2 3 3
2 10   (14) Chris Harris 21 3 2 3 3 3 14 1 3 2
3 14   (1) Jason Crump 17 3 3 2 2 3 13 3 2 1
4 1   (9) Fredrik Lindgren 11 3 3 2 1 0 9 4 2 0
5 3   (2) Tomasz Gollob 10 1 0 3 2 3 9 5 1
6 6   (13) Jarosław Hampel 8 0 0 3 3 1 7 6 1
7 13   (12) Chris Holder 7 2 1 1 3 M/- 7 7 0
8 5   (7) Rune Holta 6 3 0 3 0 0 6 8 F4
9 16   (8) Kenneth Bjerre 6 0 3 0 1 2 6 9
10 4   (15) Tai Woffinden 6 0 2 0 2 2 6 10
11 15   (3) Davey Watt 6 1 1 2 0 2 6 11
12 12   (5) Andreas Jonsson 6 2 1 1 X 2 6 12
13 9   (11) Magnus Zetterström 6 1 2 1 1 1 6 13
14 11   (16) Jurica Pavlic 5 0 2 1 1 1 5 14
15 8   (6) Nicki Pedersen 4 1 0 0 2 1 4 15
16 2   (10) Hans N. Andersen 3 2 1 0 0 0 3 16
17 17   (17) Matija Duh 0 0 0 17
18 18   (18) József Tabaka - - 18
Placing Draw Rider Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pts Pos 21 22 23

e: retired or mechanical failure • m: exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t: exclusion for touching the tapes • x: other exclusion • f: fell
ns: non-starter • nc: non-classify
Semi-finals: Heat 21: Riders placed 1st, 4th, 6th & 7th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)
Heat 22: Riders placed 2nd, 3rd, 5th & 8th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)
Big Final (heat 23): The first and second placed riders in each of the Semi-Finals

gate A – inside gate B gate C gate D – outside

Heat after heat edit

  1. Lindgren, Andersen, Gollob, Woffinden
  2. Holta, Hancock, Pedersen, Hampel
  3. Harris, Jonsson, Zetterstroem, Pavlic
  4. Crump, Holder, Watt, Bjerre
  5. Lindgren, Zetterstroem, Holder, Holta
  6. Crump, Harris, Andersen, Hampel
  7. Hancock, Pavlic, Watt, Gollob
  8. Bjerre, Woffinden, Jonsson, Pedersen
  9. Hampel, Lindgren, Pavlic, Bjerre
  10. Holta, Watt, Jonsson, Andersen
  11. Gollob, Crump, Zetterstroem, Pedersen
  12. Harris, Hancock, Holder, Woffinden
  13. Hancock, Crump, Lindgren, Jonsson (X)
  14. Holder, Pedersen, Pavlic, Andersen
  15. Harris, Gollob, Bjerre, Holta
  16. Hampel, Woffinden, Zetterstroem, Watt
  17. Harris, Watt, Pedersen, Lindgren
  18. Hancock, Bjerre, Zetterstroem, Andersen
  19. Gollob, Jonsson, Hampel, Duh (Holder - M)
  20. Crump, Woffinden, Pavlic, Holta
    Semi-Finals:
  21. Harris, Lindgren, Hampel, Holder
  22. Hancock, Crump, Gollob, Holta (F4)
    The Final:
  23. Hancock, Harris, Crump, Lindgren

The intermediate classification edit

Qualifies for next season's Grand Prix series
Full-time Grand Prix rider
Wild card, track reserve or qualified reserve
Pos. Rider Points EUR
 		 SWE
 		 CZE
 		 DEN
 		 POL
 		 GBR
 		 SCA
 		 CRO
 		 NOR
 		 ITA
 		 PL2
 
1   (2) Tomasz Gollob 117 6 16 17 15 24 12 17 10      
2   (13) Jarosław Hampel 110 18 6 16 20 15 17 10 8      
3   (1) Jason Crump 107 19 7 7 10 15 17 15 17      
4   (7) Rune Holta 82 10 6 7 6 19 8 20 6      
5   (8) Kenneth Bjerre 81 10 20 12 13 4 7 9 6      
6   (4) Greg Hancock 75 4 14 7 3 6 7 12 22      
7   (12) Chris Holder 73 8 11 7 9 6 19 6 7      
8   (14) Chris Harris 72 8 6 4 13 5 6 9 21      
9   (9) Fredrik Lindgren 65 8 4 7 8 6 10 11 11      
10   (10) Hans N. Andersen 64 8 7 9 13 9 10 5 3      
11   (5) Andreas Jonsson 61 5 12 13 13 3 2 7 6      
12   (6) Nicki Pedersen 55 9 8 14 5 8 7 0 4      
13   (11) Magnus Zetterström 52 4 9 11 7 6 6 3 6      
14   (15) Tai Woffinden 37 1 4 5 5 7 6 3 6      
15   (3) Emil Sayfutdinov 33 14 8 5 – – – 6 –      
16   (16) Janusz Kołodziej 12 12 – – – – – – –      
17   (20) Davey Watt 12 – – – – – 6 – 6      
18   (16) Thomas H. Jonasson 8 – – – – – – 8 –      
19   (16) Antonio Lindbäck 6 – 6 – – – – – –      
20   (16) Adrian Miedziński 6 – – – – 6 – – –      
21   (16) Jurica Pavlic 5 – – – – – – – 5      
22   (19) Piotr Protasiewicz 5 – – – 0 5 – – –      
23   (16) Scott Nicholls 4 – – – – – 4 – –      
24   (16) Matěj Kůs 3 – – 3 – – – – –      
25   (16) Leon Madsen 3 – – – 3 – – – –      
26   (18) Ludvig Lindgren 2 – – – – – – 2 –      
27   (17) Nicolai Klindt 1 – – – 1 – – – –      
28   (17) Linus Sundström 1 – – – – – – 1 –      
29   (17) Luboš Tomíček, Jr. 0 – – 0 – – – – –      
30   (17) Artur Mroczka 0 – – – – 0 – – –      
31   (17) Matija Duh 0 – – – – – – – 0      
32   (18) Zdeněk Simota 0 – – 0 – – – – –      
Rider(s) not classified
  (17) Damian Baliński — ns – – – – – – –      
  (17) Simon Gustafsson — – ns – – – – – –      
  (17) Ben Barker — – – – – – ns – –      
  (18) Maciej Janowski — ns – – – ns – – –      
  (18) Dennis Andersson — – ns – – – – – –      
  (18) Patrick Hougaard — – – – ns – – – –      
  (18) Daniel King — – – – – – ns – –      
  (18) József Tabaka — – – – – – – – ns      
Pos. Rider Points EUR
 		 SWE
 		 CZE
 		 DEN
 		 POL
 		 GBR
 		 SCA
 		 CRO
 		 NOR
 		 ITA
 		 PL2
 

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Supplementary Regulations" (PDF). FIM-live.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-06. Retrieved 2010-07-01.
  2. ^ "Grand Prix Chorwacji w niedzielę o godzinie 12:00" (in Polish). SportoweFakty.pl. 2010-08-28. Archived from the original on 31 August 2010. Retrieved 2010-08-29.
  3. ^ "Greg Hancock zwyciężył w Grand Prix Chorwacji, Polacy odpadli w półfinałach" (in Polish). SportoweFakty.pl. 2010-08-29. Archived from the original on 31 August 2010. Retrieved 2010-08-29.
  4. ^ "Pavlic "na dziko" w GP Chorwacji" (in Polish). SportoweFakty.pl. 2010-08-17. Retrieved 2010-08-17.
  5. ^ "Watt called up". speedwaygp.com. 2010-08-18. Archived from the original on 2010-08-21. Retrieved 2010-08-23.
  6. ^ "R8 Gorican". speedwaygp.com. 2010-08-27. Archived from the original on 2010-09-02. Retrieved 2010-08-28.
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