2002 Speedway Grand Prix

The 2002 Speedway Grand Prix season is the eighth season in the Speedway Grand Prix era and is used to determine the Speedway World Champion.

2002 Speedway Grand Prix
Season details
DatesMay 11 - October 26
Events10
Cities10
Countries8
Riders22 permanents
2 wild card(s)
Heats250 (in 10 events)
Winners
Champion SWE Tony Rickardsson
Runner-up AUS Jason Crump
3rd place AUS Ryan Sullivan

Event format

The system first used in 1998 continued to be adopted with 24 riders, divided into two classes. The eight best would be directly qualified for the "Main Event", while the sixteen others would be knocked out if they finished out of the top two in 4-man heats on two occasions - while they would go through if they finished inside the top two on two occasions. This resulted in 10 heats, where eight proceeded to the Main Event, where exactly the same system was applied to give eight riders to a semi-final.

The semi-finals were then two heats of four, where the top two qualified for a final - there was no consolation final. The 4 finalists scored 25, 20, 18 and 16 points, with 5th and 6th place getting 13, 7th and 8th 11, and after that 8, 8, 7, 7, etc. Places after 8th place were awarded according to the time a rider was knocked out and, secondly, according to position in the last heat he rode in.

Qualification for Grand Prix

The 2002 season had 22 permanent riders and two wild cards at each event. The permanent riders are highlighted in the results table below.

2002 Event Schedule and Winners

Calendar

Date Grand Prix Winner
May 11 Hamar, Norway Tony Rickardsson results
May 25 Bydgoszcz, Poland Tomasz Gollob results
June 8 Cardiff, Great Britain Ryan Sullivan results
June 22 Krško, Slovenia Ryan Sullivan results
July 6 Stockholm, Sweden Tony Rickardsson results
July 20 Prague, Czech Republic Jason Crump results
August 31 Gothenburg, Sweden Leigh Adams results
September 14 Chorzów, Poland Nicki Pedersen results
September 28 Vojens, Denmark Tony Rickardsson results
October 26 Sydney, Australia Greg Hancock results

Final 2002 standings

Pos.Rider NamePts
1 Tony Rickardsson 181(25,20,13,13,25,16,20,16,25,8)
2 Jason Crump 162(16,16,11,11,16,25,13,20,16,18)
3 Ryan Sullivan 158(20,13,25,25,11,18,11,11,13,11)
4 Leigh Adams 127(13,13,16,13,13,11,25,11,7,5)
5 Mikael Karlsson 122(18,7,18,11,11,7,13,18,6,13)
6 Greg Hancock 122(8,4,4,8,18,20,16,6,13,25)
7 Tomasz Gollob 117(7,25,11,20,8,8,5,5,20,8)
8 Mark Loram 97(8,18,8,18,13,13,6,7,5,1)
9 Billy Hamill 95(11,11,7,7,7,13,6,8,18,7)
10 Lukáš Dryml 95(5,1,6,7,20,11,18,8,8,11)
11 Rune Holta 80(1,11,5,5,6,7,11,7,11,16)
12 Nicki Pedersen 73(2,4,2,5,4,6,8,25,11,6)
13 Scott Nicholls 72(3,5,8,4,-,4,7,13,8,20)
14 Andreas Jonsson 70(3,8,7,16,7,5,4,3,4,13)
15 Todd Wiltshire 63(11,8,20,6,1,2,7,2,2,4)
16 Krzysztof Cegielski 55(4,3,1,8,6,8,8,13,-,4)
17 Sebastian Ułamek 39(2,6,5,4,3,3,2,5,4,5)
18 Niklas Klingberg 37(5,3,3,3,5,3,4,6,3,2)
19 Carl Stonehewer 30(13,5,2,1,2,4,3,-,-,-)
20 Andy Smith 29(4,6,4,6,2,2,1,2,1,1)
21 Grzegorz Walasek 25(7,2,3,3,5,5,-,-,-,-)
22 Matej Ferjan 22(1,1,1,2,1,6,1,1,2,6)
23 Peter Karlsson 21(-,-,-,-,8,-,5,3,5,-)
24 Piotr Protasiewicz 18(-,7,-,-,4,-,-,1,6,-)
25 Lee Richardson 17(-,-,13,-,-,-,-,4,-,-)
26 Bjarne Pedersen 10(-,-,-,-,-,-,3,-,7,-)
27 Steve Johnston 7(-,-,-,-,-,-,-,-,-,7)
28 Lars Gunnestad 6(6,-,-,-,-,-,-,-,-,-)
29 Joe Screen 6(-,-,6,-,-,-,-,-,-,-)
30 Jarosław Hampel 6(-,2,-,-,-,-,-,4,-,-)
31 Kaj Laukkanen 6(6,-,-,-,-,-,-,-,-,-)
32 Freddie Eriksson 3(-,-,-,-,3,-,-,-,-,-)
33 Bohumil Brhel 3(-,-,-,-,-,1,-,-,-,2)
34 Mick Poole 3(-,-,-,-,-,-,-,-,-,3)
35 Jason Lyons 3(-,-,-,-,-,-,-,-,-,3)
36 Ronni Pedersen 3(-,-,-,-,-,-,-,-,3,-)
37 Sándor Tihanyi 2(-,-,-,2,-,-,-,-,-,-)
38 David Ruud 2(-,-,-,-,-,-,2,-,-,-)
39 Izak Šantej 1(-,-,-,1,-,-,-,-,-,-)
40 Hans Andersen 1(-,-,-,-,-,-,-,-,1,-)
41 Aleš Dryml 1(-,-,-,-,-,1,-,-,-,-)
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