2003 Speedway Grand Prix

The 2003 Speedway Grand Prix season was the ninth season in the Speedway Grand Prix era and was used to determine the Speedway World Champion.

2003 Speedway Grand Prix
Season details
DatesMay 17 - October 4
Events9
Cities9
Countries7
Riders22 permanents
2 wild card(s)
Heats225 + 3 canceled (in 9 events)
Winners
Champion DEN Nicki Pedersen
Runner-up AUS Jason Crump
3rd place SWE Tony Rickardsson

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 2003 season had 22 permanent riders and two wild cards at each event. The permanent riders are highlighted in the results table below.

2003 event schedule and winners

Calendar

Date Grand Prix Winner
May 17 Europe Tony Rickardsson results
May 31 Sweden Ryan Sullivan results
June 14 Cardiff, Great Britain Nicki Pedersen results
June 28 Denmark Jason Crump results
July 12 Slovenia Leigh Adams results
August 30 Scandinavia Ryan Sullivan results
September 6 Czech Republic Jason Crump results
September 20 Poland Tomasz Gollob results
October 4 Norway Greg Hancock results

Final 2003 standings

Pos.Rider NamePts
1 Nicki Pedersen 152(20,8,25,16,20,7,18,18,20)
2 Jason Crump 144(11,5,20,25,11,16,25,20,11)
3 Tony Rickardsson 127(25,13,18,20,13,6,20,6,6)
4 Leigh Adams 126(11,18,13,11,25,18,11,11,8)
5 Greg Hancock 121(8,16,16,18,11,13,6,8,25)
6 Tomasz Gollob 111(16,8,3,13,16,11,8,25,11)
7 Scott Nicholls 102(6,2,13,11,18,20,6,13,13)
8 Rune Holta 98(13,11,11,13,8,5,16,8,13)
9 Ryan Sullivan 94(6,25,7,8,8,25,5,3,7)
10 Andreas Jonsson 76(-,2,11,7,7,13,13,7,16)
11 Piotr Protasiewicz 63(13,6,8,6,2,3,4,16,5)
12 Lukáš Dryml 58(18,20,8,7,5,-,-,-,-)
13 Mikael Max 52(7,13,5,1,3,8,7,5,3)
14 Bjarne Pedersen 51(2,7,4,5,-,3,8,4,18)
15 Tomasz Bajerski 51(4,11,7,6,13,5,2,1,2)
16 Lee Richardson 45(7,1,4,-,-,8,7,11,7)
17 Hans Andersen 41(3,4,-,-,-,11,11,6,6)
18 Mark Loram 32(5,-,-,-,7,4,4,7,5)
19 Todd Wiltshire 30(2,5,5,2,1,6,3,3,3)
20 Jason Lyons 29(1,6,2,8,3,2,1,2,4)
21 Peter Karlsson 28(1,3,6,4,6,-,2,4,2)
22 Bohumil Brhel 26(5,3,1,5,-,1,5,5,1)
23 Ronni Pedersen 23(-,4,6,3,-,1,-,1,8)
24 Krzysztof Cegielski 15(8,7,-,-,-,-,-,-,-)
25 Jarosław Hampel 13(-,-,-,-,-,-,-,13,-)
26 Tomáš Topinka 13(-,-,-,-,-,-,,13-,-)
27 David Howe 8(-,-,2,-,6,-,-,-,-)
28 Peter Ljung 7(-,-,-,-,-,7,-,-,-)
29 Roman Povazhny 6(-,-,-,2,4,-,-,-,-)
30 Matej Žagar 5(-,-,-,-,5,-,-,-,-)
31 Lars Gunnestad 4(-,-,-,-,-,-,-,-,4)
32 David Ruud 4(-,-,-,-,-,4,-,-,-)
33 Charlie Gjedde 4(-,-,-,4,-,-,-,-,-)
34 Sebastian Ułamek 4(4,-,-,-,-,-,-,-,-)
35 Izak Šantej 4(-,-,-,-,,4-,-,-,-)
36 Aleš Dryml, Jr. 3(-,-,-,-,-,-,3,-,-)
37 Rafał Kurmański 3(3,-,-,-,-,-,-,-,-)
38 Simon Stead 3(-,-,3,-,-,-,-,-,-)
39 Robert Dados 3(-,-,-,3,-,-,-,-,-)
40 Joonas Kylmäkorpi 3(-,-,-,-,-,2,-,-,1)
41 Rafał Szombierski 2(-,-,-,-,-,-,-,2,-)
42 Sándor Tihanyi 2(-,-,-,-,2,-,-,-,-)
43 Jesper B. Jensen 1(-,-,-,1,-,-,-,-,-)
44 Magnus Zetterström 1(-,1,-,-,-,-,-,-,-)
45 Josef Franc 1(-,-,-,-,-,-,1,-,-)
46 Chris Harris 1(-,-,1,-,-,-,-,-,-)
47 Denis Štojs 1(-,-,-,-,1,-,-,-,-)


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