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 | |
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Season details | |
Dates | May 17 - October 4 |
Events | 9 |
Cities | 9 |
Countries | 7 |
Riders | 22 permanents 2 wild card(s) |
Heats | 225 + 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 | |
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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 Name | Pts | |
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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,-,-,-,-) |