2024 Speedway Grand Prix
Season details
Dates27 April – 28 September
Events11
Cities11
Countries8
Riders15 permanents
1 wild card(s)
2 track reserves
Heats230 (in 11 events)

The 2024 Speedway Grand Prix season is the 30th season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and will decide the 79th FIM Speedway World Championship.[1] It is the third series promoted by Discovery Sports Events.

Bartosz Zmarzlik is the defending champion, having won the previous two titles.

Qualification

For the 2024 season there are 15 permanent riders, who were joined at each Grand Prix by one wild card and two track reserves.

The top six riders from the 2023 championship qualified automatically. These riders were joined by the three riders who qualified via the Grand Prix Challenge and the 2023 Speedway European Championship winner.

The final five riders were nominated by series promoters, Discovery Sports Events.[1]

Qualified riders

#Riders2023 placeGP Ch placePermanent rider appearancePrevious appearances in series
95Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik1—9th2012–2015, 2016–2023
66Sweden Fredrik Lindgren2—15th2004, 2006–2007, 2008–2014, 2016, 2017–2023
54Slovakia Martin Vaculík329th2012, 2013, 2017–2023
25Australia Jack Holder4—3rd2016, 2020, 2022–2023
30Denmark Leon Madsen5—6th2010, 2013, 2019–2023
505United Kingdom Robert Lambert644th2015, 2018–2019, 2021–2023
99United Kingdom Dan Bewley7—3rd2018, 2022–2023
69Australia Jason Doyle8110th2015–2023
108United Kingdom Tai Woffinden11—13th2010, 2011, 2013–2023
155Denmark Mikkel Michelsen12—4th2015, 2018–2019, 2020, 2021, 2022–2023
29Latvia Andžejs Ļebedevs1671st2013–2014, 2022–2023
744Germany Kai Huckenbeck17—1st2017–2019, 2022–2023
415Poland Dominik Kubera=21—1st2021, 2023
48Poland Szymon Woźniak=2631st2018, 2022-2023
201Czech Republic Jan Kvěch=3151st2020-2023

Qualified substitutes

The following riders were nominated as substitutes:

#Riders2023 placeGP Ch place
46Australia Max Fricke9—
233Sweden Kim Nilsson13—
71Poland Maciej Janowski14—
67Denmark Rasmus Jensen=19—
22United States Luke Becker=248
96France Dimitri Bergé—10
842Poland Mateusz Cierniak——

Calendar

The 2024 season will consist of 11 events.[2]

RoundDateCity and venueWinnerRunner-up3rd placed4th placedResults
1 27 April Croatia Donji Kraljevec, Croatia
Stadium Milenium		 results
2 11 May Poland Warsaw, Poland
Stadion Narodowy		 results
3 18 May Germany Landshut, Germany
Ellermühle Speedway Stadium		 results
4 1 June Czech Republic Prague, Czech Republic
Markéta Stadium		 results
5 15 June Sweden Målilla, Sweden
Skrotfrag Arena		 results
6 29 June Poland Gorzów, Poland
Edward Jancarz Stadium		 results
7 17 August United Kingdom Cardiff, Great Britain
Principality Stadium		 results
8 31 August Poland Wrocław, Poland
Olympic Stadium		 results
9 7 September Latvia Riga, Latvia
Riga Speedway Stadium		 results
10 14 September Denmark Vojens, Denmark
Vojens Speedway Center		 results
11 28 September Poland Toruń, Poland
MotoArena Toruń		 results

Final Classification

References

  1. 1 2 "Nine nations represented as 2024 Speedway GP line-up is confirmed". FIM Europe. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
  2. ↑ "2024 Speedway Grand Prix calendar". FIM. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
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