2008 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification

The 2008 Individual Speedway World Championship Grand Prix Qualification Meetings

Top three riders qualified to 2008 Speedway Grand Prix:

1. Niels Kristian Iversen
2. Lukáš Dryml
3. Bjarne Pedersen

Calendar

- Domestic - Quarter-finals - Semi-finals - Final

Date (2007)	Venue	Winner
Domestic Qualification
June 6	Bydgoszcz	Grzegorz Walasek	result
Quarter-finals
June 23	Terenzano	Niels Kristian Iversen	result
June 24	Miskolc	Rory Schlein	result
June 23	Mšeno	Krzysztof Kasprzak	result
June 30	Motala	Damian Baliński	result
Semi-finals
July 7	Lonigo	Bjarne Pedersen	result
July 8	Ljubljana	Fredrik Lindgren	result
Final
15 September	Vojens	Niels Kristian Iversen	result

Domestic Qualification

Poland

• Golden Helmet Final (Finał Złotego Kasku)
• June 6, 2007
• Bydgoszcz, Polonia Stadium
• Referee: Ryszard Bryła (Zielona Góra)
• Attendance: 2,500
• Best Time: 61,63 s. - Wiesław Jaguś (7 heat)
• Only 16 heats, because was rain.

Pos.	Rider	Points	Heats
1	Grzegorz Walasek Zielona Góra	9	(0,3,3,3)
2	Rafał Dobrucki Rzeszów	9	(2,1,3,3)
3	Krzysztof Kasprzak Leszno	9	(3,2,2,2)
4	Paweł Hlib Gorzów Wlkp.	8	(3,1,1,3)
5	Piotr Protasiewicz Zielona Góra	7	(3,1,3,F)
6	Jarosław Hampel Leszno	7	(2,2,E,3)
7	Damian Baliński Leszno	7	(1,3,2,1)
10	Tomasz Gapiński Wrocław	6	(2,0,2,2)

Paweł Hlib was injury before Quarter-Final and was replaced by Tomasz Gapiński. Wiesław Jaguś (8th) and Sebastian Ułamek (9th) refused.

Quarter-Finals

Terenzano Qualifying round A June 23, 2007 Terenzano Referee: ? Attendance: ? Best Time: ? No12: Sebastian Aldén → Marco Gregnanin Pos. Rider Points Heats 1 (10) Niels Kristian Iversen 15 (3,3,3,3,3) 2 (6) Jurica Pavlič 12+3 (1,2,3,3,3) 3 (14) Rafał Dobrucki 12+2 (2,1,3,3,3) 4 (7) Richard Hall 12+F/X (2,3,2,2,3) 5 (16) Kyle Legault 11 (3,2,2,2,2) 6 (2) Niklas Klingberg 10 (3,0,3,3,1) 7 (5) Steve Johnston 10 (3,2,1,2,2) 8 (11) David Howe 8+3 (2,1,2,2,1) 9 (13) Henrik Møller 8+2 (1,3,1,1,2) 10 (9) Matej Ferjan[1] 5 (0,1,1,1,2) 11 (16) Andrea Maida 4 (0,3,1,0,0) 12 (8) Denis Štojs 3 (0,1,2,0,F) 13 (3) Guglielmo Franchetti 3 (2,F,0,1,0) 14 (4) Josef Franc 3 (1,2,E,0,0) 15 (12) Marco Gregnanin 3 (1,0,0,1,1) 16 (1) Maks Gregorič 1 (0,0,0,0,1)

Miskolc Qualifying round B June 24, 2007 Miskolc Referee: ? Attendance: ? Best Time: ? Pos. Rider Points Heats 1 (9) Rory Schlein 14 (3,3,2,3,3) 2 (16) Piotr Protasiewicz 12+3 (3,3,2,3,1) 3 (7) Charlie Gjedde 12+2 (3,2,2,3,2) 4 (12) Sebastian Ułamek 10 (2,1,3,1,3) 5 (14) Chris Holder 10 (2,3,1,2,2) 6 (8) Denis Gizatullin 9 (2,2,3,2,E) 7 (11) Luboš Tomíček, Jr. 8+3 (E,3,1,1,3) 8 (2) Zdeněk Simota 8+2 (1,2,2,3,0) 9 (6) Norbert Magosi 7 (1,0,3,1,2) 10 (15) Joonas Kylmäkorpi 7 (1,1,1,2,2) 11 (1) Jozsef Tabaka 6 (3,X,0,0,3) 12 (13) Ruslan Gatiatow 5 (0,2,3,0,0) 13 (3) Maksims Bogdanovs 5 (2,0,0,2,1) 14 (10) Kasts Poudzuks 5 (1,1,1,1,1) 15 (4) Magnus Karlsson 1 (0,0,0,0,1) 16 (5) Jaroslaw Poljuchowicz 1 (0,1,0,0,0) - (R1) Zsolt Bencze

Mšeno Qualifying round C June 23, 2007 Mšeno Referee: ? Attendance: ? Best Time: ? No13: Denis Sajfutdinov → Martin Vaculík Pos. Rider Points Heats 1 (4) Krzysztof Kasprzak 15 (3,3,3,3,3) 2 (10) Renat Gafurov 13 (3,3,2,2,3) 3 (5) Aleš Dryml, Jr. 11 (3,2,1,3,2) 4 (7) Tobias Kroner 10 (2,2,1,2,3) 5 (11) Izak Šantej 9 (E,3,3,3,0) 6 (15) Jarosław Hampel 9 (3,E,2,2,2) 7 (12) Lukáš Dryml 8+3 (E,2,3,3,F) 8 (14) Lewis Bridger 8+2 (2,2,2,1,1) 9 (9) Daniel King 8+1 (2,1,3,1,1) 10 (1) Adrian Rymel 6 (2,3,0,0,1) 11 (13) Martin Vaculík 6 (1,0,0,2,3) 12 (16) Thomas Stange 6 (0,1,2,1,2) 13 (17) Hynek Štichauer 3 (1,2) 14 (3) Henk Bos 3 (0,1,1,0,1) 15 (2) Fritz Wallner 3 (1,1,E,1,E) 16 (8) Kaj de Jong 1 (1,0,0,0,0) - (6) Manuel Hauzinger 0 (E,0,-,-,-) - (18) Richard Wolff 0 (0) 17: Heats: ? 18: Heat: ?

Motala Qualifying round D June 30, 2007 Motala Referee: ? Attendance: ? Best Time: ? No5: Carl Johan Raugstad → Daniel Davidsson Pos. Rider Points Heats 1 (4) Damian Baliński 12+3 (1,3,3,2,3) 2 (8) Kenneth Bjerre 12+2 (3,1,3,2,3) 3 (3) Mikael Max 12+1 (3,3,2,3,1) 4 (14) Tomasz Gapiński 11 (2,3,1,3,2) 5 (16) Fredrik Lindgren 11 (1,2,3,2,3) 6 (6) Kai Laukkanen 11 (2,2,1,3,3) 7 (13) Jonas Davidsson 10 (0,3,2,3,2) 8 (15) Kauko Nieminen 9 (3,1,2,1,2) 9 (11) Jesper B. Jensen 8 (3,2,2,1,E) 10 (12) Simon Stead 6 (1,0,3,2,0) 11 (10) Martin Smolinski 6 (2,1,1,1,1) 12 (1) Christian Hefenbrock 5 (2,2,0,1,0) 13 (5) Daniel Davidsson 3 (0,1,0,0,2) 14 (2) Oliver Allen 2 (0,0,1,0,1) 15 (9) Rune Sola 2 (1,0,0,0,1) 16 (7) Matt Browne 0 (0,0,0,0,0) - (17) Ricky Kling

Semi-Finals

Lonigo Semi-final A July 7, 2007 Lonigo Referee: ? Attendance: ? Best Time: ? Pos. Rider Points Heats 1 (7) Bjarne Pedersen 11+3 (3,2,2,3,1) 2 (4) Krzysztof Kasprzak 11+2 (2,3,0,3,3) 3 (14) Damian Baliński 10+3 (3,3,2,2,0) 4 (10) Denis Gizatullin 10+2 (3,1,3,1,2) 5 (12) Tobias Kroner 10+1 (2,2,3,1,2) 6 (1) Lukáš Dryml 9 (3,X,3,X,3) 7 (2) Kyle Legault 8+3 (1,2,2,3,0) 8 (9) Steve Johnston 8+2 (0,2,1,2,3) 9 (11) Charlie Gjedde 8+1 (1,3,1,2,1) 10 (3) Chris Holder 7 (F,1,0,3,3) 11 (8) Jarosław Hampel 7 (2,0,3,1,1) 12 (16) Jurica Pavlič 7 (2,1,0,2,2) 13 (5) Mikael Max 6 (0,3,1,0,2) 14 (6) Tomasz Gapiński 4 (1,0,2,E,1) 15 (15) Richard Hall 2 (1,0,F,1,0) 16 (18) Zdeněk Simota 1 (E,1,0,0) 17 (13) Mattia Carpanese 0 (0,F/-,-,-,-) 18 (17) David Howe 0 (F/-) 17: Heat: 5 18: Heats: 5, 12, 14 and 19 Heat 5: Carpanese fell (injury); replaced by Howe. Howe fell by Dryml (injury); Dryml was exclusion; Howe replaced by Simota.

Ljubljana Semi-final B July 8, 2007 Ljubljana Referee: ? Attendance: ? Best Time: ? Pos. Rider Points Heats 1 (16) Fredrik Lindgren 11+3 (2,1,2,3,3) 2 (4) Renat Gafurov 11+2 (1,3,1,3,3) 3 (10) Kenneth Bjerre 11+1 (3,3,3,2,0) 4 (15) Rory Schlein 10 (3,2,3,1,1) 5 (8) Niels Kristian Iversen 10 (1,2,3,2,2) 6 (1) Rafał Dobrucki 9 (3,2,1,0,3) 7 (7) Jonas Davidsson 8+3 (3,1,E3,3,1) 8 (12) Luboš Tomíček, Jr. 8+2 (2,0,2,2,2) 9 (13) Piotr Protasiewicz 8+1 (0,3,2,F/X,3) 10 (6) Grzegorz Walasek 7 (2,1,3,0,1) 11 (9) Niklas Klingberg 7 (1,0,2,2,2) 12 (14) Kai Laukkanen 6 (1,2,1,1,1) 13 (2) Jernej Kolenko 5 (2,0,0,3,0) 14 (11) Sebastian Ułamek 4 (0,3,0,1,0) 15 (5) Izak Šantej 4 (0,1,1,0,2) 16 (3) Aleš Dryml, Jr. 1 (E4,0,0,1,T/-) 17 (17) Kauko Nieminen 0 (0) - (18) Lewis Bridger 17: Heat: 19

Grand Prix Challenge

• September 15, 2007 (Saturday, 19:30)
• Vojens
• Referee:
• Jury President:
• Attendance:
• Best Time:
• Stadium and track:
  • Name: Speedway Center
  • Capacity: ?
  • Length: ?

Placing	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
1	(8) Niels Kristian Iversen	14		3						3			3			3			2				14	1
2	(6) Lukáš Dryml	12		1				3			2							3			3		12	2
3	(4) Bjarne Pedersen	11	3							1				3				1				3	11	3	3
4	(12) Luboš Tomíček, Jr.	11			3					2		2			3						1		11	4	2
5	(5) Kenneth Bjerre	10		2			3					3					X					2	10	5
6	(11) Rafał Dobrucki	10			1				3		3					2						1	10	6
7	(3) Jonas Davidsson	8	0						2				1				3				2		8	7
8	(15) Krzysztof Kasprzak	8				1			1			1						2	3				8	8
9	(14) Renat Gafurov	7				3		2					0		2							0	7	9
10	(10) Fredrik Lindgren	7			2			1						2			2		X				7	10
11	(16) Denis Gizatullin	6				2				0	0						1			3			6	11
12	(1) Damian Baliński	5	2				2				1				E				-				5	12
13	(7) Rory Schlein	4		0					0					1	1					2			4	13
14	(9) Steve Johnston	3			0		1						2					0		0			3	14
15	(2) Tobias Kroner	2	1					0				0				E				1			2	15
16	(13) Kyle Legault	1				X	0							0		1					0		1	16
17	(17) Charlie Gjedde	1																	1				1	17
Placing	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

m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fell • ns - non-starter • nc - non-classify

gate A - inside

gate B

gate C

gate D - outside

Heat after heat

1. Pedersen, Baliński, Kroner, Davidsson
2. Iversen, Bjerre, Dryml, Schlein
3. Tomíček, Lindgren, Dobrucki, Johnston
4. Gafurov, Gizatullin, Kasprzak, Legault (F/X)
5. Bjerre, Baliński, Johnston, Legault
6. Dryml, Gafurov, Lindgren, Kroner
7. Dobrucki, Davidsson, Kasprzak, Schlein
8. Iversen, Tomíček, Pedersen, Gizatullin
9. Dobrucki, Dryml, Baliński, Gizatullin
10. Bjerre, Tomíček, Kasprzak, Kroner
11. Iversen, Johnston, Davidsson, Gafurov
12. Pedersen, Lindgren, Schlein, Legault
13. Tomíček, Gafurov, Schlein, Baliński (E/start)
14. Iversen, Dobrucki, Legault, Kroner (E4)
15. Davidsson, Lindgren, Gizatullin, Bjerre (F/X)
16. Dryml, Kasprzak, Pedersen, Johnston
17. Kasprzak, Iversen, Gjedde, Lindgren (F/X)
18. Gizatullin, Schlein, Kroner, Johnston
19. Dryml, Davidsson, Tomíček, Legault
20. Pedersen, Bjerre, Dobrucki, Gafurov
    Play-off 3-4 place:
21. Pedersen, Tomíček

References

1. Hungarian licence.

See also

• Speedway Grand Prix
• 2007 Speedway Grand Prix