2000 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification

The 2000 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification or GP Challenge was a series of motorcycle speedway meetings used to determine the 12 riders that would qualify for the 2000 Speedway Grand Prix to join the other 10 riders that finished in the leading positions from the 1999 Speedway Grand Prix.

The format changed from the previous year, in that only 2 riders would qualify straight from the Intercontinental and Continental finals and 10 riders would qualify through the GP Challenge.

Billy Hamill won the GP Challenge.

Format

• First Round - 6 riders from Sweden, 5 from Denmark, 3 from Finland, 2 from Norway to Scandinavian Final
• First Round - 32 riders from Continental quarter finals to Continental semi-finals
• First Round - 8 riders from British Final to Overseas Final
• First Round - 4 riders from Australian Final to Overseas Final
• First Round - 4 riders from United States Final to Overseas Final
• Second Round - 8 riders from Scandinavian Final to Intercontinental Final
• Second Round - 8 riders from Overseas Final to Intercontinental Final
• Second Round - 16 riders from Continental semi-finals to Continental Final
• Third Round - 11 riders from positions 11-21 from the 1999 Grand Prix & World U21 champion to GP Challenge
• Third Round - 1 rider from the Continental Final to 2000 Grand Prix and 5 to GP Challenge
• Third Round - 1 rider from the Intercontinental Final to 2000 Grand Prix and 6 to GP Challenge
• Final Round - 10 riders from the GP Challenge to the 2000 Grand Prix

First round

Continental quarter finals

QF (18 Apr Diedenbergen) Pos Rider Points 1 Pavel Ondrašík 13 2 Róbert Nagy 12 3 Attila Stefáni 11 4 Philippe Bergé 11 5 Bohumil Brhel 10 6 Aleš Dryml Jr. 10 7 Tomasz Sustersic 10 8 Eduard Chajkoulin 9 9 Sergej Darkin 8 10 Jörg Pingel 5 11 Steffen Mell 5 12 Simone Tadiello 5 13 Zsolt Bence 3 14 Graziano Franchetti 2 15 Heinrich Schatzer 1 16 Patrik Goret 1 17 Lukáš Dryml 1

QF (2 May Daugavpils) Pos Rider Points 1 Robert Flis 14 2 Robert Sawina 13 3 Zoltán Adorján 13 4 Oleg Kurguskin 12 5 Tomáš Topinka 11 6 Michal Makovský 10 7 Vladimirs Voronkovs 10 8 Richard Wolff 7 9 Nikolajs Kokins 6 10 Sergej Eroschin 6 11 Gerhard Lekse 5 12 Jozef Koren 5 13 Vitalijs Biznia 3 14 Alexanders Biznia 2 15 Sandor Fekete 2 16 Maksims Andrejevs 0

QF (2 May Bydgoszcz) Pos Rider Points 1 Sławomir Drabik 15 2 Jacek Gollob 13 3 Piotr Protasiewicz 12 4 Rafał Dobrucki 10 5 Roman Povazhny 10 6 Izak Šantej 9 7 Joachim Kugelmann 8 8 Antonín Šváb Jr. 8 9 Adrian Rymel 7 10 Martin Peterca 6 11 Bart Pijper 5 12 Krzysztof Jabłoński 5 13 Heiko Müller 3 14 Erik Eijbergen 2 15 Otto de Jong 2 16 Jacek Rempala 2 17 Talgat Galeev 1 18 Eddy Turksema 0

QF (2 May Terenzano) Pos Rider Points 1 Piotr Świst 15 2 Armando Castagna 14 3 Sebastian Ułamek 13 4 Andrea Maida 11 5 Sándor Tihanyi 10 6 Sebastien Trésarrieu 10 7 Simone Terenzani 8 8 Zdenek Schneiderwind 8 9 Zlatko Krznaric 7 10 George Štancl 6 11 Stéphane Trésarrieu 5 12 Zeliko Feher 3 13 Thomas Stadler 3 14 Toni Pilotto 3 15 Sigfried Eder 2 16 Renato Kuster 2 17 Nicola Andrioli 0

Second round

Scandinavian Final

8 riders to Intercontinental Final

(13 June 1999 Holsted)
Pos	Rider	Points
1	Rune Holta	14
2	Jesper B Jensen	11
3	Gert Handberg	11
4	Andreas Jonsson	10
5	Charlie Gjedde	9
6	Peter Nahlin	9
7	Ronni Pedersen	9
8	Kai Laukkanen	9
9	Niklas Klingberg	8
10	Vesa Ylinen	7
11	Bo Skov Eriksen	7
12	Per Wester	6
13	Niklas Karlsson	6
14	Stefan Andersson	2
15	Kjell Öyvind Sola	1
16	Tomi Reima	1

Continental semi finals

Continental semi-finals - 16 riders from to Continental final

SF 13 June 1999 Brokstedt Pos. Rider Points 1 Robert Barth 13 2 Robert Sawina 12 3 Tomáš Topinka 11 4 Róbert Nagy 10 5 Philippe Bergé 10 6 Attila Stefáni 9 7 Michal Makovský 9 8 Bohumil Brhel 8 9 Richard Wolff 8 10 Aleš Dryml Jr. 7 11 Oleg Kurguskin 7 12 Pavel Ondrašík 6 13 Robert Flis 6 14 Matthias Kröger 3 15 Zoltán Adorján 1 16 Tomasz Sustersic 0	SF 13 June 1999 Ljubljana Pos. Rider Points 1 Sebastian Ułamek 13 2 Armando Castagna 13 3 Rafał Dobrucki 12 4 Roman Povazhny 10 5 Jacek Gollob 10 6 Sándor Tihanyi 10 7 Antonín Šváb Jr. 9 8 Piotr Protasiewicz 9 9 Sławomir Drabik 9 10 Matej Ferjan 5 11 Andrea Maida 4 12 Izak Šantej 4 13 Stefano Alfonso 4 14 Sebastien Trésarrieu 3 15 Simone Terenzani 3 16 Piotr Świst 2

Third round

• 11 riders from positions 11-21 from the 1999 Speedway Grand Prix & World U21 champion to GP Challenge

Continental Final

• 1 rider direct to Grand Prix, 5 riders to GP Challenge
• 25 July 1999 Wrocław

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Rafał Dobrucki	15
2	Piotr Protasiewicz	14
3	Sławomir Drabik	11
4	Robert Sawina	11
5	Bohumil Brhel	10
6	Jacek Gollob	8
7	Roman Povazhny	8
8	Sebastian Ułamek	7
9	Robert Barth	7
10	Antonín Šváb Jr.	7
11	Tomáš Topinka	6
12	Armando Castagna	5
13	Sándor Tihanyi	5
14	Attila Stefáni	3
15	Richard Wolff	2
16	Michal Makovský	1

Final Round

GP Challenge

10 riders to 2000 Grand Prix

• 17 October 1999 Lonigo

Pos.	Rider	pre-qual	qual	sf	Final
1	Billy Hamill	x	3, 2	3	3
2	Mikael Karlsson	x	3, 3	2	2
3	Carl Stonehewer	2, 2	1, 2, 3	3	1
4	Brian Karger	x	3, 2	2	0
5	Henrik Gustafsson	x	2, 3	1	x
6	Mark Loram	3, 1	2, 1, 3	1	x
7	Andy Smith	x	2, 0, 2	0	x
8	Antonín Kasper Jr.	x	2, 2	0	x
9	Peter Karlsson	x	3, 1, 1	x	x
10	Brian Andersen	3, 3	0, 2, 1	x	x
11	John Jørgensen	x	2, 0, 0	x	x
12	Niklas Klingberg	1, 3	2, 1, 0	x	x
13	Jacek Gollob	3, 0	3, 0, 1	x	x
14	Jason Lyons	3, 3	1, 1	x	x
15	Robert Dados	2, 2	0, 0	x	x
16	Gary Havelock	2, 0	3, 0	x	x
17	Marián Jirout	2, 1	1	x	x
18	Lee Richardson	0, 2	1	x	x
19	Robert Sawina	1, 3	0	x	x
20	Bohumil Brhel	1, 2	0	x	x
21	Sławomir Drabik	0, 1	x	x	x
22	Rune Holta	1, 0	x	x	x
23	Piotr Protasiewicz	0, 0	x	x	x
24	Kai Laukkanen	0, 1	x	x	x

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