The 2024 Speedway Grand Prix season was the 30th season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and decided the 79th FIM Speedway World Championship. It was the third series promoted by Discovery Sports Events. A new sprint race was introduced at selected Grand Prix during the qualifying session, with the fastest rider in each qualifying session progressing to a single race for extra points. The idea behind the sprint race was similar to that brought into the Formula One, whereby the qualifying sessions were given more importance.
Bartosz Zmarzlik successfully defended the title, which was his third in a row and a fifth overall. Robert Lambert took second place with Fredrik Lindgren in third.
Summary Jack Holder won the opening round, which was the first Grand Prix win of his career. After Jason Doyle won round two, Mikkel Michelsen won his maiden Grand Prix by claiming the German Grand Prix. Doyle was later ruled out for four months after suffering a torn rotator cuff and tendon damage after a crash at Ipswich, ending his hopes of a second world title.
By winning the 2024 Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden, Zmarzlik broke Jason Crump's all-time record of 23 Grand Prix wins, although ten of them were won on home soil, whereas Crump's were all outside of Australia.
Qualification For the 2024 season there were 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 the SGP Commission.
Qualified riders # Riders 2023 place GP Ch place Permanent rider appearance Previous appearances in series95 Bartosz Zmarzlik 1— 9th 2012–2015, 2016–202366 Fredrik Lindgren 2 — 15th 2004, 2006–2007, 2008–2014, 2016, 2017–2023 54 Martin Vaculík 329th 2012, 2013, 2017–202325 Jack Holder 4— 3rd 2016, 2020, 2022–202330 Leon Madsen 5— 6th 2010, 2013, 2019–2023505 Robert Lambert 6 4 4th 2015, 2018–2019, 2021–202399 Dan Bewley 7 — 3rd 2018, 2022–202369 Jason Doyle 81 10th 2015–2023108 Tai Woffinden 11— 13th 2010, 2011, 2013–2023155 Mikkel Michelsen 12— 4th 2015, 2018–2019, 2020, 2021, 2022–202329 Andžejs Ļebedevs 167 1st 2013–2014, 2022–2023744 Kai Huckenbeck 17— 1st 2017–2019, 2022–2023415 Dominik Kubera =21— 1st 2021, 202348 Szymon Woźniak =263 1st 2018, 2022–2023201 Jan Kvěch =315 1st 2020–2023
Qualified substitutes The following riders were nominated as substitutes:
# Riders 2023 place GP Ch place46 Max Fricke 9 —71 Maciej Janowski 14 —233 Kim Nilsson 13 —67 Rasmus Jensen =19 —22 Luke Becker =24 896 Dimitri Bergé — 10842 Mateusz Cierniak — —
Calendar The 2024 season consisted of 11 events.
Final classification
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