The 2025 Individual Speedway World Championship Grand Prix Qualification or GP Challenge was a series of motorcycle speedway meetings held during 2024 to determine the riders that qualified for the 2025 Speedway Grand Prix. The series consisted of four qualifying rounds at Abensberg, Debrecen, Lonigo and Žarnovica and the Grand Prix Challenge at Pardubice. Preliminary qualification events included the Grand Prix qualifier in Denmark.
The four riders that qualified were Brady Kurtz, Anders Thomsen, Dominik Kubera and Max Fricke. These riders progressed to the 2025 Speedway Grand Prix, where they were joined by the riders who finished in the leading positions of the 2024 Speedway Grand Prix. There will be four places to gain via this year's Grand Prix Challenge.
National Qualifying Events
DMU Qualifier (Denmark)
Polish Golden Helmet
Australian Championship Source:https://www.fimspeedway.com/news/tungate-stuns-fricke-to-snatch-aussie-championship-glory
FIM Oceania Championship Source:https://www.fimspeedway.com/news/lidsey-seals-fim-oceania-championship-with-seven-ride-max
FIM Qualifying rounds Round One 20 May 2024https://live.baansportfansite.nl/event/805/fim-sgp-world-championship-qualifying-round-abensberg.html Abensberg (Wack Hofmeister Stadium)
Pos.RiderPointsDetails1 Kai Huckenbeck 14 (3,3,3,3,2)2 Rasmus Jensen 13+3 (3,3,2,2,3)3 Dominik Kubera 13+2 (1,3,3,3,3)4 Max Fricke 13+1 (3,2,2,3,3)5 Tom Brennan 10 (2,2,3,1,2)6 Kim Nilsson 9 (2,R,1,3,3)7 Martin Smolinski 9 (2,2,2,1,2)8 Jesse Mustonen 8 (1,3,0,2,2) 9 Leon Flint 8 (2,2,1,2,1)10 Nicolás Covatti 5 (3,R,2,R,-) 11 Glenn Moi 5 (1,1,0,2,1) 12 Daniel Klíma 4 (0,0,3,0,1) 13 Valentin Grobauer 4 (1,1,1,R,1) 14 Andriy Rozaliuk 3 (0,1,1,1,0) 15 Mathias Trésarrieu 1 (0,R,D,1,0)16 Julian Kuny 0 (D,0,0,0,F)17 Sandro Wassermann 0 (-,-,-,-,0) Round Two 20 May 2024https://live.baansportfansite.nl/event/806/fim-sgp-world-championship-qualifying-round-debrecen.html Debrecen (Debrecen Speedway Stadium)
Pos.RiderPointsDetails1 Przemysław Pawlicki 14 (3,3,3,3,2) 2 Antonio Lindbäck 13 (2,2,3,3,3)3 Andžejs Ļebedevs 12+3 (1,3,3,3,2)4 Kacper Woryna 12+2 (3,1,3,2,3)5 Frederik Jakobsen 12+1 (2,3,2,2,3)6 Jacob Thorssell 11 (0,3,2,3,3)7 Stanislav Melnychuk 9 (3,1,1,2,2)8 Benjamin Basso 8 (2,2,2,1,1)10 Rohan Tungate 6 (3,R,2,R,1) 9 Adam Ellis 6 (1,2,1,2,0) 11 Gino Manzares 6 (2,1,1,1,1)12 Jan Macek 4 (1,2,0,1,R)13 Marius Hillebrand 3 (0,0,1,R,2)14 Norbert Magosi 3 (1,1,0,0,1)15 Denis Štojs 1 (0,0,0,1,0)16 Roland Kovacs 0 (0,R,-,-,-)17 Richard Füzesi 0 (-,-,0,R,0) Round Three 25 May 2024 Žarnovica (Speedway stadium Žarnovica)
Pos.RiderPointsDetails1 Anders Thomsen 14 (3,3,3,2,3)2 Patryk Dudek 13 (2,3,3,3,2)3 Brady Kurtz 12+3 (1,3,2,3,3)4 Robert Lambert 12+2 (3,2,3,1,3)5 Martin Vaculík 10 (3,1,R,3,3)6 Luke Becker 10 (3,2,0,3,2)7 Oliver Berntzon 9 (2,3,2,2,0)8 Václav Milík 9 (2,1,2,2,2)9 Adam Bednář 6 (R,F,3,1,2)10 Matic Ivačič 6 (1,2,2,0,1)11 Jevgeņijs Kostigovs 5 (2,0,0,2,1)12 Norick Blödorn 5 (0,2,1,1,1)13 Antti Vuolas 3 (0,1,1,0,1)14 Andriy Karpov 3 (1,T,1,1,R)15 Jakub Valković 1 (1,0,0,0,0)16 Andrei Popa 1 (0,0,1,R,0)17 Jan Jeníček 1 (-,0,-,-,-) Round Four 25 May 2024 Lonigo (Santa Marina Stadium)
Pos.RiderPointsDetails1 Jan Kvěch 14 (3,3,2,3,3) 2 Dan Bewley 13 (3,2,3,2,3)3 Jack Holder 12+3 (2,2,3,3,2)4 Michele Paco Castagna 12+D (3,3,3,1,2) 5 Jaimon Lidsey 11 (2,3,2,1,3) 6 Kevin Wölbert 10 (2,0,2,3,3)7 Szymon Woźniak 9 (3,2,D,2,2)8 Timo Lahti 8 (2,2,3,R,1)9 Francis Gusts 8 (1,3,1,2,1) 10 Andreas Lyager 6 (1,1,1,3,0) 11 Nicolas Vicentin 4 (1,1,D,2,D)12 Niccolò Percotti 3 (0,1,R,0,2) 13 Cristian Zubillaga 3 (D,0,2,0,1) 14 Carlos Eber Ampugnani 2 (0,R,R,1,1) 15 Anže Grmek 1 (0,1,D,0,D) 16 Matteo Boncinelli 1 (-.-,-,1,0)17 Tino Bouin 0 (R,D,R,-,-)
2024 Speedway Grand Prix Challenge
Grand Prix Challenge 4 October 2024 Pardubice (Svítkov Stadium)
Pos.RiderPointsTotal1 Brady Kurtz 13 (3,3,3,2,2)2 Anders Thomsen 12 (2,1,3,3,3) 3 Dominik Kubera 11 (3,3,1,3,1)4 Max Fricke 11 (2,3,2,1,3) 5 Jacob Thorssell 10 (3,3,2,0,2)6 Kevin Wölbert 8 (0,2,1,3,2)7 Przemysław Pawlicki 8 (2,2,0,2,2)8 Kacper Woryna 7 (0,W,1,3,3)9 Jan Kvěch 6 (2,1,0,3,0)10 Frederik Jakobsen 6 (2,1,W,0,3)11 Patryk Dudek 6 (1,0,3,1,1)12 Rasmus Jensen 6 (1,2,0,2,1)13 Kai Huckenbeck 5 (3,0,2,W,W) 14 Jaimon Lidsey 4 (0,0,1,2,1) 15 Tom Brennan 4 (1,1,1,1,0) 16 Michele Paco Castagna 3 (0,1,2,0,-)17 Jan Macek 0 (-,-,-,-,0)
Fredrik Jakobsen, Jaimon Lidsey, Tom Brennan and Jacob Thorssell replaced Dan Bewley, Robert Lambert, Jack Holder and Andžejs Ļebedevs, who all secured qualification for the 2025 Speedway Grand Prix ahead of the Grand Prix Challenge being staged. Antonio Lindbäck also pulled out and was replaced by Kevin Wölbert.
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