2017 Speedway Grand Prix

The 2017 Speedway Grand Prix season will be the 23rd season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and will decide the 72nd FIM Speedway World Championship. It will be seventeenth series under the promotion of Benfield Sports International, an IMG company.

Qualification

For the 2017 season there will be 15 permanent riders, joined at each Grand Prix by one wild card and two track reserves.

The top eight riders from the 2016 championship qualified automatically. Those riders were joined by the three riders who qualified via the Grand Prix Challenge.

The final four riders were nominated by series promoters, Benfield Sports International, following the completion of the 2016 season.^[1]

Qualified riders

#	Riders	2016 place	GP Ch place	Appearance	Previous appearances in series
	Greg Hancock	1	—	23rd	1995–2016
	Tai Woffinden	2	—	6th	2010, 2011, 2013–2016
	Bartosz Zmarzlik	3	—	2nd	2012-2015, 2016
	Chris Holder	4	—	8th	2010–2016
	Jason Doyle	5	—	3rd	2015-2016
	Piotr Pawlicki Jr.	6	9	2nd	2015, 2016
	Antonio Lindbäck	7	—	8th	2004, 2005–2007, 2009–2010, 2011–2013, 2015, 2016
	Niels Kristian Iversen	8	—	7th	2004–2005, 2006, 2008, 2009–2010, 2013–2016
	Patryk Dudek	17	1	1st	2015
	Martin Vaculík	—	2	2nd	2012, 2013
	Fredrik Lindgren	11	3	8th	2004, 2006–2007, 2008–2014, 2016
	Matej Žagar	9	—	7th	2003–2005, 2006–2007, 2008–2009, 2011, 2013–2016
	Maciej Janowski	10	—	3rd	2008, 2012, 2014, 2015-2016
	Nicki Pedersen	13	—	17th	2000, 2001–2016
	Emil Sayfutdinov	—	—	6th	2009–2013

Qualified substitutes

The following riders were nominated as substitutes:

#	Riders	2016 place	GP Ch place
	Peter Kildemand	12	—
	Martin Smolinski	17	5
	Max Fricke	35	10

Calendar

The 2016 season consists of 12 events, one more than the 2016 series.^[2]

Round	Date	City and venue	Winner	Runner-up	3rd placed	4th placed	Results
1	April 29	Krško , Slovenia Matija Gubec Stadium					results
2	May 13	Warsaw , Poland Stadion Narodowy					results
3	May 27	Daugavpils , Latvia Latvijas Spīdveja Centrs					results
4	June 10	Prague , Czech Republic Markéta Stadium					results
5	June 24	Horsens , Denmark CASA Arena					results
6	July 22	Cardiff , Great Britain Principality Stadium					results
7	August 12	Målilla , Sweden G&B Stadium					results
8	August 26	Gorzów , Poland Edward Jancarz Stadium					results
9	September 9	Teterow , Germany Bergring Arena					results
10	September 23	Stockholm , Sweden Friends Arena					results
11	October 7	Toruń , Poland Rose Motoarena					results
12	TBC	Melbourne , Australia Etihad Stadium					results

See also

• 2017 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship
• 2018 Speedway Grand Prix

References

External links

• SpeedwayGP.com – Speedway World Championships

Individual Speedway World Championship and Speedway Grand Prix seasons
Speedway World Championship	1936 1937 1938 1939 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
Speedway Grand Prix (SGP)	1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
See also	Medalists Medal Classification Grands Prix SGP riders Super Prix SGP Statistics