2005 Speedway Grand Prix
# 2005 Speedway Grand Prix

The 2005 Speedway Grand Prix was the 60th edition of the official World Championship and the 11th season in the Speedway Grand Prix era used to determine the Speedway World Champion.

## Event format

The format was changed for GP 2005 with 16 riders (instead of 24) taking part in each Grand Prix event, and over the course of 20 heats each rider started in 5 heats and raced against every other rider once (which is the classical round-robin formula of the individual tournament). The top eight scorers advanced to two semi-final heats, and the first and second riders from each semi-final advanced to the GP final heat. All riders apart from the qualifiers for the final carried forward the points earned in the round-robin round over the course of the season. The riders in the final received points (for the whole tournament, irrespective of how many points they had earned) as follows:

* 1st place = 25 points
* 2nd place = 20 points
* 3rd place = 18 points
* 4th place = 16 points

This formula was very similar to that in effect during the 1995-1997 GP editions, the difference being such that then all the 16 riders after the 20 heat round-robin round started in one additional heat (those from places 13-16 after round-robin in 21st, 9-12 in 22nd, 5-8 in 23rd, 1-4 in 24th being the Great Final), and all 16 received a constant number of points for a given place in a tournament (irrespective of how many points they had earned).

## Qualification for Grand Prix

For the 2005 season, there were 15 permanent riders, joined at each Grand Prix by one wild card. They were, in rider number order:

* (1) Jason Crump
* (2) Tony Rickardsson
* (3) Greg Hancock
* (4) Leigh Adams
* (5) Nicki Pedersen
* (6) Tomasz Gollob
* (7) Andreas Jonsson
* (8) Jarosław Hampel
* (9) Hans Andersen
* (10) Bjarne Pedersen
* (11) Lee Richardson
* (12) Scott Nicholls
* (13) Ryan Sullivan
* (14) Antonio Lindback
* (15) Tomasz Chrzanowski

## Calendar

| Round | Date | City and venue | Winner | Runner-up | 3rd placed | 4th placed | Results |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | April 30 | Wrocław , Poland Olympic Stadium | Tony Rickardsson | Leigh Adams | Jason Crump | Antonio Lindbäck | results |
| 2 | May 11 | Eskilstuna , Sweden Smedstadion | Jason Crump | Tony Rickardsson | Bjarne Pedersen | Nicki Pedersen | results |
| 3 | May 28 | Krško , Slovenia Matija Gubec Stadium | Tony Rickardsson | Nicki Pedersen | Matej Žagar | Jason Crump | results |
| 4 | June 11 | Cardiff , Great Britain Millennium Stadium | Tony Rickardsson | Jarosław Hampel | Bjarne Pedersen | Hans N. Andersen | results |
| 5 | June 25 | Copenhagen , Denmark Parken Stadium | Tony Rickardsson | Greg Hancock | Antonio Lindbäck | Nicki Pedersen | results |
| 6 | July 29 | Prague , Czech Republic Markéta Stadium | Tony Rickardsson | Bjarne Pedersen | Jarosław Hampel | Jason Crump | results |
| 7 | August 13 | Målilla , Sweden G&B Stadium | Jason Crump | Andreas Jonsson | Tony Rickardsson | Leigh Adams | results |
| 8 | August 27 | Bydgoszcz , Poland Polonia Stadium | Tomasz Gollob | Lee Richardson | Jason Crump | Greg Hancock | results |
| 9 | September 9 | Lonigo , Italy Motoclub Lonigo | Tony Rickardsson | Jason Crump | Greg Hancock | Leigh Adams | results |

Result: Europe • Sweden • Slovenia • Great Britain • Copenhagen • Denmark • Scandinavia • Poland • Italy

## Final classification

* Qualifies for next season's Grand Prix series
* Full-time Grand Prix rider
* Wild card, track reserve or qualified reserve

| Pos. | Rider | Points | EUR | SWE | SVN | GBR | DEN | CZE | SCA | POL | ITA |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | (2) Tony Rickardsson | 196 | 25 | 20 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 18 | 8 | 25 |
| | (1) Jason Crump | 154 | 18 | 25 | 16 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 25 | 18 | 20 |
| | (4) Leigh Adams | 107 | 20 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 16 | 11 | 16 |
| 4 | (5) Nicki Pedersen | 102 | 10 | 16 | 20 | 6 | 16 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 5 |
| 5 | (3) Greg Hancock | 100 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 20 | 7 | 8 | 16 | 18 |
| 6 | (10) Bjarne Pedersen | 90 | 4 | 18 | 3 | 18 | 3 | 20 | 7 | 7 | 10 |
| 7 | (6) Tomasz Gollob | 83 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 25 | 4 |
| 8 | (7) Andreas Jonsson | 80 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 20 | 10 | 10 |
| 9 | (12) Scott Nicholls | 72 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 6 |
| 10 | (14) Antonio Lindbäck | 71 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 18 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 5 |
| 11 | (8) Jarosław Hampel | 67 | 10 | – | – | 20 | 8 | 18 | 5 | 6 | – |
| 12 | (9) Hans N. Andersen | 64 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 8 |
| 13 | (11) Lee Richardson | 55 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 20 | 6 |
| 14 | (13) Ryan Sullivan | 45 | 7 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 2 | – |
| 15 | (15) Tomasz Chrzanowski | 28 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 16 | (16) Matej Žagar | 23 | – | – | 18 | – | – | – | – | – | 5 |
| 17 | (19) Kenneth Bjerre | 12 | – | 8 | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 18 | (16) Piotr Protasiewicz | 11 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 11 | – |
| 19 | (16) Niels Kristian Iversen | 7 | – | – | – | – | 7 | – | – | – | – |
| 20 | (16) Rune Holta | 6 | – | 6 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 21 | (21) Stefan Andersson | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 5 |
| 22 | (16) (17) Krzysztof Kasprzak | 4 | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | – | ns | – |
| 23 | (16) David Norris | 4 | – | – | – | 4 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 24 | (16) Jonas Davidsson | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | – | – |
| 25 | (23) Roman Povazhny | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 |
| 26 | (16) Aleš Dryml, Jr. | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | – | – | – |
| 27 | (18) Edward Kennett | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 28 | (17) Mikael Max | 0 | – | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 29 | (17) Simon Stead | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 30 | (18) Peter Nahlin | 0 | – | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 31 | (18) Daniele Tessari | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 |
| Rider(s) not classified ||||||||||||
| | (17) Janusz Kołodziej | ns | ns | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | (17) Izak Šantej | ns | - | - | ns | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | (17) Charlie Gjedde | ns | - | - | - | - | ns | - | - | - | - |
| | (17) Bohumil Brhel | ns | - | - | - | - | - | ns | - | - | - |
| | (17) Peter Ljung | ns | - | - | - | - | - | - | ns | - | - |
| | (17) Simone Terenzani | ns | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ns |
| | (18) Adrian Miedziński | ns | ns | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | (18) Denis Štojs | ns | - | - | ns | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | (18) Mads Korneliussen | ns | - | - | - | - | ns | - | - | - | - |
| | (18) Lukáš Dryml | ns | - | - | - | - | - | ns | - | - | - |
| | (18) Fredrik Lindgren | ns | - | - | - | - | - | - | ns | - | - |
| | (18) Karol Ząbik | ns | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ns | - |
| Pos. | Rider | Points | EUR | SWE | SVN | GBR | DEN | CZE | SCA | POL | ITA |
