2018 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification

The 2018 Individual Speedway World Championship Grand Prix Qualification was a series of motorcycle speedway meetings that were used to determine the three riders that qualified for the 2018 Speedway Grand Prix. The series consisted of four qualifying rounds at Esbjerg, Žarnovica, Lonigo and Abensberg, two semi-finals at Olching and Terenzano and the Grand Prix Challenge at Togliatti.^[1] The three riders that qualified were Przemysław Pawlicki, Artem Laguta and Craig Cook.

Round One 6 May 2017 Esbjerg[2] Pos. Rider Points Details 1 Piotr Pawlicki Jr. 12 (3,3,2,3,1) 2 Kenneth Bjerre 11+3 (3,1,2,2,3) 3 Kai Huckenbeck 11+2 (0,3,2,3,3) 4 Kjasts Puodžuks 11+1 (2,3,3,1,2) 5 Chris Harris 10 (3,2,3,2,0) 6 Peter Ljung 10 (2,2,3,1,2) 7 Michael Jepsen Jensen 9+3 (2,3,1,0,3) 8 Mikkel Michelsen 9+2 (2,1,0,3,3) 9 Sam Masters 9+1 (3,2,1,2,1) 10 Timo Lahti 6 (1,2,1,1,1) 11 Rasmus Jensen 5 (-,-,3,0,2) 12 Jacob Thorssell 5 (0,1,1,3,0) 13 Danny King 5 (1,0,2,0,2) 14 Andrey Kudryashov 3 (1,0,0,1,1) 15 Tero Aarnio 2 (0,0,0,2,0) 16 Glenn Moi 2 (1,1,0,0,0) 17 Janusz Kołodziej 0 (0,D,-,-,-) René Bach DNS

Round Two 6 May 2017 Žarnovica[3] Pos. Rider Points Details 1 Martin Vaculík 14 (3,3,3,3,2) 2 Matej Žagar 13 (3,2,3,2,3) 3 Adrian Miedziński 11+3 (2,3,1,2,3) 4 Patryk Dudek 11+2 (3,2,2,3,1) 5 Andrey Karpov 11+1 (2,3,2,2,2) 6 Grigory Laguta 10+3 (1,1,3,2,3) 7 Leon Madsen 10+2 (3,2,1,1,3) 8 Andžejs Ļebedevs 10+1 (0,3,2,3,2) 9 Tomáš Suchánek 7 (1,0,3,1,2) 10 Troy Batchelor 7 (2,1,2,1,1) 11 Eduard Krčmář 5 (2,1,1,D,1) 12 Norbert Magosi 4 (0,0,1,3,0) 13 Mark Riss 3 (1,1,0,0,1) 14 Michele Paco Castagna 2 (0,2,0,0,0) 15 Nick Škorja 1 (0,0,0,1,0) 16 Patrik Buri 1 (1,0,0,0,0) Ján Mihálik DNS Jakub Valkovič DNS

Round Three 7 May 2017 Lonigo[4] Pos. Rider Points Details 1 Craig Cook 14 (3,2,3,3,3) 2 Max Fricke 13+3 (3,3,3,3,1) 3 Pontus Aspgren 13+2 (3,3,3,1,3) 4 Maksims Bogdanovs 12 (3,2,2,2,3) 5 Linus Sundström 12 (2,3,2,3,2) 6 Kevin Wölbert 10 (2,2,3,0,3) 7 Václav Milík Jr. 9 (W,3,2,2,2) 8 Jurica Pavlic 7 (0,1,1,3,2) 9 Justin Sedgmen 7 (1,2,2,2,W) 10 József Tabaka 6 (2,0,1,1,2) 11 Guglielmo Franchetti 5 (1,1,0,2,1) 12 Daniele Tessari 4 (1,1,1,0,1) 13 Denis Štojs 3 (2,1,0,U,0) 14 John Bernard 2 (0,0,1,1,0) 15 Alexandre Dubrana 1 (1,0,U,U,U) 16 Alessandro Milanese 1 (0,0,0,0,1) Alessandro Novello DNS

Round Four 5 June 2017 Abensberg[5] Pos. Rider Points Details 1 Peter Kildemand 13 (3,2,2,3,3) 2 Mateusz Szczepaniak 12 (1,3,3,2,3) 3 Hans N. Andersen 11+3 (3,3,1,2,2) 4 Dany Gappmaier 11+2 (1,3,3,2,3) 5 Oliver Berntzon 10 (2,3,2,1,2) 6 Przemysław Pawlicki 10 (2,1,2,3,2) 7 Matěj Kůs 9+3 (D,1,3,2,3) 8 Martin Smolinski 9+2 (2,2,1,3,1) 9 Erik Riss 9+0 (3,2,0,1,3) 10 Ludvig Lindgren 7 (1,2,0,3,1) 11 Nicolas Vicentin 6 (3,W,1,1,1) 12 Bradley Wilson-Dean 5 (2,1,2,W,W) 13 Ricky Wells 4 (W,0,3,T,1) 14 Niklas Sayrio 3 (1,1,1,0,0) 15 Mike Jacopetti 1 (0,0,0,1,0) 16 Patrik Mikel 0 (0,0,W,-,-) 17 Danny Maasen 0 (-,-,-,0,0) 18 Max Dilger 0 (-,-,-D,-)

Semi-final 1 15 June 2017 Olching[6] Pos. Rider Points Details 1 Leon Madsen 15 (3,3,3,3,3) 2 Piotr Pawlicki Jr. 14 (3,3,3,3,2) 3 Martin Smolinski 10+3 (1,1,2,3,3) 4 Adrian Miedziński 10+2 (1,3,1,2,3) 5 Martin Vaculík 10+0 (3,2,3,2,0) 6 Kai Huckenbeck 8+3 (1,2,3,0,2) 7 Mateusz Szczepaniak 8+2 (3,3,1,1,0) 8 Kenneth Bjerre 8+1 (0,1,2,3,2) 9 Chris Harris 7 (1,2,2,1,1) 10 Peter Ljung 6 (0,2,0,1,3) 11 Hans N. Andersen 6 (0,1,2,2,1) 12 Oliver Berntzon 5 (2,1,1,1,0) 13 Mikkel Michelsen 4 (2,0,0,0,2) 14 Maksims Bogdanovs 4 (0,0,1,2,1) 15 Kjasts Puodžuks 3 (2,0,0,0,1) 16 Andrey Karpov 2 (2,0,0,0,-) 17 René Deddens 0 (-,-,-,-,0) Erik Riss DNR

Semi-final 2 17 June 2017 Terenzano[7] Pos. Rider Points Details 1 Craig Cook 13 (3,3,2,3,2) 2 Václav Milík Jr. 12 (3,3,3,1,2) 3 Matej Žagar 10+3 (1,2,2,2,3) 4 Przemysław Pawlicki 10+2 (2,2,3,3,W) 5 Peter Kildemand 9 (3,2,1,0,3) 6 Max Fricke 9 (2,2,0,2,3) 7 Patryk Dudek 8+3 (T,1,3,2, 2) 8 Michael Jepsen Jensen 8+2 (1,3,3,0,1) 9 Linus Sundström 7 (0,3,1,0,3) 10 Kevin Wölbert 7 (2,1,1,3,0) 11 Jurica Pavlic 7 (3,1,0,2,1) 12 Grigory Laguta 6 (1,1,1,3,-) 13 Pontus Aspgren 5 (0,0,2,1,2) 14 Dany Gappmaier 5 (1,0,2,1,1) 15 Michele Paco Castagna 2 (2,-,-,-,-) 16 Matěj Kůs 1 (0,D,0,1,D) 17 Daniele Tessari 1 (-,-,-,-,1) 18 Guglielmo Franchetti 0 (0,0,0,0,0)

Grand Prix Challenge 19 August 2017 Togliatti[8] Laguta and Jepsen Jensen were nominated as wildcards. Dudek finished third, but as he qualified for the 2018 Grand Prix series by virtue of finishing in the top 8 in the 2017 Grand Prix standings, the 4th place rider, Cook, was awarded a GP place. Pos. Rider Points Details 1 Przemysław Pawlicki 13+3 (3,3,1,3,3) 2 Artem Laguta 13+W (2,3,2,3,3) 3 Patryk Dudek 12 (1,2,3,3,3) 4 Craig Cook 11 (0,3,3,2,3) 5 Michael Jepsen Jensen 9 (3,2,0,2,2) 6 Piotr Pawlicki Jr. 9 (1,1,3,2,2) 7 Peter Kildemand 8 (3,2,2,1,0) 8 Václav Milík Jr. 6 (0,3,1,0,2) 9 Kai Huckenbeck 6 (1,2,0,3,D) 10 Leon Madsen 6 (1,0,3,1,1) 11 Mateusz Szczepaniak 6 (2,1,0,2,1) 12 Matej Žagar 6 (2,0,2,1,1) 13 Gleb Chugunov 5 (3,0,1,1,0) 14 Martin Smolinski 5 (2,1,2,0,0) 15 Andrey Kudryashov 2 (-,-,0,0,2) 16 Roman Lachbaum 2 (0,0,1,0,1) 17 Martin Vaculík 1 (1,D,-,-,-)

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