2024 Speedway Grand Prix

The 2024 Speedway Grand Prix season is the 30th season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and will decide the 79th FIM Speedway World Championship.[1] It is the third series promoted by Discovery Sports Events.

2024 Speedway Grand Prix
Season details
DatesApril – September
Events10
Cities10
Countries8
Riders15 permanents
1 wild card(s)
2 track reserves
Heats230 (in 10 events)

Bartosz Zmarzlik is the defending champion, having won the previous two titles.

Qualification

For the 2024 season there are 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 series promoters, Discovery Sports Events.[1]

Qualified riders
#Riders2023 placeGP Ch placePermanent rider appearancePrevious appearances in series
95Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik1—9th2012–2015, 2016–2023
66Sweden Fredrik Lindgren2—15th2004, 2006–2007, 2008–2014, 2016, 2017–2023
54Slovakia Martin Vaculík329th2012, 2013, 2017–2023
25Australia Jack Holder4—3rd2016, 2020, 2022–2023
30Denmark Leon Madsen5—6th2010, 2013, 2019–2023
505United Kingdom Robert Lambert644th2015, 2018–2019, 2021–2023
99United Kingdom Dan Bewley7—3rd2018, 2022–2023
69Australia Jason Doyle8110th2015–2023
108United Kingdom Tai Woffinden11—13th2010, 2011, 2013–2023
155Denmark Mikkel Michelsen12—4th2015, 2018–2019, 2020, 2021, 2022–2023
29Latvia Andžejs Ļebedevs1671st2013–2014, 2022–2023
744Germany Kai Huckenbeck17—1st2017–2019, 2022–2023
415Poland Dominik Kubera=21—1st2021, 2023
48Poland Szymon Woźniak=2631st2018, 2022-2023
201Czech Republic Jan Kvěch=3151st2020-2023

Qualified substitutes

The following riders were nominated as substitutes:

#Riders2023 placeGP Ch place
46Australia Max Fricke9—
233Sweden Kim Nilsson13—
201Poland Maciej Janowski14—
tbaDenmark Rasmus Jensen=19—
22United States Luke Becker=248
tbaFrance Dimitri Bergé—10
tbaPoland Mateusz Cierniak——

Calendar

The 2024 season will consist of 10 events.

Final Classification

References
  1. "Nine nations represented as 2024 Speedway GP line-up is confirmed". FIM Europe. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
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