2004 Speedway Grand Prix

2004 Speedway Grand Prix
Season details
Dates	1 May – October 2
Events	9 in 9 cities in 7 countries
Riders	22 permanents, 2 wild card(s)
Heats	225 (in 9 events)
Champion	AUS Jason Crump
Runner-up	SWE Tony Rickardsson
3rd place	USA Greg Hancock
Previous: 2003 Next: 2005

The 2004 Speedway Grand Prix season is the tenth season in the Speedway Grand Prix era and is used to determine the Speedway World Champion.

After finishing second in 2001, 2002 and 2003, Jason Crump broke through to become Australia's first Individual World Champion since Jack Young had won his second straight World title in 1952.

Event format

The system first used in 1998 continued to be adopted with 24 riders, divided into two classes. The eight best would be directly qualified for the "Main Event", while the sixteen others would be knocked out if they finished out of the top two in 4-man heats on two occasions – while they would go through if they finished inside the top two on two occasions. This resulted in 10 heats, where eight proceeded to the Main Event, where exactly the same system was applied to give eight riders to a semi-final.

The semi-finals were then two heats of four, where the top two qualified for a final – there was no consolation final. The 4 finalists scored 25, 20, 18 and 16 points, with 5th and 6th place getting 13, 7th and 8th 11, and after that 8, 8, 7, 7, etc. Places after 8th place were awarded according to the time a rider was knocked out and, secondly, according to position in the last heat he rode in.

Qualification for Grand Prix

The 2004 season had 22 permanent riders and two wild cards at each event. The permanent riders are highlighted in the results table below.

2004 Event Schedule and Winners

Calendar

Date	Grand Prix	Winner
1 May	Sweden	Leigh Adams	results
15 May	Czech Republic	Jason Crump	results
29 May	Europe	Bjarne Pedersen	results
June 12	Cardiff, Great Britain	Greg Hancock	results
June 26	Copenhagen, Denmark	Jason Crump	results
August 21	Scandinavia	Hans Andersen	results
September 4	Slovenia	Tony Rickardsson	results
September 18	Poland	Tomasz Gollob	results
October 2	Norway	Tony Rickardsson	results

Final 2004 standings

Pos.	Rider Name	Pts
1	Jason Crump	158	(20,25,8,16,25,20,13,20,11)
2	Tony Rickardsson	155	(18,18,18,8,7,18,25,18,25)
3	Greg Hancock	137	(13,11,8,25,18,16,20,6,20)
4	Leigh Adams	131	(25,13,11,20,11,11,11,13,16)
5	Nicki Pedersen	113	(13,8,13,13,16,13,13,11,13)
6	Tomasz Gollob	113	(16,13,7,11,6,11,6,25,18)
7	Andreas Jonsson	97	(5,7,7,13,20,8,16,8,13)
8	Jarosław Hampel	81	(3,20,20,6,-,6,6,13,7)
9	Hans Andersen	80	(4,6,3,3,7,25,18,8,6)
10	Bjarne Pedersen	78	(8,4,25,6,8,8,11,5,3)
11	Lee Richardson	76	(11,11,5,18,5,7,7,7,5)
12	Scott Nicholls	66	(5,-,4,11,11,13,5,11,6)
13	Ryan Sullivan	65	(7,16,11,5,4,4,4,6,8)
14	Rune Holta	60	(6,8,1,5,4,1,8,16,11)
15	Piotr Protasiewicz	55	(2,1,16,7,5,5,5,7,7)
16	Mikael Max	49	(6,3,6,2,8,5,7,4,8)
17	Mark Loram	38	(8,4,6,7,2,2,3,4,2)
18	Jesper B. Jensen	37	(11,5,2,1,6,4,1,2,5)
19	Bohumil Brhel	32	(7,7,5,4,2,3,2,1,1)
20	Kaj Laukkanen	25	(1,1,3,1,3,6,3,3,4)
21	Lukáš Dryml	22	(3,6,2,2,1,3,4,1,-)
22	Aleš Dryml, Jr.	22	(1,3,1,3,3,1,2,5,3)
23	Grzegorz Walasek	13	(-,-,13,-,-,-,-,-,-)
24	Niels Kristian Iversen	13	(-,-,-,-,13,-,-,-,-)
25	Kenneth Bjerre	13	(-,-,-,-,13,-,-,-,-)
26	Matej Žagar	8	(-,-,-,-,-,-,8,-,-)
27	David Norris	8	(-,-,8,-,-,-,-,-,-)
28	Peter Karlsson	7	(-,-,-,-,-,7,-,-,-)
29	Rafał Dobrucki	5	(-,5,-,-,-,-,-,-,-)
30	Arnt Förland	4	(-,-,-,-,-,-,-,-,4)
31	Fredrik Lindgren	4	(4,-,-,-,-,-,-,-,-)
32	Chris Louis	4	(-,-,-,4,-,-,-,-,-)
33	Wiesław Jaguś	4	(-,-,4,-,-,-,-,-,-)
34	Krzysztof Kasprzak	3	(-,-,-,-,-,-,-,3,-)
35	Tomasz Chrzanowski	2	(-,-,-,-,-,-,-,2,-)
36	Peter Ljung	2	(2,-,-,-,-,-,-,-,-)
37	Robert Barth	2	(-,2,-,-,-,-,-,-,-)
38	Rune Sola	2	(-,-,-,-,-,-,-,-,2)
39	Antonio Lindbäck	2	(-,-,-,-,-,2,-,-,-)
40	Antonín Šváb, Jr.	2	(-,-,2,-,-,-,-,-,-)
41	Izak Šantej	1	(-,-,-,-,-,-,1,-,-)
42	Joonas Kylmäkorpi	1	(-,-,-,-,-,-,-,-,1)
43	Simon Stead	1	(-,-,-,-,1,-,-,-,-)

External links

• List of results from Official Speedway GP site