2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden

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Sweden 2018 Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden
2018 Norrbil Swedish FIM Speedway Grand Prix
Information
Date7 July 2018
CitySweden Hallstavik
Event4 of 10
RefereePoland Artur Kuzmierz
Stadium details
StadiumHZ Bygg Arena
Capacity10,000
Length289 m (316 yd)
SGP Results
Best Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) WinnerPoland Maciej Janowski
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-upSweden Fredrik Lindgren
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3rd placePoland Bartosz Zmarzlik

The 2018 Norrbil Swedish FIM Speedway Grand Prix was the fourth race of the 2018 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on July 7 at the HZ Bygg Arena in Hallstavik, Sweden.[1]

Riders[edit]

The Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated Andreas Jonsson as the wild card, and Linus Sundström and Kim Nilsson both as Track Reserves.

Results[edit]

The Grand Prix was won by Maciej Janowski, who beat Fredrik Lindgren, Bartosz Zmarzlik and Tai Woffinden in the final.[2] Woffinden retained his overall world championship lead, in fact he extended it to 11 points after outscoring Lindgren by a point. Janowski moved up to fourth place, one point behind Emil Sayfutdinov.

Heat details[edit]

Placing Draw Rider Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pts Pos 21 22 23
Gold 4 Poland (71) Maciej Janowski 18 0 3 3 3 3 12 3 3 3
Silver 12 Sweden (66) Fredrik Lindgren 15 3 1 2 3 2 11 4 2 2
Bronze 18 Poland (95) Bartosz Zmarzlik 13 10 5 2 1
4 1 United Kingdom (108) Tai Woffinden 16 3 3 2 2 3 13 1 3 0
5 13 Russia (89) Emil Sayfutdinov 14 3 2 2 3 3 13 2 1
6 2 United States (45) Greg Hancock 10 1 0 3 2 3 9 6 1
7 5 Australia (69) Jason Doyle 9 2 1 1 3 2 9 7 0
8 6 Russia (222) Artem Laguta 8 0 3 3 2 0 8 8 0
9 11 Slovenia (55) Matej Žagar 7 2 3 1 0 1 7 9
10 7 Sweden (16) Andreas Jonsson 7 1 2 1 1 2 7 10
11 3 Australia (23) Chris Holder 7 2 1 1 2 1 7 11
12 14 Poland (692) Patryk Dudek 6 2 2 2 0 0 6 12
13 15 United Kingdom (111) Craig Cook 3 0 0 0 1 2 3 13
14 10 Denmark (110) Nicki Pedersen 3 1 1 0 1 0 3 14
15 9 Poland (59) Przemysław Pawlicki 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 15
16 16 Slovakia (54) Martin Vaculík 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 16
Placing Draw Rider Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pts Pos 21 22 23

e: retired or mechanical failure • m: exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t: exclusion for touching the tapes • x: other exclusion • f: fell
ns: non-starter • nc: non-classify
Semi-finals: Heat 21: Riders placed 1st, 4th, 6th & 7th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)
Heat 22: Riders placed 2nd, 3rd, 5th & 8th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)
Big Final (heat 23): The first and second placed riders in each of the Semi-Finals

gate A – inside gate B gate C gate D – outside

Intermediate classification[edit]

[3]

Qualifies for next season's Grand Prix series
Full-time Grand Prix rider
Wild card, track reserve or qualified reserve
Pos. Rider Points POL
Poland
CZE
Czech Republic
DEN
Denmark
SWE
Sweden
GBR
United Kingdom
SCA
Sweden
PL2
Poland
SVN
Slovenia
GER
Germany
PL3
Poland
Gold United Kingdom (108) Tai Woffinden 65 15 16 18 16
Silver Sweden (66) Fredrik Lindgren 54 16 16 7 15
Bronze Russia (89) Emil Sayfutdinov 48 8 15 11 14
4 Poland (71) Maciej Janowski 47 13 11 5 18
5 Russia (222) Artem Laguta 41 13 8 12 8
6 United States (45) Greg Hancock 41 8 7 16 10
7 Poland (692) Patryk Dudek 36 10 14 6 6
8 Poland (95) Bartosz Zmarzlik 36 9 4 10 13
9 Australia (69) Jason Doyle 35 5 9 12 9
10 Australia (23) Chris Holder 31 10 5 9 7
11 Slovenia (55) Matej Žagar 28 9 7 5 7
12 Denmark (110) Nicki Pedersen 25 2 8 12 3
13 Poland (59) Przemysław Pawlicki 14 3 5 5 1
14 Denmark (88) Niels-Kristian Iversen 9 4 5
15 United Kingdom (111) Craig Cook 9 2 2 2 3
16 Poland (16) Krzysztof Kasprzak 7 7
17 Sweden (16) Andreas Jonsson 7 7
18 Czech Republic (16) Vaclav Milik 6 6
19 Denmark (16) Michael Jepsen Jensen 4 4
20 Slovakia (54) Martin Vaculík 4 3 1
21 Poland (17) Maksym Drabik 2 2
22 Poland (18) Bartosz Smektała 2 2
23 Denmark (17) Mikkel Michelsen 1 1
24 Denmark (18) Mikkel Bech Jensen 0 0
Pos. Rider Points POL
Poland
CZE
Czech Republic
DEN
Denmark
SWE
Sweden
GBR
United Kingdom
SCA
Sweden
PL2
Poland
SVN
Slovenia
GER
Germany
PL3
Poland

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Swedish Grand Prix Event Info". SGP.
  2. ^ "Swedish Grand Prix Result". SGP.
  3. ^ "2018 FIM Speedway World Championship standings". SGP.