# Speedway Grand Prix Qualification

The Speedway Grand Prix Challenge or Speedway Grand Prix Qualification is an annual speedway qualifying tournament to determine the qualifiers for the Speedway Grand Prix, which is the World Championship of speedway.

## History

From 1995 the Individual World Championship was replaced by the Grand Prix system. The 17 qualifiers for the 1995 Grand Prix were the top 10 from the 1994 World final, 5 seeds and 2 wildcards.
From 1996, the leading riders from each Grand Prix series would automatically qualifying for the following year's event. The remaining places would be filled by the leading riders in the Challenge event and qualifiers from both the Continental Speedway Final and Intercontinental Final. However, the latter two finals would come to end in 2000 and 2001 respectively.

## Format and winners

| Year | Format | Winner | Other qualifiers |
| 1996 | 8 to qualify | Leigh Adams | Marvyn Cox, Peter Karlsson, Tommy Knudsen, Joe Screen, Gary Havelock, Craig Boyce, Andy Smith |
| 1997 | 4 to qualify | Simon Wigg | Leigh Adams, Mikael Karlsson, Andy Smith |
| 1998 | 4 to qualify | Piotr Protasiewicz | Stefan Dannö, Leigh Adams, Craig Boyce |
| 1999 | 8 to qualify | Leigh Adams | Brian Andersen, Henrik Gustafsson, Andy Smith, Stefan Dannö, Mikael Karlsson, Joe Screen, John Jørgensen |
| 2000 | 10 to qualify | Billy Hamill | Mikael Karlsson, Carl Stonehewer, Brian Karger, Henrik Gustafsson, Mark Loram, Andy Smith, Antonín Kasper Jr., Peter Karlsson, Brian Andersen |
| 2001 | 10 to qualify | Peter Karlsson | Carl Stonehewer, Nicki Pedersen, Rune Holta, Mikael Karlsson, Piotr Protasiewicz, Jimmy Nilsen, Joe Screen, Brian Andersen, Andy Smith |
| 2002 | 6 to qualify | Greg Hancock | Nicki Pedersen, Scott Nicholls, Lukáš Dryml, Carl Stonehewer, Andy Smith |
| 2003 | 6 to qualify | Lee Richardson | Bohumil Brhel, Piotr Protasiewicz, Lukáš Dryml, Bjarne Pedersen, Tomasz Bajerski |
| 2004 | 6 to qualify | Piotr Protasiewicz | Bohumil Brhel, Bjarne Pedersen, Kai Laukkanen, Aleš Dryml Jr., Jesper B Jensen |
| 2005 | 2 to qualify | Antonio Lindbäck | Tomasz Chrzanowski |
| 2006 | No qualifying | No qualifying | No qualifying |
| 2007 | 3 to qualify | Wiesław Jaguś | Rune Holta, Hans Andersen |
| 2008 | 3 to qualify | Niels Kristian Iversen | Lukáš Dryml, Bjarne Pedersen |
| 2009 | 3 to qualify | Kenneth Bjerre | Grzegorz Walasek, Sebastian Ułamek |
| 2010 | 3 to qualify | Magnus Zetterström | Chris Holder, Jarosław Hampel |
| 2011 | 3 to qualify | Artem Laguta | Antonio Lindbäck, Fredrik Lindgren |
| 2012 | 3 to qualify | Antonio Lindbäck | Bjarne Pedersen, Piotr Protasiewicz |
| 2013 | 3 to qualify | Krzysztof Kasprzak | Matej Žagar, Niels-Kristian Iversen |
| 2014 | 5 to qualify | Niels-Kristian Iversen+ | Krzysztof Kasprzak, Kenneth Bjerre, Martin Smolinski, Chris Harris |
| 2015 | 4 to qualify | Matej Žagar+ | Jason Doyle, Chris Harris, Maciej Janowski |
| 2016 | 3 to qualify | Bartosz Zmarzlik | Piotr Pawlicki Jr., Chris Harris |
| 2017 | 3 to qualify | Patryk Dudek | Martin Vaculík, Fredrik Lindgren |
| 2018 | 3 to qualify | Przemysław Pawlicki | Artem Laguta, Craig Cook |
| 2019 | 3 to qualify | Janusz Kołodziej | Niels-Kristian Iversen, Antonio Lindbäck |
| 2020 | 3 to qualify | Matej Žagar | Niels-Kristian Iversen, Max Fricke |
| 2021 | 3 to qualify | Matej Žagar | Oliver Berntzon, Krzysztof Kasprzak |
| 2022 | 3 to qualify | Paweł Przedpełski | Max Fricke, Patryk Dudek |
| 2023 | 3 to qualify | Kim Nilsson | Jack Holder, Max Fricke |
| 2024 | 3 to qualify | Jason Doyle | Martin Vaculik+, Szymon Woźniak, Jan Kvěch |
| 2025 | 4 to qualify | | |
+ Already qualified for the Grand Prix series