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Speedway Grand Prix - 2005

2005 belonged to Tony Rickardsson. He dominated the series from beginning to end, winning six of the nine rounds. He also set a new record for winning four consecutive GPs.

In the semi finals no extra points were awarded to the riders finishing third and fourth.
In the final: 25 points for first, 20 points for second, 18 points for third and 16 points for fourth (even if excluded or failed to finish).

Pos No Rider Nat Tot Ave POL SWE SLO GB DEN CR SWE POL ITA
1 2 Tony Rickardsson SWE 196 21.78 25 20 25 25 25 25 18 8 25
2 1 Jason Crump AUS 154 17.11 18 25 16 4 12 16 25 18 20
3 4 Leigh Adams AUS 109 12.11 20 13 9 7 7 8 16 11 18
4 5 Nicki Pedersen DEN 102 11.33 10 16 20 6 16 10 10 9 5
5 3 Greg Hancock USA 98 10.89 11 6 8 6 20 7 8 16 16
6 10 Bjarne Pedersen DEN 90 10.00 4 18 3 18 3 20 7 7 10
7 6 Tomasz Gollob POL 81 9.00 6 6 10 8 4 9 9 25 4
8 7 Andreas Jonsson SWE 81 9.00 8 1 3 12 9 8 20 10 10
9 12 Scott Nicholls GB 72 8.00 6 7 8 9 4 14 10 8 6
10 14 Antonio Lindback SWE 71 7.89 16 8 3 8 18 6 7 0 5
11 8 Jaroslaw Hampel POL 67 11.17 10 INJ INJ 20 8 18 5 6 INJ
12 9 Hans Andersen DEN 65 7.22 2 8 9 16 8 4 5 5 8
13 11 Lee Richardson GB 55 6.11 5 3 3 5 6 4 3 20 6
14 13 Ryan Sullivan AUS 45 5.00 7 3 13 1 5 9 5 2 INJ
15 15 Tomasz Chrzanowski POL 28 3.11 4 4 2 7 2 1 1 1 6
16 W Matej Zagar SLO 18 18.00 - - 18 - - - - - -
17 R Kenneth Bjerre DEN 12 6.00 - 8 4 - - - - - -
18 W Piotr Protasiewicz POL 11 11.00 - - - - - - - 11 -
19 W Niels-Kristian Iversen DEN 7 7.00 - - - - 7 - - - -
20 W Rune Holta POL 6 6.00 - 6 - - - - - - -
21 R Stefan Andersson SWE 5 5.00 - - - - - - - - 5
22 W David Norris GB 4 4.00 - - - 4 - - - - -
23 W Jonas Davidsson SWE 4 4.00 - - - - - - 4 - -
24 W Krzysztof Kasprzak POL 4 4.00 4 - - - - - - - -
25 W Roman Povazhny RUS 4 4.00 - - - - - - - - 4
26 W Ales Dryml CR 3 3.00 - - - - - 3 - - -
27 TR Edward Kennett GB 1 1.00 - - - 1 - - - - -
Key for colours used in results table above
  1st - Final   2nd - Final   3rd - Final   4th - Final   Semi Final   Injured

The permanent wildcard entries for 2006 were given to Andreas Jonsson, Antonio Lindback, Bjarne Pedersen, Chris Harris, Jaroslaw Hampel, Matej Zagar, Scott Nicholls and Wieslaw Jagus.

GP Calendar

Date Stadium Town/City Country
30th April Olympic stadium Wroclaw Poland
14th May Smedstadion Eskilstuna Sweden
28th May Matije Gubca stadium Krsko Slovenia
11th June Millenium stadium Cardiff Wales
25th June Parken stadium Copenhagen Denmark
30th July Marketa stadium Prague Czech Republic
13th August G & B stadium Malilla Sweden
27th August Polonia stadium Bydgoszcz Poland
10th September Santa Marina stadium Lonigo Italy