The 2002 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification or GP Challenge was a series of
motorcycle speedway
Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four clockwise, anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that ...
meetings used to determine the 12 riders that would qualify for the
2002 Speedway Grand Prix
The 2002 Speedway Grand Prix was the 57th edition of the official World Championship and the eighth season in the Speedway Grand Prix era used to determine the Speedway World Champion. The world title was won by Tony Rickardsson of Sweden.
Ev ...
to join the other 10 riders that finished in the leading positions from the
2001 Speedway Grand Prix
The 2001 Speedway Grand Prix was the 56th edition of the official World Championship and the seventh season in the Speedway Grand Prix era and is used to determine the Speedway World Champion.
Event format
The system first used in 1998 cont ...
.
The format changed significantly, in that only 6 riders would qualify through the GP Challenge. The other six places would go to riders seeded through -
Rune Holta
Rune Holta (born 29 August 1973 in Stavanger, Norway) is a speedway rider. He grew up in Randaberg, Norway, but has been a Polish citizen since 2002.
Career
In 1994, Holta finished runner-up to Mikael Karlsson in the final of the 1994 Spee ...
,
Matej Ferjan
Matej Ferjan (5 January 1977 – 22 May 2011) was a Slovenian motorcycle speedway rider. He earned 8 caps for the Slovenia national speedway team and 2 caps for the Hungary national speedway team.
Career
Ferjan was born in Ljubljana, Sloveni ...
,
Andreas Jonsson
Andreas Karl Rune Jonsson (born 3 September 1980 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish former international motorcycle speedway rider. He was a member of the Sweden speedway team that won the World Cup in 2003, 2004 and 2015.
He earned 26 caps for ...
,
Grzegorz Walasek
Grzegorz Walasek (born 29 August 1976) is a Polish motorcycle speedway rider who has competed in the Speedway Grand Prix series and earned 15 international caps for the Poland national speedway team.
Career
Born in Krosno Odrzańskie, Poland, ...
,
Sebastian Ułamek
Sebastian Ułamek (born 20 November 1975) is a former motorcycle speedway rider from Poland. He was a European individual Champion and earned 9 international caps for the Poland national speedway team.
Career
Ułamek rode in the Polish leagues f ...
and
Krzysztof Cegielski
Krzysztof Cegielski (born 3 September 1979 in Poland) is a former Polish speedway rider who was a permanent Speedway Grand Prix rider in 2002 and 2003 season. He earned five international caps for the Poland speedway team.
Career
Cegielski ...
.
Greg Hancock
Gregory Alan Hancock (born June 3, 1970, in Whittier, California) is a former professional motorcycle speedway rider from the United States. As of 2023, he was one of only six riders to have won the individual World Championship four or more ti ...
won the GP Challenge.
Format
* First Round - 5 riders from Sweden, 5 from Denmark, 3 from Norway, 3 from Finland to
Scandinavian Final
* First Round - 32 riders from Continental quarter finals to Continental semi-finals
* First Round - 6 riders from British Final to
Overseas Final
* First Round - 5 riders from Australian Final to Overseas Final
* First Round - 1 rider from Canadian Final to Overseas Final
* First Round - 4 riders from United States Final to Overseas Final
* Second Round - 8 riders from Scandinavian Final to
Intercontinental Final
* Second Round - 8 riders from Overseas Final to Intercontinental Final
* Second Round - 16 riders from Continental semi-finals to
Continental Final
* Third Round - 9 riders (outside the top 10) from the 2001 Grand Prix & World U21 champion to GP Challenge
* Third Round - 5 riders from the Continental Final to GP Challenge
* Third Round - 9 riders from the Intercontinental Final to GP Challenge
* Final Round - 6 riders from the GP Challenge to the 2002 Grand Prix
First round
Continental quarter finals
Second round
Overseas Final
8 riders to Intercontinental Final
Scandinavian Final
8 riders to Intercontinental Final
Continental semi finals
Continental semi-finals - 16 riders from to Continental final
Third round
*9 riders (outside the top 10) from the 2001 Grand Prix & World U21 champion to GP Challenge
Intercontinental Final
9 riders to GP Challenge
Continental Final
*5 riders to GP Challenge
*12 August 2001
Gdańsk
Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic Sea, Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. With a population of 486,492, Data for territorial unit 2261000. it is Poland's sixth-largest city and principal seaport. Gdań ...
Final Round
GP Challenge
6 riders to 2002 Grand Prix
*13 October 2001
Krško Krško (; ) is a town in eastern Slovenia. It is the seat of the City Municipality of Krško. The town lies on the Sava River and on the northwest edge of the Krško Plain (), which is part of the larger Krka Flat (). The area is divided between t ...
References
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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 In ...
Speedway Grand Prix Qualification