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season. It took place on 27 June 2009 in the

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. The British Grand Prix was won by GP leader

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who beat Fredrik Lindgren, Hans Andersen and

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in the final. Crump won with a 24-point maximum score and it was his third Grand Prix win of the season.

Riders

One

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and two track reserves were nominated by the

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was selected as the wild card after finishing second behind

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at the 2009

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and

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will be the track reserves. The riders' starting positions draw for Grand Prix meeting was made on 26 June at 12:00

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and it was carried out by Jury President Christer Bergström and

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Heat details

Heat after heat

# Bjerre, Pedersen, Sayfutdinov, Holta (F4x)
Holta crashes on 2nd lap. Holta excluded. # Andersen, Hancock, Lindgren, Nicholls # Ułamek, Jonsson, Kennett, Gollob # Crump, Harris, Adams, Walasek # Ułamek, Harris, Nicholls, Sayfutdinov # Lindgren, Pedersen, Walasek, Jonsson (e4) # Crump, Hancock, Gollob, Bjerre # Andersen, Kennett, Holta, Adams # Lindgren, Gollob, Sayfutdinov, Adams # Crump, Pedersen, Nicholls, Kennett # Andersen, Bjerre, Ułamek, Walasek (e3) # Holta, Hancock, Jonsson, Harris # Sayfutdinov, Hancock, Kennett, Walasek # Gollob, Harris, Andersen, Pedersen # Nicholls, Jonsson, Adams, Bjerre # Crump, Lindgren, Ułamek, Holta (F3x)
Holta crashes. Holta excluded. # Crump, Sayfutdinov, Andersen, Jonsson (X)
Crump crashes on first lap. Jonsson excluded. # Hancock, Pedersen, Adams, Ułamek # Harris, Bjerre, Lindgren, Kennett # Holta, Gollob, Nicholls, Walasek #: Semi-Finals: # Crump, Lindgren, Gollob, Ułamek # Hancock, Andersen, Pedersen (Fx), Harris (X)
Andersen crashes on 1st lap. Harris excluded. Nicki Pedersen crashes on 1st lap - race stopped again. Pedersen excluded. #: The Final: # Crump, Lindgren, Andersen, Hancock BritishGPspeedway2009

The intermediate classification

References

External links

FIM-live.com
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