The 2019 BOLL Warsaw FIM Speedway Grand Prix of Poland was the first race of the

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season. It took place on May 18 at the

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Riders

First reserve Robert Lambert replaced the injured

Maciej Janowski Maciej Janowski (born 6 August 1991 in Wrocław, Polandwww.janowskiracing.com
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, while second reserve

Max Fricke Max Fricke (born 29 March 1996) is an Australian speedway rider. He is a World team champion, three time Australian champion and four times Australian Under-21 Champion. Career Fricke competed in junior levels of motocross and speedway in A ...

replaced

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 ...

. The Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated

Bartosz Smektała Bartosz Smektała (born 22 August 1998) is an international speedway rider from Poland. Speedway career Smektała won the gold medal at the World Under-21 Championship in the 2018 World Under-21 Championship. Smektała rode in the Team Sp ...

as the wild card, and

Dominik Kubera Dominik Kubera (born 15 April 1999) is an international speedway rider from Poland. Speedway career Kubera won a bronze and a silver medal at the World Under 21 Championship in 2019 and 2020 respectively. He had previously won the 2018 Indi ...

and

Rafał Karczmarz Rafał Karczmarz (born 25 February 1999) is an international speedway rider from Poland. Speedway career Karczmarz came to prominence in 2016 and 2017 when he was part of the Polish team that won the Team Speedway Junior European Championshi ...

both as Track Reserves.

Results

The Grand Prix was won by

Leon Madsen Leon Daniel Madsen (born 5 September 1988) is a Danish speedway rider who is twice a World Championship silver medalist. Career Born in Vejle, Madsen won the 80cc junior World Championship in 2001. In 2018, Madsen won the Individual Spee ...

, who beat Fredrik Lindgren,

Patryk Dudek Patryk Dudek (; born 20 June 1992) is a Polish motorcycle speedway rider who is a member of the Poland national speedway team, Polish national speedway team. Career Dudek's father, Sławomir Dudek, Sławomir, was a professional rider and P ...

and

Niels-Kristian Iversen Niels Kristian Trochmann Iversen (, born 20 June 1982 in Esbjerg, Denmark) is an international motorcycle speedway rider. He is a seven times national champion of Denmark and was part of the Denmark speedway team, Danish teams that won the Spee ...

in the final. It was the Madsen's first ever Grand Prix win, on what was his first ever start as a regular member of the Grand Prix series. Dudek had initially top scored with 13 points during the qualifying heats, and despite finishing third in the final, he topped the overall standings with 16 points, one ahead of Lindgren.

Heat details

Intermediate classification

References

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