The 2025 Speedway Grand Prix season is the 31st season of the

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era, and will decide the 80th

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. It is the fourth series promoted by

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Sports Events. For the first time Great Britain will host two rounds of the championship. The original schedule showed the

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joining the flagship

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on the calendar, but the Cardiff round was subsequently cancelled and replaced with a second grand prix in Manchester. There will be eight other rounds, with Poland's allocation reduced from four to three.

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is the defending champion having won the title in

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. He will be aiming to equal

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and

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's record of six world championships. The choice of the wildcard riders caused significant controversy due to the fact that 2021 Word Champion

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and

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were once again omitted, as was 2022 world runner-up

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. The 2025 event would be the fourth consecutive year that Zmarzlik would be missing some of his strongest rivals.

Qualification

For the 2025 season there will be 15 permanent riders, who will be joined at each Grand Prix by one wild card and two track reserves. The top six riders from the 2024 championship qualify automatically. These riders will be joined by the four riders who qualified via the Grand Prix Challenge and the

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winner. The final four riders were nominated by the SGP Commission.

Qualified riders

Qualified substitutes

The following riders were nominated as substitutes:

Calendar

The 2025 season consists of 10 events.

Intermediate classification

References

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