The 2011 Speedway Grand Prix season was the 17th season of the Speedway Grand Prix

Speedway Grand Prix

Speedway Grand Prix are a series of stand-alone speedway events over the course of a season used to determine the Speedway World Champion. As of 2008, all of the events take place in Europe.- Event format :...

 era, and decided the 66th FIM

Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme

The Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme is the governing body of motorcycle racing. It represents 103 national motorcycle federations that are divided into six regional continental unions....

 Speedway World Championship

Speedway World Championship

The World Championship of Speedway is an international competition between the highest ranked motorcycle speedway riders of the world. Today, it is organised as a series of Speedway Grand Prix events, where points are awarded according to performance in the event and tallied up at the end of each...

. It was the eleventh series under the promotion of Benfield Sports International, an IMG

IMG (business)

IMG, originally known as the International Management Group is a global sports and media business headquartered in New York City.-History:...

 company. The series began on 30 April in Leszno

Leszno

Leszno is a town in central Poland with 63,955 inhabitants . Situated in the southern part of the Greater Poland Voivodeship since 1999, it was previously the capital of the Leszno Voivodeship . The town has county status.-History:...

 and finished on 8 October in Gorzów

Gorzów

Gorzów may refer to the following places in Poland:*Gorzów Wielkopolski, a city in Lubusz Voivodeship *Gorzów Śląski, a town in Opole Voivodeship *Gorzów, Lesser Poland Voivodeship...

.

41-year old american Greg Hancock

Greg Hancock

Gregory Alan "Greg" Hancock is an American motorcycle speedway rider.He is a current Speedway World Champion and a multiple World Team champion with USA, with whom he is currently captain...

 won his second Speedway World Championship

Speedway World Championship

The World Championship of Speedway is an international competition between the highest ranked motorcycle speedway riders of the world. Today, it is organised as a series of Speedway Grand Prix events, where points are awarded according to performance in the event and tallied up at the end of each...

, 14 years after his first gold medal in 1997. The swedish rider Andreas Jonsson

Andreas Jonsson

Andreas Karl Rune Jonsson is an international motorcycle speedway rider who was a member of the Sweden speedway team that won the World Cup in 2003 and 2004.- Career summary :...

 won his first World Championship medal after finishing first in three events. Polish Jarosław Hampel won the bronze medal and made it his second medal in the Speedway Grand Prix

Speedway Grand Prix

Speedway Grand Prix are a series of stand-alone speedway events over the course of a season used to determine the Speedway World Champion. As of 2008, all of the events take place in Europe.- Event format :...

 era.

Qualification

For the 2011 season there was 15 permanent riders, joined at each Grand Prix by one wild card and two track reserves.

2010 Grand Prix

The top eight riders from the 2010 championship qualified as of right:
(1) Tomasz Gollob

Tomasz Gollob

Tomasz Gollob is a Polish motorcycle speedway rider who has appeared in every Speedway Grand Prix series since its inaugural season in 1995. His brother Jacek is also a speedway rider.-Career summary:...

 (2) Jarosław Hampel (3) Jason Crump

Jason Crump

Jason Phillip Crump is an Australian international motorcycle speedway rider. He is a three-time Speedway World Champion, a World Cup winner and a former World Under-21 Champion.-Family:...

 (4) Rune Holta

Rune Holta

Rune Holta , grew up in Randaberg Norway. He is an international speedway rider who has been a Polish citizen since 2002, allowing him to represent Poland in international competitions and was a member of their Speedway World Cup winning teams in 2005, 2007 & 2010...

 (5) Greg Hancock

Greg Hancock

Gregory Alan "Greg" Hancock is an American motorcycle speedway rider.He is a current Speedway World Champion and a multiple World Team champion with USA, with whom he is currently captain...

 (6) Chris Harris

Chris Harris (speedway rider)

Christopher Calvin "Chris" Harris in Truro, Cornwall, nicknamed Bomber, is a Great Britain international speedway rider for the Belle Vue Aces in the United Kingdom.- Early career :...

 (7) Kenneth Bjerre

Kenneth Bjerre

Kenneth Bjerre Jensen is a Danish international motorcycle speedway rider who races using the name Kenneth Bjerre. He rides in the UK for the Kings Lynn Stars in the Elite League....

 (8) Chris Holder

Chris Holder

Chris Holder is a speedway rider currently riding for the Poole Pirates in the British Elite League. He became the Australian Individual Speedway Champion in 2008 and followed up with wins in 2010 and 2011 as well as winning the Australian Under-21 Championship in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008...

Grand Prix Challenge

The top eight riders from the 2010 championship were joined by three riders who qualified via the Grand Prix Challenge.
(13) Artem Laguta

Artem Laguta

Artem Laguta is a Russian motorcycle speedway rider and member of the Russia national team.His brother Grigory is speedway rider also.He will ride in the Speedway Grand Prix 2011.- World Championships :...

 (14) Antonio Lindbäck

Antonio Lindbäck

Antonio Lindbäck is an international motorcycle speedway rider who was a member of the Swedish team who won the Speedway World Cup in 2004.- Career highlights :...

 (11) Fredrik Lindgren

Fredrik Lindgren (speedway rider)

Jan Fredrik Tobias Lindgren is an international motorcycle speedway rider who rides in the UK for the Wolverhampton Wolves in the Elite League...

Nominations

The final four riders were nominated by series promoters, Benfield Sports International, following the completion of the 2010 season.
(9) Andreas Jonsson

Andreas Jonsson

Andreas Karl Rune Jonsson is an international motorcycle speedway rider who was a member of the Sweden speedway team that won the World Cup in 2003 and 2004.- Career summary :...

 (10) Nicki Pedersen

Nicki Pedersen

Nicki Pedersen is a Danish motorcycle speedway rider. He has won the World Championship in 2003, 2007 and 2008 and was a World Cup winner with Denmark in 2006 and 2008. His brother, Ronni Pedersen, has also ridden in the Speedway Grand Prix and World Cup.-Domestic teams:Pedersen began speedway...

 (12) Emil Sayfutdinov (15) Janusz Kołodziej

Qualified Substitutes

(19) Magnus Zetterström

Magnus Zetterström

Hans Magnus Zetterström is an international motorcycle speedway rider who rides for the Poole Pirates in the British Elite League. Zetterström became European Champion in 2002 and won the Premier League Riders Championship in 2006...

 (20) Thomas H. Jonasson

Thomas H. Jonasson

Thomas Hjelm Jonasson is an international motorcycle speedway rider, who won the Premier League and the Premier Trophy with the Edinburgh Monarchs in 2008. In 2009, Jonasson continues to race for Elit Vetlanda Speedway in Sweden, Gorzow Wlkp. in Poland whilst riding for Edinburgh Monarchs in the...

 (21) Niels Kristian Iversen

Niels Kristian Iversen

Niels Kristian Trochmann Iversen is an international motorcycle speedway rider. He was part of the Danish teams that won the Speedway World Cup in 2006 and 2008.-The Early Days:...

 (22) Andrey Karpov (23) Grigory Laguta

Grigory Laguta

Grigory Laguta is a Russian-born Latvian motorcycle speedway rider. Laguta is current Individual Latvian Champion.Laguta have two speedway licency: Russian and Latvian . His brother Artem Grigory Laguta (born April 9, 1984) is a Russian-born Latvian motorcycle speedway rider. Laguta is current...

 (24) Simon Stead

Simon Stead

Simon Stead is an international Speedway rider. Simon currently rides for the Swindon Robins in the British Elite League, Masarna in the Swedish League and for Intar Ostrów in the Polish League.-Career Summary:...

Calendar

Classification

External links

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