Speedway Grand Prix 1998

Speedway Grand Prix 1998
A new race format was introduced for the 1998 Grand Prix season with 24 riders, divided into two classes. The eight best would be directly qualified for the "Main Event", while the sixteen others would be knocked out if they finished out of the top two in 4-man heats on two occasions - while they would go through if they finished inside the top two on two occasions. This resulted in 10 heats, where eight proceeded to the Main Event, where exactly the same system was applied to give eight riders to a semi-final. The semi-finals were then two heats of four, where the top two qualified for a final and the last two going towards the consolation final. The 4 finalists scored 25, 20, 18 and 16 points, with 5th to 8th scoring 15, 14, 12 and 10 point, and after that 8, 8, 7, 7, etc. Places after 8th place were awarded according to the time a rider was knocked out and, secondly, according to position in the last heat he rode in.
CZS GER DEN GB SWE POL Pts
1 Tony Rickardsson SWE 25 25 18 8 25 10 111
2 Jimmy Nilsen SWE 18 20 8 20 15 18 99
3 Tomasz Gollob POL 16 16 8 18 14 25 97
4 Hans Nielsen DEN 8 12 25 7 8 16 76
5 Chris Louis GB 15 8 20 6 20 6 75
6 Greg Hancock USA 6 10 14 15 16 8 69
7 Ryan Sullivan AUS 12 7 3 16 10 20 68
8 Jason Crump AUS 3 3 16 25 7 8 62
9 Billy Hamill USA 20 18 6 12 5 1 62
10 Mark Loram GB 6 7 10 7 8 14 52
11 Leigh Adams AUS 10 6 4 4 12 15 51
12 Antonín Kasper, Jr CZE 7 4 15 14 3 7 50
13 Stefan Dannö SWE 14 6 7 10 5 7 49
14 Andy Smith GB 2 14 5 4 6 12 43
15 Henrik Gustafsson SWE 8 15 6 6 2 6 43
16 Brian Andersen DEN 5 7 8 7 4 31
17 Peter Karlsson SWE 1 8 18 27
18 Armando Castagna ITA 1 5 3 3 6 5 23
19 Zoltan Adorjan HUN 7 5 2 3 1 3 21
20 Craig Boyce AUS 3 4 1 1 4 5 18
21 Piotr Protasiewicz POL 2 1 5 2 3 3 16
22 Jesper B. Jensen DEN 4 1 5 2 2 14
23 Brian Karger DEN 12 12
24 Sebastian Ułamek POL 1 2 1 4 2 10
25 Gerd Riss GER 4 2 6
26 Bohumil Brhel CZE 5 5
27 Joe Screen GB 5 5
28 Lars Gunnestad NOR 4 1 5
29 Jacek Gollob POL 4 4
30 Jacek Krzyżaniak POL 3 3
31 Robert Barth GER 2 2
32 Martin Dugard GB 2 2
33 Robert Dados POL 1 1
15 May 1998
Marketa Stadium, Prague , Czech Republic
1st Tony Rickardsson
2nd Billy Hamill
3rd Jimmy Nilsen
06 June 1998
Rottalstadion, Poking, Germany
1st Tony Rickardsson
2nd Jimmy Nilsen
3rd Billy Hamill
19 June 1998
Speedway Centre, Vojens, Denmark
1st Hans Nielsen
2nd Chris Louis
3rd Tony Rickardsson
07 August 1998
Brandon Stadium, Coventry, United Kingdom
1st Jason Crump
2nd Jimmy Nilsen
3rd Tomasz Gollob
nn 28 August 1998
Motorstadion, Linkoping, Sweden
1st Tony Rickardsson
2nd Chris Louis
3rd Peter Karlsson
18 September 1998
Polonia Stadium, Bydgoszcz , Poland
1st Tomasz Gollob
2nd Ryan Sullivan
3rd Jimmy Nilsen