2025 Speedway Grand Prix

2025 Speedway Grand Prix
Season details
Dates3 May – 13 September
Events10
Cities10
Countries7
Riders15 permanents
1 wild card(s)
2 track reserves
Heats230 (in 10 events)

The 2025 Speedway Grand Prix season will be the 31st season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and will decide the 80th FIM Speedway World Championship. It will be the fourth series promoted by Discovery Sports Events.

For the first time Great Britain will host two rounds of the championship, with the National Speedway Stadium in Manchester joining the flagship Principality Stadium in Cardiff on the calendar.[1][2] There will be eight other rounds, with Poland's allocation reduced from four to three.[3]

Bartosz Zmarzlik is the defending champion having won the title in 2024. He will be aiming to equal Tony Rickardsson and Ivan Mauger's record of six world championships.[4][5]

The choice of the wildcard riders caused significant controversy due to the fact that Artem Laguta and Emil Sayfutdinov were once again omitted,[6] as was 2022 world runner-up Leon Madsen. The 2025 event would be the fourth consecutive year that Zmarzlik would be missing his strongest rivals.[7]

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[8] and the 2024 Speedway European Championship winner. The final four riders were nominated by the SGP Commission.[9]

Qualified riders

# Riders 2024 place GP Ch place Permanent rider appearance Previous appearances in series
95 Poland Bartosz Zmarzlik 1 — 10th 2012–2015, 2016–2024
505 United Kingdom Robert Lambert 2 — 5th 2015, 2018–2019, 2021–2024
66 Sweden Fredrik Lindgren 3 — 16th 2004, 2006–2007, 2008–2014, 2016, 2017–2024
99 United Kingdom Dan Bewley 4 — 4th 2018, 2022–2024
54 Slovakia Martin Vaculík 5 — 10th 2012, 2013, 2017–2024
25 Australia Jack Holder 6 — 4th 2016, 2020, 2022–2024
29 Latvia Andžejs Ļebedevs 10 — 2nd 2013–2014, 2022–2023, 2024
101 Australia Brady Kurtz — 1 1st 2016
105 Denmark Anders Thomsen 21 2 4th 2016, 2020, 2021–2023, 2024
415 Poland Dominik Kubera 8 3 2nd 2021, 2023, 2024
46 Australia Max Fricke 11 4 5th 2016–2017, 2019, 2020–2023, 2024
155 Denmark Mikkel Michelsen 7 — 5th 2015, 2018–2019, 2020, 2021, 2022–2024
744 Germany Kai Huckenbeck 12 13 2nd 2017–2019, 2022–2023, 2024
201 Czech Republic Jan Kvěch 15 9 2nd 2020–2023, 2024
69 Australia Jason Doyle 16 — 11th 2015–2024

Qualified substitutes

The following riders were nominated as substitutes:

# Riders 2024 place GP Ch place
30 Denmark Leon Madsen 9 —
692 Poland Patryk Dudek 17 11
108 United Kingdom Tai Woffinden 18 —
24 Sweden Jacob Thorssell — 5
22 United States Luke Becker — —
96 France Dimitri Bergé — —
TBC Poland Wiktor Przyjemski — —
785 Ukraine Nazar Parnitskyi — —
999 Norway Mathias Pollestad — —

Calendar

The 2025 season consists of 10 events.[10]

Round Date City and venue Winner Runner-up 3rd placed 4th placed Results
1 3 May Germany Landshut, Germany
Ellermühle Speedway Stadium 		results
2 17 May Poland Warsaw, Poland
Stadion Narodowy 		results
3 31 May Czech Republic Prague, Czech Republic
Markéta Stadium 		results
4 14 June United Kingdom Manchester, Great Britain
National Speedway Stadium 		results
5 21 June Poland Gorzów, Poland
Edward Jancarz Stadium 		results
6 5 July Sweden Målilla, Sweden
Skrotfrag Arena 		results
7 2 August Latvia Riga, Latvia
Riga Speedway Stadium 		results
8 16 August United Kingdom Cardiff, Great Britain
Principality Stadium 		results
9 30 August Poland Wrocław, Poland
Olympic Stadium 		results
10 13 September Denmark Vojens, Denmark
Vojens Speedway Center 		results

References

  1. ^ "Historic moment as Belle Vue set to host Grand Prix". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  2. ^ "Belle Vue to host GP round in 2025". Speedway Star. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  3. ^ "2025 FIM Speedway calendar confirmed". FIM Speedway. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  4. ^ "Polish hero Zmarzlik ready for question no.6". FIM Speedway. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  5. ^ "Zmarzlik one step away from history". Sportowe Fakty (in Polish). Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  6. ^ "Łaguta misses, but can forget. Wild cards for the 2025 Grand Prix almost given out!". Przegląd Sportowy Onet. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  7. ^ "Leaked 'wild cards' for the 2025 Grand Prix! Madsen's entourage makes blunt comment". Przegląd Sportowy Onet. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  8. ^ "Kurtz, Thomsen, Kubera & Fricke seal places". FIM Speedway. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
  9. ^ "2025 Speedway GP wildcards named". FIM Speedway. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
  10. ^ "2025 Speedway Grand Prix calendar". FIM Speedway. Retrieved 1 October 2024.