2000 FIM Speedway Grand Prix
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The 2000 Speedway Grand Prix season was the sixth season in the Speedway Grand Prix era and was used to determine the Speedway World Champion.

Event format

The system first used in 1998 continued to be adopted 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.

Qualification for Grand Prix

The 2000 season had 22 permanent riders and two wild cards at each event. The permanent riders are highlighted in the results table below.

2000 Event Schedule and Winners

Calendar

Date	Grand Prix	Winner
May 6	Prague, Czech Republic	Billy Hamill
June 3	Linköping, Sweden	Jason Crump
July 1	Wroclaw, Poland	Tony Rickardsson
July 29	Coventry, Great Britain	Martin Dugard
September 2	Vojens, Denmark	Greg Hancock
September 23	Bydgoszcz, Poland	Billy Hamill

Final 2000 standings

Pos.	Rider Name	Pts
1	Mark Loram	102	(20,20,15,18,15,14)
2	Billy Hamill	95	(25,6,20,5,14,25)
3	Tony Rickardsson	94	(14,16,25,14,7,18)
4	Jason Crump	88	(5,25,12,10,20,16)
5	Greg Hancock	76	(7,5,7,12,25,20)
6	Leigh Adams	65	(6,10,16,15,12,6)
7	Tomasz Gollob	64	(15,14,14,-,6,15)
8	Todd Wiltshire	63	(16,18,7,7,3,12)
9	Ryan Sullivan	62	(8,12,8,20,8,6)
10	Chris Louis	60	(18,7,18,8,5,4)
11	Jimmy Nilsen	42	(6,15,5,6,2,8)
12	Stefan Dannö	41	(3,4,10,6,18,0)
13	Mikael Karlsson	39	(12,8,4,8,5,2)
14	Henrik Gustafsson	39	(8,4,2,5,10,10)
15	Peter Karlsson	35	(3,2,8,7,8,7)
16	Joe Screen	34	(5,5,6,3,7,8)
17	Antonín Kasper, Jr.	32	(7,6,5,4,6,4)
18	Carl Stonehewer	30	(10,7,3,4,3,3)
19	Martin Dugard	25	(-,-,-,25,-,-)
20	Nicki Pedersen	17	(-,1,-,-,16,-)
21	Rafał Dobrucki	16	(4,3,3,-,1,5)
22	Jason Lyons	16	(-,-,-,16,-,-)
23	Brian Andersen	15	(4,2,1,2,4,2)
24	Brian Karger	13	(2,3,4,1,2,1)
25	Andy Smith	10	(2,1,1,2,1,3)
26	Rune Holta	8	(-,8,-,-,-,-)
27	Jarosław Hampel	7	(-,-,-,-,-,7)
28	Sebastian Ułamek	6	(-,-,6,-,-,-)
29	Jesper B. Jensen	4	(-,-,-,-,4,-)
30	Piotr Protasiewicz	3	(-,-,2,-,-,1)
31	Lee Richardson	3	(-,-,3,-,-,-)
32	Andreas Jonsson	1	(1,-,-,-,-,-)
33	Bohumil Brhel	1	(1,-,-,-,-,-)
34	John Jorgensen	1	(1,-,-,-,-,-)

External links

• Official Speedway GP site

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