2009 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification

The 2009 Individual Speedway World Championship Grand Prix Qualification Meetings are a series of speedway meetings used to determine the three riders and one reserve who qualify for the 2009 Speedway Grand Prix. The top eight riders finishing the 2008 Grand Prix series automatically qualify for 2009.

Allocation
Qualifying Rules:
 * Riders placed 1st to 7th + 1 reserve from each Qualifying Round will qualify for the semi-final.
 * Riders placed 1st to 8th + 1 reserve from each Semi-Final will qualify for the Grand Prix Challenge. However, if no Polish rider qualifies to the Grand Prix Challenge, then only 7 riders + 1 reserve will qualify from Semi-Final 2.
 * Riders will be balloted for the semi-finals and the Grand Prix Challenge.

Poland
Domestic Qualifications for the 2009 Grand Prix and the 2008 Individual European Championship Krajowe eliminacje do Grand Prix 2009 i IME

Qualifying Rules:
 * Riders placed 1st to 8th + 1 reserve in the semi-finals qualify for the Final.
 * Riders placed 1st to 6th in the Domestic Final qualify for the Grand Prix Qualification. The seventh Polish rider and reserve are nominated by the Main Commission of Speedway Sport in Poland (GKSŻ).
 * Riders placed 1st to 7th in the Domestic Final qualify to the Individual European Championship. The eighth Polish rider and reserve are nominated by the Main Commission of Speedway Sport in Poland (GKSŻ).

Results:

Qualifying rounds
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Abensberg

 * Qualifying Round 1
 * May 12, 2008
 * 🇩🇪 Abensberg (2pm)
 * Referee:
 * Jury President:
 * Attendance: ?
 * Best Time: ?
 * Qualify: 7 + 1R
 * Replacements for injured riders:
 * Henk Bos (NED) was replaced by Mark Stiekema (NED)
 * Theo Pijper (FRA ) was replaced by David Watt (AUS)
 * Changes:
 * (5) NED (Jannick De Jong) › Rider 17
 * (16) NED (Mark Stiekema) › Rider 18


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Goričan

 * Qualifying Round 2
 * May 31, 2008 (7:00 pm)
 * 🇭🇷 Goričan
 * Referee:
 * Jury President:
 * Qualify: 7 + 1R
 * Change: No 8 Sirg Schutzbach (GER) was replaced by 1st track reserve


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Częstochowa

 * Qualifying Round 3
 * June 15, 2008 (5:00 pm)
 * 🇵🇱 Częstochowa
 * Referee: 🇩🇪 Christian Froschauer
 * Jury President: 🇭🇺 Janos Nadasdi
 * Qualify: 7 + 1R
 * Change: No 16 - Juha Hautamäki (FIN) was replaced by track reserve (Jarosław Hampel, POL)


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Lonigo

 * Qualifying Round 4
 * June 21, 2008 (9:00 pm)
 * 🇮🇹 Lonigo
 * Referee:
 * Jury President:
 * Qualify: 7 + 1R
 * Changes:
 * No 7: Troy Batchelor (AUS) was replaced by Ryan Sullivan (AUS)
 * No 9: Joonas Kylmäkorpi (FIN) was replaced by track reserve (Andrea Maida, ITA)
 * No 11: Martin Vaculík (SVK) was replaced by Hynek Štichauer (CZE)
 * No 13: Billy Janniro (USA) was replaced by Maks Gregorič (SVN)
 * No 15: Laszlo Szatmari (HUN) was replaced by Zsolt Bencze (HUN)
 * No 16: Fredrik Lindgren (SWE) was replaced by Peter Ljung (SWE)


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Semi-finals
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Terenzano

 * Semi-Final 1
 * July 5, 2008 (9:00 pm)
 * 🇮🇹 Terenzano
 * Referee:
 * Jury President:
 * No 8 Rafał Dobrucki (POL) was injury - was replaced by track reserve
 * Qualify: 8 + 1R


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Motala

 * Semi-Final 2
 * July 5, 2008 (4:00 pm)
 * 🇸🇪 Motala
 * Referee:
 * Jury President:
 * Qualify: 8 + 1R
 * No 4 Davey Watt (AUS) was replaced by track reserve


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Grand Prix Challenge

 * Grand Prix Challenge
 * September 14, 2008
 * 🇵🇱 Zielona Góra
 * Referee: 🇬🇧 Anthony Steele
 * Jury President: 🇸🇪 Christer Bergström
 * Best Time: 59.66 sec - Kenneth Bjerre in Heat 3
 * Change:
 * (2) 🇸🇪 Jonas Davidsson → (18) Korneliussen
 * (15) 🇸🇪 Daniel Nermark → (17) Pavlic

References and notes

 * pzm.pl - FIM Calendar 2008
 * pzm.pl - Allocation