2012 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification

The 2012 Individual Speedway World Championship Grand Prix Qualification were a series of motorcycle speedway meetings used to determine the three riders who qualified for the 2012 Speedway Grand Prix. The top eight riders finishing the 2011 Grand Prix series automatically qualified for 2012. The final round of qualification – the Grand Prix Challenge – took place on 20 August 2011, in Vetlanda, Sweden.[1]

Qualifying rounds

Round One 7 May 2011[2][3][4][5] Matija Gubec Stadium, Krško Referee: Pavel Vana / Jury President: Jørgen L. Jensen Change: Draw 15. → Draw 3. József Tabaka → Norbert Magosi Pos. Rider Points Details 1 (13) Adrian Miedziński 13+3 (3,3,2,3,2) 2 (11) Matej Žagar 13+2 (3,3,3,1,3) 3 (14) Lukáš Dryml 11+3 (1,3,2,3,2) 4 (8) Piotr Protasiewicz 11+2 (2,3,3,0,3) 5 (4) Matěj Kůs 10 (2,2,3,3,R) 6 (1) Simon Gustafsson 9 (3,2,2,1,1) 7 (15) David Ruud 9 (2,2,1,2,2) 8 (5) Denis Gizatullin 9 (3,1,3,1,1) 9 (3) Norbert Magosi 8 (0,1,1,3,3) 10 (2) Aleksander Čonda 7+3 (1,1,F,2,3) 11 (10) Mathieu Tresarrieu 7+2 (2,2,1,2,0) 12 (12) Daniel Nermark 7+R (1,1,2,2,1) 13 (16) Matija Duh 3 (R,0,1,0,2) 14 (9) Alexey Kharchenko 3 (0,0,1,1,1) 15 (6) Henry Van Der Steen 1 (1,0,0,0,0) 16 (7) Lukas Simon 0 (X,0,0,0,0) — (17) Samo Kukovica — — — (18) Denis Štojs — —	Round Two 13 June 2011[6][7][8][9] Motorstadion Abensberg, Abensberg Referee: Pavel Vana / Jury President: Jørgen L. Jensen Change: Draw 2. Damian Baliński → Jędrzejak Pos. Rider Points Details 1 (9) Joonas Kylmäkorpi 14 (2,3,3,3,3) 2 (16) Martin Smolinski 13 (2,3,3,3,2) 3 (7) Davey Watt 12+3 (2,3,3,3,1) 4 (12) Darcy Ward 12+2 (3,2,3,2,2) 5 (3) Peter Kildemand 10 (2,2,2,1,3) 6 (18) Max Dilger 9 (3,1,0,2,3) 7 (8) Victor Golubovsky 8 (3,1,F,2,2) 8 (14) Kenneth Hansen 7+3 (1,2,1,1,2) 9 (4) Tobias Kroner 7+2 (1,0,1,2,3) 10 (15) Lisandro R. Husman 7+1 (3,1,1,1,1) 11 (11) Matic Voldrih 6 (1,0,2,3,0) 12 (13) Kilril Tsukanov 5 (0,2,2,1,1) 13 (5) Cristian Carrica 4 (1,0,2,0,1) 14 (2) Tomasz Jędrzejak 3 (T/-,3,X,0,N) 15 (17) Richard Speiser 1 (0,1,-,-,-) 16 (6) Oleksandr Borodai 0 (0,F,0,0,0) 17 (10) Julio Romano 0 (F,X,F,T/-,M) — (1) Christian Hefenbrock — — Hefenbrock (#1) replaced by #17 Reserve #18 rode in heats: 1 (#2), 9 (#17), 13 (#17), 15 (#10), 17 (#17)
Round Three 17 June 2011[10][11][12][13] Korskro Motor Center, Esbjerg Referee: J. Lawrence / Jury President: M. Spinka Change: Draw 3. Ryan Fisher → Marcin Sekulla Draw 10. Kyle Legault → Fisher Draw 14. Ricky Wells → Ulrich Ostergaard (Reserve 17) Pos. Rider Points Details 1 (13) Jonas Davidsson 13 (3,3,2,3,2) 2 (16) Bjarne Pedersen 12+3 (2,3,1,3,3) 3 (12) Edward Kennett 12+2 (3,1,3,2,3) 4 (4) Krzysztof Buczkowski 11 (3,2,3,0,3) 5 (1) Leon Madsen 11 (2,1,2,3,3) 6 (6) Daniel King 10 (1,3,3,3,0) 7 (5) Renat Gafurov 9 (2,2,1,2,2) 8 (15) Rory Schlein 8 (1,2,2,1,2) 9 (11) Grzegorz Walasek 7 (2,3,0,1,1) 10 (8) Nicolai Klindt 6+3 (3,0,2,0,1) 11 (3) Marcin Sekulla 6+2 (1,1,3,0,1) 12 (9) Thomas H. Jonasson 5 (1,X,0,2,2) 13 (10) Ryan Fisher 4 (0,2,1,1,0) 14 (2) Jevgēņijs Karavackis 3 (0,0,0,2,1) 15 (14) Ulrich Ostergaard 3 (0,1,1,1,0) 16 (7) Rune Sola 0 (0,0,0,0,0) — (17) Kenni Arendt Larsen — — — (18) Michael Jepsen Jensen — —	Round Four 18 June 2011[14][15][16][17] Areál Ploché dráhy Divišov, Divisov Referee: Jesper Steentoft / Jury President: Andrzej Grodzki Change: Draw 6. → Draw 18. Tomáš Suchánek → Martin Gavenda Pos. Rider Points Details 1 (8) Martin Vaculík 13 (3,2,3,2,3) 2 (13) Maciej Janowski 12 (2,3,3,3,1) 3 (12) Magnus Zetterström 11 (3,3,3,2,-) 4 (11) Niels Kristian Iversen 10 (2,3,2,1,2) 5 (9) Przemysław Pawlicki 9 (1,1,1,3,3) 6 (10) Kjasts Puodžuks 9 (0,3,2,2,2) 7 (7) Kevin Wölbert 9 (2,1,1,3,2) 8 (14) Aleksandr Loktaev 9 (1,2,2,1,3) 9 (6) Cameron Woodward 8 (0,0,3,2,3) 10 (1) Andriy Karpov 7 (3,2,1,X,1) 11 (15) Martin Málek 6 (3,2,1,F,R) 12 (3) Simon Stead 5 (2,0,0,1,2) 13 (16) Andrey Kudryashov 4 (0,R,0,3,1) 14 (5) Hynek Stichauer 4 (1,R,2,R,1) 15 (17) Zdeněk Simota 3 (1,1,0,1,0) 16 (18) Martin Gavenda 1 (0,1,0,0,0) — (2) Aleš Dryml, Jr. — — — (4) Artem Laguta — — Laguta (#4) replaced by #17 Dryml (#2) replaced by #18
Round Five 18 June 2011[18][19][20] Pista Olimpia Terenzano, Terenzano Referee: Susanne Huttinger / Jury President: Ilkka Teromaa Change: Draw 7. → Pos. Rider Points Details 1 (16) Jesper B. Monberg 14 2 (11) Krzysztof Kasprzak 13 3 (9) Sebastian Ułamek 12+3 4 (6) Peter Ljung 12+F 5 (1) Antonio Lindbäck 22 6 (2) Ben Barker 9 7 (15) James Wright 9 8 (7) Tomáš Suchánek 8 9 (3) Hans N. Andersen 7 10 (10) Ales Kraljic 6 11 (14) Tero Aarnio 4 12 (4) Frank Facher 4 13 (8) József Tabaka 4 14 (12) Guglielmo Franchetti 3 15 (5) Mattia Carpanese 2 16 (13) Filip Šitera 2 — (17) Alessandro Novello — — — (18) Dario Del Torre — —

Race-offs

Race-off One 2 July 2011[21][22][23][24] Stadium Lokomotīve, Daugavpils Referee: Christian Froschauer / Jury President: Ilkka Teromaa Pos. Rider Points Details 1 (5) Peter Ljung 13 (3,2,3,3,2) 2 (16) Krzysztof Buczkowski 11 (1,2,3,2,3) 3 (7) Krzysztof Kasprzak 10+3 (1,2,2,3,2) 4 (14) Simon Gustafsson 10+2 (3,3,0,1,3) 5 (4) Victor Golubovski 10+1 (1,3,3,3,0) 6 (15) Hans N. Andersen 10+0 (2,3,1,2,2) 7 (9) Kenneth Hansen 9 (3,1,3,1,1) 8 (3) Adrian Miedziński 7 (0,1,2,1,3) 9 (12) Martin Smolinski 7 (0,1,2,2,2) 10 (1) Matěj Kůs 6 (3,0,0,0,3) 11 (2) Renat Gafurov 6 (2,1,0,3,0) 12 (8) Aleksandr Loktaev 6 (2,0,1,2,1) 13 (13) Andzejs Lebedevs 4 (0,3,1,0,0) 14 (10) Kjasts Puodžuks 4 (2,2,0,0,0) 15 (11) Rory Schlein 4 (1,0,1,1,1) 16 (6) Edward Kennett 3 (0,0,2,R,1) — (17) Andrij Karpov — — — (18) Nicolai Klindt — —

Race-off Two 2 July 2011[25][26][27] Santa Marina Stadium, Lonigo Referee: Jesper Steentoft / Anthony Steele Pos. Rider Points Details 1 (15) Grzegorz Walasek 13 (3,3,2,2,3) 2 (14) Piotr Protasiewicz 12 (2,3,3,2,2) 3 (8) Bjarne Pedersen 11+3 (2,2,2,3,2) 4 (5) Joonas Kylmäkorpi 11+2 (3,0,3,2,3) 5 (10) Jesper B. Monberg 11+1 (3,1,3,3,1) 6 (9) David Ruud 9+3 (0,3,0,3,3) 7 (1) Kevin Wölbert 9+2 (3,1,2,3,0) 8 (3) Daniel King 8 (2,2,1,0,3) 9 (6) Cameron Woodward 8 (1,2,3,0,2) 10 (4) Przemysław Pawlicki 8 (1,3,2,1,1) 11 (13) Tobias Kroner 7 (1,2,1,2,1) 12 (16) Tomáš Suchánek 4 (0,0,1,1,2) 13 (12) Peter Kildemand 3 (2,1,-,-,-) 14 (2) Nicolas Covatti 2 (0,0,1,1,0) 15 (11) Norbert Magosi 2 (1,1,X,0,0) 16 (17) Mathieu Tresarrieu 2 (0,0,1,1) 17 (7) Magnus Zetterström 0 (0,0,R,R,-) — (18) Lisandro R. Husman — —

Race-off Three 2 July 2011[28][29][30][31] Goričan Referee: Mick Bates / Jury President: Milan Spinka Pos. Rider Points Details 1 (9) Antonio Lindbäck 14 (3,3,2,3,3) 2 (4) Matej Žagar 11+3+3 (2,1,3,2,3) 3 (16) Sebastian Ułamek 11+2+2+2 (3,2,2,2,2) 4 (12) Leon Madsen 11+3+1 (1,3,3,3,1) 5 (3) Martin Vaculík 11+1+3+0 (3,3,0,3,2) 6 (6) Davey Watt 11+2+1 (3,2,3,X,3) 7 (8) Jonas Davidsson 9 (2,0,3,1,3) 8 (15) Darcy Ward 8 (2,2,1,1,2) 9 (14) Niels Kristian Iversen 7 (1,3,1,2,0) 10 (2) Maciej Janowski 7 (0,1,2,3,1) 11 (10) Max Dilger 6 (2,0,2,1,1) 12 (11) Ben Barker 5 (0,1,1,2,1) 13 (5) James Wright 3 (1,0,0,0,2) 14 (13) Dino Kovacic 2 (0,2,0,0,0) 15 (17) Aleksander Čonda 2 (0,0,1,1,0) 16 (1) Denis Gizatullin 2 (1,1,0,0,0) — (18) Ales Kraljic — — — (7) Lukáš Dryml — — Dryml (#7) replaced by #17 Mini-tournament for 2nd to 6th placed: Semi-Final 1: Zagar, Watt, Vaculik Semi-Final 2: Madsen, Ułamek Run-off: Vaculik, Ułamek, Watt Final: Zagar, Ułamek, Madsen, Vaculik

Grand Prix Challenge

• 20 August 2011[32][33]
• Vetlanda Motorstadion, Vetlanda
• Referee: Marek Wojaczek / Jury President: Wolfgang Glas

Placing	Rider	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pts	Pos	21
1	(14) Antonio Lindbäck	12				3		3					3		t							3	12	1	3
2	(9) Bjarne Pedersen	12			3		2						2					2		3			12	2	2
3	(3) Piotr Protasiewicz	11	2						3				1				2				3		11	3
4	(15) Martin Vaculík	10				2			t			2						3	3				10	4
5	(13) Krzysztof Kasprzak	10				1	3							2		2					2		10	5
6	(4) Peter Ljung	8	0							3				3				0				2	8	6
7	(16) Leon Madsen	8				0				2	1						3			2			8	7
8	(5) Sebastian Ułamek	6		3			0					3					0					0	6	8
9	(7) Krzysztof Buczkowski	6		1					2					0	3					0			6	9
10	(11) Joonas Kylmäkorpi	6			t				1		3					1						1	6	10
11	(1) Jesper B. Monberg	6	3				1				0				0				2				6	11
12	(10) Grzegorz Walasek	6			2			2						1			1		0				6	12
13	(6) Matej Žagar	6		2				1			2							1			0		6	13
14	(12) Hans N. Andersen	5			1					1		1			1						1		5	14
15	(2) Simon Gustafsson	4	t					0				0				3				1			4	15
16	(17) Davey Watt	3	1		0				0						2								3	16
17	(8) Victor Golubovski	1		0						0			0			x			1				1	17
18	(18) David Ruud	0																					0	18
Placing	Rider	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pts	Pos	21

m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fell • ns - non-starter • nc - non-classify

gate A - inside

gate B

gate C

gate D - outside

See also

• 2011 Speedway Grand Prix

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