2000 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification
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The 2000 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification or GP Challenge was a series of motorcycle speedway meetings used to determine the 12 riders that would qualify for the 2000 Speedway Grand Prix[1] to join the other 10 riders that finished in the leading positions from the 1999 Speedway Grand Prix.[2]
The format changed from the previous year, in that only 2 riders would qualify straight from the Intercontinental and Continental finals and 10 riders would qualify through the GP Challenge.
Billy Hamill won the GP Challenge.[3]
Format
- First Round - 6 riders from Sweden, 5 from Denmark, 3 from Finland, 2 from Norway to Scandinavian Final
- First Round - 32 riders from Continental quarter finals to Continental semi-finals
- First Round - 8 riders from British Final to Overseas Final
- First Round - 4 riders from Australian Final to Overseas Final
- First Round - 4 riders from United States Final to Overseas Final
- Second Round - 8 riders from Scandinavian Final to Intercontinental Final
- Second Round - 8 riders from Overseas Final to Intercontinental Final
- Second Round - 16 riders from Continental semi-finals to Continental Final
- Third Round - 11 riders from positions 11-21 from the 1999 Grand Prix & World U21 champion to GP Challenge
- Third Round - 1 rider from the Continental Final to 2000 Grand Prix and 5 to GP Challenge
- Third Round - 1 rider from the Intercontinental Final to 2000 Grand Prix and 6 to GP Challenge
- Final Round - 10 riders from the GP Challenge to the 2000 Grand Prix
First round
Continental quarter finals
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Second round
Overseas Final
8 riders to Intercontinental Final
Scandinavian Final
8 riders to Intercontinental Final
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| Pos | Rider | Points | |||
| 1 |  Rune Holta | 14 | |||
| 2 | Jesper B Jensen | 11 | |||
| 3 | Gert Handberg | 11 | |||
| 4 |  Andreas Jonsson | 10 | |||
| 5 | Charlie Gjedde | 9 | |||
| 6 | Peter Nahlin | 9 | |||
| 7 | Ronni Pedersen | 9 | |||
| 8 |  Kai Laukkanen | 9 | |||
| 9 | Niklas Klingberg | 8 | |||
| 10 | Vesa Ylinen | 7 | |||
| 11 | Bo Skov Eriksen | 7 | |||
| 12 | Per Wester | 6 | |||
| 13 | Niklas Karlsson | 6 | |||
| 14 | Stefan Andersson | 2 | |||
| 15 | Kjell Öyvind Sola | 1 | |||
| 16 | Tomi Reima | 1 | |||
Continental semi finals
Continental semi-finals - 16 riders from to Continental final
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Third round
- 11 riders from positions 11-21 from the 1999 Speedway Grand Prix & World U21 champion to GP Challenge
Intercontinental Final
1 rider direct to Grand Prix, 6 riders to GP Challenge
Continental Final
- 1 rider direct to Grand Prix, 5 riders to GP Challenge
- 25 July 1999
Wrocław
| Pos. | Rider | Points |
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| 1 |  Rafał Dobrucki | 15 |
| 2 | Piotr Protasiewicz | 14 |
| 3 | Sławomir Drabik | 11 |
| 4 | Robert Sawina | 11 |
| 5 |  Bohumil Brhel | 10 |
| 6 | Jacek Gollob | 8 |
| 7 |  Roman Povazhny | 8 |
| 8 | Sebastian Ułamek | 7 |
| 9 |  Robert Barth | 7 |
| 10 | Antonín Šváb Jr. | 7 |
| 11 | Tomáš Topinka | 6 |
| 12 |  Armando Castagna | 5 |
| 13 |  Sándor Tihanyi | 5 |
| 14 | Attila Stefáni | 3 |
| 15 | Richard Wolff | 2 |
| 16 | Michal Makovský | 1 |
Final Round
GP Challenge
10 riders to 2000 Grand Prix
- 17 October 1999
Lonigo
| Pos. | Rider | pre-qual | qual | sf | Final |
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| 1 |  Billy Hamill | x | 3, 2 | 3 | 3 |
| 2 | Mikael Karlsson | x | 3, 3 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 |  Carl Stonehewer | 2, 2 | 1, 2, 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 4 | Brian Karger | x | 3, 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 5 | Henrik Gustafsson | x | 2, 3 | 1 | x |
| 6 | Mark Loram | 3, 1 | 2, 1, 3 | 1 | x |
| 7 | Andy Smith | x | 2, 0, 2 | 0 | x |
| 8 | Antonín Kasper Jr. | x | 2, 2 | 0 | x |
| 9 | Peter Karlsson | x | 3, 1, 1 | x | x |
| 10 | Brian Andersen | 3, 3 | 0, 2, 1 | x | x |
| 11 | John Jørgensen | x | 2, 0, 0 | x | x |
| 12 | Niklas Klingberg | 1, 3 | 2, 1, 0 | x | x |
| 13 | Jacek Gollob | 3, 0 | 3, 0, 1 | x | x |
| 14 |  Jason Lyons | 3, 3 | 1, 1 | x | x |
| 15 | Robert Dados | 2, 2 | 0, 0 | x | x |
| 16 | Gary Havelock | 2, 0 | 3, 0 | x | x |
| 17 | Marián Jirout | 2, 1 | 1 | x | x |
| 18 | Lee Richardson | 0, 2 | 1 | x | x |
| 19 | Robert Sawina | 1, 3 | 0 | x | x |
| 20 | Bohumil Brhel | 1, 2 | 0 | x | x |
| 21 | Sławomir Drabik | 0, 1 | x | x | x |
| 22 | Rune Holta | 1, 0 | x | x | x |
| 23 | Piotr Protasiewicz | 0, 0 | x | x | x |
| 24 | Kai Laukkanen | 0, 1 | x | x | x |