2004 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification

2004 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification
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The 2004 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification or GP Challenge was a series of motorcycle speedway meetings used to determine the 6 riders that would qualify for the 2004 Speedway Grand Prix^[1] to join the other 16 riders that finished in the leading positions from the 2003 Speedway Grand Prix.^[2]

The system introduced the previous year, that of four quarter finals and two semi finals was retained and only 6 riders would qualify through the GP Challenge.

Piotr Protasiewicz won the GP Challenge.^[3]

First Round (64 riders qualifying from respective national championships)
Quarter finals - 32 riders to semi finals
Semi finals - 16 riders to GP Challenge
Final Round - 6 riders from the GP Challenge to the 2004 Grand Prix

Quarter finals

32 riders to semi finals (Andrea Maida & Jarosław Hampel seeded to sf)

QF (26 April 2003 Lonigo)
Pos	Rider	Points
1	Lee Richardson	13
2	Billy Janniro	13
3	Ryan Fisher	11
4	Tomáš Topinka	11
5	Piotr Protasiewicz	11
6	Sebastian Ułamek	10
7	Theo Pijper	10
8	Matej Žagar	10
9	Sebastien Trésarrieu	7
10	Joachim Kügelmann	6
11	Mirko Wolter	6
12	Scott Smith	4
13	Jernej Kolenko	4
14	Simone Terenzani	3
15	Christian Miotello	1
16	Marko Vlah	0

QF (1 May 2003 Debrecen)
Pos	Rider	Points
1	Peter Karlsson	13
2	Rafał Dobrucki	13
3	Jesper B. Jensen	12
4	Attila Stefáni	11
5	David Howe	11
6	Sándor Tihanyi	10
7	Sergej Darkin	9
8	Jacek Rempala	8
9	László Szatmári	8
10	Oleg Kurguskin	8
11	Josef Franc	5
12	Norbert Magosi	4
13	Ronni Pedersen	4
14	Izak Šantej	3
15	Manuel Hauzinger	1
16	Tomáš Suchánek	0

QF (3 May 2003 Elgane)
Pos	Rider	Points
1	Grzegorz Walasek	13
2	Bjarne Pedersen	12
3	David Ruud	12
4	Charlie Gjedde	11
5	Stefan Andersson	10
6	Kai Laukkanen	9
7	Hans Andersen	9
8	Peter Ingvar Karlsson	9
9	Brent Werner	9
10	Chris Harris	8
11	Björn Hansen	8
12	Oliver Allen	4
13	Sam Taylor	3
14	Mikke Bjerk	2
15	Carl Johan Raugstad	1
16	Remi Ueland	0

QF (8 June 2003 Heusden-Zolder)
Pos	Rider	Points
1	Lukáš Dryml	12
2	Bohumil Brhel	12
3	Aleš Dryml Jr.	11
4	Chris Slabon	11
5	Peter Ljung	11
6	Joonas Kylmäkorpi	10
7	Roman Povazhny	8
8	Simon Stead	8
9	Kenneth Bjerre	7
10	Mathias Schultz	7
11	Mark Lemon	6
12	Magnus Zetterström	6
13	Craig Watson	5
14	Leigh Lanham	3
15	Henk Bos	2
16	Warren Meier	0

2004 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification

Quarter finals

Semi finals

Final Round

GP Challenge

References

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Pos.	Rider	Total	Points
1	Piotr Protasiewicz	14	2, 3, 3, 3, 3
2	Bohumil Brhel	13	3, 3, 2, 2, 3
3	Bjarne Pedersen	12	2, 2, 2, 3, 3
4	Kai Laukkanen	11	3, 3, 1, 2, 2
5	Aleš Dryml Jr.	10	exc, 3, 3, 3, 1
6	Jesper B. Jensen	9	1, ef, 3, 3, 2
7	Joonas Kylmäkorpi	7	3, 2, 0, 1, 1
8	Simon Stead (R)	6	1, 0, 3, 2, exc
9	Rafał Dobrucki	6	3, 0, 1, 1, 1
10	Billy Janniro	6	2, 2, 1, 1, 0
11	Roman Povazhny	5	exc, 1, 0, 1, 3
12	Charlie Gjedde	5	0, 1, 0, 2, 2
13	Tomáš Topinka	5	2, 2, 1, 0, x
14	Matej Žagar (R)	5	1, -, 2, x, 2
15	Sebastian Ułamek	4	1, 1, 2, f, exc
16	Theo Pijper	1	0, 0, 0, 0, 1
17	Peter Karlsson	0	ef, -, -, -, -
18	Lukáš Dryml	-	dns+^[4]