2026 Speedway Grand Prix
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| 2026 Speedway Grand Prix | |
|---|---|
| Season details | |
| Dates | TBC |
| Events | TBC |
| Cities | TBC |
| Countries | TBC |
| Riders | 15 permanents 1 wild card(s) 2 track reserves |
| Heats | (in TBC events) |
The 2026 Speedway Grand Prix season will be the 32nd season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and will decide the 81st FIM Speedway World Championship. It will be the first series promoted by Mayfield Sports Events Ltd, who will take over from Discovery.[1]
Bartosz Zmarzlik will be the defending champion having won the title in 2025. A win will mean he surpasses Tony Rickardsson and Ivan Mauger's record of six world championships.[2] Brady Kurtz will also be aiming to become the first rider in history to win six consecutive Grand Prix in the season opener, having won the last five rounds in 2025.[3]
Qualified riders
For the 2026 season there will be 15 permanent riders, who will be joined at each Grand Prix by one wild card and two track reserves. The top seven riders from the 2025 championship qualify automatically. These riders will be joined by the four riders who qualified via the Grand Prix Challenge[4][5] and the 2025 Speedway European Championship winner. The final three riders Tai Woffinden, Max Fricke and Jason Doyle were nominated by the SGP Commission. In March 2026, Nazar Parnitskyi was named as the replacement for Tai Woffinden following the latter's withdrawal.[6]
| # | Riders | 2025 place | GP Ch place | 2025 SEC place | Permanent rider appearance | Previous appearances in series |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 95 |  Bartosz Zmarzlik | 1 | — | — | 11th | 2012–2015, 2016–2025 |
| 101 |  Brady Kurtz | 2 | — | — | 2nd | 2016-2017, 2025 |
| 99 |  Dan Bewley | 3 | — | — | 5th | 2018, 2022–2025 |
| 66 |  Fredrik Lindgren | 4 | — | — | 17th | 2004, 2006–2007, 2008–2014, 2016, 2017–2025 |
| 25 | Jack Holder | 5 | — | — | 5th | 2016, 2020, 2022–2025 |
| 29 |  Andžejs Ļebedevs | 6 | 4 | 2 | 3rd | 2013–2014, 2022–2023, 2024-2025 |
| 505 | Robert Lambert | 7 | — | — | 6th | 2015, 2018–2019, 2021–2025 |
| 415 | Dominik Kubera | 12 | 1 | — | 3rd | 2021, 2023, 2024-2025 |
| 223 | Kacper Woryna | — | 2 | 4 | 1st | 2016, 2022 |
| 30 |  Leon Madsen | 17 | 3 | 3 | 7th | 2010, 2013, 2019–2024, 2025 |
| 52 | Michael Jepsen Jensen | 18 | 5 | 6 | 2nd | 2012-2014, 2015, 2016-2018, 2025 |
| 692 | Patryk Dudek | 16 | — | 1 | 7th | 2016, 2017–2020, 2022-2023, 2024-2025 |
| 46 | Max Fricke | 8 | — | — | 6th | 2016–2017, 2019, 2020–2023, 2024, 2025 |
| 69 | Jason Doyle | 10 | — | — | 12th | 2015–2025 |
| 785 |  Nazar Parnitskyi | — | — | 5 | 1st | – |
Qualified substitutes
The following riders were nominated as substitutes:
| # | Riders | 2025 place | GP Ch place | 2025 SEC place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 105 | Anders Thomsen | 11 | 6 | — |
| 201 |  Jan Kvěch | 13 | 9 | 22 |
| 744 |  Kai Huckenbeck | 15 | 14 | 13 |
| 999 |  Mathias Pollestad | — | 16 | — |
