The stakes will likely be excessive within the 2024 FIM SGP Problem at Czech monitor Pardubice on Friday, October 4 as FOUR locations within the 2025 FIM Speedway Grand Prix collection will likely be up for grabs.
Staged alongside Pardubice’s iconic Golden Helmet assembly, one of many sport’s most well-known and prestigious open occasions, which takes place on Sunday, October 6, the FIM SGP Problem is the hotly contested ultimate spherical of the Speedway GP qualifiers, which sees riders from all around the world battle for his or her place on the game’s greatest stage.
The SGP Fee has elevated the variety of Speedway GP qualification locations on supply on the FIM GP Problem from three to 4, giving riders an extra alternative to safe a life-changing spot within the SGP elite. Consequently, 4 everlasting wild playing cards – lowered from 5 – will likely be chosen by the SGP Fee for the 2025 collection.
The FIM SGP Problem comes simply six days after the 2024 SGP season reaches its climax on the FIM Speedway GP of Poland – Torun on September 28, that means the Pardubice showdown would be the ultimate probability for Speedway GP World Championship hopefuls to e book their place for 2025.
The highest six riders within the 2024 SGP collection will qualify for the 2025 competitors, together with the Speedway European Championship winner and the highest 4 on the FIM GP Problem. The 2025 Speedway GP line-up of 15 riders will likely be accomplished by 4 wild playing cards.
The 2024 SGP collection sees FIVE new riders make their full-time Speedway GP World Championship debuts. Latvia’s Andzejs Lebedevs, Germany’s Kai Huckenbeck and Poland’s Dominik Kubera obtained everlasting wild playing cards, whereas Polish racer Szymon Wozniak and Czech star Jan Kvech made it through the 2023 FIM GP Problem in Gislaved, Sweden final August.
FIM Speedway race director Phil Morris is happy to supply an extra alternative for Speedway GP’s qualification contenders to take their place within the SGP World Championship.
He stated: “Providing this fourth qualification place offers larger significance to the qualification rounds. If riders know there are 4 locations accessible, it simply opens the collection up that bit extra.
“This yr now we have seen 5 new names enter the collection. Hopefully having an additional place to pursue in Pardubice will assist the riders attempting to climb the ladder and get to Speedway GP.
“It isn’t a straightforward process; the Problem is a really aggressive assembly. We felt taking considered one of our everlasting wild playing cards away and giving it to the riders competing within the FIM GP Problem exhibits respect to the qualification course of.”
The battle for locations on the FIM SGP Problem will get underway in Might. German monitor Abensberg and Hungarian circuit Debrecen host qualification rounds on Might 20, with Italian venue Lonigo and Slovak monitor Zarnovica staging two extra qualifiers on Might 25.
The 2024 Speedway GP collection launches with the FIM Speedway GP of Croatia in Donji Kraljevec on April 27.
