# 1998 Speedway Grand Prix

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4th season of the Speedway Grand Prix

1998 Speedway Grand Prix Season details Dates May 15 - September 18 Events 6 Cities 6 Countries 6 Riders 21 permanents 3 wild card(s) Heats 144 (in 6 events) Winners Champion SWE Tony Rickardsson Runner-up SWE Jimmy Nilsen 3rd place POL Tomasz Gollob ← 1997 Speedway Grand Prix 1999 →

The **1998 Speedway Grand Prix** was the 53rd edition of the official World Championship.[1][2] It was the fourth season in the [Speedway Grand Prix](/source/Speedway_Grand_Prix) era used to determine the [Speedway World Champion](/source/Speedway_World_Championship).[3]

[Tony Rickardsson](/source/Tony_Rickardsson) won the World title, which included three wins from the six Grand Prix events. The Swede's win was his second World title success and he secured the gold medal comfortably ahead of nearest rivals [Jimmy Nilsen](/source/Jimmy_Nilsen) and [Tomasz Gollob](/source/Tomasz_Gollob).[4]

## Event format

The system used was a new one for the 4th SGP season with 24 riders, divided into two classes. The eight best would be directly qualified for the "Main Event", while the sixteen others would be knocked out if they finished out of the top two in 4-man heats on two occasions - while they would go through if they finished inside the top two on two occasions. This resulted in 10 heats, where eight proceeded to the Main Event, where exactly the same system was applied to give eight riders to a semi-final.

The semi-finals were then two heats of four, where the top two qualified for a final and the last two going towards the consolation final. The 4 finalists scored 25, 20, 18 and 16 points, with 5th to 8th scoring 15, 14, 12 and 10 point, and after that 8, 8, 7, 7, etc. Places after 8th place were awarded according to the time a rider was knocked out and, secondly, according to position in the last heat he rode in.

## Qualification for Grand Prix

Main article: [1998 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification](/source/1998_Speedway_Grand_Prix_Qualification)

The 1998 season had 21 permanent riders and 3 wild card at each event. The permanent riders are highlighted in the results table below.

## Calendar

Round Date City and venue Winner Runner-up 3rd placed 4th placed Results 1 May 15 Prague , Czech Republic Markéta Stadium Tony Rickardsson Billy Hamill Jimmy Nilsen Tomasz Gollob results 2 June 6 Pocking , Germany Rottalstadion Tony Rickardsson Jimmy Nilsen Billy Hamill Tomasz Gollob results 3 June 19 Vojens , Denmark Speedway Center Hans Nielsen Chris Louis Tony Rickardsson Jason Crump results 4 August 7 Coventry , Great Britain Brandon Stadium Jason Crump Jimmy Nilsen Tomasz Gollob Ryan Sullivan results 5 August 28 Linköping , Sweden Motorstadium Tony Rickardsson Chris Louis Peter Karlsson Greg Hancock results 6 September 18 Bydgoszcz , Poland Polonia Stadium Tomasz Gollob Ryan Sullivan Jimmy Nilsen Hans Nielsen results

## Final standings

Qualifies for next season's Grand Prix series Full-time Grand Prix rider Wild card, track reserve or qualified reserve

Pos. Rider Points CZE GER DEN GBR SWE POL (4) Tony Rickardsson 111 25 25 18 8 25 10 (8) Jimmy Nilsen 99 18 20 8 20 15 18 (3) Tomasz Gollob 97 16 16 8 18 14 25 4 (7) Hans Nielsen 76 8 12 25 7 8 16 5 (18) Chris Louis 75 15 8 20 6 20 6 6 (1) Greg Hancock 69 6 10 14 15 16 8 7 (9) Ryan Sullivan 68 12 7 3 16 10 20 8 (10) Jason Crump 62 (+3) 3 3 16 25 7 8 9 (2) Billy Hamill 62 (+N) 20 18 6 12 5 1 10 (5) Mark Loram 52 6 7 10 7 8 14 11 (15) Leigh Adams 51 10 6 4 4 12 15 12 (22) (23) (24) Antonín Kasper, Jr. 50 7 4 15 14 3 7 13 (14) Stefan Dannö 49 14 6 7 10 5 7 14 (17) Andy Smith 43 2 14 5 4 6 12 15 (19) Henrik Gustafsson 43 8 15 6 6 2 6 16 (6) Brian Andersen 31 5 – 7 8 7 4 17 (23) (25) Peter Karlsson 27 1 8 – – 18 – 18 (11) Armando Castagna 23 1 5 3 3 6 5 19 (12) Zoltan Adorjan 21 7 5 2 3 1 3 20 (16) Craig Boyce 18 3 4 1 1 4 5 21 (13) Piotr Protasiewicz 16 2 1 5 2 3 3 22 (21) Jesper B. Jensen 14 4 – 1 5 2 2 23 (22) Brian Karger 12 – – 12 – – – 24 (20) Sebastian Ułamek 10 – 1 2 1 4 2 25 (22) (24) Gerd Riss 6 4 2 – – – – 26 (23) Bohumil Brhel 5 5 – – – – – 26 (23) Joe Screen 5 – – – 5 – – 28 (24) Lars Gunnestad 5 – – 4 – 1 – 29 (24) Jacek Gollob 4 – – – – – 4 30 (27) Jacek Krzyżaniak 3 – 3 – – – – 31 (23) Robert Barth 2 – 2 – – – – 32 (24) Martin Dugard 2 – – – 2 – – 33 (23) Robert Dados 1 – – – – – 1 Pos. Rider Points CZE GER DEN GBR SWE POL

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["WORLD INDIVIDUAL FINAL - RIDER INDEX"](https://www.speedwaygb.co.uk/worldfinalindex). *British Speedway*. Retrieved 10 July 2021.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["HISTORY SPEEDWAY and LONGTRACK"](http://www.speedway.org/history/). *Speedway.org*. Retrieved 10 July 2021.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Speedway riders, history and results"](https://wwosbackup.proboards.com/thread/6933/world-champions). *wwosbackup*. Retrieved 10 July 2021.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Hoare, T. (1998) 'Hamill crashes out in Poland',"](https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0501266861/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=bookmark-GDCS&xid=be865b93). *The Times*. 21 September 1998. Retrieved 11 July 2021 – via Gale Primary Sources.

## External links

- [Official Speedway GP site](https://web.archive.org/web/20070203093546/http://www.speedwayworld.tv/)

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