2016 Speedway Grand Prix of Scandinavia

The 2016 Stockholm FIM Speedway Grand Prix was the ninth race of the 2016 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on 24 September at the Friends Arena in Stockholm, Sweden.^[1]

2016 Speedway Grand Prix of Scandinavia
2016 Stockholm FIM Speedway Grand Prix
Information
Date	24 September 2016
City	Stockholm
Event	9 of 11
Referee	Jesper Steentoft
Stadium details
Stadium	Friends Arena
Capacity	34,000
Length	272 m (297 yd)
SGP Results
Best Time
Winner	Jason Doyle
Runner-up	Chris Holder
3rd place	Fredrik Lindgren

Riders

The Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated Jacob Thorssell as the wild card, and Peter Ljung and Linus Sundström both as Track Reserves. Second series reserve Michael Jepsen Jensen replaced the injured Nicki Pedersen, while Kim Nilsson replaced the injured Andreas Jonsson.

Results

The Grand Prix was won by Jason Doyle, who beat Chris Holder, Fredrik Lindgren and Matej Žagar in the final. It was Doyle's third successive Grand Prix win and, as a result, he took the lead in the world championship standings. Former series leader Greg Hancock, who was eliminated in the semi-finals, was five points back in second place with defending world champion Tai Woffinden in third.^[2]

Heat details

Placing	Draw	Rider	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pts	Pos	21	22	23
	14	(69) Jason Doyle	19				2		3					3		2							3	13	1	3		3
	6	(23) Chris Holder	13		1				0			3							3			2		9	7	2		2
	5	(66) Fredrik Lindgren	14		3			2					2					2					2	11	5		2	1
4	13	(55) Matej Žagar	15				3	3							3		2					1		12	2		3	0
5	7	(95) Bartosz Zmarzlik	12		2					1					2	3					3			11	4	1
6	3	(108) Tai Woffinden	11	2						2				1				3				3		11	3		0
7	15	(777) Piotr Pawlicki Jr.	10				1			3			1						2	3				10	6	0
8	12	(45) Greg Hancock	9			3					1		3			1						0		8	8		1
9	1	(71) Maciej Janowski	8	3				1				2				0				2				8	9
10	8	(88) Niels Kristian Iversen	7		0						3			0			3			1				7	10
11	9	(25) Peter Kildemand	6			1		2						0					1		2			6	11
12	2	(17) Kim Nilsson	5	1					2				0				1				1			5	12
13	4	(85) Antonio Lindbäck	5	0							2				1				0				2	5	13
14	10	(52) Michael Jepsen Jensen	4			2			1						0			1		0				4	14
15	16	(16) Jacob Thorssell	1				0				0	1						0			0			1	15
16	11	(37) Chris Harris	0			0				0		0					0						0	0	16
Placing	Draw	Rider	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pts	Pos	21	22	23

e: retired or mechanical failure • m: exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t: exclusion for touching the tapes • x: other exclusion • f: fell
ns: non-starter • nc: non-classify
Semi-finals: Heat 21: Riders placed 1st, 4th, 6th & 7th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)
Heat 22: Riders placed 2nd, 3rd, 5th & 8th in the intermediate classification (after 20 heats)
Big Final (heat 23): The first and second placed riders in each of the Semi-Finals

gate A – inside

gate B

gate C

gate D – outside

The intermediate classification

^[3]

Qualifies for next season's Grand Prix series

Full-time Grand Prix rider

Wild card, track reserve or qualified reserve

Pos.	Rider	Points	SVN	POL	DEN	CZE	GBR	SWE	PL2	GER	SCA	PL3	AUS
	(69) Jason Doyle	123	13	5	7	17	12	17	16	17	19
	(45) Greg Hancock	118	10	14	14	18	10	17	11	15	9
	(108) Tai Woffinden	107	10	14	15	9	15	8	15	10	11
4	(95) Bartosz Zmarzlik	100	8	10	7	13	13	10	14	13	12
5	(23) Chris Holder	98	14	12	13	5	6	12	15	8	13
6	(777) Piotr Pawlicki Jr.	81	8	4	5	6	14	13	10	11	10
7	(71) Maciej Janowski	80	10	10	16	5	11	12	6	2	8
8	(85) Antonio Lindbäck	74	10	10	10	5	18	7	4	6	4
9	(66) Fredrik Lindgren	73	7	12	2	11	2	8	11	6	14
10	(55) Matej Žagar	64	4	14	8	5	8	3	4	3	15
11	(88) Niels Kristian Iversen	64	8	4	7	11	3	8	5	11	7
12	(25) Peter Kildemand	62	15	6	7	6	4	9	3	6	6
13	(3) Nicki Pedersen	62	10	4	10	8	5	6	12	7	–
14	(100) Andreas Jonsson	39	6	8	8	6	9	2	0	–	–
15	(37) Chris Harris	33	3	3	4	10	1	2	4	6	0
16	(52) Michael Jepsen Jensen	11	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	7	4
17	(16) Patryk Dudek	8	–	8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
18	(16) Martin Smolinski	8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	8	–
19	(16) Danny King	7	–	–	–	–	7	–	–	–	–
20	(16) Krzysztof Kasprzak	7	–	–	–	–	–	–	7	–	–
21	(16) Anders Thomsen	5	–	–	5	–	–	–	–	–	–
22	(17) Kim Nilsson	5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	5
22	(16) Peter Ljung	4	–	–	–	–	–	4	–	–	–
23	(16) Václav Milík Jr.	3	–	–	–	3	–	–	–	–	–
24	(17) Tobias Kroner	2	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2	–
25	(16) Denis Štojs	1	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
26	(17) Nick Škorja	1	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
27	(17) Daniel Kaczmarek	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	1	–	–
28	(16) Jacob Thorsell	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	1
29	(18) Matic Ivačič	0	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Pos.	Rider	Points	SVN	POL	DEN	CZE	GBR	SWE	PL2	GER	SCA	PL3	AUS

References

1. "Stockholm Grand Prix Event Info". SGP. 30 May 2023.
2. "Stockholm Grand Prix Result". SGP. 30 May 2023.
3. "2016 FIM Speedway World Championship standings". SGP. 30 May 2023.

See also

• motorcycle speedway