The 2000 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification or GP Challenge was a series of motorcycle speedway meetings used to determine the 12 riders that would qualify for the 2000 Speedway Grand Prix^[1] to join the other 10 riders that finished in the leading positions from the 1999 Speedway Grand Prix.^[2]

The format changed from the previous year, in that only 2 riders would qualify straight from the Intercontinental and Continental finals and 10 riders would qualify through the GP Challenge.

Billy Hamill won the GP Challenge.^[3]

Format

• First Round - 6 riders from Sweden, 5 from Denmark, 3 from Finland, 2 from Norway to Scandinavian Final
• First Round - 32 riders from Continental quarter finals to Continental semi-finals
• First Round - 8 riders from British Final to Overseas Final
• First Round - 4 riders from Australian Final to Overseas Final
• First Round - 4 riders from United States Final to Overseas Final
• Second Round - 8 riders from Scandinavian Final to Intercontinental Final
• Second Round - 8 riders from Overseas Final to Intercontinental Final
• Second Round - 16 riders from Continental semi-finals to Continental Final
• Third Round - 11 riders from positions 11-21 from the 1999 Grand Prix & World U21 champion to GP Challenge
• Third Round - 1 rider from the Continental Final to 2000 Grand Prix and 5 to GP Challenge
• Third Round - 1 rider from the Intercontinental Final to 2000 Grand Prix and 6 to GP Challenge
• Final Round - 10 riders from the GP Challenge to the 2000 Grand Prix

First round

Continental quarter finals

QF (18 Apr Diedenbergen) Pos Rider Points 1 Pavel Ondrašík 13 2 Róbert Nagy 12 3 Attila Stefáni 11 4 Philippe Bergé 11 5 Bohumil Brhel 10 6 Aleš Dryml Jr. 10 7 Tomasz Sustersic 10 8 Eduard Chajkoulin 9 9 Sergej Darkin 8 10 Jörg Pingel 5 11 Steffen Mell 5 12 Simone Tadiello 5 13 Zsolt Bence 3 14 Graziano Franchetti 2 15 Heinrich Schatzer 1 16 Patrik Goret 1 17 Lukáš Dryml 1

QF (2 May Daugavpils) Pos Rider Points 1 Robert Flis 14 2 Robert Sawina 13 3 Zoltán Adorján 13 4 Oleg Kurguskin 12 5 Tomáš Topinka 11 6 Michal Makovský 10 7 Vladimirs Voronkovs 10 8 Richard Wolff 7 9 Nikolajs Kokins 6 10 Sergej Eroschin 6 11 Gerhard Lekse 5 12 Jozef Koren 5 13 Vitalijs Biznia 3 14 Alexanders Biznia 2 15 Sandor Fekete 2 16 Maksims Andrejevs 0

QF (2 May Bydgoszcz) Pos Rider Points 1 Sławomir Drabik 15 2 Jacek Gollob 13 3 Piotr Protasiewicz 12 4 Rafał Dobrucki 10 5 Roman Povazhny 10 6 Izak Šantej 9 7 Joachim Kugelmann 8 8 Antonín Šváb Jr. 8 9 Adrian Rymel 7 10 Martin Peterca 6 11 Bart Pijper 5 12 Krzysztof Jabłoński 5 13 Heiko Müller 3 14 Erik Eijbergen 2 15 Otto de Jong 2 16 Jacek Rempala 2 17 Talgat Galeev 1 18 Eddy Turksema 0

QF (2 May Terenzano) Pos Rider Points 1 Piotr Świst 15 2 Armando Castagna 14 3 Sebastian Ułamek 13 4 Andrea Maida 11 5 Sándor Tihanyi 10 6 Sebastien Trésarrieu 10 7 Simone Terenzani 8 8 Zdenek Schneiderwind 8 9 Zlatko Krznaric 7 10 George Štancl 6 11 Stéphane Trésarrieu 5 12 Zeliko Feher 3 13 Thomas Stadler 3 14 Toni Pilotto 3 15 Sigfried Eder 2 16 Renato Kuster 2 17 Nicola Andrioli 0

Second round

Scandinavian Final

8 riders to Intercontinental Final

(13 June 1999 Holsted)
Pos	Rider	Points
1	Rune Holta	14
2	Jesper B Jensen	11
3	Gert Handberg	11
4	Andreas Jonsson	10
5	Charlie Gjedde	9
6	Peter Nahlin	9
7	Ronni Pedersen	9
8	Kai Laukkanen	9
9	Niklas Klingberg	8
10	Vesa Ylinen	7
11	Bo Skov Eriksen	7
12	Per Wester	6
13	Niklas Karlsson	6
14	Stefan Andersson	2
15	Kjell Öyvind Sola	1
16	Tomi Reima	1

Continental semi finals

Continental semi-finals - 16 riders from to Continental final

SF 13 June 1999 Brokstedt Pos. Rider Points 1 Robert Barth 13 2 Robert Sawina 12 3 Tomáš Topinka 11 4 Róbert Nagy 10 5 Philippe Bergé 10 6 Attila Stefáni 9 7 Michal Makovský 9 8 Bohumil Brhel 8 9 Richard Wolff 8 10 Aleš Dryml Jr. 7 11 Oleg Kurguskin 7 12 Pavel Ondrašík 6 13 Robert Flis 6 14 Matthias Kröger 3 15 Zoltán Adorján 1 16 Tomasz Sustersic 0	SF 13 June 1999 Ljubljana Pos. Rider Points 1 Sebastian Ułamek 13 2 Armando Castagna 13 3 Rafał Dobrucki 12 4 Roman Povazhny 10 5 Jacek Gollob 10 6 Sándor Tihanyi 10 7 Antonín Šváb Jr. 9 8 Piotr Protasiewicz 9 9 Sławomir Drabik 9 10 Matej Ferjan 5 11 Andrea Maida 4 12 Izak Šantej 4 13 Stefano Alfonso 4 14 Sebastien Trésarrieu 3 15 Simone Terenzani 3 16 Piotr Świst 2

Third round

• 11 riders from positions 11-21 from the 1999 Speedway Grand Prix & World U21 champion to GP Challenge

Continental Final

• 1 rider direct to Grand Prix, 5 riders to GP Challenge
• 25 July 1999 Wrocław

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Rafał Dobrucki	15
2	Piotr Protasiewicz	14
3	Sławomir Drabik	11
4	Robert Sawina	11
5	Bohumil Brhel	10
6	Jacek Gollob	8
7	Roman Povazhny	8
8	Sebastian Ułamek	7
9	Robert Barth	7
10	Antonín Šváb Jr.	7
11	Tomáš Topinka	6
12	Armando Castagna	5
13	Sándor Tihanyi	5
14	Attila Stefáni	3
15	Richard Wolff	2
16	Michal Makovský	1

Final Round

GP Challenge

10 riders to 2000 Grand Prix

• 17 October 1999 Lonigo

Pos.	Rider	pre-qual	qual	sf	Final
1	Billy Hamill	x	3, 2	3	3
2	Mikael Karlsson	x	3, 3	2	2
3	Carl Stonehewer	2, 2	1, 2, 3	3	1
4	Brian Karger	x	3, 2	2	0
5	Henrik Gustafsson	x	2, 3	1	x
6	Mark Loram	3, 1	2, 1, 3	1	x
7	Andy Smith	x	2, 0, 2	0	x
8	Antonín Kasper Jr.	x	2, 2	0	x
9	Peter Karlsson	x	3, 1, 1	x	x
10	Brian Andersen	3, 3	0, 2, 1	x	x
11	John Jørgensen	x	2, 0, 0	x	x
12	Niklas Klingberg	1, 3	2, 1, 0	x	x
13	Jacek Gollob	3, 0	3, 0, 1	x	x
14	Jason Lyons	3, 3	1, 1	x	x
15	Robert Dados	2, 2	0, 0	x	x
16	Gary Havelock	2, 0	3, 0	x	x
17	Marián Jirout	2, 1	1	x	x
18	Lee Richardson	0, 2	1	x	x
19	Robert Sawina	1, 3	0	x	x
20	Bohumil Brhel	1, 2	0	x	x
21	Sławomir Drabik	0, 1	x	x	x
22	Rune Holta	1, 0	x	x	x
23	Piotr Protasiewicz	0, 0	x	x	x
24	Kai Laukkanen	0, 1	x	x	x

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