1998 Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden

1998 Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden
Information
Date	28 August 1998
City	Linköping
Event	5 of 6 (23)
Referee	Wolfgang Glas
Stadium details
Stadium	Motorstadium
Track	speedway track
SGP Results
Best Time
Winner	Tony Rickardsson
Runner-up	Chris Louis
3rd place	Peter Karlsson

The 1998 Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden was the fifth race of the 1998 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on 28 August in the Motorstadium in Linköping, Sweden It was fourth Swedish SGP and was won by World Champion Tony Rickardsson. It was third win of his career.

Starting positions draw

The Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated Antonín Kasper, Jr. (Czech Republic), Peter Karlsson (Sweden) and Lars Gunnestad (Norway) as Wild Card.

Heat details

Placing	Draw	Rider	Total	Pre-Main Event										Main Event										Final Event
				Round 1						Round 2				Round 1						Round 2				1/2		CF	F
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
1	8	(4) Tony Rickardsson	25											1						1				1			1
2	12	(18) Chris Louis	20				1				3		1				4T	2					2	2			2
3	23	(23) Peter Karlsson	18		3				2			2					2			2					2		3
4	5	(1) Greg Hancock	16														3		2			2			1		4
5	2	(8) Jimmy Nilsen	15												1						3		1		3	1
6	3	(3) Tomasz Gollob	14													2					1				4R	2
7	15	(15) Leigh Adams	12		1						2			2							4	1		3		3
8	4	(9) Ryan Sullivan	10														1				2			4		4
9	10	(5) Mark Loram	8		2					1				3				1				3
10	11	(7) Hans Nielsen	8			2					1				2					4			3
11	9	(6) Brian Andersen	7	2							4	1				1				3		4
12	1	(10) Jason Crump	7											4					1				4
13	17	(11) Armando Castagna	6	1						2					3				3
14	16	(17) Andy Smith	6	3				2					2			3		3
15	6	(2) Billy Hamill	5													4			4
16	7	(14) Stefan Dannö	5												4			4
Placing	Draw	Rider	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
17	20	(16) Craig Boyce	4				4	1				3
18	21	(20) Sebastian Ułamek	4				2			4			3
19	19	(13) Piotr Protasiewicz	3			1				3		4
20	22	(22) Antonín Kasper, Jr.	3			4R			1				4
21	13	(19) Henrik Gustafsson	2				3		3
22	14	(21) Jesper B. Jensen	2			3		3
23	18	(12) Zoltan Adorjan	1		4			4
24	24	(24) Lars Gunnestad	1	4					4T

Heats 1-10: Pre-Main Event 1-4: First round 5-6: Last chance for second round 7-8: Second round 9-10: Last chance Main Event

Heats 11-20: Main Event 11-14: First round 15-16: Last chance for second round 17-18: Second round 19-20: Last chance for Semi-Finals

Heats 21-24: Final Event 21-22: Semi-Finals 23: Consolation Final 24: The Big Final

gate A – inside

gate B

gate C

gate D – outside

The intermediate classification

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
1	(4) Tony Rickardsson	101	25	25	18	8	25
2	(8) Jimmy Nilsen	81	18	20	8	20	15
3	(3) Tomasz Gollob	72	16	16	8	18	14
4	(18) Chris Louis	69	15	8	20	6	20
5	(1) Greg Hancock	61	6	10	14	15	16
6	(2) Billy Hamill	61	20	18	6	12	5
7	(7) Hans Nielsen	60	8	12	25	7	8
8	(10) Jason Crump	54	3	3	16	25	7
9	(9) Ryan Sullivan	48	12	7	3	16	10
10	(22) (23) (24) Antonín Kasper, Jr.	43	7	4	15	14	3
11	(14) Stefan Dannö	42	14	6	7	10	5
12	(5) Mark Loram	38	6	7	10	7	8
13	(19) Henrik Gustafsson	37	8	15	6	6	2
14	(15) Leigh Adams	36	10	6	4	4	12
15	(17) Andy Smith	31	2	14	5	4	6
16	(6) Brian Andersen	27	5	–	7	8	7
17	(25) Peter Karlsson	27	1	8	–	–	18
18	(11) Armando Castagna	18	1	5	3	3	6
19	(12) Zoltan Adorjan	18	7	5	2	3	1
20	(13) Piotr Protasiewicz	13	2	1	5	2	3
21	(16) Craig Boyce	13	3	4	1	1	4
22	(21) Jesper B. Jensen	12	4	–	1	5	2
23	(22) Brian Karger	12	–	–	12	–	–
24	(20) Sebastian Ułamek	8	–	1	2	1	4
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	(27) Jacek Krzyżaniak	3	–	3	–	–	–
30	(23) Robert Barth	2	–	2	–	–	–
31	(24) Martin Dugard	2	–	–	–	2	–
Pos.	Rider	Points	CZE	GER	DEN	GBR	SWE	POL

See also

• Speedway Grand Prix
• List of Speedway Grand Prix riders

External links

• FIM-live.com
• SpeedwayWorld.tv