2008 Speedway Grand Prix of Italy FIM Meridian Lifts Italian Speedway Grand Prix Information Date 27 September 2008 City LonigoEvent 10 of 11 (110) Referee Wojciech GrodzkiJury President Ilkka TeromaaStadium details Stadium Santa Marina Stadium Capacity 8,000 Length 334 m (365 yd) Track speedway track SGP Results Best Time Winner Hans N. Andersen Runner-up Bjarne Pedersen 3rd place Bjarne Pedersen
The 2008 Speedway Grand Prix of Italy was the tenth race of the 2008 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on September 27 in the Santa Marina Stadium in Lonigo, Italy. Italian SGP was won by Hans N. Andersen from Denmark . It was his first GP Won in this season.[ 1]
Riders The Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated Guglielmo Franchetti as a wild card, and Mattia Carpanese and Alessandro Milanese as track reserves.[ 2] The draw was made on September 16 at the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme Headquarters in Mies, Switzerland.[ 3]
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 1 16 (5) Hans N. Andersen 21 3 2 3 2 2 12 2 3 3 2 5 (11) Bjarne Pedersen 17 3 0 2 3 3 11 3 2 2 3 12 (3) Jason Crump 18 3 3 3 2 2 13 1 3 1 4 9 (2) Leigh Adams 12 1 2 1 3 3 10 4 2 0 5 13 (7) Rune Holta 10 2 3 2 1 1 9 6 1 6 7 (10) Andreas Jonsson 9 2 0 3 3 1 9 5 0 7 2 (6) Greg Hancock 9 1 3 1 3 0 8 8 1 8 10 (4) Tomasz Gollob 9 2 2 1 1 3 9 7 X 9 3 (14) Krzysztof Kasprzak 8 2 1 2 0 3 8 9 10 11 (8) Scott Nicholls 8 T/- 3 1 2 2 8 10 11 8 (1) Nicki Pedersen 6 1 F2x 3 0 2 6 11 12 1 (12) Niels Kristian Iversen 6 3 1 0 1 1 6 12 13 6 (15) Fredrik Lindgren 5 X 1 2 2 0 5 13 14 15 (13) Lukáš Dryml 4 1 2 0 1 0 4 14 15 17 (17) Mattia Carpanese 2 0 1 0 0 1 2 15 16 14 (16) Guglielmo Franchetti 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 17 18 (18) Alessandro Milanese 0 0 0 17 4 (9) Chris Harris - - 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
Heat by heat Iversen, Kasprzak, Hancock, Carpanese Reserve rider Carpanese replaces injured Harris and comes. B.Pedersen, Jonsson, N.Pedersen, Lindgren (Fx) Crump, Gollob, Adams, Milanese, Nicholls (T/-) Nicholls touching the tapes and was excluded and replaced by Milanese. Andersen, Holta, Dryml, Franchetti Holta, Adams, Iversen, B.Pedersen Hancock, Gollob, Lindgren, Franchetti Nicholls, Dryml, Kasprzak, Jonsson Crump, Andersen, Carpanese, N.Pedersen (F2x) Pedersen crashes and is excluded. Carpanese takes a point despite broken chain. Andersen, Lindgren, Nicholls, Iversen Crump, B.Pedersen, Hancock, Dryml N.Pedersen, Kasprzak, Adams, Franchetti Jonsson, Holta, Gollob, Carpanese Jonsson, Crump, Iversen, Franchetti Hancock, Nicholls, Holta, N.Pedersen B.Pedersen, Andersen, Gollob, Kasprzak Adams, Lindgren, Dryml, Carpanese Gollob, N.Pedersen, Iversen, Dryml Adams, Andersen, Jonsson, Hancock Kasprzak, Crump, Holta, Lindgren B.Pedersen, Nicholls, Carpanese, Franchetti Semi-Finals: Crump, Adams, Holta, Gollob (X) Race stopped due to collision between Crump & Gollob - Gollob excluded Andersen, B.Pedersen, Hancock, Jonsson The Final: Andersen (6 points), B.Pedersen (4), Crump (2), Adams (0)
Qualifies for next season's Grand Prix series Full-time Grand Prix rider Wild card, track reserve or qualified reserve
See also
References ^ "Andersen najlepszy we Włoszech" (in Polish). SportoweFakty.pl. 2008-09-27. Archived from the original on 30 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-28 . ^ "Franchetti pojedzie z dziką kartą" (in Polish). SportoweFakty.pl. 2008-09-09. Archived from the original on 13 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-09 . ^ "Press Release Lonigo SGP" (PDF) . Polski Związek Motorowy . 2008-09-17. Retrieved 2008-09-19 .
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