SPEEDWAY GP 2024 CALENDAR ANNOUNCED

The FIM Speedway Grand Prix World Championship series will expand to 11 rounds as the 2024 FIM Speedway calendar is revealed.

Having staged an historic Monster Energy FIM Speedway World Cup in 2023 – speedway’s 100th anniversary season – Wroclaw’s Olympic Stadium makes an exciting return to the Speedway GP calendar on August 31.

The FIM Speedway of Nations replaces the Monster Energy FIM SWC on the calendar, heading back to Manchester from July 9-13 as Britain’s National Speedway Stadium becomes the first venue to stage the Final of the epic pairs competition for a second time – just three years after Great Britain ended their 32-year wait for a world team title in the 2021 Final there.

There’s also huge news for fans in Bavaria as German club Landshut hosts the FIM Speedway GP of Germany – Landshut on May 18 – its first SGP event since Danish legend Hans Nielsen topped the podium there on July 6, 1997.

With the Landshut Devils entering the Polish leagues in 2021, winning promotion to the First Division at the first attempt that season, the news comes as another huge milestone for Germany’s biggest speedway club, which hosted the 2018 FIM GP Challenge and the 2019 FIM SON opening round.

Poland’s four-time champion Bartosz Zmarzlik bids to become the first rider in SGP history to win three world titles in a row as he prepares for a Speedway GP season, featuring 11 rounds across eight different countries and 15 riders from nine different nations – including Latvia’s Andzejs Lebedevs, Germany’s Kai Huckenbeck, Poland’s Dominik Kubera and Szymon Wozniak and Czech racer Jan Kvech, who all make their full-time SGP debuts in 2024.

Racing gets underway with the FIM Speedway GP of Croatia at Donji Kraljevec’s Speedway Stadion Milenium on April 27, before climaxing with the iconic FIM Speedway GP of Poland – Torun on September 28.

FIM Speedway’s fastest junior riders will also be in action as part of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) Sports Europe’s vision to develop the stars of the future, with the FIM Speedway Under-21 world champion crowned over a three-round FIM SGP2 series. FIM SGP3 – the 250cc FIM Speedway Youth World Championship – and the 190cc FIM Speedway Youth World Cup (SGP4) also returns.