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Riders

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Heat details

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)

The intermediate classification

References

External links

www.SpeedwayWorld.tv
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