The 2016 QBE Insurance Australian FIM Speedway Grand Prix was the eleventh and final race of the

2016 Speedway Grand Prix The 2016 Speedway Grand Prix season was the 22nd season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and decided the 71st FIM Speedway World Championship. It was the sixteenth series under the promotion of Benfield Sports International, an IMG company. Tai Wof ...

season. It took place on 22 October at the

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, Australia.

Riders

The Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated reigning Australian Champion

Brady Kurtz Brady Kurtz (born 27 September 1996) is an Australian speedway rider. Biography Born in Cowra, New South Wales, Kurtz isn't the only racer in his family. Brady's older brother Todd Kurtz is a fellow Speedway rider, who has ridden for the Plymo ...

as the wild card, with newly crowned Under-21 World Champion

Max Fricke Max Fricke (born 29 March 1996) is an Australian speedway rider. He is a World team champion, twice Australian champion and four times Australian Under-21 Champion. Career Juniors Fricke competed in junior levels of motocross and speedway in ...

and

Jack Holder Jack Holder (born 23 March 1996) in Appin, New South Wales is an Australian speedway rider currently riding for Sheffield Tigers in the British Elite League and Apator Toruń in the Polish Ekstraliga. Jack is a World team champion and his bro ...

, the younger brother of

Chris Holder Christopher Robert Holder (born 24 September 1987 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian speedway rider currently riding for Lejonen in the Swedish Elitserien and for Apator Toruń in the Polish Speedway Ekstraliga. He became the Austra ...

, as the Track Reserves. Second series reserve

Michael Jepsen Jensen Michael Jepsen Jensen (born 18 February 1992) is a speedway rider from Denmark. Career He was part of the 2010 Under-21 World Cup winning Denmark team. He also won the 2012 Nordic Speedway Grand Prix becoming the 1st wildcard to have won a GP ...

replaced injured Australian

Jason Doyle Jason Kevin Doyle (born 6 October 1985) is an Australian motorcycle speedway rider. He became World Champion in 2017. He won the 2015 Australian Solo Championship. He has also won the South Australian Championship in 2014, and the Elite Le ...

, while 2016 Australian Championship runner-up

Sam Masters Samuel Peter Masters (born 23 May 1991) is an Australian motorcycle speedway rider who won the Premier League Riders' Championship in 2011. Masters is an Australian Champion having won the Championship in January 2017. Career Masters was bo ...

replaced the man who he had clashed with in the 2015 event, injured triple World Champion

Nicki Pedersen Nicki Pedersen (born 2 April 1977) is a Danish motorcycle speedway rider. He has won the World Championship in 2003, 2007 and 2008 and was a World Cup winner with Denmark in 2006, 2008, 2012 and 2014. His brother, R ...

Results

The Grand Prix was won by Australia's

, who beat

Tai Woffinden Tai Woffinden (born 10 August 1990) is a British speedway rider. He is a three-time World Champion (2013, 2015 and 2018). Early life Woffinden was born in Scunthorpe, the son of former speedway rider Rob Woffinden. Although born in the Unite ...

, Bartosz Zmarzlik and

Antonio Lindbäck Antonio Lindbäck (born 5 May 1985 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a former international motorcycle speedway rider who competed in the Speedway World Championship, finishing eighth in 2016, and was a member of the Swedish team who won the Speedwa ...

in the final. It was Holder's first SGP win of the season, and his first win in SGP since winning in

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in his championship year of

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. Holder's win also saw him overtake fellow Australian Jason Doyle for overall 4th place in the series.

Greg Hancock Gregory Alan Hancock (born June 3, 1970 in Whittier, California) is an American former professional motorcycle speedway rider. As of 2023, he was one of only six riders to have won the individual World Championship four or more times. In addi ...

was crowned world champion for the fourth time when he won heat four. Hancock would later cause controversy by pulling out of the meeting after he was excluded from 2nd place in heat nine. Woffinden finished second in the overall standings by claiming second place, with Zmarzlik and Holder in third and fourth respectively. The meeting also saw

Piotr Pawlicki Jr. Piotr Pawlicki (born 30 November 1994) is a Polish Motorcycle speedway, speedway rider. Career Born in Leszno, he is the son of former rider Piotr Pawlicki Sr. and the younger brother of Przemysław Pawlicki. He won the Polish Under-21 Champi ...

, Lindbäck and

Niels Kristian Iversen Niels Kristian Trochmann Iversen (, born 20 June 1982 in Esbjerg, Denmark) is an international motorcycle speedway rider. He was part of the Danish teams that won the Speedway World Cup in 2006, 2008, 2012 and 2014. Early life ...

claim the final qualifying places for the

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Riders

Results

Heat details

Final classification

References

See also