The New Zealand Speedway Grand Prix is a motorcycle speedway race part of the

Speedway Grand Prix Speedway Grand Prix are a series of stand-alone motorcycle speedway events over the course of a season used to determine the Speedway World Champion. The series started in 1995 replacing the previous format of a single event final. The first win ...

. The event is held at the

Western Springs Stadium Western Springs Stadium is a stadium in Auckland, New Zealand. Built within a natural amphitheatre, it is primarily used for rugby union matches during the winter and for speedway during the summer. It is also occasionally used for large concer ...

Auckland Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The List of New Zealand urban areas by population, most populous urban area in the country and the List of cities in Oceania by po ...

. Western Springs is a permanent speedway venue which generally caters to car racing such as

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and Midgets, though it has also hosted

Motorcycle speedway Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that use only ...

on many occasions, including 15 times as host of the

New Zealand Individual Speedway Championship The New Zealand Solo Championship is an annual individual motorcycle speedway championship. The championship has been running since 1929 though it has only been running each year since 1958. ''Unless stated, all riders are from New Zealand'' Winne ...

. At in length, Western Springs, which hosted the opening round of the SGP from 2012–2014, was one of the longest tracks used in the 25-year history of the series. The Grand Prix of New Zealand has been dropped from the 2015 Speedway Grand Prix series.

Winners

See also