2011 Individual Ice Racing World Championship Explained

The 2011 FIM Individual Ice Racing World Championship will be the 2011 version of FIM Individual Ice Racing World Championship season. The world champion will be determined in eight finals hosted in four cities between 5 February and 27 March 2011.[1] [2]

Qualification

See main article: 2011 Individual Ice Racing World Championship qualification.

In three Qualifying Rounds will started 48 riders from 13 nationan federation and to Final series will qualify top 5 from each meetings and 6th placed riders from QR1 and QR2.

Qualifying Rounds
QR1 Sankt Johann 2 2 1 1 3 1 3 1 2
QR2 Sanok 1 1 1 2 3 1 3 2 2
QR3 Saalfelden 2 1 2 1 2 2 2 2 2

Riders

There will be eighteen permanent riders. Seventeen riders was qualify from the qualifying rounds, and one permanent Wild Card will be nominatedand soon. There are no Wild Card and additional Track Reserve riders.

In all cases of absence of a scheduled rider, the draw number 17 track reserve rider shall be elevated for that meeting to take the place of that missing scheduled rider. In the case that there are 2 missing scheduled riders, then both track reserve riders (draw numbers 17 and 18) are elevated.

If a track reserve rider is promoted to the status of a scheduled rider and circumstances permit, a replacement track reserve rider shall be selected from the Substitute list based on their ranking for that year. The CCP Executive Secretariat will release the Substitute list along with the ballot for the first Final event.

A starting position draw for each final meeting will be balloted by the FIM.

Track reserves

After each Final, the 2 track reserve riders will become scheduled riders in the next Final, even if they have taken part in the Final where they are track reserve riders. Therefore, the 2 lowest point score riders (not being the 2 track reserve riders from that Final) on the Intermediate Classification will become track reserve in the next Final. The best placed rider will be the 1st track reserve rider with draw number 17 and the 2nd rider will be the 2nd track reserve with draw number 18.

Qualified riders

Top six riders from QR1 in Sankt Johann, Austria:

  1. Sergey Karachintsev
  2. Franz Zorn
  3. Ivan Ivanov
  4. Dmitri Bulankin
  5. Stefan Pletschacher
  6. Mats JarfTR

Top six riders from QR2 in Sanok, Poland:

  1. Nikolay Krasnikov
  2. Daniil Ivanov
  3. Stefan Svensson
  4. Igor Kononov
  5. Grzegorz Knapp
  6. Antonín Klatovský, Jr.TR

Top five riders from QR3 in Saalfelden, Austria:a

  1. Dmitry Khomitsevich
  2. Vitaly Khomitsevich
  3. Harald Simon
  4. Günther Bauer
  5. Peter Koij

One rider nominated by FIM:

  1. Johnny Tuinstra[3]

Notes:

TR. Jarf and Klatovský were qualify to the Final One (Day One) as a track reserve riders

a. QR3 hosted in Austria was co-organized by the Dutch federation

Qualified substitute

  1. René Stellingwerf
  2. Jan Klatovský

Final Series

See main article: 2011 Individual Ice Racing World Championship finals.

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1February 5 Krasnogorsk Nikolay Krasnikov Igor Kononov Dmitry Khomitsevich
2February 6 Krasnogorsk Nikolay Krasnikov Igor Kononov Daniil Ivanov
3February 12 Tolyatti Daniil Ivanov Dmitry Khomitsevich Nikolay Krasnikov
4February 13 Tolyatti Dmitry Khomitsevich Nikolay Krasnikov Igor Kononov
5March 12 Assen Igor Kononov Nikolay Krasnikov Daniil Ivanov
6March 13 Assen Daniil Ivanov Dmitry Khomitsevich Nikolay Krasnikov
7March 26 Inzell Nikolay Krasnikov Igor Kononov Daniil Ivanov
8March 27 Inzell Nikolay Krasnikov Igor Kononov Dmitry Khomitsevich

Classification

The World Champion will be the rider having collected the most points at the end of the Championship. The track reserve riders are taken into account on the Final Overall Classification.

In case of one or more ties on the Intermediate Classification of the Championship, the following will apply:

  1. Best place in the last Final run.

In case of riders involved in a tie on the Final Overall Classification at the end of the Championship, the following will apply:

  1. Run-off for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.
  2. Best place in the last Final meeting.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2010 FIM Conference Meeting . FIM-live.com . 2010-03-05 . 2010-03-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120406173854/http://www.fim-live.com/fileadmin/alfresco/Communiques_de_presse/2010_FIM_Conference_Meetings_-_2010_updated_calendars_%26_2011_provisional_calendars.pdf . 2012-04-06 . dead .
  2. Web site: Terminarze Mistrzostw Świata 2011 . Polish . SportoweFakty.pl . 2010-10-25 . 2010-10-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101028110115/http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/2010/10/25/terminarze-mistrzostw-swiata-2011/. 28 October 2010 . live.
  3. Web site: FIM przyznała dziką kartę . Polish . SportoweFakty.pl . 26 Jan 2011 . 26 Jan 2011 .