2015 Australian Individual Speedway Championship Explained

The 2015 Individual Speedway Australian Championship is a Motorcycle speedway competition organised by Motorcycling Australia (MA) for the Australian Solo Championship.^[1]

The four round series were held between 3 January and 10 January. In a change to the series points system, riders will score points from the "A" Finals which will count towards their overall series total. A Final points are: 4 points (1st), 3 points (2nd), 2 points (3rd) and 1 point (4th).

The rounds were held at the Gillman Speedway in Adelaide on 3 January, Olympic Park Speedway in Mildura on 5 January, Undera Park Speedway in Undera on 7 January, with the fourth and final round to be held at the Loxford Park Speedway in Kurri Kurri on 10 January.

Qualification

Due to a number of injuries, the official qualifying round to be held at Gillman on 2 January (the day before the championship officially began) was cancelled. This led to MA selecting 16 riders to contest the championship rounds.^[2]

The 16 riders seeded through to the finals were:

• Jake Allen (Qld)
• Josh Coyne (Qld)
• Jason Doyle (NSW)
• Jack Fallon (Vic)
• Max Fricke (Vic)
• Josh Grajczonek (Qld)
• Chris Holder (NSW)
• Jack Holder (NSW)
• Sam Masters (NSW)
• Tyson Nelson (Qld)
• Dakota North (Vic)
• Joe Ringwood (NSW)
• Justin Sedgmen (Vic)
• Kieran Sproule (NSW)
• Rohan Tungate (NSW)
• Brodie Waters (Vic)

The reserves were announced as Jordan Stewart (Vic), Cooper Riordan (Vic) and Brady Webb (WA)

Gillman

• Round one^[3]
• 3 January
• Adelaide, South Australia - Gillman Speedway
• Referee:
• Top 3 riders to "A" Final, riders 4-7 to "B" Final
• "B" Final winner to "A" Final

width=25px	Pos.	width=175px	Rider	width=40px	Points	width=90px	Details
1		14	(2,3,3,3,3)
2		14	(3,3,3,3,2)
3		13	(3,2,2,3,3)
4		11	(2,2,3,3,1)
5		11	(2,3,3,2,1)
6		10	(3,1,2,1,3)
7		8	(2,0,1,2,3)
8		8	(3,1,1,2,1)
9		8	(1,2,2,1,2)
10		6	(1,3,f,2,0)
11		6	(1,1,2,f,2)
12		3	(0,0,1,r,2)
13		3	(0,0,1,1,1)
14		2	(0,2,0,0,0)
15		2	(1,1,0,r,0)
16		1	(0,0,0,1,0)
R1		-	Did Not Ride
R2		-	Did Not Ride

Gillman "B" Final

1 - Justin Sedgmen
2 - Max Fricke
3 - Chris Holder
4 - Josh Grajczonek

Gillman "A" Final

1 - Jason Doyle
2 - Justin Sedgmen
3 - Rohan Tungate
4 - Dakota North

Olympic Park

• Round two^[4]
• 5 January
• Mildura, Victoria - Olympic Park Speedway
• Referee:
• Top 3 riders to "A" Final, riders 4-7 to "B" Final
• "B" Final winner to "A" Final

width=25px	Pos.	width=175px	Rider	width=40px	Points	width=90px	Details
1		13	(3,3,3,1,3)
2		12	(3,1,2,3,3)
3		12	(2,2,3,2,3)
4		10	(2,2,3,0,3)
5		10	(3,3,2,x,2)
6		10	(1,3,1,3,2)
7		10	(2,3,2,1,2)
8		9	(2,1,2,2,2)
9		8	(3,1,1,2,1)
10		6	(x,x,3,3,x)
11		5	(0,0,1,3,1)
12		5	(0,2,0,2,1)
13		3	(1,0,0,1,1)
14		2	(0,2,0,0,0)
15		2	(x,0,1,1,0)
16		1	(1,x,x,0,x)
R1		1
R2		0

Olympic Park "B" Final

1 - Tyson Nelson
2 - Josh Grajczonek
3 - Max Fricke
4 - Sam Masters

Olympic Park "A" Final

1 - Jason Doyle
2 - Chris Holder
3 - Justin Sedgmen
4 - Tyson Nelson

Undera Park

• Round three^[5]
• 7 January
• Undera, Victoria - Undera Park Speedway
• Referee:
• Top 3 riders to "A" Final, riders 4-7 to "B" Final
• "B" Final winner to "A" Final

width=25px	Pos.	width=175px	Rider	width=40px	Points	width=90px	Details
1		14	(3,2,3,3,3)
2		14	(2,3,3,3,3)
3		14	(3,3,3,3,2)
4		12	(3,3,3,2,1)
5		11	(2,3,2,1,3)
6		9	(x,2,2,2,3)
7		9	(2,1,1,3,2)
8		8	(1,1,2,2,2)
9		6	(0,2,2,1,1)
10		6	(1,2,0,1,2)
11		5	(3,1,1,0,0)
12		5	(2,0,0,2,1)
13		2	(1,1,0,0,0)
14		2	(x,0,1,0,1)
15		1	(0,0,0,1,0)
16		1	(x,0,1,0,x)
R1		0

Undera Park "B" Final

1 - Dakota North
2 - Rohan Tungate
Fx - Tyson Nelson
X - Justin Sedgmen

Undera Park "A" Final

1 - Sam Masters
2 - Max Fricke
3 - Jason Doyle
4 - Dakota North

Loxford Park

• Round four^[6]
• 10 January
• Kurri Kurri, New South Wales - Loxford Park Speedway
• Referee:
• Top 3 riders to "A" Final, riders 4-7 to "B" Final
• "B" Final winner to "A" Final

width=25px	Pos.	width=175px	Rider	width=40px	Points	width=90px	Details
1		14
2		13
3		13
4		11
5		11
6		11
7		9
8		8
9		8
10		5
11		5
12		4
13		3
14		3
15		1
16		1
R1		0
R2		0

Loxford Park "B" Final

1 - Dakota North
2 - Jack Holder
3 - Justin Sedgmen
x - Max Fricke

Loxford Park "A" Final

1 - Jason Doyle
2 - Sam Masters
3 - Rohan Tungate
4 - Dakota North

Intermediate classification

width=20px	Pos.	width=160px	Rider	width=50px	Points	width=25px	GIL	width=25px	OLY	width=25px	UND	width=25px	LOX
		69	18	17	16	18
		52	8	10	18	16
		48	14	14	9	11
4		48	10	10	17	11
5		47	14	8	13	12
6		46	16	6	9	15
7		38	8	11	11	8
8		37	11	10	8	8
9		24	6	9	-	9
10		23	8	15	-	-
11		18	6	5	2	6
12		17	3	5	6	3
13		15	3	2	5	5
14		12	2	1	5	4
15		10	1	2	6	1
16		9	2	3	1	3
17		4	-	1	2	1
18		1	-	0	1	-
19		0	-	-	0	-

Notes

See also

• Australian Individual Speedway Championship
• Australia national speedway team
• Sports in Australia

Notes and References

1. Web site: Motorcycling Australia - National Speedway Results . 2015-01-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141215055658/http://www.ma.org.au/index.php?id=445 . 2014-12-15 . dead .
2. http://www.gillmanspeedway.com/news/injuries-decimate-championship-qualifying-meeting/ Injuries Decimate Aussie Title Qualifying Meeting
3. http://speedwaygp.com/news/article/3897/doyles-delight-at-gillman Doyle Delight at Gillman as Holder Struggles
4. http://speedwaygp.com/news/article/3899/jds-mildura-masterclass Doyle's Mildura Masterclass
5. http://speedwaygp.com/news/article/3903/doyle-two-wins-from-gold Holder out as Doyle is two wins from Gold
6. Web site: Doyle seals Aussie Gold . 10 January 2015 . 10 January 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150110153421/http://www.speedwaygp.com/news/article/3906/doyle-seals-aussie-gold . dead .