Slovakian Martin Vaculik becomes the sixth different winner in this year's GP series with a fantastic debut win. Following him in third was fellow debutant, seventeen year-old Bartosz Zmarzlik. Chris Holder finished second on the night and moves up to joint second in the overall standings. Tomasz Gollob finished fourth in front of his home crowd when it was feared he wouldn't even make it into the semi-finals.
Zmarzlik won his semi-final ahead of Holder. Emil Sayfutdinov finished in third with defending champion and overall leader, Greg Hancock, packing up to finish fourth. Gollob would make it three wins a row in the second semi-final ahead of Vaculik. Freddie Lindgren finished third with Andreas Jonsson in fourth.
The meeting itself proved why this year's series is so open, 13 of the 16 riders won a heat with only Chris Harris, Bjarne Pedersen and Kenneth Bjerre failing to win a single heat. The night started with Peter Ljung winning the opening heat. The second heat saw wildcard Zmarzlik and Vaculik, who was only in the meeting due to Jaroslaw Hampel's injury, compete. Vaculik took it with Zmarzlik in second, Gollob came third with Bjerre languishing in fourth.
Jason Crump won the battle of the Aussies in the third heat. Hancock could only finish in third in his opening heat with Sayfutdinov in forth. The fourth heat ended in agonising fashion as Jonsson pushed Nicky Pedersen out of the way to win the heat on the final corner.
Hancock recovered from third place in his opening heat to take the fifth heat, Vaculik finished second. Gollob finished third for the second heat in a row while Freddie Lindgren won the sixth heat. Harris would pack up in the seventh with Nicky Pedersen winning it. The only incident of the night came in heat eight when Antonio Lindback and Crump came together. The referee adjudged it was Crump that caused the collision, despite the Aussie being the one to hit the deck, and was excluded. The restart saw Lindback take the chequered flag.
Gollob could only muster up another third place in heat nine, Hans Andersen finished victorious ahead of Sayfutdinov. Vaculik finished second again in heat ten with Lindgren taking his second race of the night, that was followed up by Hancock also taking his second heat. Lindback would false start in the 12th heat and ultimately finish fourth in the restart. Zmarzlik won his first ever GP heat ahead of Holder and Jonsson.
Ljung won his second heat on the night in the 13th, but it wasn't enough to see him get into the semi-finals. Sayfutdinov took heat 14 before Harris would once again pack up, this time at the start. Heat 15 continued without Harris with Holder winning and Vaculik second. Gollob began to turn his night around in heat 16 with his first heat victory over Hancock, Lindback and Nicky Pedersen.
Holder took his second consecutive heat to put himself through to the semi-finals. Nicky Pedersen could only manage third and it wasn't enough for him to progress. Hancock won his third heat of the night before Gollob made it two heats from two in the penultimate race. The Slovak, Vaculik, won his second heat of the night before rounding the meeting off with his debut victory.
Hancock now stretches his lead to nine points on 87. With Holder finishing second, that puts him on 78 points, level with Crump. Nicky Pedersen is now a further six points behind with Gollob still way back on 64 points.
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