Pedersen Hunts Holder

Nicky Pedersen has cut the gap between himself and Chris Holder to two points with just one round left in this year's GP series. Pedersen managed to finish second in the 11th GP in Vojens, Denmark. It was the wildcard, Michael Jepsen Jensen who managed to overtake his fellow Dane on the final lap and win the GP.

Emil Sayfutdinov finished third on the night with Jason Crump also making it into the final. Greg Hancock did manage to squeeze into the semi-finals to keep his championship hopes alive, but he finished fourth in the semis with Freddie Lindgren also missing out as Nicky Pedersen and Crump took the two places in the final. Holder also made it into the semi-finals but couldn't finish ahead of Sayfutdinov or Jepsen Jensen, but did get a vital point courtesy of Antonio Lindback slowing down on the last lap.

At the start of play, Holder had an eight point advantage over Hancock, 11 over Pedersen. That advantage was extended to ten over Hancock when Holder finished second in opening heat with the American fourth, Antonio Lindback continued his fine form to win the first heat.

Nicky Pedersen followed that up by taking heat two to put himself level on points with Hancock. Poland's Krzystof Kasprzak replaced Martin Vaculik and instantly took the third heat. Andreas Jonsson's start to the night ended with him packing up, Peter Ljung won the heat with Jepsen Jensen finishing behind Bjarne Pedersen in third.

Nicky Pedersen then gained two points on Holder by winning heat five with the Australian in third behind Jonsson. This put Holder on 137 with Pedersen on 129. Hancock recovered to win heat six to remain level on points with Pedersen. Lindback followed Pedersen by making it two heats out of two. There was drama in heat seven which was started by Ljung putting the bike down. The heat was able to continue until Chris Harris also crashed, forcing a restart. With Harris excluded, Crump ended up false starting to force a second restart which Sayfutdinov eventually won.

Holder then took his first heat of the night to push his tally up to 140. Chris Harris again hit the deck in heat ten. This time there wasn't a restart and Nicky Pedersen took his third heat of the night with Hancock finishing second, this put the Dane onto 132 points with the American a point behind. Crump took heat-11 before Kasprzak looked to suffer a nasty crash, in which he landed on his shoulder, the restart was won by Tomasz Gollob.

Jepsen Jensen won his first heat of the night in heat-13, Holder could only manage third which took his tally to 141. Crump packed up at the start of heat-14 which Lindgren went onto win with Hancock finishing second to move up to 133. Nicky Pedersen remained that one point ahead of Hancock with a second place in heat-15, Lindback took his third heat of the night to prevent the Dane from winning. Kasprzak did return, unharmed, in that heat but looked well off the pace in fourth. Sayfutdinov took his second heat of the night in heat-16.

Kasprzak's night ended by packing up in heat-17, Holder took his second heat of the night to make it into the semi-finals with a tally of 144. Ljung also packed up in heat-18 with Jaroslaw Hampel picking up his first points of the night with the win, Hancock finished second to move onto 135 points. Jonsson did take heat-19 before Nicky Pedersen earned another two points in the final heat, moving him up to 136 whilst Lindgren took his second heat of the night.

With one round remaining, Holder leads on 145 points with Nicky Pedersen just two points behind. Hancock has slightly fell away and is ten points behind the Australian. Sayfutdinov has moved into fourth place on 122 with Gollob and Crump on 121 points. Lindgren sits seventh on 111 with Lindback claiming the final automatic qualification place on 103 points.