Newly crowned champion Thomasz Gollob was able to celebrate his crowning back at home in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Where the final Grand Prix of the season was taking place, all proceedings were nearly almost dealt with with Gollob already champion and eleven points between 8th and 9th to determine the eight racers guaranteed into next season's Grand Prix circuit. But everyone was still a competitive as ever and even the wild cards were getting involved.
The opening heat was won by Dane Kenneth Bjerre who had a 23 point lead over Andersen (who started ninth) which was now extended to 26. Champion Gollob started the meeting with a win in heat 2 but he was battling through tendon and ligament damage in his right ankle which eventually forced him to retire from the meeting. Sweden's Magnus 'Zorro' Zetterstrom won the third heat with veteran American Greg Hancock extending his lead over the bottom eight after winning the fourth heat.
Heat five had to be restarted due to movement at the start and Gollob's bike packed up in the restart that was won by Polish wild card Piotr Protasiewicz. Great Britain joined the winner's enclosure in hear six thanks to Chris Harris and Sweden's Andreas Jonsson made it seven winners from seven heats.
Denmark's Nicky Pedersen made it eight but then went onto win the ninth heat as well to buck the trend. Heat ten saw the unfortunate retirement of Gollob which was then won by the other Polish wild card Janusz Kolodziej. Protasiewicz continued his excellent night by winning his second heat in heat eleven. Heat twelve saw a ninth heat winner in Sweden's Freddie Lindgren before Rune Holta made it ten in front of his home crowd. Hancock sealed his second heat victory in heat 14 with his sights set on a semi-final place.
Heat 15 saw substitute Przemyslaw Pavlicki take to the track and movement at the start caused a restart, Andreas Jonsson went on to win his second heat of the night. Great Britain had a second heat winner in heat 16 in the form of young Tai Woffinden and Hans Andersen became the next heat winner in heat 17. Kenneth Bjerre packed up in heat 18 which was won by Freddie Lindgren and Brit Chris Harris won his second heat in the penultimate 19th heat. The final heat saw second substitute Artur Mroczka participate but it was won by Aussie Jason Crump.
Semi-Final one was between Nicky Pedersen, Andreas Jonsson, Piotr Protasiewicz and Janusz Kolodziej. Surprisingly it was wildcard Kolodziej who won the semi-final and would be joined in the final by Andreas Jonsson. The second semi-final was between Freddie Lindgren, Greg Hancock, Chris Harris and Rune Holta; Holta won it to ensure there would be to Polish riders in the final with Brit Harris joining him. The final was won by Sweden's Jonsson though with Harris second and Kolodziej beating Holta to third. Here's the final standings:
1. Thomasz Gollob (Pol) 166, 2. Jaroslaw Hampel (Pol) 137, 3. Jason Crump (Aus) 135, 4. Rune Holta (Pol) 109, 5. Greg Hancock (USA) 107, 6. Chris Harris (Gbr) 107, 7. Kenneth Bjerre (Den) 106, 8. Chris Holder (Aus) 96, 9. Andreas Jonsson (Swe) 95, 10. Nicky Pedersen (Den) 91, 11. Fredrik Lindgren (Swe) 87, 12. Hans Andersen (Den) 86, 13. Magnus Zetterstrom (Swe) 74, 14. Tai Woffinden (Gbr) 49, 15. Emil Sayfutdinov (Rus) 33 (injured during campaign), 16. Davey Watt (Aus) 19 (injured during campaign).
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