The Speedway World Championship is proving to be the exclusive domain of Bartosz Zmarzlik and oddsmakers don’t foresee that fact of life undergoing any alteration in the near future.
The future book odds are out for the 2025 Speedway Grand Prix World Championship and it is Zmarzlik who is being established as the overwhelming -140 odds-on favorite to cop the title. He’s won the title in each of the past three seasons.
2025 World Speedway Championship Odds | |||
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Bartos Zmarzlik | -140 | -140 | -140 |
Dan Bewley | +650 | +650 | +650 |
Robert Lambert | +800 | +800 | +800 |
Fredrik Lindgren | +1000 | +1000 | +1000 |
Jason Doyle | +1600 | +1600 | +1600 |
Dominik Kubera | +1600 | +1600 | +1600 |
Jack Holder | +1800 | +1800 | +1800 |
Martin Vaculik | +2500 | +2500 | +2500 |
Mikkel Michelsen | +2800 | +2800 | +2800 |
Anders Thornsen | +3300 | +3300 | +3300 |
Brady Kurtz | +4000 | +4000 | +4000 |
Max Fricke | +5000 | +5000 | +5000 |
Andrej Lebedev | +12500 | +12500 | +12500 |
Jan Kvech | +35000 | +35000 | +35000 |
Kai Huckenbeck | +50000 | +50000 | +50000 |
Dan Bewley (+650) and Robert Lambert (+800) are the only other riders given a betting line shorter than +1000 to have a chance at bringing an end to Zmarzlik’s reign.
Pursuit of the 2025 World Speedway Championship will begin on May 3 with the season-opening race at Landshut, Germany. During the Speedway Grand Prix season, don’t forget to check in regularly with the top Vegas sports betting sites for the latest updates on each week’s racing.
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Not only has Zmarzlik won the World Speedway Grand Prix title in each year since 2022, he’s won the championship five times over six seasons since 2019. Russia’s Artem Laguta (2021) has been the only other Speeway world champion in that six-year span.
Zmarzlik won two of the last three races of the 2024 season to assure that he’d been holding on to his crown. He also ran second in four other races.
With 26 Speeway Grand Prix wins, the Polish rider has surpassed Jason Crump’s all-time record of 23 Grand Prix wins.
Zmarzlik’s five race wins during the 2023 season gave him a share of the Speedway single-season mark with Crump.
British rider Bewley managed just one trip to the winner’s circle in 2024. That was his victory in Cardiff, Wales in the Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain.
He’s won at least one race in each of his three seasons on the Speedway Grand Prix circuit. Bewley wound up fourth in the 2024 World Championship standings. That was an improvement on his seventh-place finish in 2023.
Lambert won the 2024 race in Denmark. The British rider was also the second-place finisher on home soil in Great Britain, as well as running third in both Polish races and in Sweden.
That performance was good enough to earn Lambert second place in the world championship standings.
The veteran of the Speedway Grand Prix circuit, Swedish rider Lindgren has 16 seasons of competition under his belt.
This past season saw him win the second race in Poland and garner third place in the world championship table. He’s never won the title, finishing second once and third twice.
The 2017 Speedway Grand Prix world champion, Doyle’s 2024 season was cut short by a serious injury. He suffered four broken ribs and a lung contusion in a crash.
The Australian ran only three races during the season, finishing 16th in the overall standings. Hid did manage a win in the second race of the season at Warsaw, Poland.
The young Polish rider is still seeking his first career Speedway Grand Prix victory. The 2024 season saw him finish eighth in world championship standings.
The Australian rider got his 2024 campaign off to a dream start when he won the season-opening race at Croatia. It was the first win of his Speeday Grand Prix career.
Holder also ran third in Germany and was fourth in Sweden. He wound up sixth in the world championship table. He’d been the fourth-place finisher in 2023.
Can anyone hunt down Zmarzlik next year and end his reign as World Speedway Grand Prix champion? That seems very unlikely.
He’s a dominant force, who’s only growing more dominant. This past season, Zmarzlik won the title by a massive margin of 55 points. His 2023 victory, in contrast, was by a scant eight-point margin. But the first year of his current three-year reign saw the Polish rider taking the title by 33 points clear of his nearest rival.
If there’s a glimmer of hope for the rest of the field, it’s that Zmarzlik only won three races in 2024. He took the checkered flag five times during the 2023 season. Despite that, he widened his advantage over the other riders.
Bet against Zmarzlik being World Speedway champion again in 2025 at your own peril.
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