Crump looked set to produce another bagful of points after taking a strong and gutsy win from his first ride, but was brought to a shattering halt when his front wheel was taken out by Sweden’s Antonio Lindback. The Aussie was controversially excluded for being the cause of the stoppage, as deemed by the referee.

After taking just two more points from his next three rides, Crump missed out on a place in the semi-finals, but the 36-year old Australian was optimistic and professional in his assessment of the night.

“My first heat was probably the hardest with Hancock, Sayfutdinov and Holder and I won that from gate four,” Crump said.

“And the incident with Lindback in heat eight was just one of those racing accidents that could have gone either way and this time it went against me.  But that’s all part of racing; you win some, you lose some. This time I lost.

“It was not my night tonight, but I am still in the hunt and not out of contention. I will go home and watch a replay of the meeting to assess my performance, but it’s not the end of the world. I will just put it behind me and look forward to the next event.

“I’ve got the World Cup next with Team Australia and we just missed out on winning last year so hopefully we go one better this year and bring home the trophy.”                                                                                           

The seventh round of the 2012 FIM Speedway Grand Prix World Championship will take place at Gorican in Croatia on Saturday 28 July. 

GORZOW SCORES: 1 Martin Vaculik 20, 2 Chris Holder 17, 3 Bartosz Zmarzlik 13, 4 Tomasz Gollob 12, 5 Greg Hancock 12, 6 Fredrik Lindgren 11, 7 Emil Sayfutdinov 10, 8 Andreas Jonsson 9, 9 Peter Ljung 7, 10 Nicki Pedersen 7, 11 Hans Andersen 7, 12 Antonio Lindback 6, 13 Jason Crump 5, 14 Bjarne Pedersen 4, 15 Kenneth Bjerre 3, 16 Chris Harris 1. 

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS AFTER SIX ROUNDS: 1 Greg Hancock 87, 2 Jason Crump 78, 3 Chris Holder 78, 4 Nicki Pedersen 72, 5 Tomasz Gollob 64, 6 Fredrik Lindgren 63, 7 Emil Sayfutdinov 58, 8 Andreas Jonsson 47, 9 Jaroslaw Hampel 46, 10 Antonio Lindback 40, 11 Peter Ljung 36, 12 Bjarne Pedersen 33, 13 Hans Andersen 31, 14 Kenneth Bjerre 28, 15 Chris Harris 28, 16 Martin Vaculik 20, 17 Bartosz Zmarzlik 13, 18 Thomas H Jonasson 11, 19 Josef Franc 9, 20 Przemyslaw Pawlicki 7, 21 Michael Jepsen Jensen 7, 22 Mikkel B Jensen 4, 23 Peter Kildemand 2, 24 Jason Bunyan 1.