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1997 Individual Long Track World Championship
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The 1997 Individual Long Track/Grasstrack World Championship was the 27th edition of the FIM speedway Individual Long Track World Championship. For the first time the Championship was decided on a Grand Prix system (a series of races) and also contained races on grasstrack.

The new system combined with the relatively new Speedway World Championship Grand Prix which started in 1995, effectively resulted in a separation of speedway riders. The leading speedway riders (with the exception of several Long Track specialists) could not commit to the Longtrack/Grasstrack schedule and therefore competed in the Speedway World Championship. The days of a speedway world champion in both normal track and Long Track speedway were gone.

The world title was won by Tommy Dunker of Germany.

Venues

Round Date Venue
1 12 Jul Netherlands Aduard
2 20 Jul Germany Cloppenburg
3 17 Aug Germany Pfarrkirchen
4 6 Sep France Marmande
5 28 Sep Czech Republic Mariánské Lázně

Final Classification

Pos Rider Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Total Pts
1 Germany Tommy Dunker 20 10 25 16 18 89
2 England Steve Schofield 11 25 11 13 25 85
3 England Glenn Cunningham 25 16 16 8 11 76
4 Italy Massimo Mora 13 13 8 18 16 68
5 Germany Egon Müller 5 18 20 9 14 66
6 Czech Republic Zdenek Schneiderwind 18 11 12 14 10 65
7 France Philippe Bergé 12 9 18 12 13 64
8 Germany Matthias Kröger 9 20 14 7 12 62
9 Australia Steve Johnston 16 8 9 20 5 58
10 England Jeremy Doncaster 14 14 13 4 9 54
11 England Paul Hurry 6 12 1 25 7 51
12 Czech Republic Bohumil Brhel 8 7 7 1 20 43
13 Czech Republic Pavel Ondrašík 7 2 10 10 6 35
14 France Christophe Dubernard 10 3 6 11 2 32
15 Ukraine Vladimir Trofimov 4 x 5 2 8 19
16 Germany Herbert Rudolph 3 4 3 3 4 17
17 Germany Thorsten Kerl 2 5 2 x 1 10
18 Czech Republic Václav Milík Sr. x x 4 x 3 7
19 Poland Adam Labedzki x x x 6 x 6
20 Australia Shane Parker x 6 x x x 6
21 Russia Oleg Kurguskin x x x 5 x 5
22 Germany Walter Scherwitzki 1 x x x x 1
23 Australia Mark Lemon x 1 x x x 1

References

  1. "SPEEDWAY and LONGTRACK". Speedway.org. Archived from the original on 10 September 2005. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  2. "World Longtrack World Champions". Grasstrack GB. Archived from the original on 15 May 2018. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  3. "Long Track Racing". Speedway Champions. Archived from the original on 25 May 2018. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  4. Montague, Trevor (2004). A To Z of Sport, page 512. Little Brown. ISBN 0-316-72946-9.
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