1997 Individual Long Track World Championship

The 1997 Individual Long Track/Grasstrack World Championship was the 27th edition of the FIM speedway Individual Long Track World Championship.[1] For the first time the Championship was decided on a Grand Prix system (a series of races) and also contained races on grasstrack.[2]

1997 Individual Long Track World Championship

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.[3][4]

Venues
Round Date Venue
112 Jul Aduard
220 Jul Cloppenburg
317 Aug Pfarrkirchen
46 Sep Marmande
528 Sep Mariánské Lázně

Final Classification
Pos Rider Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Total Pts
1 Tommy Dunker201025161889
2 Steve Schofield112511132585
3 Glenn Cunningham25161681176
4 Massimo Mora13138181668
5 Egon Müller5182091466
6 Zdenek Schneiderwind181112141065
7 Phillipe Berge12918121364
8 Matthias Kröger9201471262
9 Steve Johnston168920558
10 Jeremy Doncaster1414134954
11 Paul Hurry612125751
12 Bohumil Brhel87712043
13 Pavel Ondrašík721010635
14 Christophe Dubernard103611232
15 Vladimir Trofimov4x52819
16 Herbert Rudolph3433417
17 Thorsten Kerl252x110
18 Václav Milík Sr.xx4x37
19 Adam Labedzkixxx6x6
20 Shane Parkerx6xxx6
21 Oleg Kurguskinxxx5x5
22 Walter Scherwitzki1xxxx1
23 Mark Lemonx1xxx1

References
  1. "SPEEDWAY and LONGTRACK". Speedway.org.
  2. "World Longtrack World Champions". Grasstrack GB.
  3. "Long Track Racing". Speedway Champions.
  4. Montague, Trevor (2004). A To Z of Sport, page 512. Little Brown. ISBN 0-316-72946-9.
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