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 | |
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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
edit| Round | Date | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 Jul |  Aduard
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| 2 | 20 Jul |  Cloppenburg
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| 3 | 17 Aug | Pfarrkirchen
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| 4 | 6 Sep |  Marmande
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| 5 | 28 Sep |  Mariánské Lázně
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Final Classification
edit| Pos | Rider | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Round 5 | Total Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tommy Dunker |
20 | 10 | 25 | 16 | 18 | 89 |
| 2 |  Steve Schofield |
11 | 25 | 11 | 13 | 25 | 85 |
| 3 | Glenn Cunningham |
25 | 16 | 16 | 8 | 11 | 76 |
| 4 |  Massimo Mora |
13 | 13 | 8 | 18 | 16 | 68 |
| 5 | Egon Müller |
5 | 18 | 20 | 9 | 14 | 66 |
| 6 | Zdenek Schneiderwind |
18 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 10 | 65 |
| 7 | Philippe Bergé |
12 | 9 | 18 | 12 | 13 | 64 |
| 8 | Matthias Kröger |
9 | 20 | 14 | 7 | 12 | 62 |
| 9 |  Steve Johnston |
16 | 8 | 9 | 20 | 5 | 58 |
| 10 | Jeremy Doncaster |
14 | 14 | 13 | 4 | 9 | 54 |
| 11 | Paul Hurry |
6 | 12 | 1 | 25 | 7 | 51 |
| 12 | Bohumil Brhel |
8 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 20 | 43 |
| 13 | Pavel Ondrašík |
7 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 35 |
| 14 | Christophe Dubernard |
10 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 32 |
| 15 |  Vladimir Trofimov |
4 | x | 5 | 2 | 8 | 19 |
| 16 | Herbert Rudolph |
3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 17 |
| 17 | Thorsten Kerl |
2 | 5 | 2 | x | 1 | 10 |
| 18 | Václav Milík Sr. |
x | x | 4 | x | 3 | 7 |
| 19 |  Adam Labedzki |
x | x | x | 6 | x | 6 |
| 20 | Shane Parker |
x | 6 | x | x | x | 6 |
| 21 |  Oleg Kurguskin |
x | x | x | 5 | x | 5 |
| 22 | Walter Scherwitzki |
1 | x | x | x | x | 1 |
| 23 | Mark Lemon |
x | 1 | x | x | x | 1 |
References
edit- ^ "SPEEDWAY and LONGTRACK". Speedway.org. Archived from the original on 10 September 2005. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
- ^ "World Longtrack World Champions". Grasstrack GB. Archived from the original on 15 May 2018. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
- ^ "Long Track Racing". Speedway Champions. Archived from the original on 25 May 2018. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
- ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A To Z of Sport, page 512. Little Brown. ISBN 0-316-72946-9.