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1997 FIM 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.[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

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

Final Classification

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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

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  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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