1997 Individual Long Track World Championship | |
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← 1996 1998 → |
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 |
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1 | 12 Jul | ![]() |
2 | 20 Jul | ![]() |
3 | 17 Aug | ![]() |
4 | 6 Sep | ![]() |
5 | 28 Sep | ![]() |
Final Classification※
Pos | Rider | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Round 5 | Total Pts |
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1 | ![]() |
20 | 10 | 25 | 16 | 18 | 89 |
2 | ![]() |
11 | 25 | 11 | 13 | 25 | 85 |
3 | ![]() |
25 | 16 | 16 | 8 | 11 | 76 |
4 | ![]() |
13 | 13 | 8 | 18 | 16 | 68 |
5 | ![]() |
5 | 18 | 20 | 9 | 14 | 66 |
6 | ![]() |
18 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 10 | 65 |
7 | ![]() |
12 | 9 | 18 | 12 | 13 | 64 |
8 | ![]() |
9 | 20 | 14 | 7 | 12 | 62 |
9 | ![]() |
16 | 8 | 9 | 20 | 5 | 58 |
10 | ![]() |
14 | 14 | 13 | 4 | 9 | 54 |
11 | ![]() |
6 | 12 | 1 | 25 | 7 | 51 |
12 | ![]() |
8 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 20 | 43 |
13 | ![]() |
7 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 35 |
14 | ![]() |
10 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 32 |
15 | ![]() |
4 | x | 5 | 2 | 8 | 19 |
16 | ![]() |
3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 17 |
17 | ![]() |
2 | 5 | 2 | x | 1 | 10 |
18 | ![]() |
x | x | 4 | x | 3 | 7 |
19 | ![]() |
x | x | x | 6 | x | 6 |
20 | ![]() |
x | 6 | x | x | x | 6 |
21 | ![]() |
x | x | x | 5 | x | 5 |
22 | ![]() |
1 | x | x | x | x | 1 |
23 | ![]() |
x | 1 | x | x | x | 1 |
References※
- ^ "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.