1990 Speedway Champions Cup

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The Speedway Champions Cup was an annual motorcycle speedway competition that took place between 1986 and 1993, featuring the national champions of the sixteen participating nations. It was discontinued with the introduction of the Speedway Grand Prix in 1995.

The Speedway Champions Cup was an annual motorcycle speedway event held each year organized by the International Motorcycling Federation (FIM) between 1986 and 1993.

Motorcycle speedway motorcycle sport

Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines which use only one gear and have no brakes; racing takes place on a flat oval track usually consisting of dirt, loosely packed shale, or crushed rock. Competitors use this surface to slide their machines sideways, powersliding or broadsiding into the bends. On the straight sections of the track the motorcycles reach speeds of up to 70 miles per hour (110 km/h).

Speedway Grand Prix are a series of stand-alone motorcycle speedway events over the course of a season used to determine the Speedway World Champion.

The 1990 championship was held at Lonigo and the winner was Hans Nielsen of Denmark. [1]

Lonigo Comune in Veneto, Italy

Lonigo is a town and comune in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, northern Italy, its population counts around 16,400 inhabitants.

Hans Nielsen (speedway rider) Danish speedway rider

Hans Hollen Nielsen is a former motorcycle speedway rider, active from the 1970s to the late 1990s; winning the world title four times.

Results

PlacingRiderTotal 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 91011121314151617181920PtsPos21
Gold medal icon.svg Flag of Denmark.svg (6) Hans Nielsen 14333231413
Silver medal icon.svg Flag of Hungary.svg (4) Zoltan Adorjan 14323331422
Bronze medal icon.svg Flag of England.svg (9) Simon Wigg 1223313123
4 Flag of Germany.svg (12) Klaus Lausch 1133E32114
5 Flag of Norway.svg (16) Arnt Forland 1131232115
6 Flag of Sweden.svg (8) Peter Karlsson 1020233106
7 Flag of the Soviet Union.svg (2) Rif Saitgareev 1022321107
8 Flag of Finland.svg (11) Juha Moksunen 81311288
9 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg (14) Petr Vandirek 72112179
10 Flag of Poland.svg (5) Wojciech Zaluski 612210610
11 Flag of Italy.svg (7) Valentino Furlanetto 502210511
12 Flag of Austria.svg (15) Toni Pilotto 511102512
13 Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg (3) Gregor Pintar 300021313
14 Flag of Bulgaria.svg (1) Nikolai Manev 211EEX214
15 Flag of Italy.svg (13) Gianni Famari 10E100115
16 Flag of the Netherlands.svg (10) Rene Elzinga 1E0001116
PlacingRiderTotal 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 910111213141516171819 20 PtsPos21

m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fell • ns - non-starter • nc - non-classify

gate A - inside gate B gate C gate D - outside

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The Speedway Champions Cup was an annual motorcycle speedway competition that took place between 1986 and 1993, featuring the national champions of the sixteen participating nations. It was discontinued with the introduction of the Speedway Grand Prix in 1995.

The Speedway Champions Cup was an annual motorcycle speedway competition that took place between 1986 and 1993, featuring the national champions of the sixteen participating nations. It was discontinued with the introduction of the Speedway Grand Prix in 1995.

The Speedway Champions Cup was an annual motorcycle speedway competition that took place between 1986 and 1993, featuring the national champions of the sixteen participating nations. It was discontinued with the introduction of the Speedway Grand Prix in 1995.

The Speedway Champions Cup was an annual motorcycle speedway competition that took place between 1986 and 1993, featuring the national champions of the sixteen participating nations. It was discontinued with the introduction of the Speedway Grand Prix in 1995.

The Speedway Champions Cup was an annual motorcycle speedway competition that took place between 1986 and 1993, featuring the national champions of the sixteen participating nations. It was discontinued with the introduction of the Speedway Grand Prix in 1995.

References

  1. "FIM Speedway Champions' Cup". World championships winners. 18 November 2004. Retrieved 7 January 2016.