1997 Individual 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]
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]
Round | Date | Venue |
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1 | 12 Jul | Aduard |
2 | 20 Jul | Cloppenburg |
3 | 17 Aug | Pfarrkirchen |
4 | 6 Sep | Marmande |
5 | 28 Sep | Mariánské Lázně |
Pos | Rider | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Round 5 | Total Pts |
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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 |
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