1981 Individual Long Track World Championship

Long track motorcycle racing event 1981 Individual Long Track World Championship 1980 1982 The 1981 Individual Long Track World Championship was the 11th edition of the FIM speedway Individual Long Track World Championship.Oakes Peter Daily Mirror 1981 Speedway Yearbook, page 30 1981 Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd 0-86215-017-5http://www.speedway.org/history/ SPEEDWAY and LONGTRACK Speedway.org The event was held on 20 September 1981 in Gornja Radgona in the Slovenia, which was Yugoslavia at the time.http://grasstrackgb.co.uk/world-longtrack/ World Longtrack World Champions Grasstrack GB The world title was won by Michael Lee of England.http://www.speedwayplus.com/pdf/Longtrack.pdf WORLD LONGTRACK FINALS 1971 – 1996 Tracy Holmes Speedway Plus.comMontague Trevor A To Z of Sport, page 512 2004 Little Brown 0-316-72946-9 Ivan Mauger crashed in heat 7 and was taken to hospital. Final Classification Pos Rider Heat Pts Heat Pts Heat Pts Heat Pts Heat Pts Total Pts1 ENG Michael Lee 3 5 5 5 5 232 FRG Christoph Betzl 5 45 5 1 203 SWE Anders Michanek 4 4 4 4 3 19 4 FRG Georg Gilgenreiner 1 5 5 4 4 195 FRG Egon Müller 5 33 3 2 166 ENG Phil Collins 4 5 2 3 0 147 FRG Josef Aigner 3 4 4 2 E 138 FRG Hans Otto Pingel 5 3 4 ef E129 ENG Peter Collins 3 2 3 2E 1010 TCH Jiří Štancl 1 3 1 1E 6 11 NZL Ivan Mauger 4 2 ns nsE 612 FRG Georg Hack 2 0 3 ef E513 FRG Karl Maier 2 1 2EE 514 TCH Zdeněk Kudrna 2 2 ns EE4 15 YUG Stefan Kekec 0 12 EE316 YUG Vlado Kocuvan 0 0 1 EE117 FRG Alois Wiesböck ef 1 efEE 1 18 FRG Wilhelm Duden ef 0EEef 0 E = eliminated (no further ride) f = fell ef = engine failure ns = non starter References 1981 Category:International sports competitions hosted by Yugoslavia Motor Motor