1988 Individual Long Track World Championship

Long track motorcycle racing event 1988 Individual Long Track World Championship 1987 1989 The 1988 Individual Long Track World Championship was the 18th edition of the FIM speedway Individual Long Track World Championship.http://www.speedway.org/history/ SPEEDWAY and LONGTRACK Speedway.org The event was held on 18 September 1988 at Scheeßel in Germany, which was West Germany at the time.http://grasstrackgb.co.uk/world-longtrack/ World Longtrack World Champions Grasstrack GB The Championship format was altered with 16 rider fields and 8 riders in each heat. The top 8 scorers qualified for the semi-final heats with (points carried forward).http://www.speedwayplus.com/pdf/Longtrack.pdf WORLD LONGTRACK FINALS 1971 – 1996 Tracy Holmes Speedway Plus.com The world title was won by Karl Maier of West Germany for the fourth time.Montague Trevor A To Z of Sport, page 512 2004 Little Brown 0-316-72946-9 Final Classification Pos Rider Heat Pts Heat Pts Heat Pts Heat Pts Heat Pts Heat Pts Total Pts1 FRG Karl Maier 7 7 7 7 7 7 42 2 FRG Klaus Lausch 7 6 7 6 6 ef 32 3 ENG Chris Morton 2 7 6 7 3 6 314 DEN Hans Nielsen 4 6 6 ef 7 4 275 FRG Gerd Riss 5 4 4 4 4 5 26 6 FRG Heinrich Diener 6 3 5 5 5 2 26 7 SWE Roland Dannö 6 5 ef 6 6 1 248 ENG Simon Wigg 3 2 4 5 4 3 21 9 FRG Egon Müller 3 4 5 3 ef E 1510 DEN Jens Henry Nielsen 5 5 1 2 2E 15 11 USA Sam Ermolenko 4 x ef 4 5 E 13 12 FIN Kai Niemi 2 1 3 1 2E 9 13 TCH Petr Vandirek 0 0 3 3 3E 914 ENG Steve Schofield 0 1 2 2 1E 615 TCH Antonín Kasper Jr. 1 3 f - - E 4 16 ENG Simon Cross 1 2 ef ef - E 317 AUS Steve Baker - - - 1 1 E 2 18 FIN Ari Koponen - - 2 - 0E 2 E = eliminated (no further ride) f = fell ef = engine failure x = excluded References 1988 Category:Speedway competitions in Germany Category:Winter sports competitions in West Germany Motor Motor Category:International sports competitions hosted by West Germany