1996 Individual Long Track World Championship

Long track motorcycle racing event 1996 Individual Long Track World Championship 1995 1997 The 1996 Individual Long Track World Championship was the 26th 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 8 September 1996 in Herxheim in Germany.https://grasstrackgb.co.uk/world-longtrack/ World Longtrack World Champions Grasstrack GB The world title was won by Gerd Riss of Germany for the second time.http://www.speedwayplus.com/pdf/Longtrack.pdf WORLD LONGTRACK FINALS 1971 – 1996 Tracy Holmes Speedway Plus.com It was the last individual championship with the final being held as a one off meeting. As from 1997 it would be contested under a Grand Prix system (a series of races).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 Total Pts1 GER Gerd Riss 5 5 5 5 5 25 2 GER Bernd Diener 5 4 5 5 4 233 GER Robert Barth 4 4 4 4 2 18 4 SWI Marcel Gerhard 4 3 5 4 1 17 5 ENG Kelvin Tatum 5 5 ef 3 3 166 GER Karl Maier 4 n.f 4 3 0 117 ENG Simon Wigg 34 2 2 E 118 ENG Steve Schofield 0 5 1 2 E89 AUS Jason Crump 1 3 3 1E 8 10 AUS Shane Parker 1 1 4 1 E711 FRA Philippe Bergé 3 0 3 0E612 TCH Václav Milík Sr. 2 2 2 0 E613 GER Egon Muller 3 11 EE 514 TCH Bohumil Brhel 2 2 1 EE 5 15 TCH Aleš Dryml Sr. ef 1 3EE 4 16 NED Anne van der Helm 2 0 2 EE 4 17 NOR Lars Gunnestad ef 3 0 EE 3 18 ENG Paul Hurry 1 2 0 EE 3 E = eliminated (no further ride) ef = engine failure References 1996 Category:Speedway competitions in Germany Individual Long Track World Championship Motor Individual Long Track World Championship