1980 Individual Long Track World Championship

Long track motorcycle racing event 1980 Individual Long Track World Championship 1979 1981 The 1980 Individual Long Track World Championship was the tenth edition of the FIM speedway Individual Long Track World Championship.http://grasstrackgb.co.uk/world-longtrack/ World Longtrack World Champions Grasstrack GB The event was held on 14 September 1980 at Scheeßel in West Germany.Oakes Peter Daily Mirror 1981 Speedway Yearbook 1981 Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd 0-86215-017-5http://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 The World title was won by Karl Maier of West Germany.http://www.speedwaychampions.com/world-champions.php Speedway World Champions Speedway Champions.com 2018-02-09 2018-02-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20180224014151/http://www.speedwaychampions.com/world-champions.php dead The Championship consisted of four qualifying rounds at Harsewinkel, Korskro, Hamburg-Farmsen, Pfarrkirchen won by Bruce Penhall, Ivan Mauger, Egon Müller and Georg Hack respectively and two semi finals in Jübek and Gornja Radgona won by Ole Olsen and Josef Aigner. Final Classification Pos Rider Heat Pts Heat Pts Heat Pts Heat Pts Heat Pts Pts1 FRG Karl Maier 53555 232 FRG Egon Müller 5 4 4 3 2 183 FRG Josef Aigner 3 3 5 1 4 163 FRG Christoph Betzl 4 5 1 3 3 165 FRG Georg Hack f 5 4 4 1 146 FRG Wilhelm Duden 4 2 ef 5 E 117 NZL Ivan Mauger 5 ef 2 2 E 98 TCH Zdeněk Kudrna 1 4 2 2 E 99 DEN Ole Olsen 1 4 3 0 E 810 ENG Michael Lee 2 3 2 1 E 811 ENG Peter Collins 3 1 3 0 E 712 TCH Jiří Štancl 3 ef 3 EE 613 ENG Chris Morton 0 1 4 EE 514 TCH Milan Špinka 2 2 1 EE 515 NED Fritz Koning 1 2 ef EE 316 SWE Anders Michanek 2 ef ef EE 217 USA Bruce Penhall ef 0 0 EE018 FRG Alois Wiesböck 4 5 5 4 0 18 (disq)+ + Alois Wiesböck finished third but was disqualified because his engine was found to be over the prescribed limit. Bronze medals were awarded to both Betzl and Aigner. References 1981 Category:Winter sports competitions in West Germany Motor Motor Category:International sports competitions hosted by West Germany