1978 Individual Long Track World Championship

Long track motorcycle racing event 1978 Individual Long Track World Championship 1977 1979 The 1978 Individual Long Track World Championship was the eighth 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 10 September 1978 in Mühldorf, West Germany.http://grasstrackgb.co.uk/world-longtrack/ World Longtrack World Champions Grasstrack GB The world title was won by Egon Müller of West Germany for third time after he defeated Alois Wiesböck in a run off for the gold medal. Ivan Mauger was unbeaten in his first four rides but then suffered engine problems and Peter Collins would have won the title but in his last race his chain broke and he had to push his bike over the line for one point.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 Final Classification Pos Rider Heat Pts Heat Pts Heat Pts Heat Pts Heat Pts Heat Pts Total Pts1 FRG Egon Müller 4 3 4 5 5 5 26 2 FRG Alois Wiesböck 5 4 44 4 5 263 ENG Peter Collins 5 4 4 5 5 1 244 NZL Ivan Mauger 5 5 5 5 2 2 24 5 DEN Ole Olsen 3 3 5 4 4 4 23 6 FRG Georg Hack 4 4 2 1 3 5 19 7 FRG Karl Maier 5 2 3 4 3 ef 17 8 TCH Jiri Jirout 0 2 3 ef 3 4 12 9 TCH Jiří Štancl 3 ef 4 3 ns 1 1110 TCH Aleš Dryml Sr. 2 2 0 2 1 3 10 11 USA Scott Autrey 2 2 x 5 0 ef 912 DEN Kristian Præstbro 3 1 1 0 31 913 TCH Jan Verner 0 3 1 2 21 9 14 ENG Don Godden 1 1 2 2 2 0 8 15 TCH Zdeněk Kudrna 0 1 1 1 3 1 7 16 FRG Wilhelm Duden 0 2 3 ef ef ns 5 17 AUT Otto Lantenhammer - - - - 1 - 1 ef = engine failure ns = Non starter x = excluded Run Off Gold medal - Müller beat Wiesböck Bronze medal - Collins beat Mauger References 1978 Category:Winter sports competitions in West Germany Category:Speedway competitions in Germany Motor Motor Category:International sports competitions hosted by West Germany