1997 FIM Long Track World Championship

World longtrack motorcycle speedway event November 2023 November 2023 1997 Individual Long Track World Championship 1996 1998 The 1997 Individual Long Track/Grasstrack World Championship was the 27th edition of the FIM speedway Individual Long Track World Championship.http://www.speedway.org/history/ SPEEDWAY and LONGTRACK Speedway.org 22 May 2018 10 September 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20050910032243/http://www.speedway.org/history/ live For the first time the Championship was decided on a Grand Prix system (a series of races) and also contained races on grasstrack.http://grasstrackgb.co.uk/world-longtrack/ World Longtrack World Champions Grasstrack GB 22 May 2018 15 May 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180515033751/http://grasstrackgb.co.uk/world-longtrack/ live The new system combined with the relatively new Speedway World Championship Grand Prix which started in 1995, effectively resulted in a separation of speedway riders. The leading speedway riders (with the exception of several Long Track specialists) could not commit to the Longtrack/Grasstrack schedule and therefore competed in the Speedway World Championship. The days of a speedway world champion in both normal track and Long Track speedway were gone. The world title was won by Tommy Dunker of Germany.http://www.speedwaychampions.com/long-track-champions.php Long Track Racing Speedway Champions 22 May 2018 25 May 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180525072216/http://www.speedwaychampions.com/long-track-champions.php liveMontague Trevor A To Z of Sport, page 512 2004 Little Brown 0-316-72946-9 Venues Round Date Venue1 12 Jul NED Aduard2 20 Jul GER Cloppenburg3 17 Aug GER Pfarrkirchen4 6 Sep FRA Marmande 5 28 Sep CZE Mariánské Lázně Final Classification Pos Rider Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Total Pts1 GER Tommy Dunker 20 10 25 16 18 892 ENG Steve Schofield 11 25 11 13 25 853 ENG Glenn Cunningham 25 16 16 8 11 764 ITA Massimo Mora 13 13 8 18 16 685 GER Egon Müller 5 18 20 9 14 666 CZE Zdenek Schneiderwind 18 11 12 14 10 657 FRA Philippe Bergé 12 9 18 12 13 648 GER Matthias Kröger 9 20 14 7 12 629 AUS Steve Johnston 16 8 9 20 5 5810 ENG Jeremy Doncaster 14 14 13 4 9 5411 ENG Paul Hurry 6 12 1 25 7 5112 CZE Bohumil Brhel 8 7 7 1 20 4313 CZE Pavel Ondrašík 7 2 10 10 6 3514 FRA Christophe Dubernard 10 3 6 11 2 3215 UKR Vladimir Trofimov 4 x 5 2 8 1916 GER Herbert Rudolph 3 4 3 3 4 1717 GER Thorsten Kerl 2 5 2 x 1 1018 CZE Václav Milík Sr. x x 4 x 3 719 POL Adam Labedzki x x x 6 x 620 AUS Shane Parker x 6 x x x 621 RUS Oleg Kurguskin x x x 5 x 522 GER Walter Scherwitzki 1 x x x x 123 AUS Mark Lemon x 1 x x x 1 References 1997 Category:Speedway competitions in the Czech Republic Category:Speedway competitions in France Category:Speedway competitions in Germany Category:Speedway competitions in the Netherlands Long