1971 Individual Long Track World Championship

Speedway event in Oslo, Norway 1971 Individual Long Track World Championship 1970 1972 The 1971 Individual Long Track World Championship was the first 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 1 September 1971 in Oslo, Norway.http://grasstrackgb.co.uk/world-longtrack/ World Longtrack World Champions Grasstrack GB The world title was won by Ivan Mauger of New Zealand.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 Total Pts1 NZL Ivan Mauger 6 6 6 3 6 272 FRG Manfred Poschenrieder 6 6 6 4 4 263 SWE Runo Wedin 6 6 3 6 2 234 FRG Jan Kater 4 2 0 6 3 155 DEN Bent Nørregaard-Jensen 3 3 2 3 1 126 NZL Barry Briggs 3 3 - 4 0 107 ENG Don Godden 0 4 4 2 E108 FRG Hans Siegl 4 3 1 1 E99 SWE Sven Sigurd 4 2 1 2 E910 SWE Willihard Thomsson 2 4 3 0 E911 FRG Josef Unterholzner 2 1 4 1 E812 DEN Kurt W. Petersen 3 2 2 - E713 SWE Berndt Hornfeldt 2 4 0 EE614 DEN Jan Holm Nielsen 1 1 4 EE615 NOR Jon Ødegaard - - 6 EE616 FRG Walter Matl - 1 3 EE417 FIN Reijo Koski 1 0 2 EE318 FRG Hans Zierk - - - EE0 Key E = Eliminated (no further ride) References 1971 Category:Sports competitions in Oslo Motor Motor Category:1970s in Oslo Category:International sports competitions hosted by Norway