1981 Individual Long Track World Championship

1981 Individual Long Track World Championship

The 1981 Individual Long Track World Championship was the 11th edition of the FIM speedway Individual Long Track World Championship.[1][2] The event was held on 20 September 1981 in Gornja Radgona in the Slovenia, which was Yugoslavia at the time.[3]

The world title was won by Michael Lee of England.[4][5] Ivan Mauger crashed in heat 7 and was taken to hospital.

Final Classification

Pos	Rider	Heat Pts	Heat Pts	Heat Pts	Heat Pts	Heat Pts	Total Pts
1	Michael Lee	3	5	5	5	5	23
2	Christoph Betzl	5	4	5	5	1	20
3	Anders Michanek	4	4	4	4	3	19
4	Georg Gilgenreiner	1	5	5	4	4	19
5	Egon Müller	5	3	3	3	2	16
6	Phil Collins	4	5	2	3	0	14
7	Josef Aigner	3	4	4	2	E	13
8	Hans Otto Pingel	5	3	4	ef	E	12
9	Peter Collins	3	2	3	2	E	10
10	Jiří Štancl	1	3	1	1	E	6
11	Ivan Mauger	4	2	ns	ns	E	6
12	Georg Hack	2	0	3	ef	E	5
13	Karl Maier	2	1	2	E	E	5
14	Zdeněk Kudrna	2	2	ns	E	E	4
15	Stefan Kekec	0	1	2	E	E	3
16	Vlado Kocuvan	0	0	1	E	E	1
17	Alois Wiesböck	ef	1	ef	E	E	1
18	Wilhelm Duden	ef	0	E	E	ef	0

• E = eliminated (no further ride)
• f = fell
• ef = engine failure
• ns = non starter

References

1. Oakes, Peter (1981). Daily Mirror 1981 Speedway Yearbook, page 30. Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd. ISBN 0-86215-017-5.
2. "SPEEDWAY and LONGTRACK". Speedway.org.
3. "World Longtrack World Champions". Grasstrack GB.
4. "WORLD LONGTRACK FINALS 1971 – 1996 Tracy Holmes" (PDF). Speedway Plus.com.
5. Montague, Trevor (2004). A To Z of Sport, page 512. Little Brown. ISBN 0-316-72946-9.