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1981 Individual Long Track World Championship

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1981 Individual Long Track World Championship
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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

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Pos Rider Heat Pts Heat Pts Heat Pts Heat Pts Heat Pts Total Pts
1 England Michael Lee 3 5 5 5 5 23
2 West Germany Christoph Betzl 5 4 5 5 1 20
3 Sweden Anders Michanek 4 4 4 4 3 19
4 West Germany Georg Gilgenreiner 1 5 5 4 4 19
5 West Germany Egon Müller 5 3 3 3 2 16
6 England Phil Collins 4 5 2 3 0 14
7 West Germany Josef Aigner 3 4 4 2 E 13
8 West Germany Hans Otto Pingel 5 3 4 ef E 12
9 England Peter Collins 3 2 3 2 E 10
10 Czechoslovakia Jiří Štancl 1 3 1 1 E 6
11 New Zealand Ivan Mauger 4 2 ns ns E 6
12 West Germany Georg Hack 2 0 3 ef E 5
13 West Germany Karl Maier 2 1 2 E E 5
14 Czechoslovakia Zdeněk Kudrna 2 2 ns E E 4
15 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Stefan Kekec 0 1 2 E E 3
16 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Vlado Kocuvan 0 0 1 E E 1
17 West Germany Alois Wiesböck ef 1 ef E E 1
18 West Germany Wilhelm Duden ef 0 E E ef 0
  • E = eliminated (no further ride)
  • f = fell
  • ef = engine failure
  • ns = non starter

References

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  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.