1975 Individual Long Track World Championship

1975 Individual Long Track World Championship

The 1975 Individual Long Track World Championship was the fifth edition of the FIM speedway Individual Long Track World Championship.[1][2] The event was held on 14 September 1975 in Gornja Radgona, Slovenia which was Yugoslavia at the time.[3]

The world title was won by Egon Müller of West Germany for a second time.[4][5]

Final Classification

Pos Rider Heat Pts Heat Pts Heat Pts Heat Pts Heat Pts Total Pts
1 West Germany Egon Müller 3 6 6 6 6 27
2 New Zealand Ivan Mauger 2 6 4 6 4 22
3 Denmark Ole Olsen 6 6 4 0 3 19
4 New Zealand Barry Briggs 6 4 6 3 0 19
5 West Germany Christoph Betzl 6 3 3 4 1 17
6 Sweden Anders Michanek 3 4 0 4 2 13
7 West Germany Hans Wassermann 4 3 3 1 E 11
8 England Don Godden 4 2 2 3 E 11
9 England Peter Collins 1 4 4 2 E 11
10 West Germany Manfred Poschenreider 4 3 2 0 E 9
11 Czechoslovakia Jiří Štancl 0 1 6 2 E 9
12 Czechoslovakia Václav Verner 2 2 3 1 E 8
13 West Germany Hans Zierk 3 1 1 E E 5
14 West Germany Joachim Kall 2 0 2 E E 4
15 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Vlado Kocuvan 1 2 1 E E 4
16 Sweden Runo Wedin 1 1 0 E E 2
17 Denmark Kristian Præstbro 0 0 1 E E 1
18 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Stefan Kekec 0 0 0 E E 0

Key

  • E = eliminated (no further ride)

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.