1981 Individual Long Track World Championship
{{short description|Long track motorcycle racing event}}
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The 1981 Individual Long Track World Championship was the 11th edition of the FIM speedway Individual Long Track World Championship.{{cite book|last=Oakes|first=Peter|title=Daily Mirror 1981 Speedway Yearbook, page 30|year=1981|publisher=Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd|isbn=0-86215-017-5}}{{cite web|url=http://www.speedway.org/history/|title=SPEEDWAY and LONGTRACK|publisher=Speedway.org}} The event was held on 20 September 1981 in Gornja Radgona in the Slovenia, which was Yugoslavia at the time.{{cite web|url=http://grasstrackgb.co.uk/world-longtrack/|title=World Longtrack World Champions|publisher=Grasstrack GB}}
The world title was won by Michael Lee of England.{{cite web|url=http://www.speedwayplus.com/pdf/Longtrack.pdf|title=WORLD LONGTRACK FINALS 1971 – 1996 Tracy Holmes|publisher=Speedway Plus.com}}{{cite book|last=Montague|first=Trevor|title=A To Z of Sport, page 512|year=2004|publisher=Little Brown|isbn=0-316-72946-9}} Ivan Mauger crashed in heat 7 and was taken to hospital.
Final Classification
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!width=400| Rider !width=20| Heat Pts !width=20| Heat Pts !width=20| Heat Pts !width=20| Heat Pts !width=20| Heat Pts !width=100| Total Pts | |||||||
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|1 | align="left"| {{flagicon|ENG}} Michael Lee | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 23 |
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|2 | align="left"| {{flagicon|FRG}} Christoph Betzl | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 20 |
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|3 | align="left"| {{flagicon|SWE}} Anders Michanek | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 19 |
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|4 | align="left"| {{flagicon|FRG}} Georg Gilgenreiner | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 19 |
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|5 | align="left"| {{flagicon|FRG}} Egon Müller | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 16 |
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|6 | align="left"| {{flagicon|ENG}} Phil Collins | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 14 |
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|7 | align="left"| {{flagicon|FRG}} Josef Aigner | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | E | 13 |
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|8 | align="left"| {{flagicon|FRG}} Hans Otto Pingel | 5 | 3 | 4 | ef | E | 12 |
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|9 | align="left"| {{flagicon|ENG}} Peter Collins | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | E | 10 |
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|10 | align="left"| {{flagicon|TCH}} Jiří Štancl | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | E | 6 |
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|11 | align="left"| {{flagicon|NZL}} Ivan Mauger | 4 | 2 | ns | ns | E | 6 |
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|12 | align="left"| {{flagicon|FRG}} Georg Hack | 2 | 0 | 3 | ef | E | 5 |
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|13 | align="left"| {{flagicon|FRG}} Karl Maier | 2 | 1 | 2 | E | E | 5 |
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|14 | align="left"| {{flagicon|TCH}} Zdeněk Kudrna | 2 | 2 | ns | E | E | 4 |
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|15 | align="left"| {{flagicon|YUG}} Stefan Kekec | 0 | 1 | 2 | E | E | 3 |
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|16 | align="left"| {{flagicon|YUG}} Vlado Kocuvan | 0 | 0 | 1 | E | E | 1 |
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|17 | align="left"| {{flagicon|FRG}} Alois Wiesböck | ef | 1 | ef | E | E | 1 |
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|18 | align="left"| {{flagicon|FRG}} 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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{{Long Track World Championship}}
{{International speedway}}
Category:International sports competitions hosted by Yugoslavia