1978 Individual Long Track World Championship

1978 Individual Long Track World Championship
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The 1978 Individual Long Track World Championship was the eighth edition of the FIM speedway Individual Long Track World Championship.[1][2] The event was held on 10 September 1978 in Mühldorf, West Germany.[3]

The world title was won by Egon Müller of West Germany for third time after he defeated Alois Wiesböck in a run off for the gold medal. Ivan Mauger was unbeaten in his first four rides but then suffered engine problems and Peter Collins would have won the title but in his last race his chain broke and he had to push his bike over the line for one point.[4][5]

Final Classification

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Pos Rider Heat Pts Heat Pts Heat Pts Heat Pts Heat Pts Heat Pts Total Pts
1 West Germany Egon Müller 4 3 4 5 5 5 26
2 West Germany Alois Wiesböck 5 4 4 4 4 5 26
3 England Peter Collins 5 4 4 5 5 1 24
4 New Zealand Ivan Mauger 5 5 5 5 2 2 24
5 Denmark Ole Olsen 3 3 5 4 4 4 23
6 West Germany Georg Hack 4 4 2 1 3 5 19
7 West Germany Karl Maier 5 2 3 4 3 ef 17
8 Czechoslovakia Jiri Jirout 0 2 3 ef 3 4 12
9 Czechoslovakia Jiří Štancl 3 ef 4 3 ns 1 11
10 Czechoslovakia Aleš Dryml Sr. 2 2 0 2 1 3 10
11 United States Scott Autrey 2 2 x 5 0 ef 9
12 Denmark Kristian Præstbro 3 1 1 0 3 1 9
13 Czechoslovakia Jan Verner 0 3 1 2 2 1 9
14 England Don Godden 1 1 2 2 2 0 8
15 Czechoslovakia Zdeněk Kudrna 0 1 1 1 3 1 7
16 West Germany Wilhelm Duden 0 2 3 ef ef ns 5
17 Austria Otto Lantenhammer - - - - 1 - 1
  • ef = engine failure
  • ns = Non starter
  • x = excluded

Run Off

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  • Gold medal - Müller beat Wiesböck
  • Bronze medal - Collins beat Mauger

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.