Long Track World Championship

The long-track World Cup is in 1971 by the FIM been transferred train sports competition for motorcycles.

The world champions on the long track are determined through this competition. The races take place on tracks with a surface made of grass or a surface like the one found on speedway tracks, the so-called grass or sand tracks. However, the tracks are not exclusively oval, as is the case in the speedway, for example, the annual track in Marmande is a tri-oval .

history

The first European long-course championship was held as early as 1937, but was suspended in the following years until 1957. From 1971 the long-track European championship was upgraded and raised to the long-track world championship.

In addition, a grass track European championship has been held annually since 1978, this thus forms the substructure for the long-track world championship, but is mainly only played on tracks with a sward surface.

In 2007 a team world championship was introduced.

popularity

Compared to the Speedway World Championship, the Long Track World Championship has a relatively low international status. This is mainly due to the fact that long railways are far less common in countries like Great Britain or the Scandinavian countries than the short speedway railways. In Germany, however, the long track World Cup is at least as popular as the Speedway World Cup, since German athletes are much more successful on the long track than in the speedway. German athletes have won more than half of the 38 individual world championships that have been held so far, with 20 victories, and have also won the two previous team championships. In the speedway, only Egon Müller managed to win a world championship.

mode

The world champion is determined using a Grand Prix system. For the so-called Long Track Grand Prix, 17 drivers are set. There is also a wild card driver for every Grand Prix. The first six of the previous year's classification are set as permanent drivers. The other drivers are determined using a qualification system:

Place 1 to 6 of the preseason	Place 1 to 4 of qualification run 1	1st to 4th place of qualification run 2	7th to 14th place in the preseason	3 wildcards from the FIM
	Place 1 to 8 in the Grand Prix Challenge
14 qualified drivers
17 permanent Grand Prix drivers

The drivers who occupied positions 7 to 14 in the previous season are directly for the Grand Prix Challenge, in which the starting positions for the new season are ultimately allocated. All other drivers must first qualify for the Challenge via two official qualification runs and any national pre-qualifications. In addition, 3 drivers receive a season wild card from the FIM.

Course of a Grand Prix

At a Grand Prix, 18 drivers start: the 17 permanent drivers and one driver who receives a wild card for the race. This wildcard driver is determined before the actual Grand Prix by a so-called last-chance race in which six drivers take part.

Each driver competes 4 heats. Six drivers will also start in the heats. This system ensures that every driver drives exactly once against every other driver in the heats. The winner of a preliminary run receives 5 running points, the runner-up 4, etc. The last one receives no running point. After each driver has completed his four preliminary runs, the running points are added up. The six with the best points go to the A-final for Grand Prix victory. The six behind them placed the B final and the last six placed the C final. If a driver falls in the heats z. B. through injury for the rest of the event, he will be replaced by one of the last-chance pilots.

Points are awarded for the placements achieved in a Grand Prix. The overall ranking is created by adding up the points from all Grand Prix.

space	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th
Points	25th	20th	18th	16	14th	13	12	11	10	9	8th	7th	6th	5	4th	3	2	1

Winners list

Until 1996

year	place	World Champion	place 2	place 3
1971	Oslo	Ivan Mauger	Manfred Poschenrieder	Runo Wedin
1972	Mühldorf	Ivan Mauger	Manfred Poschenrieder	Jon Odegaard
1973	Oslo	Ole Olsen	Hans Siegl	Manfred Poschenrieder
1974	Scheeßel	Egon Müller	Ivan Mauger	Alois Wiesböck
1975	Radgona	Egon Müller	Ivan Mauger	Ole Olsen
1976	Mariánské Lázně	Ivan Mauger	Ole Olsen	Egon Müller
1977	Aalborg	Michanek is different	Hans Siegl	Ole Olsen
1978	Mühldorf	Egon Müller	Alois Wiesböck	Peter Collins
1979	Mariánské Lázně	Alois Wiesböck	Michanek is different	Ole Olsen
1980	Scheeßel	Karl Maier	Egon Müller	Josef Aigner
1981	Radgona	Michael Lee	Christoph Betzl	Michanek is different
1982	Korskro	Karl Maier	Alois Wiesböck	Egon Müller
1983	Mariánské Lázně	Shawn Moran	Jiří Štancl	Karl Maier
1984	Herxheim	Erik Gundersen	Egon Müller	Karl Maier
1985	Korskro	Simon Wigg	Jiří Štancl	Peter Collins
1986	Parish churches	Erik Gundersen	Peter Collins	Marcel Gerhard
1987	Mühldorf	Karl Maier	Simon Wigg	Shawn Moran
1988	Scheeßel	Karl Maier	Klaus Lausch	Chris Morton
1989	Mariánské Lázně	Simon Wigg	Aleš Dryml	Karl Maier
1990	Herxheim	Simon Wigg	Karl Maier	Hans-Otto Pingel
1991	Mariánské Lázně	Gerd Riss	Aleš Dryml	Jan O. Pedersen
1992	Parish churches	Marcel Gerhard	Mitch Shirra	Karl Maier
1993	Mühldorf	Simon Wigg	Karl Maier	Marcel Gerhard
1994	Mariánské Lázně	Simon Wigg	André Pollehn	Gerd Riss
1995	Scheeßel	Kelvin Tatum	Simon Wigg	Walter Scherwitzki
1996	Herxheim	Gerd Riss	Bernd Diener	Robert Barth

From 1997

year	World Champion	place 2	place 3
1997	Tom Dunker	Steve Schofield	Glenn Cunningham
1998	Kelvin Tatum	Robert Barth	Steve Schofield
1999	Gerd Riss	Robert Barth	Kelvin Tatum
2000	Kelvin Tatum	Robert Barth	Matthias Kroeger
2001	Gerd Riss	Kelvin Tatum	Robert Barth
2002	Robert Barth	Kelvin Tatum	Gerd Riss
2003	Robert Barth	Kelvin Tatum	Gerd Riss
2004	Gerd Riss	Kelvin Tatum	Bernd Diener
2005	Robert Barth	Gerd Riss	Paul Hurry
2006	Robert Barth	Joonas Kylmäkorpi	Gerd Riss
2007	Gerd Riss	Joonas Kylmäkorpi	Mathieu Trésarrieu
2008	Gerd Riss	Glen Phillips	Dirk Fabriek
2009	Gerd Riss	Stéphane Trésarrieu	Dirk Fabriek
2010	Joonas Kylmäkorpi	Theo Pijper	Richard Speiser
2011	Joonas Kylmäkorpi	Richard Speiser	Stephan Katt
2012	Joonas Kylmäkorpi	Martin Smolinski	Joseph Franc
2013	Joonas Kylmäkorpi	Jannick de Jong	Richard Hall
2014	Erik crack	Jannick de Jong	Joonas Kylmäkorpi
2015	Jannick de Jong	Erik crack	Dimitri Bergé
2016	Erik crack	Jannick de Jong	Mathieu Trésarrieu
2017	Mathieu Trésarrieu	Michael Härtel	Joseph Franc
2018	Martin Smolinski	Dimitri Bergé	Mathieu Trésarrieu

Team World Cup

In addition to the individual world championship on the long track, the FIM held a long track team world championship for the 2007 season .