Long Track World Championship 2004

The 2004 Long Track World Championship was held in five Grand Prix races from June 12th to November 6th, 2004. Gerd Riss became world champion with a minimal lead of 2 points.

Venues

Grand-Prix 1 (June 12th):

• Bielefeld

Grand Prix 2 (July 13th):

• Marmande

Grand Prix 3 (August 29):

• Parish churches

Grand Prix 4 (September 4th):

• Morizès

Grand Prix 5 (November 6th):

• New Plymouth

Grand Prix results

Bielefeld

space	driver
1	Gerd Riss
2	Matthias Kroeger
3	Enrico Janoschka

Marmande

space	driver
1	Kelvin Tatum
2	Zdeněk Schneiderwind
3	Bernd Diener

Parish churches

space	driver
1	Kelvin Tatum
2	Gerd Riss
3	Robert Barth

Morizès

space	driver
1	Kelvin Tatum
2	Gerd Riss
3	Robert Barth

New Plymouth

space	driver
1	Gerd Riss
2	Theo Pijper
3	Matthias Kroeger

Before the final run in New Plymouth, Briton Kelvin Tatum was 10 points ahead of Gerd Riss from Germany. A fourth place in New Plymouth would definitely have been enough for him to win the world championship. Both reached the A-final, which meant at least sixth place and 13 points. However, Tatum failed in this run, while Riss won it by a narrow margin. As a result, he got 25 and Tatum only 13 points and Riss was able to overtake Tatum in the overall standings.

Final ranking

space	driver	1st place GP 1	2nd place GP	3rd place GP	4th place GP	5th place GP	Points
1	Gerd Riss	1	6th	2	2	1	103
2	Kelvin Tatum	6th	1	1	1	6th	101
3	Bernd Diener	5	3	4th	5	10	71
4th	Enrico Janoschka	3	4th	12	6th	8th	65
5	Theo Pijper	4th	9	8th	13	2	63