1981 Individual Long Track World Championship

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The 1981 Individual Long Track World Championship was the 11th edition of the FIM speedway Individual Long Track World Championship.[1][2] The event was held on 20 September 1981 in Gornja Radgona in the Slovenia, which was Yugoslavia at the time.[3]

The world title was won by Michael Lee of England.[4][5] Ivan Mauger crashed in heat 7 and was taken to hospital.

## Final Classification

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Pos  | Rider  | Heat Pts  | Heat Pts  | Heat Pts  | Heat Pts  | Heat Pts  | Total Pts

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1 |  Michael Lee | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 23
2 |  Christoph Betzl | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 20
3 |  Anders Michanek | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 19
4 |  Georg Gilgenreiner | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 19
5 |  Egon Müller | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 16
6 |  Phil Collins | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 14
7 |  Josef Aigner | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | E | 13
8 |  Hans Otto Pingel | 5 | 3 | 4 | ef | E | 12
9 |  Peter Collins | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | E | 10
10 |  Jiří Štancl | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | E | 6
11 |  Ivan Mauger | 4 | 2 | ns | ns | E | 6
12 |  Georg Hack | 2 | 0 | 3 | ef | E | 5
13 |  Karl Maier | 2 | 1 | 2 | E | E | 5
14 |  Zdeněk Kudrna | 2 | 2 | ns | E | E | 4
15 |  Stefan Kekec | 0 | 1 | 2 | E | E | 3
16 |  Vlado Kocuvan | 0 | 0 | 1 | E | E | 1
17 |  Alois Wiesböck | ef | 1 | ef | E | E | 1
18 |  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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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.

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