1984 Individual Speedway World Championship
1984 Individual Speedway World Championship
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The 1984 Individual Speedway World Championship.
Without former champions Ivan Mauger, Ole Olsen, Peter Collins, Michael Lee, and Bruce Penhall, the 1984 World Final, held for the eighth time at the Ullevi Stadium in Göteborg, Sweden, was seen by some as the battle of the second tier riders. Though history would ultimately prove the first and second placed riders as among the best Motorcycle speedway has ever seen, winning every World Final between them until the end of the 1980's.
Dane Erik Gundersen won his first Speedway World Championship from countryman Hans Nielsen who defeated American Lance King in a run-off for second and third places. Defending champion Egon Müller of West Germany could not reproduce his 1983 World Final form and finished 14th with just 3 points from his 5 rides. 1983 runner-up Billy Sanders of Australia, the track record holder at Ullevi, fared marginally better, finishing 11th with just 5 points.
World final
Pos. | Rider | Heat Scores | Total |
1 | Erik Gundersen | (2,3,3,3,3) | 14 |
2 | Hans Nielsen | (3,3,3,1,3) | 13+3 |
3 | Lance King | (3,3,2,3,2) | 13+2 |
4 | Kelly Moran | (2,2,2,2,3) | 11 |
5 | Mitch Shirra | (3,2,1,1,3) | 10 |
6 | Simon Wigg | (3,1,2,3,0) | 9 |
7 | Bo Petersen | (2,1,2,2,2) | 9 |
8 | Shawn Moran | (1,0,3,1,2) | 7 |
9 | Karl Maier | (0,3,1,2,1) | 7 |
10 | Jan Andersson | (0,2,3,0,1) | 6 |
11 | Billy Sanders | (1,2,1,0,1) | 5 |
12 | Kai Niemi | (1,1,0,2,0) | 4 |
13 | Petr Ondrašík | (2,0,0,0,1) | 3 |
14 | Egon Müller | (0,1,1,1,0) | 3 |
15 | Jiří Štancl | (1,0,0,0,0) | 1 |
16 | Václav Verner | (0,0,0) | 1 |
R1 | Alan Grahame | (3,2) | 5 |
R2 | Georg Hack | did not ride | - |
References
- ↑ Bamford, R. & Shailes, G. (2002). A History of the World Speedway Championship. Stroud: Tempus Publishing. ISBN 0-7524-2402-5
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