2010 FIM Long Track World Championship

The 2010 Individual Long Track World Championship was the 2010 and 40th edition of the FIM speedway Individual Long Track World Championship season. Champion was determined in six finals between 30 May and 19 September 2010.[1]

The Championship was won by Joonas Kylmäkorpi, who won three of six Grand Prix event and scoring 140 points. Kylmäkorpi beat Theo Pijper (120 pts) and Richard Speiser (103 pts). Top seven riders get qualify to the Grand Prix' next season, and next eight riders qualify to the Long Track Challenge. The defending World Champion, Gerd Riss crashed at Final Three and he did not participate at next events (after Final Two he was second placed, losing three points to Kylmäkorpi).

Riders edit

There will be seventeen permanent riders:

One Wild Card and two Track Reserve riders will be nominated by organising national federation

In case of the absence of one or more riders in the final meetings, the first available Qualified Substitute rider or riders will be elevated for that meeting, and take the place(s) of the relevant missing rider(s). The list of Qualified Substitute riders was published by the CCP before the season according to Long Track Challenge last year.

A starting position draw for each final meeting will be balloted by the CCP.

2009 Championship edit

Long Track Challenge edit

Nominations edit

Wild cards and track reserves edit

(18)   GER Martin Smolinski
(19)   GER Bernd Diener
(20)   GER Marcel Dachs
(18)   FRA Jérôme Lespinase
(19)   FRA Maxime Mazeau
(20)   FRA Philippe Ostyn
(18)   FRA Jérôme Lespinase
(19)   FRA Philippe Ostyn
(20)   FRA Gabriel Dubernard
(18)   NED Mark Stiekema
(19)   NED Jeffrey Woortman
(20)   NED Sjoerd Rozenberg
(18)   GER Daniel Rath
(19)   GER Martin Smolinski
(20)   GER Marcel Dachs
(18)   CZE Josef Franc
(19)   CZE Michael Hádek
(20)   CZE Zdenek Schneiderwind

Qualified Substitutes edit

Grand Prix edit

Format edit

Race format
Gate A
(inside)
B
 
C
 
D
 
E
 
F
(outside)
Heat No Riders starting No
1 1 2 3 4 5 6
2 7 8 9 10 11 12
3 13 14 15 16 17 18
4 16 10 4 13 7 1
5 11 5 17 8 2 14
6 6 12 18 9 3 15
7 12 15 8 1 16 5
8 9 13 2 17 6 10
9 3 7 11 18 14 4
10 17 6 10 15 1 8
11 18 4 9 2 13 11
12 5 16 7 14 12 3

The riders' starting position draw will be balloted before each Final Meeting by the CCP.

Each Qualifying Round, Semi-Final, Long Track Challenge or Final Round must be organised in 15 heats with 6 riders in each heat (heats will consist of 4 laps). Heats 1 to 12 are called Qualifying Heats and must be conducted according to the following schedule of heats (like in a table)

After heat 12, there will be an intermediate classification from the 1st to the 20th place according to the total race points each rider has scored during the Qualifying heats. The 12 top-scoring riders from the Qualifying heats will qualify for the Semi-Finals:

  • Semi-final one (heat 13): 1st, 4th, 5th, 8th, 9th and 12th in the intermediate classification,
  • Semi-final two (heat 14): 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th, 10th and 11th in the intermediate classification.

Riders' gate positions for each Semi-Final (Heats 13 and 14) will be chosen by the riders, in the order determined by their position in the Classification after qualifying heats.

The 6 top-scoring riders from the second intermediate classification after the Qualifying Heats and Semi-finals will qualify for the Final (Heat 15). Riders' gate positions for the Final heat (Heat 15) will be chosen by the riders. The draw order shall be determined by the second intermediate classification (after the Qualifying and Semi-Final Heats).

If a rider cannot take part in a Semi-Final or Final heat for which he has already qualified, he will automatically be considered placed in the last position of the heat and will be not replaced by a following rider in the Intermediate Classification list.

Results edit

The total points scored by each rider from the Qualifying heats, Semi-final and Final heats (Heats 1–15) in a Final Meeting will be credited as World Championship points in the overall championship and the Intermediate World Championship Classification will be according to these credited points.

The total race points scored by each rider during the whole event (Heats 1–15) will determine the final classification for the Final Meeting. Positions 1 to 6 in the Final Meeting Classification will be according to the result of the final heat (Heat 15) irrespective of the total race points scored.

# Date Venue Winners Runner-up 3rd place
1 May 30   Pfarrkirchen   Stephan Katt (29 pts)   Joonas Kylmäkorpi (24 pts)   Jörg Tebbe (19 pts)
2 June 12   Saint-Macaire   Joonas Kylmäkorpi (29 pts)   Gerd Riss (26 pts)   Theo Pijper (23 pts)
3 July 13   Marmande   Joonas Kylmäkorpi (28 pts)   Jannick de Jong (26 pts)   Theo Pijper (20 pts)
4 August 22   Eenrum   Andrew Appleton (29 pts)   Theo Pijper (25 pts)   Joonas Kylmäkorpi (24 pts)
5 September 11   Vechta   Joonas Kylmäkorpi (27 pts)   Mathieu Tresarrieu (26 pts)   Richard Speiser (25 pts)
6 September 19   Mariánské Lázně   Stephan Katt (27 pts)   Andrew Appleton (24 pts)   Herbert Rudolph (27 pts)

Classification edit

The FIM Long Track World Champion will be the rider having collected the most points at the end of the Long Track World Championship Final Meeting series.

In case of riders tied on World Championship points in the Intermediate Classification, the better placed rider in the last Final Meeting will be considered the better placed rider.

In case of riders involved in a tie on the Final Overall World Championship Classification, the following will apply:

  1. Run-off for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.
  2. Run-off for 7th place, which is the last qualifying place for the following year's Final rounds.
  3. For all other placing, the better placed rider in the last Final meeting will be considered the better placed rider.
Pos. Rider Points            
    (7) Joonas Kylmäkorpi 140 24 29 28 24 27 8
    (6) Theo Pijper 120 21 23 20 25 19 12
    (12) Richard Speiser 103 12 24 22 13 25 7
4   (17) Andrew Appleton 102 12 12 7 29 18 24
5   (8) Stephan Katt 99 29 0 11 17 15 27
6   (14) Mathieu Tresarrieu 91 10 9 15 20 26 11
7   (11) Jörg Tebbe 81 19 14 4 14 10 20
8   (4) Matthias Kröger 75 18 16 16 6 7 12
9   (16) Jannick de Jong 70 8 9 26 12 10 5
10   (5) Glen Phillips 62 3 11 9 11 13 15
11   (13) Enrico Janoschka 61 6 5 13 18 7 12
12   (9) Herbert Rudolph 58 5 2 8 6 10 27
13   (1) Gerd Riss 53 24 26 3
14   (18)(21) Jérôme Lespinase 52 15 17 9 2 9
15   (3) Dirk Fabriek 46 8 6 16 5 3 8
16   (18)(19) Martin Smolinski 23 4 19
17   (2) Stephane Tresarrieu 22 5 12 2 3
18   (18) Josef Franc 19 19
19   (10) Jan Pape 17 10 1 2 2 ns 2
20   (15) Richard Wolff 14 1 6 0 1 3 3
21   (18) Daniel Rath 10 10
22   (18)(24) Mark Stiekema 9 8 1
23   (20) Gabriel Dubernard 4 4
24   (19)(20) Philippe Ostyn 3 1 2
25   (19) Maxime Mazeau 3 3
26   (19) Dernd Diener 3 3
27   (22) Vladimir Trofimov 2 2
28   (19) Michael Hádek 2 2
29   (19) Jeffrey Woortman 1 1
30   (20) Zdenek Schneiderwind 0 0
31   (20) Marcel Dachs 0 ns 0
32   (20) Sjoerd Rozenberg 0 0

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "2010 FIM Conference Meeting" (PDF). FIM-live.com. 2010-03-05. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-06. Retrieved 2010-03-11.