2009 FIM Long Track World Championship Challengers

Rennbahn Pfarrkirchen

Date – 27th September 2009 – First Heat – 01:30 pm

Practice – 26th September 2009 – 01:00 pm

 

Great riders of the last 40 years have been racing in Pfarrkirchen –Ole Olsen, Anders Michanek, Simon Wigg, Micheal Lee, Alois Wiesböck, Egon Müller, Ivan Mauger, Karl Maier, Robert Barth and of course about a dozen times the 2009 FIM Long Track World Champion  Gerd Riss.

This year, the FIM Long Track World Championship Challenge is held on the Rennbahn Pfarrkirchen. 18 riders will try to get one of 7 starting places for the 2010 FIM Long Track Wold championship Finals.

The event is held in 12 Qualifying Heats – followed by 2 Semifinals and a Final. For these riders the Challenge is most important for their future in Track Racing in 2010.

 

Here are the 2009 challengers:

Starting list I
   
1 Jan Pape DMSB Germany
2 Massimo Mora FMI Italy
3 Jörg Tebbe DMSB Germany
4 Mathieu Tressarieu FFM France
5 Stephan Katt DMSB Germany
6 Richard Wolff ACCR Czech Republic
7 Andrew Appleton ACU Great Britain
8 Alessandro Milanese FMI Italy
9 Kaj Laukkanen SML Finland
10 Jérôme Lespinasse FFM France
11 Maxime Mazeau FFM France
12 Tim Nobes ACU Great Britain
13 Richard Hall ACU Great Britain
14 Vladimir Trofimov FMU Ukraine
15 Pavel Ondrasik ACCR Czech Republic
16 Enrico Janoschka DMSB Germany
17 Mark Stiekema KNMV The Netherlands
18 Richard Speiser DMSB Germany


TRACK RESERVES

19 Herbert Rudolph DMSB Germany
20 Martin Smolinski DMSB Germany


Photo credit:  J.  Strohhammer