Australasian Individual Speedway Championship

The Australasian Individual Speedway Championship was a Motorcycle speedway Final sanctioned by the FIM as a qualifying round for the Speedway World Championship between 1976 and 1981.^[1]

History

The Championship was introduced in

An Australasian Championship had been run once previously in 1960, though it was not a World Championship qualifying round. The 1960 Championship, held at the Western Springs Stadium in Auckland, was won by Maury Dunn. In the years 1970, 1971 and 1972, an Australasian Grand Prix meeting was held at the Liverpool Speedway in Sydney on the original 440 metres (480 yd) D-shaped track and not the 300 metres (330 yd) bike track that was built on the infield in 1974 when the Liverpool track surface was changed to asphalt. All three Australasian GP's were won by New Zealand's Ivan Mauger.

The first Australasian Final qualifier was held at the Western Springs Stadium on 21 February 1976 with dual

then looked like staging the venue but wanted the NZSCB and the New Zealand Auto Cycle Union (NZACU) to underwrite the meeting. When this was refused and no Australian track was willing to stage the meeting on short notice, the Australasian Final was cancelled by the FIM and would never return to the speedway calendar.

Winners

Year	Venue	Winners	Runner-up	3rd place
1976	Auckland Western Springs Stadium	John Boulger	Billy Sanders	Phil Crump
1977	Sydney Sydney Showground	Ivan Mauger	Phil Crump	John Boulger
1978	Auckland Western Springs Stadium	Mitch Shirra	Mick McKeon	John Titman
1979	Adelaide Rowley Park Speedway	Billy Sanders	Steve Koppe	John Titman
Year	Venue	Winners	Runner-up	3rd place
1980	Ruapuna Speedway	Billy Sanders	John Titman	Larry Ross
1981	Sydney Liverpool City Raceway	Ivan Mauger	Danny Kennedy	Larry Ross

See also

• Speedway World Championship
• Speedway Grand Prix
• Motorcycle speedway

References