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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.〔(Speedway History )〕 ==History== The Championship was introduced in 1976 as a qualifying round for Australian and New Zealand based Motorcycle speedway riders. Previously, the top place getters from the Australian and New Zealand championships had then gone on to qualify through the British qualifying rounds. 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 "D" shaped track and not the 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 Australian Champion John Boulger emerging as the winner. The last Final was held at the Liverpool City Raceway on 28 February 1981. The Final winner was six time World Champion Ivan Mauger. The championship alternated between New Zealand and Australia each year. To qualify for the Australasian Final, NZ riders had to finish in the top 8 of their national championship while the Australian riders qualified through a series of Zone Finals held throughout the country. Only one rider was ever allowed to skip the Australasian Final and still be part of the World Championship - as the reigning World Champion, Ivan Mauger was seeded straight to the Intercontinental Final in 1978 and the Commonwealth Final in 1980. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Australasian Individual Speedway Championship」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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