1966 Individual Speedway World Championship

1966 Individual Speedway World Championship
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The 1966 Individual Speedway World Championship.

British Qualification
DateVenueWinnerRunner-up3rd place
Preliminary Round
20 May Newport Nigel Boocock John Erskine Jack Biggs
20 May Glasgow Ron Mountford Charlie Monk Eric Boocock
21 May Edinburgh George Hunter Doug Templeton Norman Hunter
21 May Coventry Nigel Boocock Jim Lightfoot Bill Andrew
21 May Belle Vue Brian Brett John Erskine Cyril Maidment
21 May Wimbledon Reg Luckhurst Bob Dugard Bob Paulson
23 May Newcastle Ivan Mauger Brian Brett Mike Broadbank
23 May Exeter Ron Mountford Martin Ashby Trevor Hedge
24 May Long Eaton Ray Wilson Eric Boothroyd Ivan Mauger
24 May West Ham Barry Briggs Norman Hunter Malcolm Simmons
25 May Kings Lynn David Crane Cyril Maidment Peter Moore
25 May Poole Bill Andrew Geoff Mudge Doug Templeton
26 May Oxford Eric Boocock Jimmy Gooch Jim Lightfoot
26 May Sheffield Billy Bales Barry Briggs Charlie Monk
27 May Hackney Colin Pratt Mike Broadbank Ivan Mauger
27 May Wolverhampton Ken McKinlay Terry Betts Peter Jarman
28 May Cradley Heath Ivor Brown Peter Vandenberg Colin Gooddy
28 May Halifax Eric Boocock Eric Boothroyd Colin Pratt
28 May Swindon Barry Briggs Martin Ashby Arne Pander
Semi-Finals
13 June Cradley Heath Trevor Hedge Colin Pratt Mike Broadbank
15 June Halifax Barry Briggs Ron Mountford Peter Moore
Final
27 June Wimbledon Barry Briggs Ivan Mauger Colin Pratt
British-Scandinavian Final
14 Jule Sheffield Barry Briggs Ivan Mauger Nigel Boocock

British Final
  • June 27, 1966
  • Wimbledon
  • First 8 to British-Scandinavian Final plus 1 reserve
Placing Rider Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pts Pos 21
(3) Barry Briggs 12 3 3 3 3 F 12 1
(8) Ivan Mauger 11 3 1 2 3 2 11 2
(7) Colin Pratt 10 0 2 3 2 3 10 3
4 (9) Mike Broadbank 9 3 3 0 1 2 9 4
5 (1) George Hunter 9 0 2 3 3 1 9 5
6 (6) Nigel Boocock 9 2 0 2 2 3 9 6
7 (15) Brian Brett 8 0 1 1 3 3 8 7 3
8 (4) Ken McKinlay 8 2 3 0 0 3 8 8 2
9 (16) Eric Boocock 8 3 2 1 1 1 8 9 1
10 (2) Trevor Hedge 8 1 2 3 2 F 8 10 0
11 (5) Ron Mountford 7 1 0 2 2 2 7 11
12 (13) Roy Trigg 7 2 1 1 1 2 7 12
13 (14) Norman Hunter 6 1 3 1 0 1 6 13
14 (10) Jimmy Gooch 5 2 1 2 0 0 5 14
15 (12) Dave Younghusband 2 0 E E 1 1 2 15
16 (11) Peter Moore 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 16
R1 (R1) Martin Ashby 0 0 R1
R2 (R2) Terry Betts 0 0 R2
Placing Rider Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pts Pos 21

m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fell • ns - non-starter • nc - non-classify

gate A - inside gate B gate C gate D - outside

British-Scandinavian Final
  • July 14, 1966
  • Sheffield
  • First 8 to European Final plus 1 reserve
Placing Rider Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pts Pos 21
(14) Barry Briggs 15 3 3 3 3 3 15 1
(11) Ivan Mauger 13 3 3 3 3 1 13 2
(8) Nigel Boocock 12 3 3 2 1 3 12 3
4 (13) Sverre Harrfeldt 10 E 3 2 2 3 10 4
5 (12) George Hunter 10 2 2 3 1 2 10 5
6 (7) Ken McKinlay 10 1 1 3 2 3 10 6
7 (15) Colin Pratt 10 2 2 2 3 1 10 7
8 (5) Mike Broadbank 9 2 1 1 3 2 9 8
9 (6) Brian Brett 6 0 2 1 2 1 6 9
10 (4) Kalevi Lahtinen 6 2 1 1 1 1 6 10
11 (3) Ole Olsen 5 3 F 0 2 0 5 11
12 (2) Thotbjorn Nygaard 3 1 1 0 1 0 3 12
13 (16) Nils Paulsen 3 1 0 0 E 2 3 13
14 (9) Jonny Faafeng 2 1 0 1 0 0 2 14
15 (10) Paul Wissing 1 0 0 0 1 E 1 15
16 (1) Borge Christiansen 0 F - - - - 0 16
R1 (R1) Eric Boocock 0 2 2 0 2 0 R1
R2 (R2) Gordon Guasco 0 0 R2
Placing Rider Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pts Pos 21

m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fell • ns - non-starter • nc - non-classify

gate A - inside gate B gate C gate D - outside

Swedish Qualification
DateVenueWinnerRunner-up3rd place
Semi-Finals
24 April Målilla Per-Olof Söderman Karl-Erik Andersson Olle Nygren
1 May Visby Leif Enecrona Göte Nordin Leif Larsson
Final
31 May Borås Björn Knutsson Torbjörn Harrysson Leif Enecrona

Also qualified for World Final: Leif Larsson, Per-Olof Söderman, Göte Nordin. Reserve: Bengt Brannefors

Continental Round
DateVenueWinnerRunner-up3rd place
Quarter-Finals
8 May Abensberg Joachim Maj Andrzej Wyglenda Andrzej Pogorzelski
8 May Meissen Jan Mucha Edmund Migos Marian Rose
8 May Miskolc Jerzy Trzezskowski Zbigniew Podlecki Farid Shajnurov
8 May Osijek Gennadij Kurilenko Stanislaw Tkocz Antoni Woryna
Semi-Finals
22 May Balakovo Gennadij Kurilenko Antoni Woryna Marian Rose
22 May Rybnik Andrzej Pogorzelski Joachim Maj Pavel Mares
Continental Final
25 June Slany Andrzej Pogorzelski Antoni Woryna Konstanty Pociejkowicz
European Final
3 September Wembley Ivan Mauger Barry Briggs Antoni Woryna

Continental Final
  • June 25, 1966
  • Slany
  • First 8 to European Final plus 1 reserve
Placing Rider Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pts Pos 21
(14) Andrzej Pogorzelski 12 3 3 1 2 3 12 1
(12) Antoni Woryna 11 2 3 2 3 1 11 2
(13) Konstanty Pociejkowicz 11 2 2 3 2 2 11 3
4 (11) Marian Kaiser 10 0 3 2 3 2 10 4
5 (2) Edmund Migos 10 3 2 3 0 2 10 5
6 (1) Igor Plechanov 10 2 3 1 1 3 10 6
7 (9) Pawel Waloszek 10 3 1 2 3 1 10 7
8 (7) Stanislaw Tkocz 9 3 1 2 0 3 9 8 3
9 (6) Pavel Mares 9 2 1 3 X 3 9 9 2
10 (8) Marian Rose 9 1 2 3 1 2 9 10
11 (3) Viktor Trofimov 5 1 2 0 2 0 5 11
12 (16) Joachim Maj 4 0 1 0 3 0 4 12
13 (10) Andrzej Wyglenda 3 1 F 1 1 0 3 13
14 (4) Stanislav Kubicek 2 0 0 0 2 0 2 14
15 (5) Boris Samorodov 2 0 0 1 0 1 2 15
16 (15) Gennadij Kurilenko 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 16
R1 (R1) Jaroslav Volf, Jr. 0 0 R1
Placing Rider Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pts Pos 21

m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fell • ns - non-starter • nc - non-classify

gate A - inside gate B gate C gate D - outside

European Final
  • September 3, 1966
  • Wembley
  • First 10 to World Final plus 1 reserve
Placing Rider Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pts Pos 21
(14) Ivan Mauger 14 2 3 3 3 3 14 1
(16) Barry Briggs 13 3 2 3 3 2 13 2
(12) Antoni Woryna 11 1 3 3 2 2 11 3
4 (11) Sverre Harrfeldt 10 2 3 1 3 1 10 4
5 (1) Nigel Boocock 10 2 2 2 1 3 10 5
6 (5) Igor Plechanov 10 1 3 2 2 2 10 6
7 (10) Mike Broadbank 9 3 2 2 1 1 9 7
8 (13) Stanislaw Tkocz 8 F 1 3 1 3 8 8
9 (15) Andrzej Pogorzelski 8 1 2 1 2 2 8 9
10 (8) Marian Kaiser 7 3 E 2 2 0 7 10
11 (6) Ken McKinlay 6 2 1 0 3 0 6 11
12 (3) Konstanty Pociejkowicz 5 3 F 1 0 1 5 12
13 (2) Edmund Migos 4 1 0 0 0 3 4 13
14 (7) Brian Brett 3 0 1 1 0 1 3 14
15 (4) George Hunter 2 0 1 0 1 E 2 15
16 (9) Colin Pratt 0 0 0 E 0 0 0 16
R1 (R1) Pawel Waloszek 0 0 R1
Placing Rider Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pts Pos 21

m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fell • ns - non-starter • nc - non-classify

gate A - inside gate B gate C gate D - outside

World Final
Placing Rider Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pts Pos
(16) Barry Briggs 15 3 3 3 3 3 15 1
(11) Sverre Harrfeldt 14 3 3 2 3 3 14 2
(1) Antoni Woryna 13 3 3 1 3 3 13 3
4 (9) Ivan Mauger 11 2 1 3 3 2 11 4
5 (4) Torbjörn Harrysson 10 2 2 2 2 2 10 5
6 (7) Göte Nordin 9 3 2 3 F 1 9 6
7 (14) Leif Enecrona 8 2 1 2 2 1 8 7
8 (13) Igor Plechanov 8 1 2 1 2 2 8 8
9 (2) Stanislav Tkocz 7 1 3 2 1 0 7 9
10 (3) Björn Knutsson 5 E 1 1 E 3 5 10
11 (12) Marian Kaiser 5 0 0 3 1 1 5 11
12 (6) Andrzej Pogorzelski 5 2 2 0 1 0 5 12
13 (8) Mike Broadbank 4 1 1 0 0 2 4 13
14 (10) Leif Larsson 3 1 0 0 2 0 3 14
15 (15) Nigel Boocock 2 0 0 1 0 1 2 15
16 (5) Per Olof Söderman 1 0 X 0 1 0 1 16
R1 (R1) Ken McKinlay 0 0 R1
R2 (R2) Bengt Brannefors 0 0 R2
Placing Rider Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pts Pos

m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fell • ns - non-starter • nc - non-classify

gate A - inside gate B gate C gate D - outside
gollark: To be fair, these MAY have been evil goblins and we turned out to be right for really bad reasons.
gollark: I assume you can't do long-distance teleportation very practically.
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gollark: And our insanity.
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References
  1. Bamford, R. & Shailes, G. (2002). A History of the World Speedway Championship. Stroud: Tempus Publishing. ISBN 0-7524-2402-5
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