Germany national long track team
The Germany national long track team is the national longtrack motorcycle speedway team of Germany and is controlled by the Deutscher Motor Sport Bund.
History
The German longtrack team are traditionally the strongest nation in the world, with many of their riders prioritising a career in longtrack instead of the popular conventional oval form of speedway. The first Individual Speedway Long Track World Championship was held in 1957 and the West German/German team won 16 of the first 40 individual titles from 1957 to 1996. Since the advent of the Grand Prix series in 1997 they have continued the success, winning another 16 titles up to the end of the 2023 season.Since the creation of the World Longtrack team championship in 2007, now called the, Germany have won 9 of the 15 editions.
World individual longtrack champions
- Gerd Riss 1991, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009
- Karl Maier 1980, 1982, 1987, 1988
- Robert Barth 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006
- Josef Hofmeister 1958, 1959, 1960
- Manfred Poschenreider 1966, 1967, 1968
- Egon Müller 1974, 1975, 1978
- Martin Smolinski 2018, 2023, 2024
- Erik Riss 2014, 2016
- Alois Wiesböck 1979
- Tommy Dunker 1997
- Lukas Fienhage 2020