Australasia

NATIONAL CHAMPIONS: p2 AUSTRALASIA

- "Champion of Champions" - Australian State Champions

- U21 & Youth Champions - North & South Island Champs

- Long Track Champions, Au.+ NZ

AUSTRALIA

Sydney Royal 1927

Melbourne 1960

With varying track lengths from ¼ mile to 1 mile or more dependent upon the original showground size, speedway races in Australia’s pioneering days from the 1920s onward were of differing duration, usually equating to 1 mile or 2 miles, e.g. 4 or 8 laps on a 440yd. circuit: 3 or 6 laps on a 1/3 mile track. Classes by engine size were also involved. Consequently a number of Australian National Championships resulted. (Predominant ones only are given in the ‘Nationals’ table of the previous page.) The first table of this page gives the full list of Aussie championships winners, 2-lap Champions to 2-mile Champions, from the first 1926 winner to the last before the lull of the late ‘fifties.

This multiplicity of champions led in 1950 to the ASCB initiating an annual competition for those holders to race for the ultimate accolade of Australian “Champion of Champions.

Aub Lawson, (below) made this title his own !

For all years, 1926 - to date, see 'Nationals' page.

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Australian STATE Championship Winners

- Victoria,

         - New South Wales
           - South Australia
             - Western Australia
               - Queensland
                 - Northern Ter'ty
                   - Tasmania

- ACT (Canberra)

Adelaide 1966: Chum Taylor,(on bike) 5x WA Champ, Aust.Champ 1966,

Jack Scott, 2x SA & 2x Vict. Champ, Aust.Champ 1967

CHAMPIONS ALL

Chris Holder, 5x NSW, 1x WA, 3x Aust, Troy Batchelor, 4x SA, 1x QLD Champ,

5x Aust.U21 Champ with 1x Aust.U16 Champ with

Jason Crump, 5x QLD, 2x Aust,1x Aust.U21, Scott Nicholls, 6x British Champ,

1x Aust.U16, 3x World Champ. 2x Brit.U21 Champ.

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For Australian and New Zealand junior champions see U21 and Youth Champions

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NEW ZEALAND

A full list of all NZ national champions are given on the preceding page of 'major speedway nations'.

Below are listed the winners of the two islands' championships. On South Island Larry Ross dominated the event in the '70s/'80s with 12 wins, and in the North, where a wider range of venues has been used, Mich Shirra has the most wins with 5. Both have been multiple New Zealand national champions and each had a NZ Long Track championship success.

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National Long Track Championships

- Australia

- New Zealand

(For narrative see Long Track page.)

Chris Watson,

6x Aussie Long Track champ,

plus NZ LgTk, NZ LgTk.GP

& Aus. LgTk.GP winner.

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Speedway Champions