Crump is World Champion again.
Australian Jason Crump has won the 2006 FIM Individual Speedway World Championship having taken an unassailable 71-point lead in the series after the Prague round on the w♉eekend.
Crump's 14-points at the meet made him World Champion fo🍃r the second time - having won the same championship in 200♑4, quite a feat with still two rounds of the current championship remaining.
The Aussie only had to finish clear of American Greg Hancock who had a disastrous night - bundle🌟d out of the running when he suffered engine trouble at th𝓰e beginning of heat 15.
Australian Jason Crump has won the 2006 FIM Individual Speedway World Championship having taken an un♊assailable 71-point lead in the series after the Prague round on the weekend.
Crump's 14-points at the meet made him World꧂ Champion for the second time - having won the same championship in 2004, quite a feat with still two rounds of the current championship remaining.
The A🗹ussie only had to finish clear of American Greg Hancock who had a disastrous night - bundled out of the running when he suffered engine trouble at the beginning of heat 15.
Hancock failed to grab any points in his first two rides before winning race three to claim ♎maximum points.
However 🍌trouble reared itself in heat 15 meaning that the points Crump had earꩲned were enough to hand him the title.
Modest in championship victory, Crump admitt꧙ed that this w🎐ould not have been the way he had scripted winning his second title, but was overjoyed to once again be at the top of the Speedway tree.
"I didn't want to win it that way and it was cruel for Greg to lose his chance like th𓆏at, but for me, this is just brilliant and something that I have worked hard for all season," Crump said.
"I take great satisfaction from this, ꦬa🦋nd I want to thank all the people who have helped me to reach the summit."
At the end of the 2005 championship, Crump made some important decisions to restructure his entiꦑre racing team - decisions that the recently turned 31-year-old has certainly seen pay off.
"After losing the World Champio🧸nship to Tony Rickardsson last year, I knew I had to make some tough decisions if I was to progress. And those decisions have paid off.
"I changed my machinery, restructured the whole operation of the team and s🌞et some goals and we have achieved꧃ the desired results.
"And to achieve the goals with two Grand⛄ Prix rounds remaining makes it all that more sa🧸tisfying."
Fellow Australian Leigh Adams moved into third place outright in the overall standings, while Ryan Sullivan claimed nine points for the meet h𝄹aving been elevated in as an emergency replacement.
The two rounds remaining in the series are in Latvia and 🐠Poland on September 9 and 23 respectively.