[1] The Championship was introduced in 1976 as a qualifying round for Australian and New Zealand based Motorcycle speedway riders.
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.
Eventually a deal was struck where 6 Australian riders would have a place in the Final which would now be staged at the Brisbane Exhibition Ground in Australia because the original Wellington promoter Tony Nesbitt sold his interest in the track and the new promoter did not want to stage the meeting.
The Te Marua Speedway near Wellington then looked like staging the venue but wanted the NZSCB and the New Zealand Auto Cycle Union (NZACU) to underwrite the meeting.
When this was refused and no Australian track was willing to stage the meeting on short notice, the Australasian Final was cancelled by the FIM and would never return to the speedway calendar.