Sandbahn_Rennen_Herxheim

Sandbahn Rennen Herxheim

Sandbahn Rennen Herxheim

Speedway stadium in Herxheim bei Landau/Pfalz, Germany

Sandbahn Rennen Herxheim or Waldstadion is a Longtrack and motorcycle speedway stadium in Herxheim bei Landau/Pfalz, Germany. The stadium is located south of the municipality, on the St.-Christophorus-Straße 14, in a forested area.[1] The Motorsportvereinigung Herxheim use the facility.[2]

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History

The site is best known for longtrack and has been a major venue for the longer form of speedway. It hosted the final of the Individual Speedway Long Track World Championship in 1984, 1990 and 1996.[3][4][5] Since the introduction of the Grand Prix series in 1997, the track has been selected multiple times to hold a round of the series. The most recent being 2024.[6]

The track occasionally holds conventional speedway and was chosen to hold the qualifying round of the 2012 Speedway World Cup.[7][8]

The speedway team MSV Herxheim (nicknamed the Drifters) also raced conventional speedway, participating in the German Team Speedway Championship during 2012.[9]

In 2024, the venue will hold the European Under-19 Individual Speedway Championship final.[10]

References

  1. [1]
    "Sondersprtlange Waldstadion". Ortsgemeinde Herxheim. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
  2. [2]
    "Home". MSV Herxheim. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
  3. [3]
    "WORLD LONGTRACK FINALS 1971 – 1996 Tracy Holmes" (PDF). Speedway Plus.com.
  4. [4]
    Montague, Trevor (2004). A To Z of Sport, page 512. Little Brown. ISBN 0-316-72946-9.
  5. [5]
    Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results. Guinness Superlatives. p. 290. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
  6. [6]
    "FIM Long Track World Championship 2024 calendar update". FIM. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
  7. [7]
    "2012 WORLD CUP". International Speedway. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
  8. [8]
    "FIM Speedway World-Cup Qualifying Runde 1, Herxheim 2012". YouTube. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
  9. [9]
    "German Team Championship". Historia Sportu Zuzlowego. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
  10. [10]
    "European Championship dates: One title decision is in Germany". Speedweek. Retrieved 15 February 2024.


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