Outrup Speedway Center

Speedway stadium in Outrup, Denmark

55°42′37″N 8°19′31″E / 55.71028°N 8.32528°E / 55.71028; 8.32528Opened3 July 1976

The Outrup Speedway Center is a motorcycle speedway stadium and track about 1.5 kilometres southwest of Outrup.^[1]^[2]

The venue is used by the Outrup Speedway Club and the speedway team Region Varde Elitesport, who compete in the Danish Speedway League.^[3]^[4]

History

In 1961, a short lived club called Outrup Motor Sport was formed and they built a small dirt track described as being part of the Blåbjerg Klitplantage (dune plantations). Although the club soon folded the track location remained.^[1] It was this site that the Outrup Speedway Club (founded in November 1973) chose for the construction of a full size speedway track. After much work the new speedway track was opened on 3 July 1976.^[1]

During the 1980s, the track needed renovation in order for the licensing of international events to be granted by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme. The decision was taken to build a new track adjacent to the existing one to ensure that the necessary specifications could be achieved.^[1] The new track opened during 1986, which coincided with the new Danish Superliga, a new professional league tournament.^[5] Previously the league consisted of multiple amateur teams and Danish speedway suffered from the fact that many of their top professional riders chose not to race in Denmark.^[6]

The venue has hosted significant speedway events including -

2003 Speedway World Cup Race-off^[7]
multiple Danish Individual Speedway Championship finals^[8]
multiple Danish World Championship qualifying finals

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Outrup Speedway Club". Speedway Life. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
^ "Outrup track pictures". Speedway Plus. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
^ "Teams". Speedway Ligaen. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
^ "Speedway Around The Globe - Denmark". Speedway Star page 429. 3 September 2022.
^ "1985 to 1989". Dansk Speedway. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
^ "Danish Team Championships". Speedway History. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
^ "World Team Championship". Speedway.org. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
^ Bamford, Reg (2004). Speedway Yearbook. Tempus Publishing, Stroud. ISBN 978-0-7524-2955-7.