Outrup Speedway Center
| Location | Hennevej 35, 6855 Outrup, Denmark |
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| Opened | 3 July 1976 |
| Website | {{#statements:P856}} |
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
[edit | edit source]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
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