Outrup Speedway Center

Outrup Speedway Center

Location	Hennevej 35, 6855 Outrup, Denmark
Coordinates	55°42′37″N8°19′31″E / 55.71028°N 8.32528°E / 55.71028; 8.32528
Opened	3 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

1. "Outrup Speedway Club". Speedway Life. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
2. "Outrup track pictures". Speedway Plus. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
3. "Teams". Speedway Ligaen. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
4. "Speedway Around The Globe - Denmark". Speedway Star. 3 September 2022. p. 429.
5. "1985 to 1989". Dansk Speedway. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
6. "Danish Team Championships". Speedway History. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
7. "World Team Championship". Speedway.org. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
8. Bamford, Reg (2004). Speedway Yearbook. Tempus Publishing, Stroud. ISBN   978-0-7524-2955-7.