Outrup Speedway Center

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| location = Hennevej 35, 6855 Outrup, Denmark

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| opened = 3 July 1976

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The Outrup Speedway Center is a motorcycle speedway stadium and track about 1.5 kilometres southwest of Outrup.{{cite web |url=http://speedwaylife.com/danish-tracks/outrup-speedway/ |title=Outrup Speedway Club |website=Speedway Life |access-date=19 November 2023}}{{cite web |url=http://www.speedwayplus.com/Outrup.shtml |title=Outrup track pictures |website=Speedway Plus |access-date=19 November 2023}}

The venue is used by the Outrup Speedway Club and the speedway team Region Varde Elitesport, who compete in the Danish Speedway League.{{cite web |url=https://speedwayligaen.dk/hold/region-varde-elitesport/ |title=Teams |website=Speedway Ligaen |access-date=19 November 2023}}{{cite magazine |author= |title=Speedway Around The Globe - Denmark |url=|magazine=Speedway Star |page=429 |location= |publisher= |date=3 September 2022 |access-date=}}

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. 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.

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. The new track opened during 1986, which coincided with the new Danish Superliga, a new professional league tournament.{{cite web|url=https://www.danskspeedway.dk/statistik/historie/Historie1985til89/hi1985til1989.html |title=1985 to 1989 |website=Dansk Speedway |access-date=19 November 2023}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.historyspeedway.nstrefa.pl/dmdanii.php |title=Danish Team Championships |website=Speedway History |access-date=19 November 2023}}

The venue has hosted significant speedway events including -

2003 Speedway World Cup Race-off{{cite web |url=http://www.speedway.org/history/03.htm#2003 |title=World Team Championship |website=Speedway.org |access-date=19 November 2023}}
multiple Danish Individual Speedway Championship finals{{cite book |last=Bamford |first=Reg |title=Speedway Yearbook |year=2004 | publisher=Tempus Publishing, Stroud | isbn=978-0-7524-2955-7}}
multiple Danish World Championship qualifying finals

References

Category:Speedway venues in Denmark

Category:Sports venues in the Region of Southern Denmark

Category:Buildings and structures in Varde Municipality

Category:1976 establishments in Denmark

Category:Sports venues completed in 1976