Vetlanda Motorstadion

Stadium in Vetlanda, Sweden

57°26′06″N 15°06′05″E / 57.43500°N 15.10139°E / 57.43500; 15.10139Capacity10,000OperatorNjudungarna motorcycle speedwayOpened24 June 1949Length(355 metres) 0.355 km

Vetlanda Motorstadion or the Hasses Motorstadion (for sponsorship purposes) is a motorcycle speedway track located in the north eastern outskirts of Vetlanda. The track is on the Valhallavägen road and largely surrounded by forest.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The stadium hosts the Njudungarna speedway team (previously known as Elit Vetlanda Speedway) that compete in the Swedish Speedway Team Championship.^[4] The speedway team have been champions of Sweden 11 times racing under the name of Vetlanda.^[5]

History

Work began on the track on 12 October 1946, when the area was rented by Vetlanda Motorsällskap from farmer Henric Wictorin. It opened on 24 June 1949.^[1] The venue hosted the World Championship round known as the Intercontinental final in 1982, 1985 and 1988.^[6] The 1982 event set a record stadium attendance of 11,517.^[1]

In addition to the intercontinental finals, it has also hosted multiple finals of the Swedish Individual Speedway Championship in 1976, 1981, 1991,1997, 2005, 2012 and 2013.^[7]

The record league attendance of 8,703 was set on 27 September 2005 in the fxiture between VMS Elit and Västervik beating the previous best of 7,256 from 2004.^[8]

In 2020, the club signed a three-year agreement with the company Hasses Gatukök & Pizzeria for naming rights to the stadium.^[9]

Track records

361m, Jason Crump, 62.4 seconds, 7 May 2008^[10]
355m, Andreas Jonsson, 61.2 seconds, 15 August 2011^[10]
355m, Jaroslaw Hampel, 62.5 seconds
355m, Adrian Miedziński, 62.5 seconds

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "The Association and Motorstadion". Vetlanda MSV. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
^ "Hasses Motorstadion Vetlanda". Zuzelend. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
^ "VETLANDA - Sweden". Speedway Plus. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
^ "Speedway Around The Globe - Sweden". Speedway Star. 23 July 2022. pp. 38–39.
^ "History SPEEDWAY and LONGTRACK". Speedway.org. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
^ Bamford, Reg (2004). Speedway Yearbook. Tempus Publishing, Stroud. ISBN 978-0-7524-2955-7.
^ "Individual Swedish Championship". Historia Sportu Zuzlowego. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
^ "History". Vetland Speedway. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
^ "TV: Historic agreement - Vetlanda Speedway's arena changes name". Smålands Dagblad. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Motorstadion". Vetland Speedway. Retrieved 30 November 2023.