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Sandbahn Rennen Herxheim or Waldstadion is a Longtrack and motorcycle speedway stadium in Herxheim bei Landau/Pfalz, Germany. The stadium is located south of the municipality, on the St.-Christophorus-Straße 14, in a forested area. The Motorsportvereinigung Herxheim use the facility.

History

The site is best known for longtrack and has been a major venue for the longer form of speedway. It hosted the final of the Individual Speedway Long Track World Championship in 1984, 1990 and 1996. Since the introduction of the Grand Prix series in 1997, the track has been selected multiple times to hold a round of the series. The most recent being 2024.

The track occasionally holds conventional speedway and was chosen to hold the qualifying round of the 2012 Speedway World Cup.

The speedway team MSV Herxheim (nicknamed the Drifters) also raced conventional speedway, participating in the German Team Speedway Championship during 2012.

In 2024, the venue will hold the European Under-19 Individual Speedway Championship final.

References

1. "Sondersprtlange Waldstadion". Ortsgemeinde Herxheim. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
2. "Home". MSV Herxheim. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
3. "WORLD LONGTRACK FINALS 1971 – 1996 Tracy Holmes" (PDF). Speedway Plus.com.
4. Montague, Trevor (2004). A To Z of Sport, page 512. Little Brown. ISBN 0-316-72946-9.
5. Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results. Guinness Superlatives. p. 290. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
6. "FIM Long Track World Championship 2024 calendar update". FIM. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
7. "2012 WORLD CUP". International Speedway. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
8. "FIM Speedway World-Cup Qualifying Runde 1, Herxheim 2012". YouTube. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
9. "German Team Championship". Historia Sportu Zuzlowego. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
10. "European Championship dates: One title decision is in Germany". Speedweek. Retrieved 15 February 2024.

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