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Solkatterna
Karlstad Speedway is a motorcycle speedway club from Karlstad in Sweden. Stadium The city's stadium is the Kalvholmen Motorstadion, a 297-metre track, which is located in the southern Lamberget region of Karlstad. History Solkatterna The city's first speedway club was Solkatterna (the Sun Cats) which was founded in 1967 and first raced in the Swedish Speedway Team Championship during the 1967 Swedish speedway season in division 3 west. After a decade of racing in the third tier of Swedish speedway, the team's first honours came during the 1976 Swedish speedway season when they won the third division south. However, they failed to gain promotion after being beaten in the promotion play off, despite the best efforts of Lars Ericsson. A second opportunity arose in 1979, when the team won the division again but this time won the play off. After finishing second during their first season of second tier speedway in 1980, they won the division in 1981. The main riders that brou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalvholmen Motorbana
Kalvholmen Motorstadion is a motorcycle speedway track located in the southeast of Karlstad. The facility on the Kalvholmsgatan forms part of a complex that includes, speedway, Rally cross and Cross Kart. The stadium hosts the Karlstad Speedway (Solkatterna) team that competes in the Swedish Speedway Team Championship. History The track's origins started in the late 1960s, with a search by the motor club association for a new site, following the speedway team's move away from the short lived Färjestad's Trotting Track. The association found a landfill area and began construction in 1970 and opened it in the Autumn of the same year. In 1979, a smaller 80cc track was constructed inside of the main 500cc track. The venue hosted the World Championship Swedish final round during both the 1983 Individual Speedway World Championship and 1989 Individual Speedway World Championship and the final of the Swedish Individual Speedway Championship in 1984. Tony Rickardsson, a multiple wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |