The Wack Hofmeister Stadium formerly the Altes Stadion Abensberg (the Old Stadium) is a
motorcycle speedway
Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that use only ...
and
association football stadium located slightly east of the centre of
Abensberg
Abensberg () is a town in the Lower Bavarian district of Kelheim, in Bavaria, Germany, lying around southwest of Regensburg, east of Ingolstadt, northwest of Landshut and north of Munich. It is situated on the river Abens, a tributary of the ...
in Germany.
It hosts the speedway team MSC Abensberg and the football team TSV Abensberg 1862.
History
Also referred to as the Motorstadion Abensberg, the venue hosted the
1985 Individual Speedway Junior European Championship
The 1985 Individual Speedway Junior European Championship was the ninth edition of the European motorcycle speedway Under-21 Championships. It was won by Per Jonsson on July 14, 1985.
European final
*July 14, 1985
* Abensberg, Motorstadion
Re ...
. It was won by
Per Jonsson on 14 July 1985, who later became a world champion. The most prestigious speedway event to be held at the track was the first ever
Speedway Grand Prix of Germany in 1995, which formed part of the World Championship. The
1995 Speedway Grand Prix of Germany was won by the Dane
Tommy Knudsen.
In 2022, the stadium was renamed in honour of former speedway rider
Josef Hofmeister (nicknamed Wack Hofmeister).
References
Speedway venues in Germany
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