King's Lynn Stadium, also known as the Adrian Flux Arena and previously as the Norfolk Arena, is a short oval stadium situated to the south of

King's Lynn King's Lynn, known until 1537 as Bishop's Lynn and colloquially as Lynn, is a port and market town in the borough of King's Lynn and West Norfolk in the county of Norfolk, England. It is located north of London, north-east of Peterborough, no ...

on Saddlebow Road in

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County, England. It currently hosts BriSCA Formula 1 Stock Car Racing,

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and is also a former

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track.

Origins

The stadium was constructed in 1951 on the west side of Saddlebow Road next door to a poultry farm. It originally opened for greyhound racing.

Stock car racing

Since 1955 it has hosted BriSCA Formula 1 Stock Car Racing for which it has hosted World Final events for in 2007, 2009, 2013, 2015 and 2019. It's set to hold the World Final again in September 2020 with this year's winner Tom Harris defending his title.

Speedway

The stadium has been the home of the King's Lynn Stars speedway team since 1965. It hosted the Final of the 1984 European (World) Under-21 Championship won by England's

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. The

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-surfaced track is long and is surrounded by a solid steel plate fence and like most international speedway venues, the fences in the turns are protected by an air fence.

Sidecar Speedway

Three wheeled Motorcycle racing have been a regular visitor to Saddlebow Road over the years. The most prodigious event being the World Cup (The Gold Trophy). It was hosted in 2008 and won by Australian's Darrrin Treloar & Justin Plaisted.

Greyhound racing

Racing started on 27 August 1951 and was independent (not affiliated to the sports governing body the

National Greyhound Racing Club The National Greyhound Racing Club was an organisation that governed Greyhound racing in the United Kingdom. History The National Greyhound Racing Club (NGRC) was formed in 1928 and this body would be responsible for regulation, licensing and the r ...

). The racing is believed to have ended sometime during 1966.

Other uses

Other short oval formulas such as

also appear regularly at the track and the stadium also hosts drifting and stunt events.

References

{{Motorcycle speedway tracks Speedway venues in England Defunct greyhound racing venues in the United Kingdom