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 Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

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. It was won by

Per Jonsson Per Jonsson (born 21 March 1966 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a former speedway rider who won the Speedway World Championship in 1990, and finished runner-up in 1992. Career In 1985, his second season with the Reading Racers, the team won six major ...

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 The Speedway Grand Prix of Germany is a speedway event that is a part of the Speedway Grand Prix Series. Since 2016 the event has been staged at the Bergring Arena in Teterow. Winners ''* Due to inclement weather, the FIM deemed that track at ...

in 1995, which formed part of the World Championship. The

1995 Speedway Grand Prix of Germany The 1995 Speedway Grand Prix of Germany was the third race of the 1995 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on 8 July in the Motorstadion in Abensberg, Germany and was won by Danish rider Tommy Knudsen.Tommy Knudsen Tommy Knudsen (born 9 November 1961 in Roager, Denmark) is a former Motorcycle speedway rider who won eight Speedway World Team Cups, and two Speedway World Pairs Championship, World Pairs. Career Knudsen first became kno ...

. In 2022, the stadium was renamed in honour of former speedway rider

Josef Hofmeister Josef Hofmeister (born 17 June 1934) is a former Motorcycle rider who competed in Grasstrack, Longtrack and Speedway. He competed in six World Longtrack Championship Finals and won a hat-trick of titles between 1958 and 1960. Josef was also ...

(nicknamed Wack Hofmeister).

References

Speedway venues in Germany {{motorcycle-speedway-stub