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Sandbahn Rennen Herxheim or Waldstadion is a Longtrack and
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 ...
stadium in
Herxheim bei Landau/Pfalz Herxheim is a municipality in the Südliche Weinstraße district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated approximately 10 km south-east of Landau. Herxheim is the seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") Herxh ...
, 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 This is the complete list of Individual Long Track World Championship medalists from 1971. Also included are the medalists from 1957 to 1970 when the championship was known as the European Individual Long Track Championship. Medalists European L ...
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 The German Speedway Team Championships are an annual motorcycle speedway events held each year organised by the Deutscher Motor Sport Bund. The Championships has been referred to as the Bundesliga and the Past winners Team East Germany ( ...
during 2012. In 2024, the venue will hold the
European Under-19 Individual Speedway Championship The European Under-19 Individual Speedway Championship is an annual speedway event organised by FIM Europe (formerly the European Motorcycle Union (UEM)) since 1998. Championship history The European Under-19 Championship was inaugurated in 1 ...
final.


References

Speedway venues in Germany Sports venues in Rhineland-Palatinate Buildings and structures in Südliche Weinstraße {{motorcycle-speedway-stub