The Güstrow Speedway Stadium () is an 8,000-capacity speedway stadium in

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, Germany. The stadium is located on the eastern outskirts of the town, just off the Plauer Chaussee 4. The speedway track has a circumference of 298 metres and is home to the speedway team

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History

In 1963, Fritz Suhrbier was attributed as to creating the stadium from an old sand and waste area. He constructed a motocross course with a speedway track inside the motocross course. Diethelm Triemer, an East German international rider, officiated at the first race on 20 October 1963. in 1970, the stadium hosted a Continental Semi final of the

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. Being in East Germany the stadium suffered from political isolation because of the

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but many years later in 2008, it was selected to host the semi final of the

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set a track record time of 56.5 seconds on 12 August 2007. From 2014 to 2019, the stadium hosted one of the finals of the

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. It did not hold the event in 2020 due to the

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. However, it returned in 2021 and been held every year since.

References

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