The Moto Arena Łódź is a 10,350-capacity

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 clockwise, anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that ...

stadium in the north west area of

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. The venue is used by the speedway team

Orzeł Łódź Orzeł Łódź (''Eagle Lodz'') is a Polish motorcycle speedway team based in Łódź who currently race in the Polish Speedway First League (1. Liga). The club's full name is H. Skrzydlewska Eagle Lodz. Stadium The club hold their meetings at ...

, who compete in the

Team Speedway Polish Championship The Team Speedway Polish Championship ( Polish: ''Drużynowe Mistrzostwa Polski, DMP'') is an annual speedway event held each year in different Polish clubs organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM) since 1948. In 2000, the First Division was r ...

History

In 2013, the stadium was designed by the KŻ Orzeł racing club and was later approved for construction. The construction took place between 2016 and 2018 adjacent to the old Orzeł speedway stadium. It opened on 29 July 2018 at the cost of

Polish złoty The złoty (alternative spelling: ''zloty''; Polish: ''polski złoty'', ;The nominative plural, used for numbers ending in 2, 3 and 4 (except those in 12, 13 and 14), is ; the genitive plural, used for all other numbers, is abbreviation: z� ...

49.8 million. The biggest event to be held at the track to date was the third round of the 2022 Speedway European Championship, won by Janusz Kołodziej on 3 September 2022. In 2023, the track record was broken by Jakub Stojanowski, who set a time of 58.12 seconds on 9 August.

References

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