Nässjö Motorstadion 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 clockwise, anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that ...
track in
Nässjö
Nässjö () is a locality and the seat of Nässjö Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 31,782 inhabitants in 2024.
History
For many years, Nässjö was a rural village with agriculture as the dominant occupation. The turning point wa ...
, Sweden. The facility is located on the south west edge of the locality on Skogsvallen. The stadium hosts the NK Nässjö speedway team
that has competed in the
Swedish Speedway Team Championship
The Swedish Speedway Team Championship is the team championship of motorcycle speedway, speedway in Sweden.
History
The Championship was introduced in 1950.
In 1982 the Championship was renamed with a new league called the Elitserien (speedwa ...
and won the second division in 1997.
History
The stadium has hosted many important events, including qualifying rounds of the
Speedway World Championship
The World Championship of Speedway is an international competition between the highest-ranked motorcycle speedway riders of the world, run under the auspices of the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM). The first official championsh ...
in 1983, 1986, 1989 and 1991.
The track record of 57.8 seconds was set by
Peter Ljung on 27 June 2018.
[
Since 2023, the venue has also run flat track racing (a form of speedway using bigger and heavier bikes).]
References
Speedway venues in Sweden
Sport in Nässjö
Sports venues in Jönköping County
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