Kalvholmen 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 located in the southeast of
Karlstad
Karlstad (, ) is the 20th-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Karlstad Municipality, the capital of Värmland County, and the largest city in the province Värmland in Sweden. The city proper had 67,122 inhabitants in 2020 with 97,233 inhabitan ...
. The facility on the Kalvholmsgatan forms part of a complex that includes, speedway, Rally cross and Cross Kart.
The stadium hosts the
Karlstad Speedway (Solkatterna) team that competes 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 ...
.
History
The track's origins started in the late 1960s, with a search by the motor club association for a new site, following the speedway team's move away from the short lived Färjestad's Trotting Track.
[ The association found a landfill area and began construction in 1970 and opened it in the Autumn of the same year.][
In 1979, a smaller 80cc track was constructed inside of the main 500cc track.]1983 Individual Speedway World Championship
The 1983 Individual Speedway World Championship was the 38th edition of the official World Championship to determine the world champion rider. It was the first time the World Final had been held in West Germany.
Final summary
An near-capacity ...
and 1989 Individual Speedway World Championship
The 1989 Individual Speedway World Championship was the 44th edition of the official World Championship to determine the world champion rider. It was the second time the championship was held in West Germany after previously being held in Nord ...
and the final of the Swedish Individual Speedway Championship
The Swedish Individual Championship is a competition for Swedish Speedway riders, held each year to determine the Swedish national champion.
History
After World War II the first championship was held in 1948, although it was considered unoffi ...
in 1984.
Tony Rickardsson
Jan Tony Sören Rickardsson (born on 17 August 1970) is a Swedish former professional motorcycle speedway rider. He competed in the Speedway World Championships from 1989 to 2006 and won six Speedway World Championship titles in 15 attempts. ...
, a multiple world champion set a track record of 56.3 seconds on 8 September 2004.[
A dispute over ownership surfaced in late 2016, when Solkatterna and the Karlstad municipality disagreed as to who owns the site. Solkatterna claimed the land was owned by Karlstad's mechanical workshop (KMW) when the track was built and before the municipality bought the land, stating that the stadium was therefore still owned by the club. The municipality claimed that when they bought the land in 1970, they took responsibility for the stadium.]
References
Speedway venues in Sweden
Sports venues in Värmland County
Sport in Karlstad
1970 establishments in Sweden
20th-century establishments in Värmland County
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