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Speedway Wolfslake is a German
Speedway was founded at the Eichenring in 1980, although the first official race meeting took place after the sand track was replaced by a regulation size 335 metres circuit in 1981. The opening meeting attracted 15,000 spectators on 29 August 1981.
The team began racing as MC Eichenring Wolfslake and hosted the Peace and Friendship Cup three times in 1983, 1986 and 1988. The stadium hosted a qualifying round of the 1991 Speedway Under-21 World Championship.
The team began racing in the
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 ...
team who race at the Eichenring, 30 kilometres northwest of Berlin in Germany. The track is located in the Krämerpfuhl forest on Am Krämerwald 6, 16727 Nr. Oberkrämer
Oberkrämer is a municipality in the Oberhavel district, in Brandenburg, Germany.
An experimental farm of wind turbines existed between 1941 and 1945 on the 50 m high Matthias mountain in the area.
Subdivisions
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History
Speedway was founded at the Eichenring in 1980, although the first official race meeting took place after the sand track was replaced by a regulation size 335 metres circuit in 1981. The opening meeting attracted 15,000 spectators on 29 August 1981.
The team began racing as MC Eichenring Wolfslake and hosted the Peace and Friendship Cup three times in 1983, 1986 and 1988. The stadium hosted a qualifying round of the 1991 Speedway Under-21 World Championship.
The team began racing in the Speedway Bundesliga
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 ...
after the German reunification
German reunification (german: link=no, Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process of re-establishing Germany as a united and fully sovereign state, which took place between 2 May 1989 and 15 March 1991. The day of 3 October 1990 when the Ge ...
and in March 1993, the club changed names to Speedway Team Berlin-Wolfslake.
The 335 metre track record was broken by Peter Karlsson, who recorded 63.30 sec.
Between 2002 and 2005 the team merged with MC Mecklenburgring Parchim and won the 2004 Bundesliga as RG Parchim/Wolfslake. The club reverted to its former name, ST Berlin Wolfslake and from 2008 to 2014 finished on the podium in 6 out of 7 championships.
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