Dis -used Tracks/stadiums In Poland

[marcel 0]

does anyone know approx how many tracks and stadiums are not in current use in poland?polish members would prob know most info? and if so how long out of use

[smartace 0]

Swietochlowice....not sure how long

[ladyluck 1]

Cracow, although there are plans for a meeting there this summer to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Nowa Huta.

[Shaledodger 0]

Ruda Slaska (1991), Machowa (1999) and Witnica (1999) are three of the more recently closed down tracks.

 

Interesting news about Nowa Huta.

[ladyluck 1]

And there is a disused track in Warsaw, near the airport.

[Champion 0]

The track in Krakow (or Nowa Huta if you want, it's just a section of Krakow) was last time in use in 2003 as far as I remember. But lately the club (Wanda Krakow) has been granted quite big amount of money from the City Office for the stadium repair and they ripped-off the whole track in the end of last year;

http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/6/6472/z6472636X.jpg

http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/5/6472/z6472635X.jpg

and now they are preparing (or already doing it ? I'm not sure) to renewing the whole area and making it useful to speedway, including air fence, etc.

 

Stadion in Machowa (~15km east from Tarnow) is in quite good condition but is out of professional speedway and as far as I know only amateurs are riding there occasionally.

 

Speedway in Warsaw is just a different story; there were even 3 clubs in Warsaw in 50's but all of them have gone in 60's. Finally the Gwardia stadium was built in 90's and some individual and team meetings took place there (including individual polish championship final, domestic speedway grand prix final, etc.) There was also a league team in 3rd division from year 2000 but after beeing promoted to 2nd division in 2003 they were not able to finish the season so the last meeting was in July 2003 when it all ended. Now there's a brand new club called WTS, founded in 2007, but they have no stadium. The old one (Gwardia) is ruined ( http://www.zuzel.waw.pl/index.php?id=2 ) and their efforts to bring speedway back to Warsaw are just resultless so far.

Edited June 20, 2009 by Champion

[marcel 0]

thanks people,keep the pictures coming if at all possible

[Little-End 4]

The track in Krakow (or Nowa Huta if you want, it's just a section of Krakow) was last time in use in 2003 as far as I remember. But lately the club (Wanda Krakow) has been granted quite big amount of money from the City Office for the stadium repair and they ripped-off the whole track in the end of last year;

http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/6/6472/z6472636X.jpg

http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/5/6472/z6472635X.jpg

and now they are preparing (or already doing it ? I'm not sure) to renewing the whole area and making it useful to speedway, including air fence, etc.

 

Champion - Many thanks for the excellent Pics , Nowa Huta looks an excellent facility to build on , Any chance of moving it to Manchester ? Belle Vue could do with a base like that to build on

 

Lucky

 

[Champion 0]

It could be very difficult to move anything from Nowa Huta, as the oldest part of this Krakow's section has been included to the monuments register 4 or 5 years ago Wanda's stadium doesn't belong to that monumental part of Nowa Huta as far as I know, but still the whole Nowa Huta is quite uniqe and hard to be moved and replaced

 

 

There's also track in Swietochlowice. The club Slask Swietochlowice was withdrawn from the 3rd division in 2003 (just before the beggining of season) and the track has been out of use for professional speedway since 2006, but there was some amateur club which won amateur league in 2005, 2006 & 2007. I don't know how are they doing at present but here I've found video from 2007: http://www.speedtube.pl/film,539

[Bavarian 765]

And never forget the greatest stadium of tehm all, Slaski Stadion in Chorzow.

 

Is this stadium rebuilt for the Euro 2012 football?

[Mateusz 0]

And never forget the greatest stadium of tehm all, Slaski Stadion in Chorzow.

 

Is this stadium rebuilt for the Euro 2012 football?

The Slaski Stadium is still being rebuilt but it's not the stadium to host Euro 2012 matches (unless Ukraine fail to prepare for Euro 2012).

[spanner47 336]

Cracow, although there are plans for a meeting there this summer to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Nowa Huta.

Krzyzstof Cegielski told a friend of mine that this meeting is planned for the 23rd august. Lots of top poles will be on show, has anybody in poland heard anymore? Would love to go.

[Champion 0]

Cracow, although there are plans for a meeting there this summer to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Nowa Huta.

 

Krzyzstof Cegielski told a friend of mine that this meeting is planned for the 23rd august. Lots of top poles will be on show, has anybody in poland heard anymore? Would love to go.

 

Riders confirmed so far:

http://www.60latnowejhuty.espeedway.pl/zawodnicy.html

 

Meetings starts at 15:30, entrance free.

 

This is how the stadium used to look like:

http://www.zuzelend.com/krakow,151

http://www.zuzelend.com/stadiony-krakow-2,163

 

And these pictures were taken last month:

http://i30.tinypic.com/2yts115.jpg

http://i30.tinypic.com/j74877.jpg

http://i31.tinypic.com/118evev.jpg

http://i27.tinypic.com/qxpjq1.jpg

http://i26.tinypic.com/15qal1g.jpg

http://i32.tinypic.com/ffa9dx.jpg

http://i27.tinypic.com/wwnedj.jpg

http://i28.tinypic.com/2jezmux.jpg

Edited August 5, 2009 by Champion

[marcel 0]

thanks for posting those pictures champion great to see the transformation starting to happen from the ghostly ones of before

[bruno 1,790]

would love to go to this. i visited the track a few years ago a bit after the racing had finished . it seemed such a shame cuz it didnt look too bad