EuroSpeedway Lausitz, Motorsport racing track in Klettwitz, Germany
The EuroSpeedway Lausitz is a motorsport complex in Klettwitz featuring a 4.5-kilometer road circuit and a separate high-speed oval track. The two layouts share portions of the same asphalt surface and offer different racing configurations for various series.
Construction of the facility began in the late 1990s on a former open-pit coal mine and opened in 2000. The original planning dated back to the 1980s when the area was still part of East Germany.
The name changed from Lausitzring to EuroSpeedway Lausitz shortly before opening, after locals protested a plan to call it Eurospeedway Berlin-Brandenburg. Since 2017 the DEKRA organisation has owned the site and renamed it DEKRA Lausitzring, and it now serves mainly as a test track. The fan club Club 98 e. V., successor to the citizens' initiative Pro Lausitzring, still supports the circuit.
The track sits along the A13 motorway between Berlin and Dresden and provides large parking areas for visitors. On race days, arriving early helps avoid longer waiting times.
The oval is the only one of its kind on continental Europe and features a triangular shape similar to Pocono Raceway in the United States. For several years the facility hosted American CART racing series that normally competed only in North America.
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