Regio ring

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Route 1996–1997

Coordinates: 48 ° 21 ′ 42 "  N , 7 ° 49 ′ 20"  E

Map: Baden-Württemberg
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Baden-Württemberg

The Regio-ring was a temporary airfield circuit  - a motorsport race in circuit racing nform that for corresponding motor racing was used events - on the airport Lahr in the Baden town of Lahr (districts Lahr and Hugsweier ) in Ortenaukreis in Baden-Wuerttemberg , in the Strasbourg-Offenburg Rhine plain of the Middle Upper Rhine Lowland.

history

When the Canadian armed forces gave up the airfield site in 1994 , ADAC Südbaden began planning a circuit on the airfield.

The 3337 meter long track with 8 curves and pit lane was partly laid out on the existing concrete taxiways with the inclusion of an 800 meter long straight on the runway and supplemented by new asphalted track sections. The different road surfaces with the change from old concrete to new asphalt were a special task for the coordination work of the vehicles and a challenge for the pilots and teams.

From 1996 to 1998 Europe's best touring car and formula racing car drivers made guest appearances at the Regio-Ring in Lahr. The international Formula 3 championship was by far the fastest racing class in Lahr. The future Formula 1 driver Nick Heidfeld dominated the field at that time. The future DTM champion Timo Scheider was also a newcomer at the start. In 1997 the 17th and 18th rounds of the ADAC STW-Cup were held, Joachim Winkelhock and Johnny Cecotto won both races. The French Laurent Aïello was the overall winner of the 1997 STW Cup. More than 20,000 spectators lined the track and the race was broadcast on television. At the racing event for the German Super Touring Car Championship in 1998 (the successor series to the ADAC STW Cup), with around 32,000 spectators, the company was in the black for the first time.

In 1999, however, the ADAC Südbaden had to give up the route because Flugplatz Lahr GmbH had been expanding the airport and no longer accepted a three-day break in air traffic for racing events. Since Lahr Airport was already included in the night air mail network of Deutsche Post AG and Deutsche Lufthansa regularly operated mail flights through it during this period, the runway for the implementation was already during at least one of the racing weekends after the end of the Saturday racing of a postal flight was re-prepared for flight operations and was prepared for racing operations on Sunday morning.

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