Sachsenring
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 Hohenstein-Ernstthal , Germany
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| Route type: | 1927–1990 temporary, from 1996 permanent racing track |
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| Owner: | ADAC Saxony | ||
| Operator: | ADAC Saxony | ||
| Architect: | Hermann Tilke | ||
| Opening: | May 26, 1927, reopening: 1996 |
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| Decommissioned: | 1990-1996 | ||
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| Important events: |
Motorcycle World Championship , ADAC GT Masters , IDM | ||
| Route length: | 3,671 km (2.28 mi ) | ||
| Curves: | 14th | ||
| Audience capacity: | over 120,000 | ||
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| Track record: (motorcycle) |
1: 21,442 min. ( Jonas Folger , Yamaha YZR-M1 , 2017 ) |
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| http://www.sachsenring-circuit.com | |||
Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 26 " N , 12 ° 41 ′ 16" E
The Sachsenring is a race track in Hohenstein-Ernstthal and Oberlungwitz in Saxony .
In 1927, a race was held for the first time on the old street circuit, which is no longer used for motorsport races. The Sachsenring is one of the most traditional race tracks in Germany.
history
prehistory
After the first motorcycle races were held before 1900 , more and more racetracks emerged that were nothing more than street courses. Interrupted by the First World War , motorcycle races were increasingly held again at the beginning of the 1920s. On July 31, 1925, the locals Sepp Wagner and Paul Berger, enthusiastic about their visits to the Marienberger Dreiecksrennen , which has been held since 1923 , founded the motorcyclist club Hohenstein-Ernstthal and the surrounding area in 1925 . This club made it its business to organize its own race, which was initially out of the question due to popular resistance.
Origins
The origins of the Sachsenring go back to the Badberg Vierecksrennen , which took place for the first time on May 26th, Ascension Day in 1927 in front of over 140,000 spectators. The 8.71 km long road course ran counterclockwise through Hohenstein-Ernstthal to the north, and then in a westerly direction parallel to today's A4 Chemnitz - Gera . On today's federal highway 180 , it went south, then merged into the home straight in the Queckenberg curve. After two editions, the event had to be suspended after protests by the citizens because of the numerous accidents.
In the 1930s, however, the race track between Chemnitz and Zwickau became an integral part of the international racing calendar. In 1934 the German Grand Prix for motorcycles was held on the track for the first time , with three fatalities, including the 500 cc European champion from the previous year, the Swede Gunnar Kalén and the current 500 cc European champion Pol Demeuter from Belgium . In 1936 the European champions were determined as part of the Grand Prix . In 1937 the course was named "Sachsenring" after the racing activities on the Grillenburger Dreieck in the Tharandt Forest, previously known as the Sachsenring, were discontinued. a. the planned new construction of the Sachsenring on Pöhlberg near Annaberg 1933-1934 failed.
In 1949, the races were revived after the war-related break. In 1950, around 400,000 spectators attended the run for the all-German motorcycle championship . Another highlight was the road races of the road cycling world championship in 1960 on the 8.7 km long course , where Bernhard Eckstein won the amateur race ahead of Täve Schur .
The “old” Sachsenring experienced its heyday from 1961 , because up to and including 1972 races for the motorcycle world championship were held on the high-speed course . The local two-stroke racing machines from MZ from nearby Zschopau were also competitive at times . However, the fastest lap ever was driven by the 15-time world champion Giacomo Agostini from Italy on a 500 cc MV Agusta with an average speed of almost 180 km / h. In 1969 , the young British world champion and crowd favorite Bill Ivy was killed in a fall in the center of Hohenstein-Ernstthal.
West German Dieter Braun won the 250cc race in 1971 , after which many spectators sang along with the German national anthem. A GDR Grand Prix was held for the last time in 1972 . Due to a lack of safety precautions and increased costs, the GDR decided not to continue hosting a world championship run.
From 1973 motorcycle races for the GDR championship and the cup of socialist countries as well as touring and racing car races with purely Eastern European participants were held. The number of spectators was still in the range between 200,000 and 300,000, the Sachsenring race had the character of a festival. The Sachsenring was not completely rebuilt like comparable natural race tracks in the west, only at the end of the start and finish straight, before the entrance to the city, a chicane was installed.
New beginning
In 1990 the end of the GDR indirectly brought the end of the venerable natural race track. The almost unchanged state of the line for decades could no longer meet modern safety requirements, because the speeds increased due to the material now available from the West and the Far East. Despite two brake chicanes, tragic accidents occurred. In particular, racing within the town was no longer acceptable, although the Schleizer Dreieck was still a few years away from houses and this is still common at the Tourist Trophy on the Isle of Man .
A shortened route out of town was discussed, but implementation was a long time coming. The AMC Sachsenring Hohenstein-Ernstthal and the ADAC Sachsen organized Sachsenring races on the Czech race tracks in Most and Brno from 1992 to 1995 .
In 1995 the traffic safety center at the start-finish area of the old racetrack was opened with a multifunctional event area and a (not yet permanently available) racetrack. Now there was again the opportunity to do racing on site. The racing comeback took place in 1996 with the events of the International German Motorcycle Championship (IDM) and the ADAC Super Touring Car Cup .
The omega-shaped part of the route, which leads downhill around a wooded hill, became the new feature of the Sachsenring, but the rest of the course was criticized by some athletes as too narrow and too slow, especially since it hardly reminded of the flowing old route. Thanks to continuous improvement of the track standard and infrastructure, the big coup was achieved in 1998: the motorcycle world championship, which attracted fewer and fewer spectators at the Hockenheimring and most recently at the Nürburgring , returned to the Sachsenring after 26 years. Since then, around 200,000 spectators have flocked to the “Ring” every year to experience the spectacle.
Thanks to this impressive support from the spectators, extensive changes have been made to the route over the years. Mention should be made here of a new pit system, the new start / finish tower and the changed, faster route, which no longer affects public transport and thus makes the Sachsenring a permanent race track for the first time. In particular, the renovation in 2001, which, with a very fast downhill section before the Queckenberg uphill bend, is reminiscent of both the Fuchsröhre section of the Nordschleife and the old Sachsenring, finally established the now 3,670-meter-long Sachsenring with drivers and spectators.
The Sachsenring has been an integral part of the ADAC GT Masters since 2007, and a 2011 FIA GT1 World Championship was part of the supporting program .
Although the DTM has not returned in recent years due to financial differences, the local organizers and the ADAC recently succeeded in securing the motorcycle world championship at the Sachsenring until 2021.
At current events, especially in the hobby area, the strict volume limit is always a problem, so that many events at the Sachsenring cannot take place despite great interest. Exceptions are granted for events such as motorcycle world championship races.
In 2018, curve 11 was renamed Ralf Waldmann curve in memory of Ralf Waldmann .
statistics
List of fatally injured racing drivers
| driver | Accident date | vehicle |
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 Erik Haps ( "Noir" ) |
July 1, 1934 | motorcycle |
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Pole demeuter
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July 1, 1934 | motorcycle |
 Gunnar Kalén
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July 1, 1934 | motorcycle |
 Jimmie Guthrie
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August 8, 1937 | motorcycle |
 Helmut Arnold |
5th September 1952 | Team |
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Gerhard Hoffmann |
17th August 1956 | motorcycle |
 Werner Daubitz |
17th July 1967 | motorcycle |
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Bill Ivy
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July 12, 1969 | motorcycle |
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Günter Bartusch
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July 9, 1971 | motorcycle |
 Vladislav Ondřejík |
July 10, 1977 | automobile |
 Ottó Gunyits |
July 13, 1979 | motorcycle |
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Heinrich Kurtha |
July 11, 1981 | motorcycle |
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Frank Herrmann |
July 9, 1982 | motorcycle |
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Bertram Queck |
July 13, 1985 | motorcycle |
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Erhard Tatarczyk |
July 14, 1985 | automobile |
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Werner Wilfert |
July 10, 1988 | automobile |
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Rainer Tews |
July 8, 1990 | motorcycle |
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Bernhard Findeisen |
July 8, 1990 | motorcycle |
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Edgar-Peter Leyer |
July 10, 1990 | motorcycle |
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Enrico Becker
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July 12, 2014 | Team |
Winners lists
First events from 1927 to 1928
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| May 26, 1927 | 175 cc |
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| 250 cc | No starter reached the finish. | |||
| 350 cc |
Arthur Lohse ( Schüttoff )
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| 500 cc |
Max Wetzel ( BMW )
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| 750 cc |
Rudolf Hasse ( Wanderer )
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| 1000 cc |
Albert Schuster ( Indian )
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| Carriages (350 cm³) | No starter reached the finish. | |||
| Carriages (600 cm³) |
O. Müller / unknown ( Rudge )
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| Carriages (1000 cm³) |
Karl Rost / unknown ( BMW )
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| May 17, 1928 | 175 cc | No starter reached the finish. | ||
| 250 cc |
Epee butt ( Dunelt )
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| 350 cc |
Albert Mannhart ( Schüttoff )
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| 500 cc |
Johannes Meier ( Rudge )
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| 750 cc |
Schüßler ( wanderer )
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| 1000 cc |
Erich Kunze ( AJS )
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| Carriages (350 cm³) |
Rudolf Münch / Walter Aurich ( Schüttoff )
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| Carriages (600 cm³) |
Erich Sonntag / W. Gehre ( AJS )
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| Carriages (1000 cm³) |
Anton Usler / unknown ( Indian )
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Motorcycle Grands Prix 1934 to 1939
| year | run | 250 cc | 350 cc | 500 cc |
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| 1934 | IX. Grand Prix of Germany |
 Henry Tyrell-Smith ( Rudge ) |
Jimmie Simpson ( Norton ) |
 Otto Ley ( DKW )
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| 1935 | X. Grand Prix of Germany |
Walfried Winkler ( DKW ) |
 Walter Rusk ( Norton ) |
Jimmie Guthrie ( Norton )
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| 1936 | XI. Grand Prix of Germany / XIII. European Grand Prix of the FICM |
Henry Tyrell-Smith ( Excelsior ) |
Freddie Frith ( Norton ) |
Jimmie Guthrie ( Norton )
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| 1937 | XII. Grand Prix of Germany |
.svg){kind=small} Ewald Kluge ( DKW ) |
Harold Daniell ( Norton ) |
Karl Gall ( BMW )
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| 1938 | XIII. Grand Prix of Germany |
Ewald Kluge ( DKW ) |
John White ( Norton ) |
Georg Meier ( BMW )
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| 1939 | XIV. Grand Prix of Germany |
 Nello Pagani ( Moto Guzzi ) |
Walter Hamelehle ( DKW ) |
Dorino Serafini ( Gilera )
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Motorcycle World Championship races
1961 to 1972
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Since 1998
Attendance at the motorcycle world championship races since 1998
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Since the first World Championship runs on the new Sachsenring in 1998, the number of spectators has risen year after year, which has resulted in a continuous increase in spectator capacity. In addition to the races held in Spain , the race is now one of the best-attended grands prix at the motorcycle world championship. The first decrease in the number of spectators compared to the previous year came in 2008 when the event took place for the first time on a rainy weekend. A special feature of the Sachsenring is the high number of visitors on the training days, when the grandstands at most other racetracks are only sparsely filled.
See also
References
literature
- Wolfgang Hallmann: That was the Sachsenring - past and present of a legendary race track , Chemnitzer Verlag, Chemnitz, 1996, ISBN 3-928678-32-9 .
- 75 years Sachsenring - driver of a legendary racetrack , HB-Werbung und Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Chemnitz, 2002, ISBN 3-00-008789-3 .
- Gerhard Herber: The Grillenburger Sachsenring 1927–1933 . The story of a forgotten racetrack. 1st edition. Lotos Druck GmbH, Reichstädt 2005, ISBN 3-00-015943-6 .
- Thomas Schmidt: The end of the Sachsenring at Pöhlberg in: Freie Presse, Erzgebirge, Annaberg, June 3, 2014
Web links
- Sachsenring Circuit
- Sachsenring traffic safety center
- Onboard video from the Alten Sachsenring 1984
- Sachsenring - RacingCircuits.info. In: racingcircuits.info. Retrieved on July 17, 2016 (English, with graphics of all route variants).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Schmidt: The end for the Sachsenring on Pöhlberg. Freiepresse.de , June 3, 2014, accessed on June 3, 2014 .
- ↑ Andreas Gemeinhardt: The Sachsenring is getting a "Ralf Waldmann curve". www.speedweek.com, June 14, 2018, accessed June 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Gerald Dirnbeck: Sachsenring calls curve 11 after Ralf Waldmann. www.motorsport-total.com, June 14, 2018, accessed June 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Speedweek.com: Sidecar World Championship: Horror crash with 2 dead.
- ↑ More than 224,000 spectators at the Sachsenring. www.zeit.de, July 18, 2010, accessed on July 19, 2010 .
- ↑ Over 230,000 spectators at the Grand Prix of Germany - record setting at the Sachsenring. www.spox.com, July 17, 2011, accessed July 18, 2011 .
- ↑ Fewer spectators at the Sachsenring. www.focus.de, July 17, 2011, accessed on July 8, 2012 .
- ↑ Again over 200,000 spectators at the Sachsenring. www.zeit.de, July 14, 2013, accessed on July 15, 2013 .
- ↑ Almost 210,000 spectators at the Sachsenring. www.motorsport-total.com, July 13, 2014, accessed on July 13, 2014 .
- ↑ The German Grand Prix once again attracted over 200,000 motorcycle fans to the Sachsenring. (No longer available online.) Www.handelsblatt.com, July 12, 2015, archived from the original on July 13, 2015 ; accessed on July 13, 2015 .
- ↑ The Sachsenring GP 2016 in numbers. www.speedweek.com, August 29, 2016, accessed on August 29, 2016 .
- ↑ 164,801: Disappointing number of spectators at the Sachsenring. www.focus.de, July 2, 2017, accessed on July 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Sachsenring Grand Prix: Around 30,000 fans more than 2017. In: Free Press. July 16, 2018, accessed July 16, 2018 .
- ↑ 201,162 spectators at the MotoGP at the Sachsenring. In: ADAC . July 7, 2019, accessed August 8, 2019 .
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