DutchGrasstrack Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 Hi all Saturday is the 100th Speedway Grand Prix, in the Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen (GER). On the webpage of the Veltins Arena you can see webcam shots from the Arena, so you can see how they build up the speedway track. http://www.veltins-arena.de/foto_webcam.htm Every 30 minutes my webserver will save a copy of a webcam shot to the harddisk of the server, the result of this can be seen here: http://www.baansportfansite.nl/dump/Gelsenkirchen/index.php Hope you like it Jesper // sorry for my bad English Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjw ministerofport Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 That looks great I can't wait for our visit. Thanks' for the pictures mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwoMinuteWarning Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 Thanks for that, much appreciated, nice to know what to expect on Saturday. By the way - there is not much wrong with your English! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superguest Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 Looks really narrow! Will be interesting to see how good the racing is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickmiller Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 Ole Olsen described it in Speedway Star recently as bigger than Cardiff at around 300 metres. It has longer straights, which may explain why it looks narrow and wider bends. Shape similar to Vojens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Jasper Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 if they could clip a bit off those bends and make them wider it would be just like Coventry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 It's a dark picture, so I guess there's not a lot happening at this time of night Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarabanko Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 Thanks Jesper for sharing. / Mikael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob B Posted October 9, 2007 Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 (edited) Hard to tell could be the strange angle of the pictures but the straights look too long and the bends too narrow. Going to be a great view though from our seats front row back straight looking right down on the back straight. Edited October 9, 2007 by Rob B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandie Posted October 9, 2007 Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 Silly question but does anyone know if we are looking at bends 1 & 2 or 3 & 4? Just trying to work out where we will be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oleoleole Posted October 9, 2007 Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 I think it's bends 3 and 4. (please correct me if I'm wrong) If so we are row 12 half way down the back straight, just off picture. Are the pits going to be outside bends 3 & 4. Is that the stand that can be moved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandie Posted October 9, 2007 Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 Cant wait to see practice on Friday on this screen. Im sure we will all be in a postion then to see who looks good on this track and who doesnt!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oleoleole Posted October 9, 2007 Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 I see that the track preparation is now the lead news story on the www.veltins-arena.de website (where the webcam link is). Could anybody out there translate anything of interest please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandie Posted October 9, 2007 Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 (edited) I see that the track preparation is now the lead news story on the www.veltins-arena.de website (where the webcam link is). Could anybody out there translate anything of interest please. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Logistic master achievement makes Speedway possible Grand Prix The feverful preparations at the VELTINS arena are indeterminable in these days: Trucks drive clean and raus, innumerable humans are in the use. The most modern stadium of Europe becomes for the FIM Speedway Grand Prix on Saturday, which 13 October, prepares. The transformation of a spectacular football stadium into an engine haven place of the extra class is in full course. The stage for the spectacular high point of the world championship series, which FIM Speedway Grand Prix, prepared. 100,000 US dollar signs the winner of last running with 100. Speedway Grand Prix on coming Saturday in the VELTINS arena. The racing course for Speedway pageant is built since Monday mornings. For this 3500 tons of slate, which was imported from a special quarry in Denmark, in the arena were processed. As soon as the soil is put, a very fast course develops, on which the drivers complete the four rounds per running under one minute. The former world champion and present FIM Race Director Ole Olsen are responsible for the construction of the course. “If everything is finished, it the largest a daily course will be, which we built ever - and them will change smoothly into this fantastische stadium. We want to surely place that we offer conditions to the drivers, under which it to to the limit drive and one evening of full spectacular running offer can. When we had built the course in parking stadium in Copenhagen, all drivers that this was the best course, said on which them ever drove. Therefore we took and to have the lining from the same quarry from Denmark brought it here with the word.” Behind it a logistic master achievement stands. It began at the end of of August, when the lining in the Provesten quarry was diminished. In Copenhagen one shipped it on ships, from there transported one him over Rotterdam up to the Rhine Herne channel. The last piece of the transport of the Gelsenkirchener port took over 125 trucks. The marking of the course, the outside gang, which became interior delimitation and the Fibertex underbody already on Sunday installed. The lining with 15-prozentiger inclination in the curves was afterwards inserted thereafter. Here the large art consists of getting six per cent humidity into the strongly consolidated slate underground. “There is seven or eight per cent, the course would break open. If only three or four per cent were, the course for good running would be too smooth,” says Olsen. “We will completely have everything in time to training to be able to offer around on Friday and Saturday optimal conditions.” After completion the supervisors install and among other things still another electronic starter system. “If everything is finished and we a good job made, the VELTINS arena will in such a way look, as if it was built as Speedway course”, so Olsen schmunzelnd I'd like to say Im fluent in German but good old google translate this page works a treat!!! Edited October 9, 2007 by Sandie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oleoleole Posted October 9, 2007 Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 Vielen Dank!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandie Posted October 9, 2007 Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 Ihr Empfang Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob B Posted October 9, 2007 Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 Silly question but does anyone know if we are looking at bends 1 & 2 or 3 & 4? Just trying to work out where we will be. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Bends 3 & 4 are at the top of the picture, you can tell because the grandstand is pushed back not being used. Also stand on right hand side is back straight as bottom tier doesn't go up quite so high. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob B Posted October 10, 2007 Report Share Posted October 10, 2007 Started putting the fake centre green in and air fence up today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwalker Posted October 10, 2007 Report Share Posted October 10, 2007 Ole Olsen described it in Speedway Star recently as bigger than Cardiff at around 300 metres. It has longer straights, which may explain why it looks narrow and wider bends. Shape similar to Vojens. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Peter Karlsson says in an interview that it is 270m. http://www.nyheterna.net/sporten/peter_karlsson_tvekar (at the end) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted October 10, 2007 Report Share Posted October 10, 2007 It says here 290m http://www.veltins-arena.de/news_070921_motorsport.php Plus on another page Olsen says it will be the biggest one-day track they have made Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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