Karlstad Speedway
Swedish speedway club
Karlstad Speedway or Solkatterna Speedway (the Sun Cats) is a motorcycle speedway club from Karlstad in Sweden.
Stadium
The city's stadium is the Kalvholmen Motorstadion, a 297-metre track, which is located in the southern Lamberget region of Karlstad.
History
Solkatterna
The city's first speedway club was Solkatterna (the Sun Cats) which was founded in 1967 and first raced in the Swedish Speedway Team Championship during the 1967 Swedish speedway season in division 3 west.
After a decade of racing in the third tier of Swedish speedway, the team's first honours came during the 1976 Swedish speedway season when they won the third division south. However, they failed to gain promotion after being beaten in the promotion play off, despite the best efforts of Lars Ericsson. A second opportunity arose in 1979, when the team won the division again but this time won the play off.
After finishing second during their first season of second tier speedway in 1980, they won the division in 1981. The main riders that brought the success were Lillebror Johansson, Jan Ericsson and Lars Ericsson but unfortunately the team lost the promotion play off.
In 1982, they won the division again but once more lost the play off. However, they deservedly claimed a place in the top division for the first time because the Elitserien expanded for the 1983 Swedish speedway season.
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