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Lånkebanen is a road racing circuit situated near Hell in Lånke, Stjørdal, Norway. The venue opened in 1988 as the first asphalt track in the country. It is used for a variety of motorsports, including rallycross, go-kart and motorcycle racing. The venue also features a designated hillclimbing and a motocross track on the slopes below, and a harness racing oval. Lånkebanen is owned by the Norwegian Automobile Federation (NAF). The venue also serves the National Driving Teacher School and is used for testing by SINTEF and Q-Free. At an international level the venue is used for rallycross races. Lånkebanen has featured a round of the FIA European Rallycross Championship since 2011. It has since the inauguration of the FIA World Rallycross Championship in 2014 hosted World RX of Norway. ==History== Lånkebanen was devised during the 1980s. At the time there were no road racing circuits in the vicinity of Trondheim. Lånkebanen would be situated close to the National Driving Teacher School and SINTEF. The former allowed for the track to be used for their teacher training, while the latter was to use the track for research. The circuit was also devised to be used for racing. By 1987 the country was experiencing a book of proposals to build motorsport venues, with twenty-five detailed proposals having been issued. The Ministry of Transport and Communications decided that year that Lånkebanen would be the only such venue to receive investment subsidies. The ministry was concerned that most of the plans would simply make matters worse for other neighboring venues, particularly as many new tracks would take away revenue from existing slippery road circuits. The ministry stated that Lånkebanen would be used as a trial to gain experience from state-subsidizing and building of new tracks.〔 Lånkebanen opened in 1988 as the first combined center for motorsports and driver training. That year the track was used for a trial for slippery courses for truck and bus licenses. The authorities wanted this to become an obligatory part of the training, but lack of suitable venues throughout the country had made the courses optional. Lånkebanen was also the fist asphalt race track in the country. It was supplemented by Rudskogen in 1990. During the 1990s a hillclimbing track was built on the hillside below on the north side of the main track. The motocross track was built in 2002 and 2003, after Stjørdal Cross & Enduro Klubb was founded in 2002. The club hoped for a revival of motocross in the Trondheim area, after all the tracks in the area had been closed during the 1990s. The land below the road circuit was leased from a local farmer to make way for the new venue. NAF operates two conventional slippery road course tracks in Trøndelag, one at Orkanger and one at Ogndal in Steinkjer. By the late 2000s the Orkanger track no longer met the demands and NAF therefore considered what to do with the situation. As Lånkebanen met the needs, it was proposed in 2009 that the Orkanger and Ogndal tracks be closed and that Lånkebanen take over the responsibility. After an expansion of the Orkanger venue in 2012, the plans were placed on hold, but resumed the following year. In 2014 NAF commenced work on a major upgrade to Lånkebanen. Operations was taken over to a separate limited company, NAF Lånkesenteret AS, which received two full-time employees. A new building facility was constructed and a permanent power supply was installed. The largest investment was the building of a new driving center.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lånkebanen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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