{{Short description|German motorcycle speedway team}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}} {{Use British English|date=March 2024}} {{Infobox motorcycle speedway team | clubname = | track = Speedwaybahn Heidering Wittstock | country = Germany | image = | caption = | founded = 1961/2012 | manager = | captain = | league = [[German Team Speedway Championship|Speedway Bundesliga]] | website = {{URL|https://speedwayteam-wittstock.de/}} | colours = | nickname = Wolves | tracksize = 399m | track record time = | track record date = | track record holder = | honour1 = [[German Team Speedway Championship|Bundesliga Runners-up]] | year1 = 2018 }}
'''Wittstock Speedway ''' is a German [[motorcycle speedway]] team who race at the Speedwaybahn Heidering Wittstock, 4 kilometres south of [[Wittstock]] in the [[Ostprignitz-Ruppin]] district of [[Brandenburg]], Germany.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://speedwayteam-wittstock.de/ |title=Home |website=MSC Wölfe Wittstock |access-date=16 March 2024}}</ref> The track is located off the Bohnekampweg or the Am Weinberg, 16909.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bahnsport-info.de/Termine/msc-wittstock-speedway-national/ |title=MSC Wittstock |website=Bahnsport |access-date=16 March 2024}}</ref>
== History == Speedway in Wittstock has taken place through three definitive periods, The first was with a team competing in the [[German Team Speedway Championship|East German Championship]] from 1982 to 1985.
The second arrived when [[Speedway Wolfslake]] ran into financial difficulties during the early 1990s, which forced many of Wolfslake's members to leave the club. They brought back speedway in Wittstock under the MC Heidering and competed in the [[German Team Speedway Championship|Bundesliga]] from 1996 to 2001.<ref name=HSZ>{{cite web |url=https://www.historyspeedway.nstrefa.pl/dmniemiec.php |title=German Team Championship |website=Historia Sportu Zuzlowego |access-date=16 March 2024}}</ref> The last competition organised by MC Heidering took place in 2007.
The third was again intrinsically linked with the Wolfslake club, when in 2012, after mergers, problems and renames, Wolfslake members (and construction entrepreneurs) Fritz and Franz Mauer decided to leave and reform the Wittstock club once again. On 28 June 2012, they formed '''MSC Wölfe Wittstock''' and returned to the Bundesliga.<ref name=HSZ/>
On 8 October 2016, the 400 metre track record was broken by [[Matej Žagar]], who recorded 68.29 sec.
From 2017 until 2019 the team finished on the Bundesliga podium but with the Budesliga shutting down for the 2020 season, due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], the club competed in the [[Polish Speedway Second League|2. Liga]] during the [[2020 Polish speedway season]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://speedway.com.pl/leagues/ekstraliga/2020/ |title=2020 Ekstraliga |website=Polish Speedway Database |access-date=16 March 2024}}</ref> They also raced in the Polish league during 2021 but were refused a licence to race in Poland for 2022.
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{{Motorcycle speedway tracks in Germany}} {{Polish speedway teams}} [[Category:Speedway teams in Germany]] [[Category:Sports clubs and teams in Brandenburg]] [[Category:Sports clubs and teams established in 2012]] [[Category:2012 establishments in Germany]] [[Category:Ostprignitz-Ruppin]]
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