History

The racetrack was built between 1978 and 1983, and is located on the site of the former Vrbenský open-pit brown coal mine. The main reason for its construction was the effort to end the long-standing practice of organizing car and motorcycle races on temporary tracks in the city center and move them to a safe, closed special track on its outskirts. From the very beginning, it was planned to use the new circuit for other purposes as well. The racetrack soon came to life with testing of racing and newly developed cars, training of drivers of special ambulance, fire or police vehicles, racing schools and safe driving courses.

Polygon

This role was later taken over by the polygon, built on the premises of the racing circuit in 2005. It is still the largest and most complex facility of its kind in the Czech Republic, which, with its layout, installed technologies and other related activities, offers unique conditions for teaching and training drivers in all areas of driving vehicles of all types and tonnages on an area of 13 hectares.

The first races right after the war

The city of Most saw its first motor racing event not long after World War II, when the first motorcycle speed race was started on the track around the brewery on May 25, 1947. Five years later, the first car race was also held in Most. In the following years, the race locations changed frequently, races were held in the city and in its immediate vicinity, and the Most car races were soon included in the championship calendar. The first championship points were awarded in 1965 on the circuit in the Stalingradská district. In the early seventies, the competition began on the circuit, which was laid out on a highway-type road near the new train station. The 3,450-meter-long track gained great popularity abroad, and in 1979 it became the venue for one of the events of the prestigious Interserie series of sports car and sports prototype races for the first time. With ever-increasing demands placed primarily on safety,
The circuit did not have much hope of long-term existence. Therefore, construction began on a special racing track on the opposite edge of the city. Its completion in 1983 definitively closed the long history of races on improvised road tracks. Until the start of the first race on the new special circuit, which was attended by 100 thousand people, Most and its immediate surroundings had hosted 57 motor racing events since the end of World War II. There were 35 automobile races, and another 22 were motorcycle races.

Golden Czech hands

The workers began building the Autodrom on an area of 140 hectares in 1978; the racing circuit was to be part of the so-called military-sports complex. The circuit study was prepared two years earlier by a group of people led by Václav Paur. The design of the track was created without the possibility of a more thorough inspection of the project of any of the foreign circuits. Although the authors of the track design visited the German circuits Hockenheim and Nürburgring, when designing they only had the regulations of the international federations FIA and FIM and knowledge gained from the professional motoring press and television broadcasts at their disposal. Nevertheless, they did not neglect any detail in the project. The study compared the speeds of different cars in individual corners, but it had to be based on local conditions, which largely determined the final shape of the circuit.

Into private hands

In 1995, the management of the racing circuit was taken over by the limited liability company Autodrom Most, which five years later transformed into a joint-stock company. Unfortunately, before the entry of the private owner, the care of the racetrack was not what the first Czech special racing track deserved. The track and other parts of the racetrack began to be noticeably neglected, the circuit fell into disrepair and lost its license certificates for organizing automobile and motorcycle championship races. The primary task of the new owner was therefore to obtain both licenses back, which was achieved thanks to the gradual extensive and expensive reconstruction of the area.




Another major decision on general reconstruction, which included, for example, changing the profile of the first turn after the start (the so-called retarder), adding elements to the technical facilities, expanding some administrative spaces, and improving the facilities for journalists, was made by the company's shareholders in 2003.

New owner

In 2014, the company changed owners. Even under the new owner, the joint-stock company AUTODROM MOST organizes domestic and international motorcycle, touring car, truck and endurance races. In the future, the company's management is preparing other innovations not only in the field of motor sports, and is also continuing to modernize and develop the autodrome area. In the next ten years, investments will reach 100 to 150 million crowns. The goal is to open the autodrome and polygon area to the general public and create a visited center that will be part of the sports, social and cultural life of the region throughout the year.